Montreal Makes People Feel Welcome With Safe Streets, Happy Places & Green Spaces — Streetfilms My standing piece of advice for those who live in North America who pine to see the best-practice streets of dozens of places in Europe or want to educate colleague/friends what’s possible: just go to...

If you need some inspiration and positivity, check out @streetfilms.bsky.social blog on Montréal. So much is possible when streets are rethought as places for people

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Enlighten Me | Growing Pains: Population, Transit, and Economics in Texas From 2000 to 2022, Texas gained more than 9 million new residents. This population boom is reshaping nearly every aspect of life in the state—from housing and the economy to infrastructure and tran...

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Definitely my favorite parking lot to relaxing square conversion. Life is calm and beautiful in Delft

The area around Utrecht Centraal is an inspiration.
World’s largest bike parking ✅
Busiest cycle route in NL ✅
New green streets ✅
Highway to canal conversion ✅
Thanks to @bicycledutch.bsky.social for showing our Texas State students what’s possible

Are there perfect streets in the world? This one in the Jordaan in Amsterdam is on my list

Rambla Polenou also connects to the Superblock Poblenou which is being transformed from tactical urbanism into a more permanent green urbanism

Rambla del Poblenou in Barcelona is like a template of a great neighborhood business street: green, lively, lovely

Thoughts on a pretty night Uptown: New Orleans streetcar is the oldest continuously operating line in the world. It’s like a naturally occurring TOD with the smell of jasmine in bloom

Enlighten Me | Deep in the Heart of Texas: Investigating Teacher Turnover We delve into the pressing issue of teacher turnover in Texas. Hear from educators and researchers on the front lines as they explore potential solutions to this critical challenge facing education...

Fun to appear on Texas State University podcast Enlighten Me to talk about transportation in Texas and the potential for a more resilient future. My segment starts at 24:45.

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Brass band, pedestrian street, magical spring day
Honk Festival in Mueller neighborhood Austin Texas

Bellamyplein also functions as a water square ringed by wadies/bio swales. Beautiful place

Cul-de-Sacs, But Smarter: How Montreal is Rethinking Residential Streets YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

Inspiration from Montréal: amazing interview about combing a water square, green space, cul de sac, traffic calming, & continuous sidewalks all together into a great place for people. Love this! See @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video at: youtu.be/8lpXH7ajjUw?...

LIVESTREAM: A Celebration of John's 60th Birthday and Five Years on YouTube with Friends and Fans YouTube video by Active Towns

I was excited to join an all-star cast to celebrate @activetowns.bsky.social 5th Anniversary on YouTube & John’s birthday. Great conversation about how to make cities safer, healthier, and happier
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a man in a car with the words you 're going the wrong way ALT: a man in a car with the words you 're going the wrong way

All of this is data driven (LOS/traffic models) but we are literally going the wrong way. Measure what matters (safety/VMT reduction) & invest based on that.

3 facts about US transport: ped fatalities up 75% since 2010, highway lane miles up 42%, but congestion rose 144%. This is a blueprint of a failed transport. Great piece by @bethosborne.bsky.social lays out the existential problems with the system. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/1...

250 Meters of Happiness. That’s how Delhi based NGO HumanQind describes their school street that was co-created with school kids. Really blown away. Great model. Thanks to Car Free Cities Alliance for hosting. More info at www.humanqind.org

Cissy Strut coming out of the speakers. Baby asleep in the bike trailer. Great first weekend of Mardi Gras

I think this is Houthaven. Cool carfree development close to Amsterdam Centraal. I think I found this same place last summer

Fun to be included in the roundup of most watched videos from 2024 from @activetowns.bsky.social . We toured Houten with Kylie van Dam to learn what makes a greenway-focused town work. Inspiring tour

San Francisco's newest neighborhood offers a glimpse of life without cars Three new "street rooms" make for an unusually people-centric streetscape design in San Francisco's Mission Rock neighborhood.

I’m pretty sure the “revolutionary” “street rooms” in San Francisco are just nice pedestrian streets. I’m open to a name update if we can start integrating these into US cities

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Nice triple embedded in Hyde Park in Austin. Legalizing doubles and triples seems like a good place to start land use reform

The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro - 99% Invisible This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. We’ve waited until the evening to see how splen...

No better person than Robert Caro to join in for the end of this master class on power, democracy, infrastructure, & what makes great cities. So much to reflect on 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

Love this trail-oriented development on a chilly day in New Orleans. Bioswale on one side & French Truck cortado on the other.

Ah, that’s great. I’m in Albuquerque for a few days. Really love the desert.Hope the transit job continues to be good. Cheers!

Glad the Netherlands trip is still resonating! Hope all is well

I had never heard of streetology before. Cool term. I guess this makes me a streetologist

Utrecht showing how to move from grey to green. I remember this area as kind of a lost space but now being transformed into a green place. Great before & afters from @bicycledutch.bsky.social

Interesting survey for physical activity professionals

For context, this area has gotten better in last few years with a push button activated ped crossing but safer doesn’t mean safe. Building safe streets on the edge of developing cities is a crucial challenge.

I usually post images of good infrastructure to inspire change. Sometimes it’s useful to look around & identify the problem. School zone at lethal speed in developing area right outside Austin shows how not to design a safe school zone