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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can't imagine why young people aren't having kids. Don't they realize they're undermining capitalism?

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cities should be paying people to bike. Cities should be buying people e-bikes. Cities should be rewarding people for convincing neighbors to ride bikes. Every trip by bike is a net financial gain socially. And it compounds, the more people who do it.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We don’t have to live like this!

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blue states will bleed population to red states until we are eternally ruled by the worst of us purely so that wealthy homeowners can accrue endless property values.

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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In a grant program passed by Congress to make infrastructure more climate resilient, USDOT is giving preference if "The project repurposes existing specialized travel lanes for bicycles, buses, or pedestrians for general purpose use by all motor vehicles"

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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We took traffic laws explicitly designed to manage the deadly physics of multi-ton motor vehicles and applied them directly to bicycles. When your only regulatory tool is a hammer, every vehicle looks like a nail. In cities, bicycles simply shouldn't be governed like cars. It's lazy policy.

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The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡ @thebostonlol.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I've been riding my bike in Boston far less since Louisa Gag was killed by a truck driver in July. Summer, which usually means more riding, exploring, shopping & fun, this year means more driving because I'm scared In my neighborhood it's mostly men on bikes bc it's not safe @wutrain.bsky.social

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 18/08/2026

Paint is not protection. Even on a street where drivers get 4 out of the 5 lanes (2 for driving, 2 for parking) they just gotta take that extra space from the bikelane. In the U.S., traveling in a car is your VIP ticket to do whatever you want, no matter how to threatens others.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

ICE agents burst into a nail salon with guns drawn in Newburyport to kidnap someone www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/18/m...

The mayor said witnesses reported that agents had their guns drawn during the operation.

“We have also received deeply concerning eyewitness accounts that agents entered the business with guns drawn,” Reardon said in the statement. “This was an incredibly frightening and traumatic experience for the employees and customers inside the business, as well as those who witnessed what occurred.”

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

On one side of this debate is clear, unequivocal, objective evidence. On the other side is driver vibes. Both sides are given equal weight which exposes NPR's pro-car biases.

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t often say this, but I underestimated car culture. It is rooted *so deeply* in American society that citizens will openly and without shame argue that they should be able to speed 10+mph over through SCHOOL ZONES with impunity www.ctinsider.com/fairfield/ar...

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Fairfield RTM could change speed camera hours, signs and fines after public pushback

Fairfield's RTM could reopen its speed camera ordinance and consider changes to operating hours, signage and penalties.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Literally thought this was about city grocery store “discourse”

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I don’t normally wade in on these kerfuffles, but truly wtf. This is like saying “I’m rubber you’re glue; it bounces off me but it sticks on you!” because you want to deflect from the fact that you don’t have an answer. Do you want to fix shit or just dunk on people?

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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 27/07/2026

The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If you want a vision of the future imagine a growing number of seniors slamming their foot on the gas when approaching a store front for some reason. Forever.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What is the point of this? “He also called for an increase in railroad funding and asked lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow Amtrak to collect payments from the developers of properties surrounding its stations, rather than having them pay property taxes to local or state governments.”

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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In the wake of Louisa Gag’s death in Boston, I’ve been thinking back to 2019 in DC, after Dave Salovesh was killed. There’s parallels. Two people who were widely beloved. Cities that made some big plans, and some progress, but stalled over some big projects (Blue Hill Ave, 9th St NW cycletrack).

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“There never had been real discussion or planning or design for bike safety along Tremont,” she said. 🫪

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A person died. Lots of people, in fact. But don't go to fast on fixing streets, Mayor Wu, lest people not "understand the trade-offs."

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The post hoc reasoning people come up with for why we have the housing we have is fascinating. One reason I heard today: Duplexes and triplexes were built for factory workers. We no longer have factories so therefore we don’t build duplexes and triplexes anymore.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Remember, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Via Fred Kent & @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

These can be added back in just as easily, right? …right?!

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Tom Ready @tomready.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Tonight.. #Louisa

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fuck this guy and the bike he rode in on.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The biggest issue with Dem politicians is how they want everyone to like them and do nothing “controversial”. Everything must be consensus based and everyone must like the thing. One whiff of opposition and they fold like a fucking cheap suit.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This should be the basis for a massive lawsuit. We can't make people in power who value car owner convenience above the lives of everyone else care, but we can make them afraid of being sued.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/07/2026

"Corridor zoning" amounts to jamming low-income residents into big, bland apartment buildings alongside stroads, where they can serve as a buffer, absorbing all the noise & air pollution cars produce, protecting the precious single-family homes that dominate everywhere around them. It's abominable.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing half the population that the "manly" way to get around is on a giant rolling couch controlled by gently depressing your toe.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.

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‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts - The Boston Globe

Residents and public officials alike have been concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety on the stretch of Tremont Street in Mission Hill near Parker Street for years.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Okay who got to Yankee Magazine? I’m floored to see a pro-housing article in this magazine (which I love but doesn’t normally weigh in such topics).

Far from being outlawed, the example of sensible density these century-old survivors offer has inspired more and more zoning laws that encourage multifamily structures, which ought to make housing accessible to more people. Looks like the spirit of their builders lives on, too.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Cambridge’s mayor in 1919 was the OG YIMBY. newengland.com/living/homes...

Cambridge’s mayor, Edward Quinn, could have been speaking about any New England city when he said in 1919, “While the tracts of vacant land for residential purposes are limited, there are sections of our city which were built up many years ago, largely with single houses that are fast declining in usefulness. These houses occupy for the most part large land areas, which could be utilized to a much greater taxable advantage for apartment house construction.” He called triple-deckers “one of the best means of solving our housing problems.”

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yankee Magazine gets it. Build up not out. newengland.com/living/homes...

The triple-decker took New England by storm in the late 1800s. Instantly recognizable as a no-nonsense, efficient means to house more people by building up rather than out, they were built by the thousands in certain parts of Boston, Worcester, Cambridge, and Fall River, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; New Haven, Connecticut;

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/07/2026

The people in charge of your city’s streets do not care if their road designs kill people, so long as traffic flows freely.

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Bike Gillian @bikegillian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Great article, and it think this is the key passage Parents see the benefits of giving their kids mobility through ebikes. But they don't have the proper information and end up buying emotos, which are often cheaper than ebikes. That's what we need to fix

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natalia barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you can reverse a red card, you most certainly can reverse on street parking into a bike lane.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026

Cars & sprawl consume more fossil fuels, produce more pollution, drive more climate change, occupy more productive land, destroy more communities, drive up more healthcare costs, and generate more antisocial politics than ... ... whatever else. Name it.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just hit my inbox: A new app where you use AR to place bollards! I am about to become the most obnoxious person downtown 😂 apps.apple.com/us/app/bolla...

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Bollard Buddy App - App Store

Download Bollard Buddy by Kieran Farr on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Bollard Buddy.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Leading pedestrian intervals have to be paired with red light cameras to be safe. When living in DC, drivers knew they could run the red because of the delay.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Whose Fear Counts? By Tony Pentimalli A one-year-old boy is dead after police fired into a car outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, and the country is once again being asked to begin with the fear of the officer rather than the life of the child.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

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Alaina Pitt @alainapitt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Jesus Christ. Every day I feel like I see a news piece that makes me question raising my son in this country. You’re not even safe from your own damn bus driver.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tired: Transit Oriented Development Wired: City Oriented Development

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