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Alex Black

@imalexblack.dev
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<Dev/> / Passionate Urbanist 🏙️🚲 / Recent Grad from BYU April ‘25 🎓 / Latter-day Saint ❤️ Looking for the next big journey imalexblack.dev

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Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org · 29/09/2026
[𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛]: the alarming growth of private cars in height, width, length and weight at the expense of public space, the environment and overall safety.
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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This machine fights climate change. 🌎 This machine fights traffic congestion. 🚴🏼‍♀️ This machine fights ill health. 💓 Love this machine (and the great new Art Station building it's parked in front of!)
A white cargo e bike is parked in front of the Art Station building at Larkspur Park in Bend, with two blue helmets in the handlebar basket.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cars, welcome to The War on Cars.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did you know: cities used to have balloons that would just follow children to school, until General Motors bought all the balloons and scrapped them
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ALT headline: "Current street configuration comes at a cost for bus riders, cyclists."
brooklyn.news12.com
New bus and bike lanes planned along B38 route could come at a cost for drivers
The project, which stretches along DeKalb and Lafayette avenues from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Downtown Brooklyn, is part of the city's ongoing effort to improve bus service and reduce travel times for co...
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hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 22/09/2026
17 days until launch!! Watch the *alternative* trailer, voiced by Not Just Bikes. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 20/09/2026
Battle cry of every bike lane opponent ever: "we're not against bike lanes"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
$15K+ on average each year for each car in the United States. And Gas specifically is 55% higher than six years ago. That’s a shocking cost, especially when u consider how much of the U.S. has been planned and designed to be functionally car dependent, and that often means multiple cars are needed.
cnbc.com
Car ownership costs an average of $5,851 a year on top of auto loan payments, analysis finds
The cost of insurance, gas, and maintenance or repairs can add thousands of dollars a year to the price of owning a car.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Perennial Cycle DJ Ride, September 2026 ✅ I hit up the monthly DJ Ride organized by @perennialcycle.bsky.social (h/t @lauragmitchell.com), a Seattle Bike Disco adjacent ride with lights and music. Could only attend the first hour as I have to catch my train back to Seattle from St Paul. 🚲 🪩 😍
Group gathering at bike shop parking lotPeople riding in streetCyclists with lights on large pedestrian bridgeDJ bike trailer with downtown Minneapolis in the distance
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Posts like this about biking in Dutch cities are routinely replied to with comments like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter city-making decisions. #Leadership
People riding bikes along a Dutch canal in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
12 stories of housing vs 7 stories near rail transit is obviously like taste in different ice cream flavors
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Research climate solutions globally. Oppose climate solutions locally. ✊🏻
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We're told that people walking and biking should wear hi-vis clothing, remove headphones, and never look at your phone. Meanwhile:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
You would blush to offer this as parody. This is a *public health professor*.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It kills me that he still talks about putting bike lanes on “secondary roads” when those secondary roads *do not exist* in Toronto’s street grid (for the most part), Nothing replaces Bloor, Yonge, etc. Feels like a brutish power move, like he’s saying “I’ll kick you in the face and lie about it”.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just how thick do you have to be to believe that removing bike lanes will “fight gridlock?” I thought Canadians were generally smarter than Americans
Fb post about bike lanes and gridlock
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is BAD NEWS for public safety & mobility in Ontario. Make no mistake what this ruling means—the lower court decision established that ripping out protected bike-lanes WILL cost lives & that was unconstitutional. This Appeal decision says Doug Ford is constitutionally allowed to ENDANGER LIVES.
cbc.ca
Ontario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m...
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Cities of Lions @citiesoflions.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Transit is key to fixing housing and housing is key to fixing transit.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To anyone who does not live in Paris but visits the city at regular intervals (as I do), the transformation has been staggering: Paris has been reclaimed from cars. It can be done, and could be done in London too. It is all about political will and taking the risk of being unpopular - for a while.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thank you to @mayor.seattle.gov for letting Lake Washington Boulevard better serve the community this summer. The boulevard is most accessible when it is closed to car through-traffic, and OPEN to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to enjoy as the 3 mile public waterfront PARK it is
Two senior women using adaptive cycles, and people walking abs pushing strollers in background Skateboarding mom with sonBiking kiddo with mom Two men walking with woman in wheelchair. This photo from a former year
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Why do we support bollards? Because bollards deal out consequences for the driver, rather than the driver dealing out life altering consequences to the people outside of their car.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Enforcing basic rules on drivers like speed limits is considered novel, and remarkable, and objectionable.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/08/2026
Geology Building xkcd.com/3284/
Comic. [A college building labeled “Department of Geology” with a diagonal slash through center making it look uneven.] [caption] The administration regretted giving the geology department free rein to design their new building.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 13/08/2026
Spotted one of these close to home today and my 7yo exclaimed "we get ANOTHER loop dee loop?" Every time we go through a traffic circle on bikes @nissamitchell.com has us ride around the whole loop (when there isn't other traffic around). Fun for all ages.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/
A modified XKCD comic titled "TOP CAUSES OF DEATH FOR TIME TRAVELERS BY GEOLOGIC ERA:" features a tall, vertical rectangle representing Earth's timeline from its formation down to the present day. Along the left axis, tick marks indicate time intervals from "EARTH FORMS" at the top down through "4 BILLION YEARS AGO," "3 BILLION YEARS AGO," "2 BILLION YEARS AGO," "1 BILLION YEARS AGO," "500 MILLION YEARS AGO," and ending at "NOW" at the bottom. The vertical column is divided into stacked sections labeling the leading cause of death for each period: beginning at the top with "LAVA," followed by a section for "ASPHYXIATION," a thin band for "METEORS," a large section for "ASPHYXIATION," an even larger block spanning roughly 2.2 billion to 700 million years ago labeled "SLIGHTLY SLOWER ASPHYXIATION," and then smaller bands near the bottom labeled "FREEZING," "STARVING," "EATEN BY FISH," "TRAMPLED," and "EATEN BY MAMMALS." Next to the very bottom sliver representing the present day, an arrow points to the text "HIT BY SUV."
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We probably need to ban cars until we figure out why this keeps happening.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Coming soon to a discussion near you: "This isn't Minneapolis!"
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Example #2 of the strangely common idea that the real problem with our housing system is that rentals exist. And that we solve housing not by having more housing, but by forcing rentals to be condos only for ownership.
Lol no. It is speculative homeowning that ruined this country. People buying houses they'll never live in, intending only to rent or flip them. They prop up condo after condo development and low quality home after low quality home, and massively contribute to housing crisis by forcing MORE MORE more to keep up with their investment payments.
We do not need more development as much as we need a law that prevents owning more properties than you can reasonably live in with the sole intention of collecting profit off them.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 27/07/2026
The people who complain about empty bike lanes do not want full bike lanes. They want no bike lanes.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21/07/2026
Police looking for illegal ebikes seized and destroyed this person’s ebike… a Tern GSD (very much not an illegal ebike).
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Haojun & Muffin @haojun-li.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bike advocacy is about FREEDOM. The most AMERICAN mode of transportation. No license or registration or insurance requirements. Legally allowed almost everywhere. Hop off and suddenly you are a pedestrian too. Anti-bike is anti-freedom, which is anti-America.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a disgusting thing to publish in the wake of Louisa Gag's death. Yes, safety education is important for bicyclists. But Louisa is dead because of unsafe infrastructure and because of dangerous blind spots on trucks. Why does this piece not even mention steps the trucking industry could take?
bostonglobe.com
The preventable blind spot trap killing Boston’s cyclists - The Boston Globe
Large trucks turning right can sweep cyclists into their rear wheels in an instant. Understanding this deadly dynamic could save lives.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
most obvious policy W of all time
Zohran trade meme:

A TRADE OFFER
i receive:
10% of street parking spots in the most transit-rich part of the US
you receive:
streets no longer covered in trash
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
1. You can't "lose" something that you didn't pay for and that was never yours to begin with. 2. 76% of households in Manhattan are car-free.
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The project on the left is completely through environmental review and is approved to move into construction and the project on the right needs more environmental analysis, everything is working great.
New I-5 on the Vancouver waterfront10 foot bike trail in Ballard
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Bunch Bikes @bunchbike.com · 12/07/2026
Not everyone can afford a car.....
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Salt Lake City slowly turning into Phoenix. But nothing to see here. Yikes
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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Two simple ideas on one amazing cargo bike, which if you look closely you'll see is both a front loader and a longtail. Will write about this bike on @cyclingelectric.bsky.social next week
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Alex Black @imalexblack.dev · 25/06/2026
Provo: More housing now!
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Neil T @biliousbarnacle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
You ever wonder why there's Pop Tarts, but no Mom Tarts? It's the pastriarchy.
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Toblerone Train
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
US cities take note: Austin is prospering despite not letting Big Sports team owners extort billions from taxpayers by constantly threatening to leave town. You can have just as much fun and civic pride rooting for minor leagues, and the tickets are cheaper!
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Once again, a microscope on micromobility, while car violence continues to kill over 44,000 people per year in the United States.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If we're not careful, more mayors will be so corrupt that they [reads story] prioritize making bus service faster on a route they ride.
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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Can somebody who is good at the economy please tell me if bike parking is better than car parking for my business?
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PTK @leftveteran.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This clearly ends the discussion toilet paper over the top, never under. Patented in 1891

Picture of a toilet paper patent 1891
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"Ebikes are insanely great technology. Cheap, rugged and reliable, they're basically bicycles that abolish hills. Once you've gotten accustomed to an ebike ..you'll never go back." The mileage is great: 625 km per $1 (390 miles).
Picture of an ebike
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