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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 09/08/2026

We're working on a map of the Port Authority Bus Terminal. A simple one, just to get you oriented.

HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 28/07/2026

Putting together a simplified map of the ✨Port Authority Bus Terminal.✨ Walked through (probably) all the levels today. Somehow it makes even less sense once you figure out how it’s laid out. I have so many questions. They all begin with “Why”.

Escalators up to Gates 401 to 421 at Port Authority Bus Terminal. Escalator at left is switched off (temporarily stairs), escalator at right is blocked off, out of order.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 19/06/2026

F bus in Harrisburg is downright comfy. 🥰

Interior of a Harrisburg PA city bus with colorful plush upholstered seats.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 02/06/2026

Please enjoy our first Pride logo. We believe rights are important regardless of whatever wild and whimsical direction political winds may blow.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 14/05/2026

HowDoYou tell if you're talking to an AI chatbot posing as a human? Method 1: Ask it to do some creative writing. (These messages were supposedly from a sales representative at a PR firm)

Screenshot of a sent text message requesting a poem about capybaras vacationing in Tenerife.

Screenshot of a received text message containing a poem about capybaras vacationing in Tenerife.

Screenshot of a text requesting a summary of the death star plans in preparation for the battle of Yavin. Followed by a received text detailing the death star plans and its critical weakness.

Screenshot of a sent text message requesting a dialogue between Frodo Baggins and Inigo Montoya discussing how to select in-season citrus, followed by a received text message of said fictional discussion.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 22/04/2026

We just got back from a cross-country Amtrak trip! 9 stops, 4 nights on the train, and got around without cars *almost* everywhere. Highlights from several stops coming soon.

Passengers boarding an Amtrak train, daytime

View out the back of an Amtrak train, American southwest

View outside an Amtrak train at night, San Antonio TX

Coffee cup and small bowl of creamers on a table in the Amtrak dining car, looking outside.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/03/2026

Apple Maps found me a slightly less busy intersection to do... this... in. Both the Apple and Google directions send me walking in areas with no sidewalks. I fear I may Uber the last mile.

Apple Maps screenshot, walking directions show meandering through an intersection as part of a 31 minute route.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/03/2026

Just skedaddle all over this intersection.

Google Maps walking directions shows a route making several turns in the middle of a wide, complex intersection.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/03/2026

No sidewalk where I'm going, but Google Maps is undeterred.

Screenshot of Google Maps walking directions. 21 minutes, 0.9 miles. Directions specify walking in the middle of a six lane road.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 04/12/2025

Perhaps a protected nook so they can join the bike lane, then turn, then proceed with better visibility?

Overhead view of a road approaching a multi-lane highway. Drawing of arrows suggesting bicycles approach at the right side of the street, then make a sharp 90 degree left turn in a protected area, before proceeding straight ahead into the bike lane.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 04/12/2025

There are some uptown! Think it might be a pilot, but they seem to work all right.

Trash dumpster in the street, next to an M4 bus stop. Elevated train tracks in the background. Manhattan, NYC.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 03/12/2025

We have stickers! Check out our sticker and guide bundles for your loved ones this holiday season. We have coffee and cocktail themes. They're fun and, dare we say, educational! shop.howdoyou.guide

An assortment of cocktail-themed stickers, accompanied by five "How to Order a Classic Martini" mini guides.

An assortment of coffee-themed stickers, accompanied by five "How to Order at a Coffee House" mini guides.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 25/11/2025

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People with your Car" mini guide. Now in French! 🇫🇷

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 15/11/2025

Now we get to test it out!

Various transit-related checklists, folded and taped onto a business card, held by a hand.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 15/11/2025

Planning to test our first prototype "How Do You Ride Transit in a New City" checklist soon. Destination: Baltimore!

Various checklists to help a reader figure out what transit is available in an unfamiliar city and how to ride it.

Categories include Fare Media, How Much, What to Do, Accessibility, Vehicles, Find It, Hours, Surprises.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 14/11/2025

Extremely Dishonorable Mention to this bike lane:

Bike lane, painted in such a way as to encourage cyclists to ride dangerously close to the "door zone" of a parked Toyota Tundra.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 31/10/2025

This is the kind of playful whimsy we happily pay 2.90 for.

Ghosts and a pumpkin on an NYC subway display. The orange F is shaped like a pumpkin. 34th St, herald square. Uptown platform.

Ghosts and a pumpkin on the train countdown screen, NYC subway, 34th St, BDFM platform.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 29/10/2025

Playing around with an idea. Who can identify what this is a sketch of?

Sketch with several lines and colored boxes with arrows in them. At left, a green box with a down arrow and another with an up arrow. Middle top, two brown boxes with up then down. Right, two red boxes with down then up. At bottom a long blue rectangle with arrows pointing left and right at either end.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 17/10/2025

Poked around the city. Took some pics of our stickers.

Negroni sticker on a notebook. Grand Central Terminal in background.

London Fog sticker on notebook, on the deck of the Staten Island Ferry with part of the Manhattan skyline visible in the background.

Matcha Latte sticker on a notebook. Grand Central end of the subway shuttle station in the background.

Latte sticker, held up by a hand. Subway station in the background.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 15/10/2025

New Guide just dropped! HOW DO YOU Step Onto the Subway - Let People Off First - Step All the Way In - Sit or Hold On Pre-order in the shop, or print at home for free: howdoyou.guide/mini-guides

"How Do You Step Onto the Subway" mini-guide, with three sections: Let People Off First, Step All the Way In, Sit or Hold On.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 11/10/2025

They're here! "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" cards are now in stock and ready to ship! If you preordered, they're on their way! shop.howdoyou.guide/product/mini...

Hand holding five "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" cards.

Box full of "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" cards, with a significant chunk missing from the middle.

Priority Mail boxes held up in front of the door to the HowDoYou Guide office.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 07/10/2025

We should probably turn in for the night, we're getting weird ideas.

Graphic entitled "How Do You Navigate in Queens", featuring a stylized street grid with the number "60" written several times on top of it in red, orange, and blue.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 07/10/2025

Preview, work in progress...

Screenshot of an excerpt of a how-to guide for "Get On The Train", encouraging readers to Let People Off First and Stand Away from the doors. Contains simple diagrams of an overhead view of subway cars with people getting on and off.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 06/10/2025

Our guide to not hitting people with your car is now available in Italian! Check us out on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@howdoyouguide) where we give a shout-out to our translators! If anyone would like to see it in other languages, we'd love to collaborate!

Translation of "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" mini-guide into Italian: "Come Fare Per Evitare di Investire Persone Con La Tua Auto"

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 01/10/2025

We love a good illustration! Some people are claiming we should only daylight (make it easier to see pedestrians) at intersections with crashes. Luckily, there's a map of crashes! Play with it yourself here: crashmapper.org#/ Golly, looks like people could use our guide! (data Sept 2020-2025)

Screenshot of NYC car crash map and Contributing Factor statistics. 63,229 crashes listed "Driver Inattention / Distraction" as contributing factors.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 29/09/2025

Working on a home-printer-friendly version of our guide. Currently thwarted by font issues. Creating outlines in InDesign gives us odd letter spacing, and removes underlines. Wanted to do PDF, but might just cut our losses and put it out as a PNG (below is a lo-res screenshot). Thoughts?

Screenshot of four "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" mini-guides laid out on a single Letter-sized page.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/09/2025

Everyone is starting to notice our egregious typographical error. We are sufficiently ashamed. Please accept this corrected version of our guide:

"How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" pocket guide. Instructs readers to Watch the Road and Slow Down. Further text humorously insists that watching the road and slowing down are indeed important.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/09/2025

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/09/2025

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 26/09/2025

Next week is Week Without Driving, led by @americawalks.bsky.social. We'll be profiling a different city every day. We visited each city in person and got around without driving. Learn what worked, what didn't, and what pleasant surprises we found.

Sidewalk in suburban area. Green lawns and houses on right. Road with a few cars on left. Large tree in foreground.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 10/09/2025

Early prototype. The aim is to help gather the essentials on riding transit in a new city in about five minutes.

White card with handwritten text: "How Do You Guide / Transit Checklist"

White card with a whole lot of handwritten checklists related to finding and paying for transit.

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HowDoYou Guide @howdoyou.guide · 09/04/2025

R&D excursion. Riding public transit all over the US.

Black backpack, open zipper, three markers sticking out, sitting atop a suitcase. Markers are red, blue, and orange. Blurry background of a corridor.

View from above the underground train tracks and platforms in Penn Station, NYC.

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