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Farm&City @farmandcity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are hiring for two Fall paid internships at 15 hours a week helping with research & education on the problem of traffic crashes in Texas and possible solutions. One position will focus on data & GIS & the other will focus on policy analysis & communications. farmandcity.org/2026/09/17/f...

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Farm&City is hiring two Fall 2026 interns – Farm&City

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Guy at table next to me at an Austin coffee shop told another guy about all the trouble on recent projects w/ zoning administrators putting up barriers & useless buerocracy. He explains he’s getting out of architecture, shifting to training others. It’s just not joyful anymore because of zoning.

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Farm&City @farmandcity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Crashes cost Texans $54B a year while congestion costs us about $15B. Our funding system is built for the smaller problem. The Legislature can fix that. Farm&City submitted these comments today to the Texas House Subcommittee on Transportation Funding: farmandcity.org/2026/09/02/c... #txlege

Photo from the side of 290 of a bad crash in the middle of Elgin. There are police cars and emergency vehicles from multiple agencies and a helicopter in the middle of the road waiting to take someone to the emergency room.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth everybody! May we all live in freedom together forever more. May we all remember the horrors done by people who enslaved other people right here in Texas, and honor those who suffered and those who fought for freedom for all.

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Friends of Austin Neighborhoods (FAN) @atxfriends.org · 16/06/2026

"We have to stop limiting the amount of people allowed to live . . . low-carbon lifestyles in walkable neighborhoods. And the whole idea that there are some places in our city where we shouldn't have tall buildings was wrong. And that idea was always wrong." - @jaycrossley.bsky.social

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

So cool to be at opening celebration of @capmetroatx.bsky.social’s 800 Pleasant Valley & 837 Expo Center Bus Rapid Transit lines. These were cut from Project Connect in 2017 based on foolish decision-making data, but were -arguably- saved by this blog post I wrote. farmandcity.org/2017/06/23/p...

Picture of a rapid bus at a station with the electric charging arm connected overhead to the bus and some people standing around.

Austin Transit Partnership Board Chair Veronica Castro de Barrera speaking on a podium at the Expo Transit Center with a BRT bus on the right being charged by the overhead charger and a bunch of people listening inside a tent.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Montserrat Garibay seems to be winning perhaps the most important state house race on the Texas Democratic primary side of things – for those that care about urbanism, equity, the environment, fair markets, etc.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Luckily, the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas research institutions have studied how to implement credit-based congestion pricing (the correct answer) for the Austin region fairly extensively. Let’s do this!

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thank you Chris Riley and Brewster McCracken (among others) for putting Austin in the stratosphere of climate responsible city policies (at least in West Campus).

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Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Rain garden was hard at work today near one of Austin’s roundabouts

Photo of a ponding rain garden in the foreground, with sidewalk at right and roundabout in the background

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

That feeling when your state (Texas) and local governments spend more money on roads than almost anywhere else in the world, and the roads just keep getting worse.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I think one of the world clocks at the @nytimes.com offices is off in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast, which just seems kind of a a perfect little picture of where we're at in the world. The third clock from the right is apparently gonna be at whatever minutes it wants.

Screenshot of the video of the Ezra Klein podcast, which is three men sitting at a table in a glass walled conference room with six clocks high on the wall in the room behind them. All the clocks have the same minute hand position (like they should), except for the third from the right.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’ve been working on this in Texas for several years & believe it is the right answer for #txlege to use weight-based user fees to cover the costs of driving. We got the Safe Texas Streets & Sidewalks Fund drafted as a resolution to let Texas voters decide this, but couldn’t get it filed last year.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/03/2026

We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at all eligible school locations by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to start. In 2026, we’re reducing 800 locations to 15 MPH, for a total of nearly 1,300 School Slow Zones.

An NYC DOT worker puts up a street sign that reads: SCHOOL SPEED LIMIT 15 FINES HIGHER PHOTO ENFORCED

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I feel like this is actually a pretty good spot in line for the Sunshine Community Garden Plant Sale ten minutes before it opens. The entrance is all the way down the block and around the corner and halfway down the next side of the block. I’m heading straight for the peppers tent.

Selfie with a long line of people waiting on a sidewalk next to a fence side of the community garden.

The end of the long line on the sidewalk as I was walking up. You can see a bus stop and someone dropping someone off in a car to get in the line.

Closeup shot of the backs of some people waiting in the line on the sidewalk. Some people looking at their phones.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The opposite of those truck bloat danger pictures.

Three 11 year olds standing right in front of a small kei truck in a parking lot.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If we are considering high speed rail in the Texas Triangle, all of these same questions apply, but on an even grander scale, and with the added crucial element of stations needing to be tied directly into the heart of effective local transit grid networks in each metro region.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

TIL that "squeek" is actually spelled "squeak," and it just seemed really fun – just like a nice little tune up for my little brain engine. You gotta take the wins you can get, I suppose.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I live in a state (Texas) w/ horribly mismanaged transportation spending that’s left us with a worthless pedestrian transportation system. The rare snow and sleet accumulation on the ground in Austin yields a sneckdown kind of effect showing the desire lines where people walk on missing sidewalks.

Cold ground in the yard in front of a house with grass on the yard but a white channel of snow where the sidewalk should be.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 03/01/2026

"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...

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Mayor Mamdani commits to ending traffic violence across NYC on third day in office #safestreets

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Books I’m reading or read this year The Triumph of the City Edward Glaeser Started during Thanksgiving break Arbitrary Lines Nolan M. Gray Started 12/5/25 at Arturo’s underground Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel Reading selected passages. Nov/Dec 2025

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

When your punk band is over 25 years old, it’s important to play at least one show a year. I’ll be doing that tomorrow 12/20/25. We — Woozyhelmet — play at 6pm. Free. Kids welcome. It’s a dive bar and we’ll be loud, but also there will be informative short PowerPoints. (This is in Austin)

Flyer for a show with a drawing of a cat wrapped up in a roll of toilet paper and it says “Sat Dec 20th @Knomad, 1213 Carona, 6pm Woozyhelmet, 5pm David Israel, 4pm Colin Swietek and the One Tough Customer. Doors at 3pm” with a note at the bottom “*featuring informative PowerPoint presentations”

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Mondays, ammirite?

Large tortoise who has slid off of his warming mat, upside down into his burrow

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Austin would have had public fiber internet infrastructure connecting every building in the city in the 1990s (allowing private & public entities to provide services), but the same people who kept Austin from building a great transit system around that time (led by Mike Levy) killed that plan.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I was asked (in a mail survey) to speak to my city’s leadership and took that opportunity to suggest a regional equitable transit-oriented development strategy.

On a survey, there is a hand written answer to the question: “30. If there was ONE thing you could share with the City’s leadership (any comment, suggestion, etc.), what would it be?”

I wrote “Please relax all limitations on dense development to achieve an expected zoning capacity sufficient to allow for the possibility of at least half of the metro region’s population at our mid-century peak having the option to live in dense, mixed-use, mixed-income walkable urban places connected to other walkable urban places by frequent transit.”

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

“Too many families in Houston have lost a loved one to a violent, unexpected event just trying to use the transportation system,” said Jay Crossley, executive director of the nonprofit Farm & City who has worked statewide on traffic safety improvements. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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Houston’s roads are still among deadliest in Texas despite a drop in crashes

Houston is on track for fewer fatalities and serious injuries in 2025, but continues to lag behind the rest of Texas on road safety measures.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you live in between San Antonio & Texarkana (specifically San Marcos, Austin, Taylor, Temple, McGregor, Cleburne, Fort Worth, Dallas, Mineola, Longview & Marshall) you’ve really got to try hopping on the Texas Eagle for 2-4 day trips. It’s lovely as long as you’re not in a hurry to miss it all.

Shot from my seat in a four person booth in the lounge car with my laptop showing the Palm Royale tv show in front and a journal on the side with a pen and a hot tea cup and sparkling water and water bottle and old hot dog basket and some Amtrak napkins.

Selfie in my blue clouds shirt sitting in a booth in the lounge car of the train.

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Alex Wolford @thetexanrhino.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Some very interesting polling numbers regarding Plano and Farmers Branch's calls to withdraw from DART here.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 03/11/2025

One of my low-key favorite parts of the Mamdani campaign is that he walks around the city. People who love cities walk around their cities, but few political candidates do so.

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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

To me, everybody who demagogued about crime when they wanted a 28% pay hike for Austin police should STFU about opposing a tax increase to pay for it if they have any integrity at all. But obviously, that's not what's happening. The loudest voices for spending the $ are now against paying the bill.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 26/10/2025

Stop scrolling and go to bed! But first look at the comedy wildlife photo finalists from this year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

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These images are for viewing only and must not be copied :: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - Conservation through Competition

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 10/10/2025

Biden's domestic agenda was 100% correct. The problem was his inability to sell it, due to old age and lack of understanding of mass communications in the '20s. (Also, his foreign policy handed Trump the election.) Efforts to force Dems back into a '90s-'00s agenda are both wrong and unnecessary.

Freedom Of Speech painting by Rockwell: man in a workshirt and jacket stands and speaks in a crowd

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

So you’re telling me that Austin could paint some more rainbow crosswalks and then the Governor will halt the plan to waist $6-10 billion to allow for more traffic on I-35 through the heart of Austin? Sounds like a good deal. Let’s do this!

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

People of Austin (in Travis or Williamson County - ie constituents of CTRMA)! Please fill out this push poll that wants to justify roadway expansions by October 10, but argue for safety. Click on the map & add comments! Stop sprawl subsidy! End freeway expansions! wspengages.com/290Extension...

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CTRMA 290 Extension Project

An environmental study for mobility improvements to US 290 including the possible extension of 290 Toll.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This is the current story of my life.

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Safe Streets Austin @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚨 Final day to apply to the @SafeStreetsAustin Board! Want to help shape a safer, more accessible Austin for all? This is your chance. 🕛 Apply by midnight: buff.ly/1hDMPA1 #SafeStreets #ATX #TransportationEquity #BoardRecruitment #LastCall

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I wish advocates would stop using the phrase “people over cars.” It’s divisive & lacks empathy & I believe significantly sets progress back. We want a system that is safe & comfortably for people. Some people are inside cars. Don’t demonize people. Work w/ people to make streets safe for all of us.

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Safe Streets Austin @safestreetsaustin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Join our first Happy Hour TODAY 6-8pm! We'll be just off 2nd & Congress at Ellis Bar outdoor area (pictured). Come meet with us, hear the latest updates, and meet fellow supporters. See you there! RSVP: www.safestreetsaustin.org/upcoming-eve...

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Random thought in the airport: My perception is that love of football has allowed a significant shift in American media normalizing black men talking on television, being seen as experts and valuing their takes. It seems a really good thing that seems to have happened over the last decade or so.

Crappy shot of a couple airport TVs. There’s a man with a cool hat on the screen and the crawler has pictures of football players and various text about football.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

America’s approach to gun violence policies is bad. Every senseless death from these policies is sad.

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Jay Blazek Crossley @jaycrossley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’m headed on an adventure across the country, so you may get to enjoy excited posts about riding a bus, train, or a tight curb radii. I started out walking a half mile to North Lamar with my luggage to catch the #1 bus to my office. It’s a completely packed bus. Thanks @capmetroatx.bsky.social!

Shot from my seat near the front of the bus with lots of people standing and all the seats filled. There’s a guy holding a suit in dry cleaner plastic wrap.

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