Just about daily, I read articles about how a driver was going 70+ in a 35.

When, as a civil society, will we ask: why the hell is it possible to go 70+ in a 35 mph zone?

'Best Bikeshare in America': An Unexpected Community Launches Free, All-Electric Micromobility For Residents — Streetsblog USA Omaha and neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa share an expansive e-bikeshare network that punches above its weight, supporters say — and now, it's free to all residents, too.

Omaha just made its entire all-electric bikeshare free to residents. The CEO’s reasoning: fares only covered 10–15% of costs anyway. At some point “free bikeshare” stops being radical and starts being honest about what public mobility is.

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Distractions or long waits? Impacts on risky crossing behaviour Pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at intersections are considered as a major source of injuries and fatalities. Intersections are a critical part of roadwa…

Walking is healthy, convivial, deeply human. It harms the least: other people, other species, the air, the water, the land.

Civil societies design for people on foot. Full stop.

TY to this stellar research team for making that case with rigor and urgency.

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Time to align 4 textbooks with reality.

It would seem motonormativity was in fact, normative.

Maddening nonetheless.

Who walks most? Uncovering racial disparities in walking in the United States This study examines racial and ethnic disparities in walking behavior in the United States, using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from 2003 to 2019. This research aims to clarify the ...

Black and Hispanic Americans walk more — more trips, longer distances. They also walk on the most dangerous roads. Defunding pedestrian infrastructure isn’t a neutral budget call. It’s a decision about whose movement we’ve decided to protect.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Forcing people to spend hundreds of hours a year in unpaid transit just to access their jobs.

We call it "the commute."

From 2019 through 2024, home prices up 48%, with incomes up 22%.

This is not a traffic problem. It's an expropriation of time, unevenly distributed across class.

Push Grows To Move Parking Enforcement From NYPD To DOT - Streetsblog New York City Two community boards want the job to go to the agency already in charge of the streets.

NYC community boards are pushing to move parking enforcement from NYPD back to DOT.

Reflection: enforcement authority should sit with the agency whose mission is street safety, not the one whose culture treats parking as a low-priority afterthought.

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In my town, exceedingly few 8 year-olds can safely cross the ubiquitous stroad to get to and from their schools, yet 90%+ of the local discourse about transportation in these parts centers around where to park one's private property.

The rise of ‘infrastructural populism’: Urban infrastructure and right‐wing politics Right-wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a f...

Beveridge et al. (2024) call the strategic attachment of right-wing grievance politics to roads, energy, and the 15-Minute City “infrastructural populism.” Worth checking out, especially if you work in road safety or active transport. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Past time to mobilize MADD-level advocacy behind intelligent speed assistance (ISA) in all cars.

For max impact, add: “from trusted others.”

Totally missed that part in the article!

Probably missed the section about investing in transit.

"Traffic fatality rates increase with annual vehicle-miles. Planning decisions that increase vehicle travel increase crashes, and vehicle travel reduction policies increase safety." - @toddlitman.bsky.social

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@urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social

A poster that reads “Slow Dahn!” in Pittsburgh’s Market Square, which is presently under construction.

Pittsburgh traffic calming.

Sign reading “Donald Trump is a Jagoff” at the Pittsburgh No Kings Rally

Pittsburgh No Kings Rally, March 28, 2026

No Kings Pittsburgh

Turning the wheel on active transportation: Shifts in policymaking and planning for cycling and pedestrian infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic in large urban areas - Remington Latanville, Rakt... The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to re-think how urban transportation policy and planning can address public needs through street reallocations fo...

Cities reallocated streets for walking and cycling during COVID because a crisis made it politically possible. New research asks: why does it take that? The plans were already written.

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Good day, everyone! Excited to share that I'll be speaking at the @policingproject's 2026 Convening on Right-Sizing Traffic Enforcement at NYU Law on April 27–28.
If you work in traffic safety, criminal justice reform, or
transportation policy, join me there: 2026trafficconvening.splashthat.com

Centering disability justice in active transportation transitions: A conceptual counter-cartography This paper brings active transportation scholarship into conversation with disability justice, with the aim of centering anti-ableist understandings o…

Active transportation planning has been built around the image of a young, able-bodied person. Two wheels, two feet, forward motion. A new paper asks: what happens to everyone excluded by this design template? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m quite aware, as I most certainly did not coin the term “motonormativity!” Thank you for sharing! What I’m proposing is that motonormativity is a rational, adaptive response to our century-in-the-making auto-dependent milieux.

Cultural bias with a healthy dose of regulatory capture?

Premise:

Motonormativity (aka “car brain”) is the result of adapting, as humans so capably do, to auto-dominated physical, financial, social, and political environments.

Thoughts?

Neuroinclusive design principles:
Provide sensory-friendly spaces (acoustic/lighting control), clear, intuitive layout design, and diverse, adaptable, and quiet areas to manage stimulation.

Sounds like car-free spaces.

Been thinking how anti-hope propaganda (e.g., your op-ed is useless, that protest was worthless—as though visible and collective actions never help build momentum) is little more than “I’m so clever and world-wide” signaling.

That we won’t get very far in the mode shift program if we simply appeal to folks’ financial or moral sensibilities. Instead, we have to restructure the entire constellation of incentives so that driving becomes relatively less attractive/adaptive than biking/walking/rolling/transit. Easy peasy.

Having thought a good long while about how to incite measurable mode shift, I’m at last coming to terms with the notion that driving—in the vast majority of places in the U.S.—is an entirely rational behavior given the nature of our material, financial, political and social environments.

Not tonight.

5 years in: Cleveland Heights’ first community orchard is thriving – The Land A little more than five years ago, what’s now Delmore Orchard was one of nine vacant lots on Delmore Road in Cleveland Heights’ Noble neighborhood. It boasted a buried asphalt driveway, remnants of a ...

Hear me out: fruit trees (orchards, guilds, idm) in public parks. Let’s get this going.

Look at Cleveland Heights.

Food need not be scarce.

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Confirmed: Non-Driving Infrastructure Creates 'Induced Demand,' Too — Streetsblog USA Widening a highway to cure congestion is like losing weight by buying bigger pants — but thanks to the same principle of "induced demand," adding bike paths and train lines to cure climate actually wo...

Providing what quality social science does best: confirm what we’ve intuited all along. Build 🚲 infra and they will 🚲

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