Everyone in LA must love it when the D is extended.

DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.

“DoorDash intends to send autonomous robots into bike-lanes.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

Here’s what’s frustrating…who cares what they “intend?” It’s up to City Hall what’s allowed in bike-lanes, NOT COMPANIES!

Stop acting like tech companies should be able to do whatever they want in cities.

The DOJ’s Federal Accountability Field Office, to follow the zeitgeist.

Chinese Startup Wants to Bring Its Tiny EVs to European Streets Chinese electric vehicle brands led by BYD are winning over European customers with sleek, high-tech models at competitive prices. Now, a startup is looking to muscle in on a more modest market: micro...

can the north american mind even comprehend microcars that cost less than €10,000?

When you know something is unsafe and do it anyway, “accident” is the wrong word.

Schrödinger's Reichstag fire, and every time they get a little more earnest with their reprisals

3 photos, street level, from drone and at night. Tram intersection going directly through a water fountain where the rail intersection geomtry appears sculptural with water jets between them

3 photos, street level, from drone and at night. Tram intersection going directly through a water fountain where the rail intersection geomtry appears sculptural with water jets between them

3 photos, street level, from drone and at night. Tram intersection going directly through a water fountain where the rail intersection geomtry appears sculptural with water jets between them

And we have a fountain with trams running directly through it too. I need city planners to know that you can just do that, cause I think it is cool. The water jets lowers when trams run over it.

The Evidence on Policing and Crime Revisiting the need for police, four years after international Black Lives Matter protests

"Lots of white people are used to talking their way out of tickets, and you can’t talk your way out of a ticket from a speed camera, and so they don’t like it. But it is fair." www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

This makes me think some sort of extremely user-friendly Unreal Engine-type “developer” app could be a great pedagogical tool for children and adults to experiment, play with, and learn urban design. Hell, there could be a full-fledged “Sim Streetscape” traffic calming/placemaking game.

Nope. Not displaying for me either.

4 people on bikes riding in a contraflow lane with a driver in a white car about to cross it making a left.

Years ago we had the mayor bike to school with my 6 year old, within the first :30 seconds they were almost hit by a driver on live TV.
Every leader should be required to ride a bike (if able) with a 6 year old before they provide any direction on bike infrastructure.

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

Cost of Living.

If you could put names, faces, or stories to the people who currently use the bus to get to their jobs in town, I think that could help. e.g. Pablo the line cook at the Mexican place everyone loves.

Assuming there are businesses in town, those businesses need workers. Can’t expect restaurants, retail, etc., to be fully staffed by locals of this presumably high-CoL community.

Also, every bus rider is someone who is not driving; cuts down on congestion.

Gear up for another #InfrastructureWeek, somehow less productive than the last.

Ditch woonerf

Dutch woonerf

Dutch woonerf

Dutch woonerf

One of the most intriguing & misunderstood street design and place-making ideas in the world is the Dutch #Woonerf, or “living street.” When I studied woonerfs while working for the City of Groningen, I learned the key is street design that makes it impossible to drive faster than people can walk.

Something Ohio is actually good at. Although maybe it’s a symptom of being a densely populated state that doesn’t value rail.

Removing Toronto bike lanes will cost an estimated $48 million: City The city released a report Wednesday that calculates the cost of Doug Ford’s bid to rip up bike lanes on Yonge, Bloor and University.

BREAKING: Removing Toronto bike lanes will cost an estimated $48 million: “The city released a report Wednesday that calculates the cost of Doug Ford’s bid to rip up bike lanes on Yonge, Bloor and University.”

One of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen done to a city.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/rem...

If you see this, post a concert pic you took.

Looking to discuss public transport, rail, and urbanism/urban planning more broadly?

Or want to find people who post on these topics?

Here's an excellent starter pack @railmaps.bsky.social has pulled together:

#Urbanism #Urbanism+

go.bsky.app/NbrwCsd

FoxConn is Taiwanese.

Every street with a bus line? Maybe that would be fine. Certainly any significant transfer point, etc.

Absolutely! I’m just thinking about in terms of when a municipality is making special considerations (like for zoning) for TOD. Which, ideally, may not ever really be necessary. Although I could see it guiding where to build tall towers, which I personally don’t think belong on *every* block/street.

I’d like to see transit agencies take on a developer role and build mixed-use TOD with affordable housing.

It should apply to BRT stops and bus transit centers as well. If the plan is to attract private investment, every step away from rail transit is seen as a lower commitment to keeping the service long-term, which makes a TOD project riskier.

Happy bday! <3

Old reference, but it checks out 💯

Episode 107: "Is It Worth It To Confront Drivers?" Have you ever been crossing the street when a driver almost hit you or been on your bike when a hostile horn-honker laid into you for delaying them by a few seconds? We share our experiences of close calls with cars, plus strategies for coping.

So what are these resources that were really important but only became accessible when the government decided to start writing blank checks for highways?