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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’ve been to this spot in Delft so many times over the years & it continues to inspire. The area around the first woonerf tells a story of people pushing back for slower & safer streets, but it also tells a story of the beauty that comes when you open up places for people. Quiet, calm, and lovely

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

As I was getting passed by a mom with a kid on the back of an ebike, I looked down & saw a Black Flag sticker. This was not an alternative future I could foresee in 1984 listening to the Repo Man soundtrack.

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Definitely my favorite parking lot to relaxing square conversion. Life is calm and beautiful in Delft

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The area around Utrecht Centraal is an inspiration. World’s largest bike parking ✅ Busiest cycle route in NL ✅ New green streets ✅ Highway to canal conversion ✅ Thanks to @bicycledutch.bsky.social for showing our Texas State students what’s possible

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Are there perfect streets in the world? This one in the Jordaan in Amsterdam is on my list

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Rambla Polenou also connects to the Superblock Poblenou which is being transformed from tactical urbanism into a more permanent green urbanism

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Rambla del Poblenou in Barcelona is like a template of a great neighborhood business street: green, lively, lovely

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Thoughts on a pretty night Uptown: New Orleans streetcar is the oldest continuously operating line in the world. It’s like a naturally occurring TOD with the smell of jasmine in bloom

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Brass band, pedestrian street, magical spring day Honk Festival in Mueller neighborhood Austin Texas

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Bellamyplein also functions as a water square ringed by wadies/bio swales. Beautiful place

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Inspiration from Montréal: amazing interview about combing a water square, green space, cul de sac, traffic calming, & continuous sidewalks all together into a great place for people. Love this! See @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video at: youtu.be/8lpXH7ajjUw?...

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Cul-de-Sacs, But Smarter: How Montreal is Rethinking Residential Streets

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I was excited to join an all-star cast to celebrate @activetowns.bsky.social 5th Anniversary on YouTube & John’s birthday. Great conversation about how to make cities safer, healthier, and happier m.youtube.com/watch?v=DbFD...

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LIVESTREAM: A Celebration of John's 60th Birthday and Five Years on YouTube with Friends and Fans

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

All of this is data driven (LOS/traffic models) but we are literally going the wrong way. Measure what matters (safety/VMT reduction) & invest based on that.

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a man in a car with the words you 're going the wrong way

ALT: a man in a car with the words you 're going the wrong way

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

3 facts about US transport: ped fatalities up 75% since 2010, highway lane miles up 42%, but congestion rose 144%. This is a blueprint of a failed transport. Great piece by @bethosborne.bsky.social lays out the existential problems with the system. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/1...

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

250 Meters of Happiness. That’s how Delhi based NGO HumanQind describes their school street that was co-created with school kids. Really blown away. Great model. Thanks to Car Free Cities Alliance for hosting. More info at www.humanqind.org

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Cissy Strut coming out of the speakers. Baby asleep in the bike trailer. Great first weekend of Mardi Gras

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I think this is Houthaven. Cool carfree development close to Amsterdam Centraal. I think I found this same place last summer

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Fun to be included in the roundup of most watched videos from 2024 from @activetowns.bsky.social . We toured Houten with Kylie van Dam to learn what makes a greenway-focused town work. Inspiring tour

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I’m pretty sure the “revolutionary” “street rooms” in San Francisco are just nice pedestrian streets. I’m open to a name update if we can start integrating these into US cities nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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San Francisco's newest neighborhood offers a glimpse of life without cars

Three new "street rooms" make for an unusually people-centric streetscape design in San Francisco's Mission Rock neighborhood.

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Nice triple embedded in Hyde Park in Austin. Legalizing doubles and triples seems like a good place to start land use reform

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Love this trail-oriented development on a chilly day in New Orleans. Bioswale on one side & French Truck cortado on the other.

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ah, that’s great. I’m in Albuquerque for a few days. Really love the desert.Hope the transit job continues to be good. Cheers!

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Glad the Netherlands trip is still resonating! Hope all is well

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I had never heard of streetology before. Cool term. I guess this makes me a streetologist

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Utrecht showing how to move from grey to green. I remember this area as kind of a lost space but now being transformed into a green place. Great before & afters from @bicycledutch.bsky.social

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Interesting survey for physical activity professionals

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For context, this area has gotten better in last few years with a push button activated ped crossing but safer doesn’t mean safe. Building safe streets on the edge of developing cities is a crucial challenge.

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I usually post images of good infrastructure to inspire change. Sometimes it’s useful to look around & identify the problem. School zone at lethal speed in developing area right outside Austin shows how not to design a safe school zone

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Our applications are open to study sustainable transport in London & Amsterdam next summer. Open to both Texas State Univ. students & others. Lots of great streets to explore if you might be interested

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New Orleans has some really good examples of green infrastructure woven into transport projects. Lafitte Greenway and Camp Street

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Great overview of the evolution of superblock planning in Barcelona. I can’t stop thinking about the potential of superillas as green neighborhood islands m.youtube.com/watch?v=NSba...

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BARCELONA: Jordi Honey-Rosés discusses super blocks, bike buses, and school streets

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Trail-Oriented Development along the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans. Beautiful community connections

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Simple, effective way to add safe pedestrian “sidewalks” quickly and inexpensively: Texas State campus

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Teaching urbanism in Texas can be a challenge: “When the town center you grew up in comprises a DairyQueen & a WhataBurger along a 6 lane road, it’s hard to imagine anything different” Really enjoyed having this conversation with Mobycon. mobycon.com/updates/adap...

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I was just in town to do a presentation. Impressed with changes to Broad Street since my last visit

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Broad Street in Oxford looking beautiful

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Dinking is an art form. Delft practitioners

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Compact city, blue sky: Madrid

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Billy Fields @billyistep.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

First post over here. Love to engage about how to make cities better. My current favorite is in Barcelona where they remade a street into a green social place with a water square right in the heart of the city. Love to see more ambition like this

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