While i believe @waymo.bsky.social are safe than the average driver, @californiapuc.bsky.social should also know that they endlessly circle my single family neighborhood at night in order to inflate said safety record. Reacting to stories like this:
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While i believe @waymo.bsky.social are safe than the average driver, @californiapuc.bsky.social should also know that they endlessly circle my single family neighborhood at night in order to inflate said safety record. Reacting to stories like this:
Cherry tree benches would be political gold.
Make sure to paint them, it gets more people involved.
Donate for more benches!!! $35 = 1 bench givebutter.com/Benches
A knowledgeable person at SDOT told me Toronto barriers are generally not anchored to the roadway but rather to one another, giving them more collective weight and rigidity than freestanding barriers, and allowing their use in situations where anchoring to roadway is prohibitive. But, obviously...
Time to get Swifty. - Wooden @taylornationbot.bsky.social bench Centennial Park.
Feel free to take a picture of the wooden benches in the Green Hills public library garden.
Way to go @uclacollege.bsky.social for converting a 🚦into a 🛑! Much safer and efficient.
Who lives here in Los Angeles?
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
We invited our biggest fans to show us their favorite things to do on BART during summer break! Milo took us Cloud Chasing. Enjoy this tour of the Bay Area’s microclimates and spread the love of fog. 🌫️
We invited our biggest fans to show us their favorite things to do on BART during summer break! Robert took us to the new Nintendo store in San Francisco! Along the way he told us why he likes to ride and about his favorite sounds and sights.
Great story and campaign!
I was about to submit a FOIA request for the parking revenue data, but I'm no longer a Tennessee resident :(
It's definitely a one affects the other situation, but I believe you on the specifics. Unrelatedly looks like LA issues $110m per year (declining) in parking tickets but about half aren't paid.
weird that segment 9 on Gallatin has a proposed 10 mph jump though.
And highlights of recent changes? How's the parking revenue looking?
¡Vamos legibilidad! Having "Vamos Rams / Go Rams" is cute and all but as the front destination indicator on the @smbigbluebus.bsky.social no. 8 creates confusion and delay. The last three passengers in a row paused before boarding asking the operator "is this the 8?" @humantransit.bsky.social
Woah, 3 stops in and we just stopped and no one got on, but safety guy STILL got off and got back on. This really defeats the point of Rapid.
Pour one out today for our late homie Donald Shoup on what would have been his 87th birthday. Miss you, Shoup Dogg!
A beautiful afternoon with @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social on Brooklyn’s only Summer Street, when Eastern Pkwy is closed to vehicles and opened up for New Yorkers to gather, move and play. We should do it more often!
New bus infrastructure in Culver City! 🚌💥
The California Democratic Party just voted to support our legislation to allow more housing near train & subway stations & rapid bus stops. SB 79 means more housing, stronger transit, less traffic congestion & lower carbon emissions. Thank you Democrats! @cademocrats.bsky.social
I would imagine it's pronounced as the first "Chim" in Chim Chim Cher-ee
You had me at 🚲🐔🔥
I really thought we were past the point of blaming the thin pedestrian infrastructure of painted crosswalks. Take away the paint it's still an unmarked crosswalk.
Interesting ride protection regarding the 30-minute grace period. Do you find that occurs // is expected to occur often?
Following
5 LA Council members voicing support for transit oriented development is HUGE. Thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social keep pushing.
Wow – Los Angeles never actually eliminated the helipad landing requirement for buildings, the fire marshal just imposed a bunch of ridiculous alternative conditions that have never gone through any consensus process or study. No wonder high-rises in LA don’t pencil! lafd.org/sites/defaul...
Nice has some pretty nice bike lanes.
Thanks!
Do you happen to have a multi-year spreadsheet version?
California legislature is back in session for one more month to finish voting on this year's bills. I've updated the summary of housing bills - more than half of the 250+ bills introduced this year are still active. #CALeg tinyurl.com/2025housingb...
It's a bus race ! 🚌🏁
Shout put to the housing 37203s out there, making it happen @economist.com
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
Hey @metrolosangeles.bsky.social when?
Say his name
“If you DON’T change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.” - William Fulton at the Casita Coalition’s Build The Middle National Housing Convening
One way @cityoflosangeles.bsky.social preserves sidewalks and mature street trees is by making the sidewalk (slightly) more narrow.
LA’s single-stair item is up now in City Council. They’re hearing testimony from the public right now, all in support so far: www.youtube.com/live/CUJ93cP...
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
*JOB ALERT* Urban design / planning scholars: The Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) at UC Berkeley is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in “Design and Urban Transformation.” aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05040
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I’ll close with a line from The City in History that might be Mumford’s most famous: “The assumed right of the private motor car to go any place in the city and park anywhere is nothing less than a license to destroy the city.”
Wrote about a company that's trying to give folks who want to buy used e-bikes an alternative to the sketchy craigslist ad or the local bike shop that has two bikes in stock, and how this whole market could become a lot bigger as trump's trade policy reshapes the industry.
Spending more time in the intersection is dangerous. When are we bringing this back up in session? #totallydidntalmostgetaticket
I had a good conversation with Joe Kelly on his Mass Construction Show podcast about single-stair. It’s for construction/code/fire folks, so it was more technical than most.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
More than 3 quarters of kids in a 500-person Harris survey reported that they would spend more time outside if there were more kids to play with in their neighborhood.
Tennessee home prices continue to significantly outpace earnings. Source: @SycamoreTN
Good housing news. Freddie Mac's national repeat sales index FMHPI is up on a year-over-year (YoY) basis to 2.0% in June but decelerating down from up 2.3% YoY in May and a recent peak of 19% in July of 2021. From: calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/freddie-ma...
Housing costs for Santa Monica crushed homeowners between 2013 and 2023. Thousand dollar availability: dropped by 34%. The most expensive housing ($2000+ per month): increased by 47 percent. Source: ACS BLS B25094 - Selected Monthly Owner Costs, 2013 and 2023.
Very odd @smbigbluebus.bsky.social interaction just now. R12 asks 40 people to disembark and join the trailing #8 at the request of the supervisor. The #8 x2 the transit time for 40 folks. Indicating a backward prioritization of bunching > getting people to where they need to go.
We proved w Strava data that our client was never on the same road as the driver. She failed to yield the right of way & turned into him. She's now been charged, but not w careless driving despite lying to police & causing life long injuries 2/3
Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com
Hey @freddieoconnell.bsky.social we love ya
Not enough gray
I guess i was considering the counter... token
Does poison count?
Seven bikes take up less space than a single SUV, yet it's the cars that dominate the scene, visually, spatially, and audibly. Bikes blend in. Cars overwhelm.
Passing cyclists on rural roads while driving can be tricky. I've been both the driver and the cyclist countless times. On a recent trip to San Juan Island, I was passenger in a car as we came up on a group of riders on a narrow road. Here's how I coached the driver to pass them safely...
I'll buy it now, we trust ya
Here's the link to the original article: web.archive.org/web/20230127...
The Netherlands is dealing with the issue now. So far, they've used carrots of subsidized last mile bike share, but at some point, it'll happen.
Let's do parking next.
My nephews have a blast. There's a great kid section. Btw if you go twice, you recoup an annual pass.
Our new report is on why the English planning system is so weird. Planning in England has lots of meddling with weak local gov that makes it hard to, well, plan. Planning in other countries is more rules-based and certain - which means they are better at *actually planning*
My "The Luxury of ageing" interview: The 15-minute city offers a blueprint for healthier, more connected, and future-ready communities. theluxuryofageing.com/15-minute-ci...
addressing minimum lot sizes
When four homes replace a SFH, each new home is about the same price as the original, and at 5 units or more, the new homes tend to be more affordable. But the critical comparison is to the 1-for-1 replacement — a mansionization, in other words.
Friend, I'm saying in their design, there should be the visibility of delineation with the protection of armadillos in order to prevent said picture.
Per @nacto.bsky.social delineators need to be combined with armadillos.
Shout out to @cohenhouse.bsky.social on the "this chamge will increase the height by less than me" line!
Congratulations Santa Monica on 12b! Welcome to 3 stories!!!
Union station!
America's center is heading for Arkansas.
Parking lot full and 15 people waiting for the @culvercity library to open at... noon on a Tuesday. We need to fund our city.
LA's City Planning department thinks single stairs would be great for Los Angeles:
Woah
miss ya
Slow down, my dog lives here
Thanks for doing these! No cryptogen relic love?
Santa Monica's housing supply crisis in 3 minutes or less: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4P... I cannot believe that this is real.
The dream
Commission Clifton speaking about our historic downzoning and how it lead us to now “it’s a thing that was done to provide for wealthier people and forgetting about everyone else and we are part of a community that did this.”
Jeffs please!
3.5 half hours into the meeting, the main event is here. It took us a couple years to get the Wedgewood Houston UDO done. It’s taken even longer to get to the next one in the city.
Do you ever feel the media sometimes chases their own tails when it comes to the president? As a listener, having a 'meatless mondays'- of a sort - would be quite refreshing.
There used to be a coupon book that you could buy at the Gaylord visitor center. Get into like 7 events for the price of 3.
Countries like Germany address this everyday issue by designating well traveled, well-lit parking spaces for women.
This 2024 Nanjing, China study on gender perception disparities in safety documents the substantial differences between men and women. Source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very cool, it looks that a.c. unit was raised to protect the right of way.
Hundreds of delivery workers who live at the Ebbets Field Apartments can now have access to fully charged e-bike batteries right outside their building thanks to PopWheels's newest swap location, which opened with funding from a ConEd micromobility program.
*could be built there, friend
In many US cities, Walmarts are often some of the busiest transit destinations. Here is the typical relationship between a Walmart (far right) and its nearest bus stop (far left). Note the details of the pedestrian experience between one and the other. 1/🧵
