What happened to Señor Coconut anyway

I need a mariachi band covering Massive Attack: “Mexxanine”

TransLink is a very good system and worth the fare. But do Canadian drivers also pay their fair share? Gas taxes suggest they do not.

Highbearscalers unite

‘Time to say goodbye’: Outdoor dining will soon look different in DC - WTOP News Downtown D.C. will see a reduction in outdoor dining as the city phases out its Temporary Streatery Program.

DC kills outdoor streatery spaces by charging a ridiculous $20 per square foot. Surely sales tax revenue makes up for whatever parking revenue was being lost - this is the wrong direction. @cmfrumin.bsky.social @brianneknadeau.bsky.social

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93% of Bitcoin ATM transactions are fraud, average age is 71, average loss $8000, according to @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social filing. Get the #AARP on this.

Bikeshare Beat: Over 700K rides in July, over 4 million in 2025 Capital Bikeshare recorded 705,343 trips in July, an increase of 19.7% from July 2024. Annual ridership in 2025 is up 27.1% from the same time 2024.

DC so unsafe that 19.7% more people rode CaBi in July than in 2024 ggwash.org/view/100635/...

Join us at the 82 Alliance Conference in Nashville, TN on November 12-13! Hear from Matt Brooker, Automotus and Matt Caywood, Actionfigure on AI and Transportation! See the full list of panels and register today! vist.ly/434pd

The @rpa.org was exactly right in proposing Triboro-RX (now IBX). Next-up should be the RER like T-Rex system that would vastly change the metro area by enabling people to live farther from Manhattan than ever before by turning commuter rail network into a regional metro.

only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago

A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.

A new survey found that biking is down -- way down -- among kids 7-17 over the last 30 years.

"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "

Yup.

Weaving is a refreshingly bizarre #datavisualization technique. Almost visualize 4 variables in one map! Hard to see correlations though

Well deserved. Just from the customer’s point of view - @wmata.com let us tap in with credit cards, restored automatic train operation, and rolled out secure fare gates - all in the last year.

“Bergen County and Hudson County, congestion pricing was responsible for cutting time spent in traffic by 14 percent and 12.8 percent respectively” 🔜 NJ stops suing NYC for fixing their problems?

Pittsburgh reduces fatal crashes, serious injuries for fourth year as city touts 'calming' traffic projects - Pittsburgh Union Progress Pittsburgh has concrete numbers to show its efforts to slow traffic and improve road safety are working. The city released statistics last week that show total crashes, fatalities and serious injuries...

I’m legit impressed by this. Pittsburgh has lowered traffic deaths for four years straight www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/15/p...

a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane Alt: a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane

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Back to the future! A whole generation of riders have missed out on the smooth grooves of ATO

This site is Under Construction, gifcities.org/search?q=Con...

Fantastic short history of the immigrant tech entrepreneurs who started today’s luxury watch industry

This “R&D disincentive” was amazingly stupid, hard to believe it hasn’t been repealed yet. Big tech companies didn’t fight for R&D as hard as expected.

Amazing. Vertical transportation carries more people than all other transportation, but as usual, America is in last place. Build more apartments and houses!

a grapf of the ridership recovery for the 10 largest US transit agencies, showing Washington DC at number one at 88% of pre-pandemic ridership

Washington DC now officially has the strongest post-pandemic transit ridership recovery of any metro area in the United States, recently beating out New York City!!

I’ve read it. Important to understand that attraction and retention are different processes. BlueSky doesn’t have a retention problem relative to Twitter. It has an attraction and growth problem, which is why they just rolled out new sharing features.

Jarrett, I tried to find you a customer retention curve for public transportation for comparison.

I couldn't.

Apparently, no industry thinks less about customer retention (of "choice riders") than public transportation. Wonder why. @bikepedantic.bsky.social

What is good retention Although retention is widely considered to be the most important metric to get right when building (or investing in) a business, it’s also one of the least understood. Why? Because unless you’re a gro...

This is a normal customer retention curve.

Look at Twitter's retention: in 2020 (peak social media) Twitter retained 31% of users after 3 months! Pretty bad, worse now! www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/what-is-go...

a graph of daily ridership at the NoMA-Gallaudet University metro station over the last 10 years, showing growth going from 6k to 8k by 2019 and then skyrocketing to 12k by 2025

Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.

The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights

How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

For total cost of ownership I prefer Tern GSD, since my local bike shop offers a service plan and won’t work on RadPower

Can you please turn on Logged Out Visibility? I'd like to share this with users who aren't logged into BlueSky. techcrunch.com/2023/12/22/b...

Mountaineering site SummitPost covers the whole solar system www.summitpost.org/olympus-mons...