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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Congestion pricing is the perfect example here: it polls poorly before it is enacted because people do not believe the benefits but once it is enacted it becomes popular because it works. it’s the opposite of mass deportations which many people think sounds good but is a total shitshow to enact

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Steal photos like this and use them at community meetings. Most of us sharing this content don’t care about credit for those types of usage, we care about change. Leaders need to understand that bike lanes aren’t just for the able-bodied. These are mobility lanes for all.

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Me having biked to the coffee shop watching other customers arrive in urban tanks that need backup cameras and parking sensors just to grab a latte:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“All cities are walkable if you’re not a bitch.”

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edvechkin.bsky.social @edvechkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Fun little snack hack for all my followers: I’ve been eating cheese blocks like push pops and I can’t recommend it enough

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edvechkin.bsky.social @edvechkin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Yeah I rip packs (Pokémon cards, not cigarettes)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

So we’ve moved to the next stage. Either an incompetent Black person is to blame, or a white person who was made incompetent by the stress of working with a Black person.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“While Mayor, I was often asked ‘how have you been able to afford bike-lanes in #Copenhagen?’ I’d reply, ‘how have you been able to NOT afford it? 25 years ago we were a few days away from going bankrupt. So the city invested in the cheapest infrastructure… bicycling.’” — @mortenkabell.bsky.social

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Randy Clarke @wmatagm.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Tragic news at DCA tonight & our thoughts are with victims. @wmata.com has sent warming buses to support rescue and we are working to assist Dulles w/ diverted flights by running extra Silver Line trains & to keep Silver open later to get people downtown. More info to come

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

Slide by @toderianUW.bsky.social saying “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.“ – Lewis Mumford, 1955

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

In the UK, auto insurance prices dropped 16% in a year. A big reason: Lower urban speed limits Industry analyst: "Areas where 20mph zones have been introduced result in lower levels of claim frequency – a key factor in the cost of car insurance."

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UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’

Controversial safety policy has helped drive down premiums to 18-month low, says Confused.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“A 5-year study of 263K U.K. commuters, published in the British Medical Journal in 2017, found regular cycling cut the risk of death from any cause by 41%, and the incidence of cancer and heart disease by 45% and 46% respectively. Other large-scale studies have found similar.” Via @CarltonReid.com

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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death

Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

the Tesla tunnel has traffic and the Lincoln tunnel doesn’t congestion pricing wins, Elon loses

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edvechkin.bsky.social @edvechkin.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Has me ready to run through a brick wall

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I've harped on this before, but "availability of home insurance" will keep growing as a political issue, and a whole lot of people's brains are not equipped to handle it. Insurers aren't doing stuff like this (nor leaving markets outright) for fun. Climate change is making stuff uninsurable.

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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

PSA: The chart we point to all session every time land use reform bills come up.

An image of a venn diagram consisting of three circles.

The white text of the blue circle reads "I want stable services"
The white text of the green circle reads "I want low density"
The white text of the red circle reads "I want low taxes"

Where blue and green circles intersect, the white text reads "high taxes"
Where the green and red circles intersect, the white text reads "service cuts"
Where the blue and red circles intersect, the white text reads "more density"

In the center, where all circles intersect, the white text reads "does not exist"

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

Highway willed with choked lanes of traffic

Massive suburban car-dependant sprawl in low density, single use housing subdivisions

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FuckCars @fuckcarsreddit.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

As the car-centric suburban experiment intensified, more and more parents became convinced that it was unsafe for their kids to walk or bike to school. So parents increasingly drove their kids, paradoxically adding even more traffic, making streets even less safe.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Cities will be all like "its snowing, please don't drive if you can avoid it, it's dangerous to drive in the snow," and then do shit like this to make driving the only real choice to get around.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My top mobility policy of 2024: Higher parking fees for huge cars Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps. Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...

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Parisians Vote to Triple Parking Fees for Big S.U.V.s and Other Hefty Cars

The city authorities say that large cars pollute more and are dangerous for pedestrians. Opponents say the mayor is on a crusade against motorists.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Eliminating arbitrary mandates and letting consumers decide how much parking they want to pay for is one of the easiest thing local policymakers can do to bring down housing costs.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“Why It’s So Frickin’ Hard to Stop Driving? Even when better options for commuting are available, people usually don’t make the switch. But there are tricks to help them.” Another good one by @davidzipper.bsky.social in @slate.bsky.social. Change IS hard. We have to be a lot better at it.

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The Psychological Traps That Keep Us Stuck Commuting Via Car

Even when better options are available, switching modes is tough.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This was a choice. Not by the person walking but by the decision makers who refuse to prioritize them. Photo Credit: D_S_J_

a person with a mobility device walking on a cleared road next to a snowy sidewalk

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Sara Lind @saraklind.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

No one asked the majority of NYers who don’t own a car if they wanted their curbs used for free parking, but now the Council wants to require DOT to give notice every time they use curb space for public good instead of the free storage of private property nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/18/c...

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Council Members Want To Be Notified When City Repurposes 'Their' Parking - Streetsblog New York City

Why can't we have nice things? Because the Council wants DOT to issue more notifications whenever parking is affected.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Cars create dead space in cities. Brussels is learning it’s better to fill that space with life.

Picture of a fairly standard European street. One way. Cars parked on both sides and room for two cars abreast in the travel lane. Photo from Google street view. It's a sunny day but the street is shaded.

Exact same street photographed by me. Now it has been transformed to a pedestrian street. There are tables and chairs and people walking and biking. There are no more cars. Also a sunny day.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It was not easy convincing Americans to defer to motorists everywhere. It took effort, ingenuity and persistence. This 1938 “editorial” blamed 73 percent of the cases in which a motorist struck and killed a pedestrian on the pedestrians themselves.

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 19/12/2024

Ingrid Lewis-Martin, NYC's mayor's top advisor, who blocked nearly all progress on bus and bike lanes over the last four years and bragged that she's never ridden the subway, has been indicted for bribery to purchase a $100,000 Porsche for her son. Karma is beautiful, man.

$100,000 Loan for Porsche at Center of Charges Against Former Adams Aide
Ingrid Lewis-Martin, her son, and two businessmen were expected to be arraigned on bribery charges connected to the loan for Lewis-Martin’s son.

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Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Big Lie in zoning is that land use regulation today concerns health, safety, & welfare We could rewrite zoning & building codes for performance! Energy, noise damping, air quality, even beauty But housing regulation in fact focuses on making buildings small, not making buildings good

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 18/12/2024

"Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)...today introduced the All Aboard Act, legislation that would dedicate $200 billion over five years to build high-speed rail, expand existing passenger rail service, and electrify the most heavily polluting railyards and corridors." www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...

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Sen. Markey, Rep. Deluzio Introduce Legislation to Transform U.S. Rail Network | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts

New All Aboard Act would make $200 billion investment in rail Bill Text (PDF) | One Pager (PDF) |...

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BigSlim @imbigslim.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The CTA holiday train, complete with Santa in downtown Chicago…

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

guy who charges $23 for Brussels sprouts thinks that a $9 toll impacting the tiny minority of people who choose to drive to lower Manhattan will drive away business this is embarrassing, @tcolicchio.bsky.social

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NEW YORK
SHISHITO PEPPERS
Lime & Sumac
25
CAULIFLOWER
Parsley, Lemon & Capers
27
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
Honeycrisp Apple & Onion
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"At a certain point, people will stop going out," Colicchio, owner of Crafted Hospitality, told
Side Dish.
"Everything is getting too expensive. No company will absorb the cost of this, they will just pass it on to the consumer."
Famed chef Tom Colicchio fears the toll will drive down business at restaurants in the congestion pricing zone.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Never forget, 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. Plan for the city you want. HT Fred Kent

Graphic that says the same thing as the post.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It’s not just about taking away car space. It’s WHAT you replace that car space WITH. Pic via @LolitaBoston

People eating on a tree-lined street in space formally used for on-street parking

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Emergency vehicles using bike lanes has become a common sight in Paris (see video). Moreover, recently, response times have become significantly shorter, which may be linked to this practice (although it's hard to prove it scientifically)

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Zach-o'-lantern @zachlipton.com · 27/11/2024

Now this is a pup that travels in style

Dog wearing mirrored googles riding in the front of a cargo bike

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Big Jesus Trashcan @bigjesustrashcan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Stay out of the bike lane

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Switzerland—Rejects a referendum to spend $5.6 billion on highway widening. Paris—Moves to replace 60,000 parking spaces with trees and green spaces. Oslo—Eliminates cars from city center, cutting greenhouse emissions 35%. Kathy Hochul and Doug Ford—Let’s ask suburban boomers what they prefer.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.

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