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Ronit Aviva Dancis

@ronitadancis.bsky.social
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Trains, 🚍, cities, plazas, ☕️, beer, bikes, 🛴 walking. (She / her )

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
Separated bike-lane with people riding in Montreal.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This post writes its own punchline. Our tax dollars at work: MTA MARC Our tax dollars at play: Ravens Stadium Both at Camden Station!
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Paint is not protection....
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A great improvised memorial to Dolly Parton in NYC's (former, for a while) Fulton Street Station.
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Heather is 🎶 for Science 🎶 @heatherwgaona.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
have we decided to keep the Rockville Pike bus lanes? We’re going to need them for our RideOn Flash 🚌⚡️ service after all 😎 @rideonmct.bsky.social @mcdotnow.bsky.social
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Credit to the @mta.info for having issued a Dolly Parton-themed transit card! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MT...
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This pedestrian died. A 67-year-old man. The 10th pedestrian and 32nd person killed in a crash in MoCo in 2026. mocoshow.com/2026/08/11/6...
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67-Year-Old Man Dies Weeks After Being Struck by Driver in Gaithersburg - The MoCo Show
A 67-year-old Gaithersburg man has died from injuries he suffered after being struck by a driver last month, according to Montgomery County Police. The victim, identified as Tesfaye Fugago Liranso, […...
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Bike Tarrytown @biketarrytown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No physical barrier, no bike lane.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A member here at ACT Social Media 🌎HQ reminds us about this 2024 commuter in Australia who dwarfs this morning's goats who tried to ride transit: youtu.be/IryOI8rUjA4?...
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Lone Horse Boards Australian Train
YouTube video by Inside Edition
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#transit & #biking & #walking & #urbanism bc this is #climatecrisis
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."
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Housing LIN @housinglin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🏡 Senior cohousing or intergenerational living — how do they compare? In this new #HLINViewpoint, Dr Kirsten Stevens-Wood weighs up both models, from tackling loneliness to building community across generations. 🔑 Read more: www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/type/...
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If your local town, county or state has a budget deficit, try upzoning. #urbanism #housing
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/08/2026
Today on Volts: What should local officials do when a data center comes calling? With Saleem Chapman, I walk through @climatecabinet.org's comprehensive blueprint: what to require of them before they're built and when they are running, so that they benefit communities, not just investors.
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What should state policymakers do about data centers?
A conversation with Saleem Chapman of Climate Cabinet.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All of you should let your mayors and councilmembers know that if your city does not embrace pro-housing reforms then it is very likely leaving federal grant money on the table. www.pew.org/en/research-...
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The Success of the New Federal Housing Law Now Rests on States and Localities
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, enacted on July 11, represents the first comprehensive federal law in decades designed to increase homebuilding. The bipartisan package contains more than 50 prov...
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Infill urban housing/upzoning/walkability is by far the top answer to this question, and there isn't really a close second.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Drivers did not always have a monopoly on the use and design of roads.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/07/2026
I hate that we have concentration camps in our midst (and that is what these are). Every tool at our disposal needs to be used to shut them down and to protect people who are being harmed.
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Jessica Hart @jlrhart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If you’ve been personally affected by traffic violence and want to channel your hurt and rage into *something,* please reach out. @safestreetsdc.bsky.social can use your help…and might be able to help you, too. 💛
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only thing scarier than the number of seniors driving "self-driving" cars, convinced that the car will keep them independent when they can't drive anymore... is how long most states let seniors who drive go between mandatory vision tests.
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Road safety is a #transitridership issue is a #transit issue is a #greenenergy issue is a #jobs issue is a #econdev issue
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Riding transit to a sporting event is like a rolling pep rally. Too many must partake the aggravation and isolation of driving to a game. The walk to the stadium is half the fun in many cities around the world.
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Maryland Transit Administration @mta.maryland.gov · 24/07/2026
We want to hear from you. The Rider Experience Lab is our focus group program, created to gather real rider feedback and improve the transit experience. Learn more at mta.maryland.gov/riderlab.
Graphic promoting the MTA Rider Experience Lab with images of buses and trains on a colorful transit map background.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/07/2026
Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
New capital investment grants signed by administration
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area.
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#transit & #biking & #walking & #rolling & #urbanism bc this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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More than 80,000 people flee as wildfires spread in south-west France and Spain
‘Unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of French holiday spot Cap Ferret and Spain declares emergency as fires merge near Madrid
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Guess what happens to prices when demand exceeds supply.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The modal person killed in a crash in Montgomery County MD is a car driver. The modal non-motorist killed in a crash is an older person (often an immigrant) on foot, crossing a state road, in the evening, on their way to or from a bus stop.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/07/2026
Threshold alert: renewables are about to pass coal as the No. 1 global source of electricity.
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IEA: Global power demand is surging – and renewables are passing coal
Global electricity demand is rising, but booming solar will help renewables overtake coal as the top power source this year, says the IEA.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A theme here is that if a person inside city government intervenes on behalf of a restaurant losing parking spots or a random driver getting a parking ticket, that's seen as constituent services. If another government insider works on behalf of keeping people alive, that's seen as advocacy.
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Mike Larkin @mlarkin85.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Needing to catch and get off a bus along US 29 should not be a death sentence.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Even if you drive 95% of the time, this administration is making it more likely that some speeding driver in a gigantic car will hit you and kill you
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There is a whole community of people who find out about these 2 basic principles of the US transportation system after a loved one is killed in a car crash: 1. Motor vehicle throughput is more important than safety. 2. There are few legal consequences for homicide by car.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mindy Badin: "The vast majority of deaths & injuries on our roadways are due to...people who habitually speed....Even drivers who have had their licenses revoked or suspended...get right behind the wheel & continue driving [&] speeding...We're...glad this preventive [speed limiter law] has passed."
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Keisha, the bonus #TransitDog of the day, is helping strengthen the community. @sarahfrumento.ca tells the story.💜 sarahfrumento.ca/posts/the-ki...
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the kindness of strangers - Sarah Frumento
I took Keisha on a trip to Cobble Hill on Thursday by cargo bike. I stopped in Mill Bay to grab a coffee. I asked a gentleman seated alone outside...
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"The infrastructure for people who need to ride the bus looks like it does because of who has power and resources." - @nondriver.bsky.social
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Read the alt text in the quoted photo, and then go read this magnificent article. ggwash.org/view/104207/...
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Think outside the circle, DC OP
If it were the 1970s, this proposal from the DC Office of Planning would be cutting edge. Instead, it stands to seriously hold back housing in the District.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I really believe that having a massive oversupply of housing would be a game changer in so many abusive relationships
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Transit does more than just move people from place to place. [This TOD at Bowie MARC station is] creating access to jobs, to education, to healthcare, recreation, cultural spaces, this amazing university,” @mdotmtaholly.bsky.social said.💜
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Maryland, Utah, Maine, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire - go get your plug in balcony solar! #urbanism #energy #affordability #greenenergy electrek.co/2026/07/20/u...
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The US’s first UL 3700 balcony solar microinverter is here
Hoymiles launches the first US microinverter to meet UL 3700 compliance as plug-in balcony solar gains legal ground across more US states.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"I support safety, but [actually I don't]." "I'm all for bike lanes, but [actually I'm not]." "I want more housing, but [actually I don't]." "I approve of more transit, but [actually I don't]." "We all want to protect the environment, but [actually I don't]."
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Safe streets are a transit issue. Transit is a safe streets issue. Infrequent bus service kills people.
I was coming from work with Yaovi. We work at the pizza hut on 13318 New Hampshire
Ave. We took the bus #44 at 10:26 pm. We got off the bus with another young man. I went
to the bus stop [southbound] to wait for the flash heading to Silver Spring. Yaovi crossed the
street to wait for another bus. I heard a noise and saw the car stopped. The driver looked
troubled. I thought he hit a sign. I noticed that something was wrong when I saw Yaovi’s bus
leaving. I crossed the street and saw Yaovi laying on the ground.
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Must read thread, bc, and I quote "Legalizing housing is just the first step in actually realizing housing. "
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
90F at 9:30pm. Carrying groceries. "..rather than adding an extra 1/2 mi or more to her walk in 90° heat by using the nearest [marked] crosswalk..." 90F AT 9:30PM CARRYING GROCERIES
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Blanca Parada del Cid, 47, was wearing dark clothing & carrying groceries when she started home from the bus stop at 9:30 pm, across a 6-lane road with a 25 mph speed limit and no nearby crosswalk. Police found her at fault for failure to avoid being hit & killed by a driver going 29-36 mph.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Had the Nissan...been traveling at the posted 25 mph speed limit, it would have only afforded the pedestrian an additional 0.69 sec to cross. The pedestrian needs 4 ft to clear lane 2, but could only travel an additional 3.86 ft in the additional 0.69 sec, & the collision would still occur."
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Tony Byrne @tonybyrne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Always our responsibility not to get hit by speeding tanks.
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Ronit Aviva Dancis @ronitadancis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Local history that makes one cry.
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is outstanding. More agencies using this, please!
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