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Why we need concrete protected bike lanes ⬇️ Surprisingly, this driver was not on her phone. She was not being intentionally aggressive, in fact didn't see me at all. Just an elderly driver who couldn't stay in her lane or find her turn. #sandiego #safestreets #bikesky
If car commercials were honest, they'd look like this.
New livestream tomorrow! Join @wesmars.bsky.social and me at 4P ET. On the agenda: 🔹 The surprising popularity of traffic cameras 🔹 Trump's attempts to export U.S. car bloat 🔹 A little brainstorming session Join us live tomorrow, or listen later later on your favorite podcasting app.
NIMBYs play the long game. Today they are protesting the construction of a larger elementary school. Next year they will say their neighborhood cannot accommodate more housing because the school won’t have enough room. Happens all the time.
What do you want from San Diego’s parks & recreation? 🌳 Take the City’s new Community Recreation Needs Assessment survey and help shape the future: sandiego.gov/parksurvey
wish we could ban cars that can go 25 mph
cars give you so much freedom you just….have to stop and wait for 30 minutes because some other freedom loving drivers said hi to each other too excitedly because they were loving their mobility freedom so much. have fun enjoying your freedom! I’ll see you at home. #bikecommute #Houston #transit
“I’m a resident of the borough. This bike infrastructure has literally changed how I get around. I sold my car, and I’ve changed how I see urban mobility.”
There needs to be far more difficult testing to get a license. There also needs to be more annual testing (esp. above a certain age). A drivers license isn't a human right, some people flat out shouldn't have them. Whether for aggressive driving, or just medical/age related issues.
Note the bollards protecting the utility box from drivers.
West Hollywood City Council considers Fountain Ave improvements on Tuesday, 19-year old man riding ebike critically injured in Orange collision, and iconic LA bikewear brand swrve rises from the dead: bikinginla.com/2025/09/11/w... #bikeLA
Once people experience the benefits of a policy like congestion pricing, support for it grows.
drivers love playing this "game" at pedestrian crossings where they won't slow down if you're not crossing but if you are crossing then you've clearly rushed out in front of them and they can kill you now if you're not a permanent pedestrian you won't understand how psychotic many drivers are
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Took a really quick jaunt out to the shoreline and the sf bay trail. Decided to test the street-level bike crossing at the gilman exchange and then the separated bike lane that extends a few blocks up gilman, and -- exciting news -- I did not die! Traffic was quiet, and it was not bad at all.
Anyone can start their own bike party glow ride. Create your community and let its light shine!
California Assembly votes 56-1 to let transit and bike projects skip environmental reviews until 2040. These rules helped build 100 projects faster since 2020 w/ less red tape. Thanks to @asmchrisward.bsky.social for speaking in favor! santamonicanext.org/2025/09/legi...
SDOT has confirmed with us that they did not consider mode shift when studying bus lanes on Denny Way. How can Seattle claim to be "transit first" when their traffic studies completely ignore it? We can't effectively build transit if we assume no one will ever use it.
San Diego has highest electricity rates in US - over 52 cents per kilowatt hour. County supervisors back state bills to limit rate hikes and stop utilities from charging customers for their lobbying. buff.ly/4STboHW
Sick of this happening again and again with nothing changing.
"York Regional Police said the boy was just 1 1/2 years old. Six other children ranging in age from 18 months to three years old were also injured in the crash and brought to hospital. One was still in critical condition hours later."
Lol, right next to their allotted parking space. 😵💫
Cars expensive! Transit cheap! A new study finds that high transportation costs are driven largely by owning vehicles and people who live by rapid transit have a lower cost of living. We're absolutely shocked! (Just kidding, we aren't surprised at all.) 1/2
I'm sorry that happened to you!
As soon as the bike lane ends:
City planners deciding the bike lane should end for no reason.
All local politics come down to petty resentments.
Thank you!
If you need more convincing, I made the business case for SB79 in last week's San Diego Business Journal: www.sdbj.com/commentary/l...
SB 79 (Wiener) could be heard on the Assembly floor today! NIMBYs are calling and potting against SB 79. Don't let them speak for you - please call and ask your Assemblymember to vote AYE on SB 79, and ask your friends, family, and frenemies to do likewise. cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Calls to state legislators actually make a huge difference and can change how they vote on big bills. If you live in California, picking up the phone and calling your state senator and assembly member RIGHT NOW in support of SB 79 will do more to advance YIMBYism than 10,000 great posts would.
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I have been in Austria this week and wanted to mention one thing I've seen that delighted me. There are a TON of riders who look 65+ pedaling mixte city bikes and many of them do these rolling sidesaddle dismounts that are quietly stylish.
Influential leaders (with any size platform) who have "converted" to an #ebike for transportation or to a #plantbased diet have massive #ClimateInfluence. New converts are #storytelling gold because they represent the extreme from one way of thinking to another and make the whole idea accessible.
Today is a beautiful day, I will go to the bike path and ride my scooter and sing.
Bike lanes are impractical bc you can’t use them if you’re elderly and need to go to Costco to stock up on groceries and also on the same trip go to Menards to refill your propane tank.
Living in 2025: Person: I like (insert whatever here). People on the Internet: Here's why you shouldn't like (whatever/whomever mentioned) and also, you're a piece of shit.
"We widely, at that time, regarded Spencer Pratt as the garbage boyfriend of the world. Little did I know that he would also be the garbage boyfriend of land use.” In case you missed a chapter, yes, a reality TV star is fighting us on housing. 🫠 www.politico.com/news/magazin...
How about 'polluter pays'? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Polish poster for the International Peace Race 1967 Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz
Santa Cruz Bike Party returns with "Staying Alive ... Barely" Friday night 7pm - Depot Park - Dystopian Disco Vibes We will ride a modified version of the Santa Cruz Bike Way letsmodo.org/bikeway/ route . New stop location 🤫 and a final party at Lighthouse field🚲🎉 Keep an eye out for #SpaceCakes!
Thank you!
It's also terrible when I'm driving! The complainers really tell on themselves as horrible drivers when they don't even notice it's a problem that they can't see traffic coming around corners.
If I was not very cautious about crossing the street, I could've been hit ~4 times because of SUVs/trucks parked on an already red curb, not even daylighting. That is at one intersection next to my house. I've lived in San Diego proper less than a year.
Drivers of London! Here's a tip... Beeping your horn does not make the queue move more quickly!
That's what I would like to know!
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Love hearing the nonstop complaining from San Diegans about losing parking to daylighting.
Why would @asmtasha.bsky.social vote against a bill making it easier to build bicycle, pedestrian, and transit facilities? This is extremely important for both public safety and the climate. #sandiego #safestreets #bikesky
For all the time and resources Kraft spent in West Roxbury railing against the Centre Street bike lanes and road diet, he lost every single precinct there to Mayor Wu. Primarily a credit to her message and organization. And that his focus on those was overplayed and the bikelash didn’t materialize.
Grateful to the Arroyo Vista Elementary Bike Bus for welcoming CalBike into the ride — and for my very cool new spoke card.
City politicians who run on bike lanes keep wiping the floor with the anti-bike lane cranks who run against them bc despite what most local news wants you to believe, bike lanes are wildly popular with normal people.
The massive car service SUVs are out of control. #bikesky #safestreets #sandiego
If you never see people biking in your city, it's not because people don't want to, it's because they don't feel safe doing so. Build the protected, connected infrastructure and watch your city streets come alive with all ages and abilities.
After six years we remain amazed by the mindset of constant improvement in The Netherlands. At Nieuwe Plantage in Delft a slip lane was removed, the road narrowed, safety and priority for pedestrians and cyclists improved, with 60 new trees to be added to help cool in the summer and absorb water.
Yeah, let's not jump to conclusions. Could have been a medical emergency. Sudden onset MGIF!
If only the dumbest people on Earth weren't filling cabinet positions. By far my biggest safety issue when using transit is from cars while getting to and from transit. Defunding transit will do nothing to stop the hit-and-run murders by people driving cars.
Must Get In Front 😵💫
Tell me again how we don’t need separated bike lanes (I got her out of the street immediately after this, of course!! And the bus driver of the second bus apologized for the first one passing her!)
Trying to come up with an equivalent to this speed camera story but for transit riders. Imagine if, in wake of hypothetical reports of people getting mad about fines and vandalizing Presto readers, the gov was just like, well, I guess we should stop fare enforcement. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Excited for the new 2-way protected bike lanes on the Northwest corner of Lake Merritt. But it seems predictable that cars are going to end up jumping this mini curb and hitting someone. I wish they would just add real protection.
Devastating to see life altering injuries yet again in Calgary. That intersection 36 St & 20 Ave NE is miserable to ride. Pathway on SW side (bottom left in photo) ends at the intersection where you then have to either ride on the sidewalk or join traffic which is unaccustomed to bicycles.
Your regular reminder that waymos are one deploy away from driving aggressively and dangerously.
it's an everyday occurrence forcing cyclists into traffic
Yeah, me too. I don't think so, because I think being one of many authors on a paper doesn't convey the exclusive to reproduce. But I'm not sure.
yeah, that's very common. meanwhile they respond to many more crashes than fires 🤦♂️
Can't make this up. #safestreets #bikesky
🚊CA needs more homes near transit! SB 79 makes it easier to build apartments & condos by train stations. More housing = lower costs + less driving. Use this link to tell your State Senator to vote YES! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
The biggest threat I face in a city is from people driving cars. And it’s totally ignored by law enforcement.
Early results indicate that @mayorwu.boston.gov is on track to beat challenger Josh Kraft, who made his opposition to bus and bike lanes a major theme of his campaign, by a huge margin in today's preliminary election. #mapoli (1/2)
Cargo bikes are car replacers.
I've commuted on Bryant for almost two decades, dodging drivers and potholes on what the city called a “bike boulevard” - just sharrows mixed with cars, trucks, and buses. I never saw this many bikes until we got a real all ages and abilities protected bikeway. Safe design changes everything. 😍🚲
Please sign the petition to bring back the Stanley Park Bike Lane! win.newmode.net/greenpartyof...
Crescent Street Bikeway in Long Island City, New York. 🚲
Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero
I wish there was a measure of average time for ambulances to get to hospital and how much it has improved. There's anecdotal evidences that it has improved but I'd very much like hard data. My hunch is that some lives have been saved but we'll never be able to measure it.
the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
While I try to empathize with people’s big feelings about neighborhood change, I have my limits If watching people build a two story building out your window “makes you cry” then you lead an incredibly charmed life.
Thank you!
@asmchrisward.bsky.social supports SB79, but I still called so his office has a +1 in their records. Y’all should make the call to your Assemblymember. It doesn’t even take up that much time!
We said this was going to happen, but Mayor Adams didn't care: Cyclists are being forced into dangerous traffic by all of the double parking on three blocks of Bedford Avenue where the mayor ripped out a protected bike lane.
Cars cause so much damage. To people, to property, to the climate, to household and societal budgets… Forced car dependency was a bad idea.
Entitled behavior = illegally parking in a bike lane when there is a parking lot right. fucking. there.
It’s a city law that if construction projects bike lanes, the agency conducting the work must create a safe passage for cyclists. This is not happening on 1st Ave at 58th St. I had to swerve two lanes over and almost get hit. Thanks
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This Sunday 9/14 10a, spread the word! bsky.app/profile/heyj...
But, tell me more about how cyclists always break the rules. "ASE devices are located in Community Safety Zones such as near schools, playgrounds and hospitals"
Spotted this morning: guy stopped in the middle of a T intersection blocking the way across to a bike path, on his phone, at a red, decided for some reason to roll forward just as a cyclist was crossing in front of him. I think the cyclist reacted fast enough to slam his hood before getting hit.
Active transportation advocates constantly get accused of waging a "war on cars." But when you look around our communities, it sure looks more like we’re in the middle of a war on walking and biking — and the wrong side is winning.
Congestion pricing is one of the biggest policy successes of the past decade.
A great thing about bike-friendly streets is that they enhance local transport resilience. Tube down b/c of a strike? A great excuse to cycle.
NEW: @bradlander.bsky.social joins us to talk political courage, from defending bike lanes early in his career to his efforts to rein in reckless drivers to his cross endorsement of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. We are thrilled to welcome Brad to The War on Cars! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
This Sunday! Come ride the region's most adorable two-way class IV separated bikeway as we cruise this bicycle boulevard.
Rivians are so overpowered (500-1000+ hp) and heavy (7000-8000 lbs), I am happy that they will get the same rebate I got for my ebike. ZERO. I am salty about how much they rip up city streets & how efficiently they kill kids abc7.com/post/violent...
uh ... #bikesky
Slow Roll took us around e. 70th and Union
Postwar attempts to rebuild American downtowns for the convenience of suburban drivers fail because cities cannot compete with the suburbs on ease of driving and parking; and attempting to do so destroys the vibrant street life that makes cities worth living in or visiting in the first place.