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University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute @umassdonahue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Microtransit does more than provide rides in rural communities. Our research for Hilltown Community Development found Hilltown Easy Ride also generates economic benefits, with shopping and medical trips accounting for most rides. Gazette story: bit.ly/4jFiMMu | Study: bit.ly/4zCLT8f

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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My new book has a cover! The folks @columbiaup.bsky.social did a fantastic job. It captures one of the book's key arguments on the relationship between an 'everyday technology' of American mobility, the US frontier, and empire. Look for it on store shelves just in time for Bike Month 2027.

A historical painting from Remington bicycles showing a cycling scout on the American frontier, rifle attached to bicycle.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve read that if America’s larger metropolitan urban footprints accommodated people at roughly Dutch metropolitan densities, the existing developed land could plausibly accommodate on the order of another 100 million housing units….. without expanding the metropolitan footprint.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

90 yrs ago Britain knew that building along busy through roads creates exposure and deaths & Parliament restricted ribbon development and highway access. The U.S. didn’t. 62% of U.S. pedestrian deaths occur on arterials, explaining much of our fatality-rate gap with Europe.

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TRB @trb.org · 02/10/2026

#NCHRP research from 2005 can also help you conduct a cost-benefit analyses of non-emergency medical transportation tailored to the local demographic and socio-economic environment. www.nationalacademies.org/publications...

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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Providing Non-Emergency Medical Transportation 2005

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 29: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Providing Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) exa...

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arterial roads represent only 9.7% of U.S. rd mileage, yet account for 62% of pedestrian deaths. A conservative estimate is that 55% occur on locally zoned and approved surface arterials primarily in lower density suburban, exurban that came after zoning, not in dense older areas that predated it.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Historical safety for pedestrians compared and mobility.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When you strip away all the legalese, the only zoning mandated by the state of Massachusetts is for MBTA communities, excepting Boston, to have at least one multi family district. All the rest is optional for every city and town.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On bike share Shoup said to compare use. If the same space that serves 11 car owners serves 200 bike share, the latter is more productive. He never said to charge bike share company like but he suggested for transit but he might now that one company manages nearly 80% of bike share in US.

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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Online Gambling and Crushing Debt Are Transforming Brazil

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Notable that the de-urbanization trend hit as the birth rate keeps collapsing.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This week, nearly bill that California YIMBY helped to passed this year was signed into law! Shout out to @gavinnewsom.bsky.social for leaving office having passed some heavy-duty pro-housing reforms in his final session. Let's run through it. 🧵

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Will the transportation and land use episode ever come?

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC Council’s FY27 budget analysis says NYC has more than 3M on-street parking spaces, but only 80k are metered. An est. from the Center for an Urban Future (CUF): Metering just 1/4 of the currently free spaces could generate at least $1.21 B in new revenue. legistar.council.nyc.gov/View.ashx?G=...

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Instead of high end developments w/ lotteries, visit Blackhorse Road then Barking Riverside. Blackhorse shows transit-oriented infill. Barking Riverside is attempt at new, car free attainable neighborhood Chef son’s Nick’s favorite restaurant (he’s been there since 2015) Kaipiras in Kilburn

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"In the UK I’d meet third generation Pakistani kids and I’d be like "You’re British." They’re like "I’m not British. I’m Pakistani." I was like "Yes, but you’re British. You have a British citizenship." They’re like, "Yes, I’m a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I’m not British. I’m Pakistani."

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Back up cameras have been a huge success!!

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Which has done more harm to America? 1926 Zoning Enabling Act or 1956 Interstate Highway Act

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Maybe one is the inevitable American child of the other?

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In 1955, the year before the Interstate Act, US planners in their annual report put 3 options on the table (page 2) . Did they advocate for the first one…. unfortunately no.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nobody ever wants to talk about this….

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Moral Hazard. “The median net housing wealth among homeowners jumped 44% in real terms from 2019 to 2022, from about $139,000 to $200,000, the largest three-year increase in the history of the modern Survey of Consumer Finances.” @davidzipper.bsky.social

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not following Lt rail 6.3 Vehicles much less …

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In New York in 1908, 500 children marched along 11th Avenue protesting the danger posed by street-running rail traffic on what had become known as “Death Avenue.” Though freight trains not trolley cars, it showed that children themselves were publicly protesting deaths caused by rail vehicles.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 2019 fed data, light rail had 6.4 ped only fatalities per B passenger-miles. By comparison, U.S. motor-vehicle travel produced 1.3 pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities per B highway person-miles, five times higher. You could say that light rail is the real equivalent of developed arterials.

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ending most zoning could save the US from the automobile

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is wonderful and at least 40 yrs overdue. The environment and people’s pocket money would have been much better off. Hopefully we work our way slowly and steadily #BackTo3 like the Boomers got when first buying. Our grandkids deserve that in MA and everywhere else. youtu.be/V4W_Ew8Kkak?...

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How Three Units Could Solve Housing

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Bill Maher says he wants to hear opposing views. So have Mehdi Hasan on and give him an hour. No panel, no pile-on. Just Maher and Hasan debating Gaza, Israel and antisemitism. I’d watch every minute. youtu.be/8xbwnnQPXR4?...

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New Rule: Clash of Civilizations | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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New Rule: Clash of Civilizations | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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How Three Units Could Solve Housing

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ending most zoning could save the US from the automobile

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Safe Systems Civil Engineer @cityengineer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NYC raised the value of travel lanes to outsiders coming in through congestion pricing but haven’t embraced Shoup by collecting on the value of their on street parking which is immense. Of 3 million curbside parking spaces, only about 80,000 are metered. Metering 1/4 could raise $1.2 B per CC.

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