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TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We assumed transit had a persuasion problem - that too many Americans weren't sold on it. We were wrong: support is already high. What's missing is a story making it feel urgent, relevant, and actionable. We built a new resource to help you tell that story: transitnarrativeproject.com

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Transit. So Why Isn't It Happening?

8 in 10 Americans back transit investment — yet funding still stalls. TransitCenter's new research identifies the belief gap and the messaging that closes it.

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Why does this matter? Peer review affects not only individual careers but also the field of transportation knowledge. We conclude that the bias against qual methods "does a disservice to the entire field, including practicing transportation professionals, and ultimately to all of us as travelers."

We conclude with the assertion that the primary goal of transportation research, stripped to its essentials, is the discovery of knowledge that will help improve lives. Many of our interviewees reported that they feel hindered by methodological gatekeeping in transportation studies. This, we contend, limits that primary goal of knowledge discovery in pursuit of betterment. Not every transportation researcher needs to achieve mastery in every research method, but all would benefit from a broader understanding of methodological strengths and weaknesses. A systematic bias against one method of discovery may leave some questions never conceptualized. It does a disservice to the entire field, including practicing transportation professionals, and ultimately to all of us as travelers.

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Interviewees described challenges to publishing qual transportation research stemming from misunderstandings of the accepted standards for qual research, a lack of expertise in assessing qual research, and, from some editors, a belief that qualitative research is not a valid method.

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

While the number & share of qualitative articles in transportation journals is growing, it still represents a tiny fraction (less than 4%) of published articles in top-ranked journals.

Chart showing the share of transport journals articles that use qual methods from 2000-2022. Percentages range from 1 to 4%.

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We document the dominance of quantitative methods in transportation journals and the biases against qualitative research methods in the peer review process. We (A) systematically reviewed the methods used in top transportation journals, and (B) conducted interviews with 46 researchers and editors.

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

How transport journals weed out qualitative research and why it matters Happy to share that my new paper with all start team of Orly Linovski, @kateontransport.bsky.social, Mike Smart is online and Open Access in Transportation.

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

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Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 31/10/2025

SB2111 in Illinois also: —Eliminates all parking requirements in areas within 1/2 mi of transit stations or 1/8 mi of frequent bus routes. —Gives transit agencies the ability to undertake transit-supportive development, including through purchasing new land and developing joint development projects.

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Transport Geography Research Group @tgrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜 First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social: 🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗 Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc... A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Bored with TRB's censorship and cancellations? Submit your work to the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice instead -- proposals due October 25. www.crossroadsconvening.org

A banner showing details about the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice to be held January 16th at the MLK Library in Washington, DC. The image at the top shows multiple intersecting zebra crosswalks with pedestrians.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2025

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

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Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Hearing reports that TRB is censoring annual meeting content. Authors are receiving a "Notice of Non-Selection" when notified that their papers were not sent out for review. Esp shitty for students who submitted work on Aug 1 only to wait two months for no reviews. Shameful behavior by TRB.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

TREATED AND 'STREETED': "The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found." - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/23/t...

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'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City

The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two. I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/09/2025

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

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TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Love this campaign from @mountainkeeper.bsky.social fighting a proposed highway expansion in New York’s Hudson Valley by presenting an irresistible vision of all the useful transportation upgrades $1.4b could bring to the region instead. www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/invest_in_ou...

Fact sheet outlining the different ways a billion dollars could be used to improve transportation in the Hudson Valley instead of widening a highway. Projects like better bus service, street safety and beautification and additional bus shelters are mentioned.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...

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Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes

For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This project documents Black travel networks & resilience. Your memories can power the research! Learn more and add to this growing body of work: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky How did Black families travel during Jim Crow? Learn the history

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A few days ago, Berlin opened a new stretch of urban motorway, with the stated aim to reduce congestion. Today, the stretch was temporarily closed because of too much congestion.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C., which has close ties to the conservative legal movement, called the research “false and injurious” and said it would complain to Brown’s public and private funders, including the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

EXCLUSIVE: In response to threats of criminal prosecution from the Department of Justice for performing gender-affirming care, the University of Michigan hospital system will tomorrow announce they are ending gender-affirming care in the UM hospital system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

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The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught

The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Massive service cuts in Philadelphia yesterday and are just the beginning. Public schools start today and many students rely on SEPTA. Unless state and local govt’s step up, we will see the same thing at many transit agencies in the US more details @ wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/service-cuts/

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Aaron W. Gordon @agordon.me · 25/08/2025

Cars are getting more expensive. People take out longer loans to afford them. Longer loans means more total interest cost, adding thousands of dollars to the already expensive car. And when they go to trade it in, they find they still owe more than the car is worth. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Cars Are So Expensive That Buyers Need Seven-Year Loans

They make monthly payments manageable but add thousands to the car’s total cost.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

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Active Travel Academy @active-ata.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

New job! We're looking for a qualitative researcher to work with us on two projects, a participatory project on urban greening and a mixed-methods study on impacts of cycle infrastructure. 0.9 FTE for 8 months (combined maternity cover role). More info: vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

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HR Vacancies - Search Jobs University of Westminster

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Nick Klein @njklein.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Erick Guerra’s new book is very good. I particularly liked chapter 5, How, Where, and Why Do We Build Roads?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant. Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages. They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates. These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 07/08/2025

The 14th amendment to the constitution is quite clear: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State." You can't just exclude certain people from the count!

US Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 2: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State."

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“The ransom that [Columbia] ended up paying strikes me as a pretty good value if you decide you’re going to pay ransom,” he added. “But the problem with paying ransom is that it incentivizes the taking of more hostages.” www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

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Cornell Expected to Reach Settlement with Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding

Cornell University is expected to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that has been revoked over the last several

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/07/2025

The world we live in: "The Trump administration wants to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels like oil and gas... China is racing in an altogether different direction. It’s banking on a world that runs on cheap electricity from the sun and wind." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

China exports far more clean energy tech, like lithium-ion batteries, solar panels, and electric cars, than does the United States.

The US exports far more fossil fuels than China. The US is clinging to old, dirty technologies as China transforms for the future. The Trump administration will worsen the situation.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our multi-campus research team shared preliminary results from our work about the evacuation experiences of transit riders with LA county transportation and emergency management professionals yesterday! Can’t wait to release these findings publicly later this summer

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I feel like everyone memory-holed the fact that Michael Bloomberg—who spent over $8 million supporting Cuomo—ALSO campaigned on a free bus proposal in 2009.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 17/06/2025

Senate GOP is proposing a massive subsidy for car buyers, worth thousands of dollars off peoples’ taxes. By comparison, the federal infrastructure law subsidizes transit at the level of about $65/person/year (and gives highways ~$205/person/year).

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 12/06/2025

Since there's lots of talk right now in this space about free fares on transit, I wanted to re-up this thread I wrote in 2022 that details what we know from research about the pros and cons of this policy:

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TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The highway lobby!

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 11/06/2025

State of the parking garage blockade right now. Protesters are zip-tying and duct taping the Lime scooters and bikes in a 21st century answer to the barricades of Paris

People errecting a lime scooters and bikes blockade

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Banning cars can be a handy slogan. But I wish advocates could understand that you need to know and master the toolbox that will actually help the well-intentioned policymakers deprioritizing cars in our mobility mix. That is why we are working on something we hope will be online after summer.

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Taylor Shelton @jtsphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these 60,000+ cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now. Read more 👇👇

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City of Cameras

Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. With 124.14 surveillance cameras per 1,000 people, we not only lead the country, we have more than twice as many cameras per capita as 2nd …

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Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Pinch me! TWO great papers by all-female authors in one day. This one shows the (lack of) gender diversity in transport geography over time, and the topics more likely to be explored by female-led vs non-female-lead research teams. Diversity matters. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Topics covered by female-led vs non-female led transport geography papers

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learavensbergen.bsky.social @learavensbergen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚐 New paper out! My final paper on community transport with @timschwanen.bsky.social at @tsuoxford.bsky.social is now published open access in Journal of Rural Studies. What’s it about? See 🧵 below!

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Wojciech Kębłowski @wojciechkeblowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Having moved to The University of Hong Kong's Department Urban Planning and Design, I am currently accepting applications for Postdocs, PhD students, and Research Assistants working along my research lines.

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