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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Purple Patch's owner said that the streatery generates half of the restaurant's revenue and that she'd need to lay off 26 of 65 employees if they had to remove it. wapo.st/4wzvtvE
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After restaurant pushback, D.C. likely to change streatery rules
Some restaurateurs have said they can’t afford to comply with the city’s new program.
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 23/06/2026
Illinois's governance reform sets service standards for Chicago transit. The state provides a minimum level of funding for everyone, then distributes bonus funding based on performance metrics. Service planning is done regionally. Could be California! www.rtachicago.org/blog/2026/01...
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Regional Transportation Authority | How the NITA Act can advance a regional transit network across six counties
New operations funding distribution linked to service outcomes Currently, operations funding is distributed to the Service Boards to first cover the cost…
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 16/06/2026
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Jim Halpert: So Close
ALT: Jim Halpert: So Close
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
W public-private partnership
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
neighborhoods next to on-ramps if there’s no deadhead AV tax:
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 08/04/2026
New paper by specialist academics Buehler, Pucher, Moran, Lanversin & Aldred. From 1990 to 2023, cycling mode share rose from 0.6% to 3% in New York, from 1.2% to 4.5% in London, from 7% to 19% in Berlin, and from 0.4% to 11% in Paris (with rises since). www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 02/04/2026
It appears that the White House's Office of Management and Budget is failing to apportion roughly $4.9 billion in transit capital grants, despite the Congress approving them: openomb.org/file/1147715... The 2nd Trump administration has failed to fund a single new transit line ⏬
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Rail Transit Development Hasn’t Kept Up with US Population Growth. Here’s How Policymakers Can Expand Access
Subway lines or light rail routes offer Americans low-cost, environmentally sustainable, and rapid travel options. To improve and expand access to these rout…
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
they are now literally prioritizing truck parking over safety infrastructure in a program explicitly designed to reduce fatalities. 👍 www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/...
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We need change, not a consensus. Firefighters are not building scientists. To get things changed some people will have to be left mad and the firefighters are one of those groups
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/02/2026
that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 30/01/2026
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infra Law) devoted hundreds of billions to streets & highways. But impacts are limited: While road quality generally improved, it improved more slowly than previously—and not on all rural road types. More: www.urban.org/research/pub...
Four years after the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs act, US road quality has generally improved, though at a lower rate than previously — and not on all rural road types.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 24/01/2026
The US government should be focusing on the fact that half the country is about to be overwhelmed by a debilitating ice and snow storm. Yet here we are instead, with the government’s focus being on killing random people in the street
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...
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California Legalizes Life Near Public Transit — Human Transit
OK, the headline is a little exaggerated, but California’s Senate Bill 79, authored by Senator Scott Wiener and just signed by Governor Newsom, is a game-changer.  It prohibits most cities from forbid...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18/08/2025
Uh, I am going to have to be convinced on these
Potential options for DC Metro's future trains
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation? Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending. climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
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Letting People Move - Climate and Community Institute
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
wired.com
The Teens Are Taking Waymos Now
Alphabet’s self-driving car company launches what it hopes will be lucrative individual teen accounts—and maybe a whole lot of social change in the process.
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing. Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 09/05/2025
Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.
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Is U.S. Transportation Policy Ready For The 'Silver Tsunami'? — Streetsblog USA
America's car-dependent communities aren't prepared for the rising proportion of seniors who can't safely drive.
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
desperately searching, hoping, wishing for this one to have been real
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Air quality is so visibly bad with these fireworks. Seeing smoke wafted all the way to the ground level in Woodley Park. It literally smells like the little party poppers outside.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/03/2025
USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include: —Green infra —Bike infra —EV infra —Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
Screenshot of email from Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy to Heads of Secretarial Offices and Operating Administrations.Screenshot of email from Office of the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy to Heads of Secretarial Offices and Operating Administrations.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19/02/2025
GOP Senators are “begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated” & that admin is illegally impounding. Sen Tuberville wants bridge $ Sen Capito wants electric school bus $ Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff Sen Britt wants NIH $ Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
washingtonpost.com
After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
SUBJECT:       Radical Transparency About Wasteful Spending The United States Government spends too much money on programs,
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Not to jinx anything that might happen this week yet, but big shifts in policy at organizations require staff to implement changes. Otherwise, expect delays...
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Here's another: smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin... ...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org
Stop USDOT's Funding Freeze
Over $20 billion in project funding is at risk. USDOT’s new memos set a timeline for the elimination of all agency policies, funding agreements, and programs by February 18, 2025. Make your representa...
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In an hour! I'll be joining @gnd_network @4TransitJustice @americawalks @LN4S @cplusci from 7:30-8 PM ET to discuss the $20 billion+ funding freeze crisis and what you can do to ensure communities get the money they're owed. Tune in! act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/unfre...
act.greennewdealnetwork.org
Unfreeze the Funds!
Join us Thursday, February 13 from 7:30-8pm ET for a free training and action on how to stop USDOT’s illegal freezing of funds that were promised to communities across the nation. Musk’s illegitimate ...
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
EV charging is just the start. DOT should now have a list of equity and climate programs/projects to cancel. Billions could be cut across the country, destroying economic development and job creation progress. How bad is it in your district? www.datawrapper.de/_/j1bf5/
datawrapper.de
Disbursements at risk from USDOT
Transportation for America's analysis of funding at risk based on policy outlined in the USDOT's newly introduced
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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Counterpoint: he absolutely did not surrender. Which is not to say you are powerless, or that he is unstoppable! But it *is* to say that we need to adapt our tactics when the administration ignores the rules. It's time for direct action, for local action, and a whole lot of organizing.
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
From the “Woke Rescission” (yes really) memo: Tomorrow: DOT compiles every funding agreement and program they dislike Feb 18: DOT cancels, by all legal means (guess who decides what’s legal?), everything related “in any way” to climate, DEI, and environmental justice.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Totally normal, as a simple matter of divine forgiveness, to put a white supremacist antisemitic kid in charge of the U.S. Treasury payments system
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It was the start of a beautiful rivalry/friendship. If it makes you feel better about the theft, I shout out your podcast every time people ask if I’ve ever met another Corrigan!
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This was not on my bingo card. Wow.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
we should probably teach kids to code more just to demystify this shit. like it’s not easy, but it’s very learnable. letting people think Being Good At Computer makes you a genius polymath has been such a disaster.
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thanks @yfreemark.bsky.social Be sure to check our data on how much funding could be at risk in your congressional district! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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IIJA Grants Owed to Recipients (1_22_25)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Not a great sign when Wired says it won't name at least two fo the people Musk has installed to run the Office of Personnel Management because they may be minors www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
We need to talk more explicitly & directly about how all of this authoritarian nonsense is going to kill people
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trump WH finally put out a memo clarifying the EO that might have accidentally paused all federal hwy funding. Try 2 attempts to limit the hold to EV stuff but it looks like this goes directly against the impoundment act and will break existing contracts still www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
whitehouse.gov
OMB Memo M-25-11 – The White House
January 21, 2025 M-25-11 MEMORANDUM TO THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget
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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Great leadership from MN & CO shifting DOT paradigms re road capacity, induced demand, VMT reduction! @govpritzker.illinois.gov Gia Biagi, your turn! Optimistic since under Biagi Chi DOT adopted goal for reduced VMT. Reduced VMT+increased public transit ($)+ EVs > than current IL EV emphasis
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
yes, they can! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
Can States Hit the Brakes on Runaway Roadbuilding?
A few state transportation departments have pledged to limit highway expansions to reduce emissions. Can they convince drivers that adding lanes doesn’t fix gridlock?
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
TRB? More like TRBrrr
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 02/01/2025
Paris and Berlin works, meanwhile, because of their density, local transit and walkability. Get off a train in either city and you're in an urban mecca with no need for a car. That's not true of Atlanta, Denver, Houston or Dallas. bsky.app/profile/sust...
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
T4A’s Fueling the Crisis got this figure by categorizing projects obligations logged to USASpending and estimating emissions based on Georgetown Climate Center’s Transportation Investment Strategies tool. More info on their assumptions here: www.georgetownclimate.org/files/report...
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
And the maintenance *reduces* emissions! We spend a lot of money on widening highways in our formula program, much more than people tend to realize. Our report found that almost 3 times was spent on highway/road expansion ($37.5B) compared to *all* reported FRA project obligations ($13B).
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rhammer @rhammersley.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
love this team
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Again, a decade from now "AI skills" will be a commodity, & the scarce resource in the labor market will (once again) be individuals who can think, write, analyze, & communicate, as it has been forever and always. And we'll still be fighting tired, age-old battles defending the liberal arts.
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
the problem with AI policies is you literally can’t be too skeptical of LLM outputs while everything else “AI” is a Different Thing with specific consequences and utility but it all gets lumped together as “AI” by admin-types who can’t distinguish but like ChatGPT bc most emails are borrrringggg
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 16/12/2024
Tell Gov. Newsom to flex CA's highway dollars into transit! With Trump threatening to impound already allocated funds, Newsom needs to move fast to transfer federal funding into much-needed transit projects. www.movecalifornia.org/take-action
movecalifornia.org
About 5 — Move California
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Corrigan Salerno @corrigansalerno.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today at 2p ET: I’m going talk about our findings on IIJA investments’s climate emissions from our latest Fueling the Crisis report, and show you how you could use our report to support state advocacy for better options. Register here!: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fueling the Crisis: Climate consequences of the 2021 Infrastructure Law. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
When the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) passed in 2021, the Biden administration lauded it as a major win for the U.S. transportation system. This massive investment of taxpayer funds w...
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