The US’s response to child traffic fatalities: telling kids to look both ways.

Meanwhile Norway:

I’m a political radical because I think kids should be able to play outside and I think adult drivers should be forced to accept some reasonable constraints to allow that.

Drivers should be cautious in areas where children may be present! And they aren’t. And our spineless, useless safety authorities can’t even bring themselves to urge them to be! Gah!

With respect to road safety, why are we holding children to a higher safety standard than licensed drivers? Let adults be adults and kids be kids FFS! Not the other way around.

This is a child I know who was killed. The way the news bends over backward to blame the kid and absolve the driver is deeply deeply sick.

Our society, idk 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I see your bad bus stop and raise you this one - in Columbus, Ohio - just metres from the campus of the 3rd largest university in the country. (photo credit: reddit user jigglebits123)

Cool now I’m triggered by my kid’s schoolwork

A rare sight these days. But one that gives me hope.

A gas saving tip that everyone hates but is 100% effective and accessible for anyone who drives is "go slower"

Roads less traveled: the safety surprises of big cities The most effective way to stay safe on city streets is remarkably simple: drive less. A new report from StreetLight Data suggests that the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) is the single most important fac...

New study finds lower overall miles driven (per person) is the best predictor of good street safety in cities.

IOW building infill housing that allows people to avoid car trips or reduce the distance they drive, is part of how we can lower traffic deaths ssti.us/2026/03/17/r...

"The Unfinished Metropolis" book talk at Clevo Books, with Benjamin Schneider and Angie Schmitt · Luma Join author Benjamin Schneider for a discussion of his new book, The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution, which explores why American…

TOMORROW, I'm excited to be talking with author @benschneider.bsky.social at Cleveo Books! Join us if you're in the Cleveland area!

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Debbie downer here but transit advocates who are excited about gas prices aren't gonna be as happy when the costs start hitting the agencies and they start talking about fare hikes or service cutbacks.

Analysis | The school bus is disappearing. Welcome to the era of the school pickup line. Parent drop-offs at school soared during the pandemic, and bus use fell, but only among kids whose parents graduated from college. What’s going on?

An atmospheric scientist interviewed by the WaPO said car line exhaust "finds its way into classrooms within 35 minutes to 73 minutes. Once inside, it lowers student math and English performance"

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Looking at this, the only state that looks like it had a clear sustained improvement is California.

State DOT takes this seriously there IMO. About 1/6 ped deaths nationally happen in CA, or did.

It's really like he didn't think about this -- attacking Iran -- AT ALL.

Americans are so dependent on oil. Already the price of gas increase is costing Americans an extra $300 million a day at the pump.

It’s a (somewhat) regressive cost, because lower income people pay way larger share of their income on gas.

Excited for this!!

"The Unfinished Metropolis" book talk at Clevo Books, with Benjamin Schneider and Angie Schmitt · Luma Join author Benjamin Schneider for a discussion of his new book, The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution, which explores why American…

I’ll be discussing “The Unfinished Metropolis” with @schmangee.bsky.social at Clevo Books in downtown Cleveland the evening of Tuesday, 3/31.

Clevelanders, come through!

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🚨 BREAKING: Tesla's "Unsupervised Robotaxis" (no safety drivers) were cut from 8 to 4.

Only 1 is in service while the others aren't operating.

"Supervised Robotaxis", with safety drivers had 14 crashes & are 4x less safe than humans.

Why launch the Cybercab if FSD isn't working properly?

$TSLA

I feel like parents are too poor to order it. But maybe that is just me?

I don't think there's anything wrong with your analysis. I'm just frustrated we don't have a fuller picture.

I wish we had better data though. We don't know anything really about leisure trips.

Hundreds of kids rode to my middle school every day. We had a bike parking cage that held about 300 bikes. Now we have a line of cars, every day.

Fatality Facts 2023: Children A summary of fatality statistics about children compiled by IIHS from 2023 Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data.

"Child pedestrian and bicyclist deaths declined by 92% and 95%, respectively, since 1975."

My theory about this is not that streets have gotten safer, but mostly that we have successfully discouraged children from biking or walking anywhere since then.

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These are places where people can get a quick bite. Hold meetings. Run into neighbors. So many spill over benefits.

And not guaranteed necessarily in a city like Cleveland.

Right. I'm just trying to not get killed here!

When a bicyclist does something bad it counts double. Not because it's more harmful, but because it violates the natural order of things.

A bunch of new coffee shops opened in my neighborhood on this block that was totally neglected, largely vacant and people are so excited!

It's downstream of a new moderately-sized apartment building opening. Something YIMBYs should tout more imo. Key neighborhood amenities follow housing.

Pontiac Bonneville, bring it back

On Trump Accuser Files, DOJ Establishes Pattern of Obstruction Over the last two weeks, numerous outlets confirmed my reporting that the Justice Department had withheld records, in defiance of federal law, documenting the FBI’s interactions with a woman who accus...

Why is DOJ illegally withholding 37 pages of FBI interviews with a woman who says she was trafficked to Trump by Epstein when she was between 13 and 15?

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