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Cannon House Office Building
Washington DC, April 20, 2026
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Abigail Murray and Bashir Tofangsazi: “Our results indicate tickets are not associated with locations of high-fatality intersections when taking race into effect, indicating safety was not a motivating factor in jaywalking enforcement.”
But you can replace the buildings with parking lots.
Overheard in NYC —
David Zipper ( @davidzipper.bsky.social ):
“It’s worth remembering that Oslo and Helsinki have gone a full year without any crash deaths whatsoever. Anybody know how many autonomous vehicles there are in those two cities? Exactly zero.”
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The key to the city.
Daniel Normark is a sociologist. He speaks Sociology. I am a historian. I speak Human. I do not understand Sociology.
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Underpasses promised to serve pedestrians – children in particular. The tunnels helped drivers claim priority in the streets even as their promise to serve walkers disappointed. Both cities quietly abandoned their tunnel-building projects, but retained their message: streets are for motorists.
Daniel Normark: “Vulnerable children were framed as the problem that the underpasses were meant to solve.”
In Copenhagen in the 1970s – as in Los Angeles fifty years before – authorities invoked the safety of children to build structures that cleared streets for motorists. ...
The key to the city.
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Mohsen Miladi, E. Owen Waygood, Marie-Soleil Cloutier, Bobin Wang, and Zeinab Ali Yas:
“Forcing pedestrians to wait a long time is making them pay for the danger that cares are creating and is leading to behaviour that endangers many of them.”
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TOD 100 years ago.
Joining employment with affordable housing.
Yes, and I can say the same for Andrew Mondschein.
Q: “Which will it be: affordable transit or accessible parks?”
Baltimore (100 years ago): “Both.”
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How do people judge where, when and how to cross a street?
The experts in walking are the walkers. Raida, Hosseini, Cárdenas, Mondschein, Heydarian, and Chen studied these experts’ street-crossing strategies, revealing inconsistencies between what authorities plan for and what pedestrians need.
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Tiina Männistö-Funk: “As long as traffic is organised as a struggle between the modes, pedestrians will be at disadvantage, but through their flexibility they also constantly call this organisation into question and make its inequalities visible.”
From the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, a warning from history. July 26, 1946.
To succeed, the criminals depend upon the willing opportunists.
Hjalmar Schacht was President of the Reichsbank (1933-39) and Economics Minister (1934-37).
In this EV, you could read the Baltimore Sun all the way there.