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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 8h

A joyous #WalkToSchoolDay to all who celebrate 🚶🏻 🚶🏻‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️

Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you for this, Tab! You’ve excavated the true purpose of #WeekWithoutDriving: instead of a campaign meant to exhort work-a-day ppl with families to avoid driving, it’s designed to invite electeds to see for themselves how abysmal not driving is, and based upon this seeing, effect change

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How much of children’s mental health struggles are attributable to their auto-dominated environments keeping them from easily exploring their environments and chance encountering friends and acquaintances?

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New Anti Car-Dependence Starter Pack Follow these legends! go.bsky.app/2Ra9aHE

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

U.S. traffic deaths fell for a fourth straight year. However, pedestrian and bicyclist deaths rose 8% since 2020. When a total improves, for whom has the system become safer? transportationtodaynews.com/news/38851-t...

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Traffic fatalities down for the fourth year, but still up over the decade: TRIP report - Transportation Today

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2. Exploit a common “threat narrative”—e.g, "the government wants to take away your car." Don’t deny this narrative; offer a competing threat narrative: "People you love are falling ill because of others' driving choices." Health threats are harder to dismiss than convenience threats.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Upshot: it’s not worth trying to persuade "drivers" to change beliefs about driving. Instead, split the driving coalition: 1. Identify different interest groups within "drivers." Suburban commuters, freight drivers, ride-share drivers, and elderly drivers, as they don’t share identical interests.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the spirit of #weekwithoutdriving, a few tips on inviting others to see what you see: But first, political support for driving is driven by coalition goals, not ignorance. Even the beliefs people hold depend on which beliefs help strengthen their coalition and weaken opposing ones.

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👀 👀👀 #ChapelHillNC #CarrboroNC go.unc.edu/schooltravel2026 👇

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Resilient Mobility @resilientmobility.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Are you are parent of a child enrolled in public schools in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, or Durham NC? If so, UNC researchers want to hear from you about your kids' experiences getting to school! survey: go.unc.edu/schooltravel... #SchoolTravel #Transportation

White, yellow, and red flyer with black text. It contains a QR code.
The text reads:
"Share your experiences with school transportation
Purpose: This is a research study on disruptions and changes to school transportation. The purpose of the research is to document the impacts of transportation disruptions and identify solutions parents might support.
Details: The survey will take 5-10 minutes and includes a drawing based on chance in which each participant has an equal odds of receiving a prize. Eligibility is limited to adults aged 18 and older who live with a dependent enrolled in Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools.
Who we are: A team of UNC researchers who study transportation planning
Link to survey: https://go.unc.edu/schooltravel2026
This research is conducted at the University of North Carolina main campus under the direction of Dr. Tabitha Combs (IRB number: #24-0158). You can reach Dr. Combs at tacombs@live.unc.edu.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fayetteville had 30 approved traffic-calming projects sitting unbuilt. A neighborhood group grabbed paint and finished a project in a weekend, earning more trust on a Saturday than months of speaking to council. What counts as political: the speech, or the paint? www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026...

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Anyone Can Complain, but Fewer Show Up With Paint | Strong Towns

Showing up to city hall costs a few minutes and the adrenaline of speaking in public. Sweat equity is a different currency.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve recently learned that only within the last decade has the public health malady received serious scientific attention. Turns out exposure to chronic noise pollution is anything but benign. Essay 14 in Infrastructure and Its Discontents is up: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

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The Sound With No Address

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 14

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We don’t talk enough, make enough noise about, the aural assault that is chronic noise pollution. Please enjoy the latest installment of Infrastructure and Its Discontents: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

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The Sound With No Address

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 14

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The future doesn’t yet exist. Yet all we hear and read about the future comes from pundits who armchair pontificate about what the future will ‘most certainly be.’ Can we please talk more about the possible futures that we the people can fashion together?

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I often wonder whether people, many generations from now, will learn about our organizing society around the needs of machines which kill and maim so many humans and non, hasten natural disasters, bankrupt people, rendering them ill and think “was it at least fun?”

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Considering how obscenely terrible mass car use is for society, we have to ask why there’s never been anything close to a “war on cars.”

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New Canadian cycling infrastructure keeps arriving where riders already exist, not where the shortest trips are. 60% of bikeable trips happen in the suburbs. And almost none of the cycling network reaches the suburbs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Who rides and who is left behind: a multilevel analysis of new cycling infrastructure use in three Canadian cities

Despite ongoing expansions of cycling infrastructure in cities across the western world, few studies have examined how people engage with multiple new…

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

5-story parking garage sighting from atop a different 5-story parking garage a mere 0.2 mi away. Welcome to CARrboro. Please “feel free” (to drive and park when visiting).

Vista looking west from atop the Hampton Inn parking garage in Carrboro, NC. In the meddle distance, a mere 1,100 ft/335 m away is another 5-story parking garage.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Once you see it, personally feel it, car harm becomes impossible to ignore. I explore this and more in Essay 13 of Infrastructure and Its Discontents: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/what-cannot-be-unseen

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What Cannot Be Unseen

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 13

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Funny how we measure freedom in minutes of drive time saved. Yet we seldom measure what’s damaged or destroyed to save them. Essay 13 in Infrastructure and Its Discontents is up:

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What Cannot Be Unseen

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 13

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Enthusiastic use of AI in the workplace has got to be the clearest indicator of burnout.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can we agree that this train station is a bit too far from downtown? Thanks, Charlotte

At the Amtrak station in Charlotte, NC facing south toward downtown (called ‘uptown’), which is 2 miles south from the station.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some systems are built to solve a problem and end up causing it instead. Take cars, for example. They promised to extend mobility for all, but have ended up producing immobility, bankruptcy, or harm for many.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

México is led by a scientist. The US has been commandeered by a “businessman”

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have an odd belief that a fair number of political writers take the job for the sole purpose of sometimes being able to write ‘attorneys general.’

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let’s face it, ‘liminal’ is a mid word.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Besides forgoing driving at all of course 👊

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Jaywalker” is a manufactured word. Auto industry PR campaigns invented it in the 1920s to move blame for traffic deaths from drivers onto people crossing the street. It worked so damn well the category still shows up in enforcement data a century later.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Indeed! Illich is known for this world-shattering lines

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Iván Illich, a brilliant philosopher, colleague, and friend to many would have been 100 years old today and as important to our share predicament as ever.

Cover of Iván Illich’s book Tools for Conviviality

Text from Illich’s Tools for Conviviality with marked passage reading “In the case of transportation it has taken almost a century to pass from an era served by motorized vehicles to the era in which society has been reduced to virtual enslavement to the car.”

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Walk Score explains just 25% of why people walk in a neighborhood. Amenity proximity predicts errand-walking, but not recreational walking, which is 69% of all walking trips. The metric we planners have leaned on for years was telling only half the story. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Most American sidewalks are legally the responsibility of whoever's house they happen to sit in front of. Michael Pollack's new book, Sidewalk Nation, argues this piecemeal ownership is exactly why they're the most contested, and most illegible, infrastructure we have.

Image of book cover. Book: Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource by Michael Pollack

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good morning from CARrboro, NC

Sunrise over East Main St in Carrboro, NC

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

More than a century ago, the road lobby inventing “the jaywalker”, a then new kind of human, one still with us today. Essay 12 of Infrastructure and Its Discontents explores what this means for the people so labeled: sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/the-labeli...

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The Labeling

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 12

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At 3:33am today, a driver ran over and killed a person walking here, then fled from the scene. If you build it they will harm/be harmed. The scene: 👀 share.google/jPBCBddOdIY1...

Aerial shot of the Capital Blvd and Durant Rd in Raleigh, NC. Not even a pedestrian-tolerant environment

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Bike infrastructure = true freedom

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Stepped outside for a moment, aiming for a mindful reset. Two lawn movers and leaf blowers began tending to my neighbors’ yard. Amazing how much gas-powered noise we tolerate in our environment.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Most Americans drive. Most drivers speed. Most drivers drive distracted. Some drivers drive drugged, drunk, drowsy. Given this knowledge about drivers, can we please think of anything besides enforcing some of our laws, sometimes, and in some places? Please?

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Jaywalking” remains a chargeable offense in 47 states. In this latest installation of Infrastructure and Its Discontents, I ask what happens to the people so labeled? sethlajeunesse.substack.com/p/the-labeli...

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The Labeling

Infrastructure and Its Discontents, Essay No. 12

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kudzu is consuming the American south.

Kudzu in Chapel Hill, NC consuming several loblobby pine trees.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Kansas City's streetcar started in 2005 with a bus route that acted like a streetcar. 20 years of corridor-building later, ten of the region's busiest bus routes feed directly into the rail line. The corridor was the investment. The train simply formalized it. www.planetizen.com/features/138...

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How Kansas City quietly built one of the best streetcars in America

A detailed and completely unbiased history of one of American transit's greatest comebacks.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking to get conservatives on board with in-vehicle intelligent speed assistance (ISA)? No need to conduct framing studies. Just show a video of a known liberal getting caught doing 80 in a 25 mph zone.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You would be wise not to miss this.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The soundtrack of my day is the chorus of vehicles pulling in and out of driveways, accompanied by the opening and closing of car doors, with flourishes of banter among people getting into and out of cars.

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The number of cars streaming into my small town day after day is disturbing.

Northbound cars in a long line down S Greensboro St in Carrboro, NC USA

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Seth LaJeunesse @sethlaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Let us do all we can to make these weekly, then daily occurrences. Let’s render Kidical Masses “just how we do things here.”

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