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🌇 🚶🏽‍♀️🚲🛴🚌🚅 Market urbanist, enjoyer of nature & bicycles. 👉 Long-form takes at maxmautner.com

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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 3h
Absolutely! ❤️
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 3h
I see a lot of drivers during #weekwithoutdriving from the shuttle bus on my commute, and I’m grateful to have a professional driving me at safe speeds on the highway. In the event of a collision I know shuttle bus will “win”
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 3h
Starting my #weekwithoutdriving!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 16h
"Pardon me while I murder your Tactiq AI Extension"
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 23h
I have heard their water bills are crazy. Like $700/month crazy.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 30/09/2026
“We don’t want your stack-and-pack apartment building, they don’t even put grass! It’ll look like HONG KONG. California can’t handle more residents—we have severe drought risk! Why yes, I do have a front and back lawn.”
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 30/09/2026
“It doesn't apply to single-family homes.” California is a joke, merciless mocking commence!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 29/09/2026
Exactly--if I included high school students/parents, given the average high school size every person in America besides the Amish knows someone who's died by car by the time they're 18 years old.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 29/09/2026
As I was writing this blogpost, I was thinking about how drastically I am underestimating the average American's experience with traffic violence--I knew several dead by the time I was 18: maxmautner.com/2026/09/28/w...
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When we talk about traffic violence
By 40, ~79% of Americans have lost someone they know to a crash. Most would trade faster driving for safer streets if someone asked them.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 28/09/2026
A nice palette cleanser
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 28/09/2026
Or its carefully curated vibes
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 28/09/2026
If you come at Mill Valley you best not miss the excellent sandwiches at the Mill Valley Depot
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 26/09/2026
Moving them where?!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 26/09/2026
As a father who runs with my baby son, I am surprised how often I get words of encouragement from strangers for doing so. Family-friendly communities begin and end with whether we systematically prioritize safely moving around outside of a car: www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2017/ne...
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 26/09/2026
RWI electric trains!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 26/09/2026
LA has the fewest road miles per capita among US cities—so why do they suck? Even in a dense urban metro the cost of induced demand outstrips funding: maxmautner.com/2026/09/25/r...
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Too many roads
Kansas City has three times as much road per resident as Los Angeles, and a third as many people paying for each mile.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 25/09/2026
A car-free happy hour in San Carlos, CA! Thank you to the county for the Transit Month proclamation!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 25/09/2026
Thank you for publishing me, @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social ! www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2026/9/...
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A stop sign for $1,000 — Seamless Bay Area
Over the course of several months I had captured 3 photographs of crash aftermath at a single intersection, encountered while biking to and from downtown San Mateo. A few months later, a hit-and-run d...
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 24/09/2026
District 1: Diaz-Nash District 3: Seema Patel District 5: Adam Loraine Regional Transit Measure: Yes Measure H: not sure.
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The Basin @thebasinla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on earth… Why?
LA Metro’s escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.
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The Basin @thebasinla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's not your imagination, LA Metro's escalators are some of the slowest on earth. We measured it against 139 other cities.
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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to the "set it on fire" crowd for dramatically increasing construction costs for affordable housing developers. Type I concrete for six stories! sfyimby.com/2026/09/cons...
According to comments by Tipping Structural, the project will be entirely concrete Type I Construction, after a “detailed comparison of life-cycle structural system costs incorporated recent and dramatic increases in insurance costs for wood-framed construction in Oakland.”
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 23/09/2026
Some family transiting
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 23/09/2026
Some SF transit corridors
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 23/09/2026
Rock & roll, Razor
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cities should be paying people to bike. Cities should be buying people e-bikes. Cities should be rewarding people for convincing neighbors to ride bikes. Every trip by bike is a net financial gain socially. And it compounds, the more people who do it.
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zafarali.me @zafarali.me · 23/09/2026
"there were over a dozen similar requests" Quick builds and traffic calming are popular folks and you can request your city do them too! maxmautner.com/2026/09/17/s... @maxmautner.com
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A stop sign for $1,000
3 crashes at one intersection, photographed on my way to work. The all-way stop went in 178 days after I sent the city a notice of dangerous condition.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 22/09/2026
Nextdoor.com: "That'll teach em a life lesson"
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 21/09/2026
I am a “YIMBY” because I want someone down the block from me who knows how to unclog my toilet instead of someone driving 2 hrs each way working for a private equity-owned plumbing conglomerate. If that means they live in a multistory apartment building I can see from my window that is okay.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 21/09/2026
The list is long: - www.marinij.com/2018/12/23/m... - www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Marin supervisor Connolly arrested in DUI hit-and-run
“I exercised very poor judgment by drinking at a holiday gathering and then driving home,” said Supervisor Damon Connolly, who holds the District 1 seat representing San Rafael.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This year legislators introduced a slate of 17 bills intended to close California’s “license to kill” system of loopholes for dangerous driving and repeat offenders. Almost all of them failed: calmatters.org/tag/license-... @calmatters.org
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License to Kill
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 20/09/2026
Latino gangs and ICE leadership direction created an unsafe work environment. He was mulling retirement back in Brazil
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 20/09/2026
I’ve had a lot of interesting experiences riding public transit but one memory: chatting on Caltrain with a Brazilian-American ex-ICE agent telling me about why he quit
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 20/09/2026
Counterterror and safe streets policies converge on hostile vehicle mitigation. Anti-ram bollards and raised planters are the same hardware urbanists want for sidewalk protection, funded from a much larger budget line.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 19/09/2026
Re-pavings are a great example of a non-zero sum moment for activism—they are going to do the re-paving, they can do the road diet/parking removal/bus-only lane without drama (usually.)
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 19/09/2026
If there’s a really deep lesson here it’s that public works engineers need better data-driven PR—but the cycle on which they collect even medium-fidelity crash data is over years, not months & it requires $. A good proxy would be pedestrian traffic count, and impact on it before/after treatments
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 19/09/2026
❤️🙏
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 18/09/2026
There are very close parallels between San Pablo in the East Bay and El Camino Real on the mid Peninsula 
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 18/09/2026
The story: maxmautner.com/2026/09/17/s...
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A stop sign for $1,000
3 crashes at one intersection, photographed on my way to work. The all-way stop went in 178 days after I sent the city a notice of dangerous condition.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 18/09/2026
I am a pastry chef in training!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 18/09/2026
New stop-sign-in-the-neighborhood celebration cake:
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 17/09/2026
There's an interesting tension between Buffett's BNSF refusing to electrify freight rail corridors and trucking companies electrificying first. Fuck Buffett
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 17/09/2026
The mode shift to EVs/PEVs is momentous
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 17/09/2026
Word!
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 17/09/2026
I enjoyed the Raygun documentary
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 16/09/2026
Don’t ask, don’t tell
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 15/09/2026
A Murphy toilet! 🤯
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Brendon @premiumsocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To add to this, knees are a use-’em-or-lose-’em kind of body part. If you want good knees in old age, you should walk/jog/run regularly starting by your mid-30s, prompting your body to strengthen your knees in response to the wear. Walking 35 minutes twice a day would be perfect for this.
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 14/09/2026
Excellent read. Someone needs to prove this out. I've only heard of TDR usage before in San Francisco
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mmautner @maxmautner.com · 14/09/2026
The mind cannot conceive of walking a cumulative one hour a weekday, you will get injured?
A lot of folks here start preaching health. If it is 35 mins walking one way, you are essentially walking an hour everyday. Easy for folks to think they can do it, not when you are 5 days a week to office year after year, and your job comes first in everything. You'll start to feel that on your knees soon.

Otoh, if you can manage a bike as someone said, it is doable.
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