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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tell me I’m at a @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social Board Meeting without telling me I at… thanks for the stickers, Lisa Wise!

Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Came across this supersized partial diverter with a chicane design along one of Minneapolis’s bike boulevards. Judging by the size of the trees it has been there a long time.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a massive game changer for those of us who bike Dekalb / Lafayette everyday and frequently ride the B38. These changes will make me comfortable allowing my 8yr old to ride alongside me as well. 🙌🏻 nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/06/d...

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Desperately Needed Bus and Bike Lanes Are Coming to Brownstone Brooklyn - Streetsblog New York City

Bus riders and bike riders in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill are about to get much faster and safer rides, thanks to the Mamdani administration's decision to place bus and bike lanes on two major...

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That is absolutely smooth compared to what I saw in Bed-Stuy today — just beyond the new ADA curb ramps and APS signals are mounded asphalt speed bumps for strollers, wheelchairs, etc. I’ll have to share photos… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final point: the Ruelles Vertes is not just green infrastructure, it’s social infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, traffic-calming infrastructure etc. Montreal shows us that an any city’s alley system can be repurposed into something much greater than a place to store the garbage.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I particularly loved seeing all of the DIY street hockey/street soccer, toys, and children’s artwork, like this sign pointing to where all the neighborhood kids live.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Montreal’s block structure often includes an “H” alley pattern that allows multiple points of ingress/egress to be converted while still preserving resident and sanitation access. Traffic-calming (bumpouts, raise mid-block crossings etc) is often placed at pedestrianized access points.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was in Montreal this weekend for the UCI world championships, which allowed me to take some photos of the Ruelles Vertes (green alley) network, a case study in our upcoming book. There are more than 450 across the city, providing an array of citizen-initiated interventions.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Moynihan Station steps are one of my favorite public spaces in midtown. The new-ish (?) plantings demonstrate that steps can be so much more than a way in or out of a building. 🤩

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see bike network “infill,” upgrades happening across the city. Here is the new improvements to the old York Street door zone lane, between Adams and Old Fulton.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Spent the holiday on Governors Island walking and cycling with my family; that plus the abundance of Plane trees is my happy place 🤩

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A sample of Toronto’s protected and contraflow bike infrastructure, including the “Toronto Barrier” with cute murals.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Toronto is very intense with its street seat barrier requirements! 👀

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026

New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Time to infill The Pentagon! 🇺🇸 🏙️ 🫡

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Flying in and out of DC is like flying over a TOD diagram, only they built it.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ocean Ave sidewalk refresh and protected bikeway is well on its way to completion. #BikeNYC

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Roll out the red carpet! The Flatbush Avenue busway boarding islands are well on their way to completion. 🚌 💫

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some in progress images here, prior to sign installation and a slight delineator reconfiguration based on initial observations.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This past weekend we completed pedestrian safety upgrades and a modal filter along Perth Amboy’s Hall Avenue. 🙌🏻

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Community gardens, pedestrian promenades, vegetated bike paths, ball fields, water features, squares etc

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dense urbanism requires a diverse network of densely vegetated and well-used open spaces to be livable and climate ready. It may be surprising to some, here are some pics contributing to why the population below Canal Street continues to surge.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On my way to a site visit this morning and I received my third rear cargo 🚲 flat in just the last week 🤬. So grateful to Sammy at GothamFix who changed it out in less than ten minutes, for just $20. Incredible deal when you compare his service to what bike shops cost.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Re: rollout of NYC's pied-à-terre tax exposing license and insurance fraud, it only took my kids 10 months on the back of our cargo bike to identify license plates from all 50 states. Just sayin’! @nyc.streetsblog.org

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yesterday was a great day out and about in Manhattan enjoying car-free streets. 🤩 📍 Hudson Square Plaza 📍 Lower East Side Open Streets

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Good take here on better preparing for the increased cycling/walking that inevitably comes to rezoned corridors like Kent Avenue. Not discussed is the major miss of not requiring all of the upzonings to build out the Brooklyn Greenway, including wider sidewalks. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/31/e...

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Eyes on the Street: It Is Time For Kent Avenue To Be Car-Free - Streetsblog New York City

The Kent Avenue bike lane has become a victim of its own success, so we put some eyes on the street.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Image taken before the barriers were placed. But no, Miami is not known for overly compliant drivers.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love this image of our Slow Streets project in Miami Beach because it shows the difference in scale between the geometry of the motor vehicle and the geometry of active transportation. When we favor the latter, everything from crosswalk size to lane widths get smaller, more spatially efficient.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There is also way less bureaucracy / complications along the path to making better community design decisions.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The constant (and loud) drumbeat of technological advancement takes up sooooooo much oxygen, so when I walk around NYC or travel I look for low-tech, human responses to everyday challenges that make me smile. Here are four I earlier this in Italy.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Cities have often been discussed as the laboratories of democracy — we can actually show that this isn’t a fantasy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

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Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital. And He Intends to Spend It.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down for an interview with the mayor of New York City.

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Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 17/07/2026

Somerville, MA is the latest proof that tools are available to reduce traffic violence. Officials just need to prioritize established best practices for road safety, including more speed bumps, more visible crosswalks, and better bike lanes. Learn more about Somerville's recent success ⤵️

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This New England City Hasn't Had a Traffic Death in Three Years

Somerville, Mass., officials say their success is rooted in tried-and-true best practices for traffic safety.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Normal view from my office vs today… 🇨🇦 🔥 😷

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I was awestruck by Matera, Italy. Considered the 3rd oldest city on earth, residents lived in hand dug caves, which have been added retrofitted for centuries. Poor conditions and disease forced the removal of 15k inhabitants in the 1950s. A UNESCO designation in 1990s opened the door to restoration🤯

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Where formal public seating goes missing, shaded steps fill the void.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lecce’s bike infrastructure is a hodge podge of built-for-purpose protected bikeways and sidewalks retrofitted with small markings or different colored pavers to allow cycling.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Small gesture, big invitation. 📍 Lecce 🇮🇹

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I love to spotlight good old fashioned American traffic-calming know-how when I see it. This is Perth Amboy, NJ where 8’ travel lanes along West Side Ave create a classic ‘yield street’ condition. We should have never stopped building low-volume urban streets like this.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Every so often you can squint and feel like NYC is a world-class cycling city.

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Mike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Still incomplete and still not perfect but the new Brooklyn Bridge-Centre Street bikeway link is a symbol of the no issue too small, can-do spirit of the mayoral new administration. #BikeNYC

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