One of America’s Great Traditions Is Dying. I’ll Never Let It. Not Now That I Have Proof I Was Right All Along. There’s still time to get on the right side of history.

A fascinating history of bar soap slate.com/life/2026/02...

How DC's mayor and council chair thwarted every effort to better the streetcar View this post on ggwash.org

Politically, the two biggest problems with the streetcar were named Bowser and Mendelson.

Five Days That Blew Up The L.A. Mayoral Race How a handful of strange bedfellows, united by ambition and frustration with the mayor’s leadership, scrambled to marshal a challenge to Mayor Karen Bass.

Despite widespread frustration, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass looked to be on a glide path to reelection days before the filing deadline.

This is the inside story of how L.A. insiders scrambled to marshal an alternative — and ended up with a challenger no one saw coming. lamaterial.com/p/five-days-...

An excellent look at behind-the-scenes collaboration to make life better for bus riders — it was great to talk with Maylin for this story!

"It's a work in progress, and that progress is working."

I moved to Montreal and didn't dismiss learning French as something that wasn't worth my time, and I'm still employed AMA

Exactly. You will have no trouble visiting Montreal even if you speak no French. All you need is respect for others and an understanding that you're in a place where French is the dominant and official language, which is more than Mr. Rousseau could muster.

Happy to answer questions for fellow americans who look at this story and on the surface think it's ridiculous.

Underneath is a masterful case study of botched, hard-headed corporate leadership with a backstory stretching 5 years.

Real-time arrivals We've got to improve the way we deliver transit information before millions more people get here

Between the record-shattering heat and an outage that wiped out Metro's real-time updates, it was not an easy week for LA's transit riders. But @transit.app helped fill information gaps by crowdsourcing data from riders to supply fairly reliable data for those of us out there waiting for buses

We 🫶 our riders! Passengers from Central Falls to Newport shared their thanks on Transit App for our drivers today on National #TransitEmployeeAppreciationDay. Join us by wishing YOUR driver a Happy National Transit Employee Appreciation Day! Song credit: @transportopia.bsky.social

Had such a blast doing this podcast with Kathy and Laura. Well worth a listen for the nitty-gritty of how the Transit app works with transit agencies.

To public agencies scolding pedestrians for walking along the roadway: we have no other choice if sidewalks are still not cleared.

At least this bus stop on North Main St. in Providence has a path from the curb to shelter. Good for able-bodied riders but a nightmare for people with disabilities. 😫

[Filed under: fun at work]

When awe-inspiring transit advocates ask you to harness the wisdom of 300,000 app users in their city to figure out where local governments should install more bus stop benches...

The answer is "yes of course I can get a team of data scientists and designers for this!!!"

Cyclists are allowed if they roll slowly and yield to pedestrians... but good luck with that, the Grand Place can approach Times Square levels of pedestrian density at peak hours

pas mal, non ? c'est français

Photo of pedestrians walking in the Grand Place in Lille

Commercial street leading to the Grand Place, full of pedestrians

Sign explaining that the Grand Place is now pedestrianized year round

Sign explaining the public outreach for the pedestrianization project. Between June 27 and September 26, 12,669 people voted for their preferred option. Option 2 won with 71 percent of the vote, compared to 21 percent for option 1.

Since January 12, Lille's Grand Place and nearby streets have been fully pedestrianized. It's the vibrant commercial hub of a metro area about the same size as Providence, Rhode Island, served by two metro lines and two tramway lines.

A path with separation between cyclists on the left and pedestrians on the right becomes a mixed zone as it passes by a bus stop along a major road

A zone for parking shared bikes is marked on the ground in paint with a bicycle icon and the real-time Wi-Fi symbol

Lille, France —

1. Mixed pedestrian priority zones, as opposed to specific crosswalks on a bike lane, seems like a decent way to handle pedestrian access to a bus stop across a bike lane

2. The real time Wi-Fi symbol is such a clear way to indicate that this is a parking area for shared bikes

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

A Bike Route sign on a paved path mostly covered with snow and ice. The only patches of bare pavement are from natural blowing/melting. There are bike tire tracks and footprints all throughout the snow.

A multi-use path crossing a river. It is covered with snow and ice. There are bike tire tracks and footprints all throughout the snow. This path connects a residential neighborhood with a supermarket and 2 bus routes

RI considers its state-owned multi-use paths as recreational assets instead of transportation assets. This absolves them of the responsibility to maintain them in the winter, despite people clearly still using them for transportation, myself included. This is my route to the bus and grocery store.

Publicité d'Uber avec des panneaux de rue de Montréal : "Quand se stationner c'est compliqué. Uber. Pour que ça roule."

Publicité d'Uber avec une voiture covert avec la neige : "Quand la tempête prend le dessus. Uber. Pour que ça roule."

Publicité d'Uber avec une petit espace entre deux voitures stationnées : "Quand la place est trop serrée. Uber. Pour que ça roule."

Publicité d'Uber avec une panneau néon : "Quand ton 5 à 7 s'étire. Uber. Pour que ça roule."

Preuve de l'échec des transports au Québec : un géant américain qui empire la congestion ose se vendre comme une solution quotidienne. Dans un système fonctionnel, ce serait de l'option la moins attrayante 99% du temps.

Map of McGill REM and métro station, including connecting underground malls

REM fare gates at McGill station

The métro-REM connection at McGill, with its linkage directly to underground shopping, gives strong Châtelet-Les Halles vibes with a Montreal twist

Screen showing real-time arrival info for REM trains to someone who just got off a REM train and is leaving Édouard-Montpetit station

Comically small screen showing real-time arrival info for REM trains to people who just got off a REM train and are leaving McGill station

Screen showing real-time arrival info for REM trains to people who just got off a REM train and are leaving VIlle-de-Mont-Royal station

Don't understand the desire to show REM arrival info to people who just got off the train and are leaving the station. Instead, please show real-time info for connecting bus and metro lines!

Exposed bedrock at Édouard-Montpetit station on the REM

REM: it good. i big fan.

Ok guys I'm gonna ride the REM today

Don't let planners or engineers write public communications for rezoning and transportation initiatives, example one billion

it's my JOB

Wow you don't have to slander me like that

Hot damn

Omg another 1 percenter

i might be an outlier but at least i have an excuse lol