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Reid Davis

@thereidatl.bsky.social
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Football ("soccer"), running, cycling, urbanism, dadjokes, politics. Hopeful nonprofit wordslinger, occasional scribe for hire.

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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My last four days: * Friday, 20 miles at Critical Mass on the gravel bike * Saturday, 41 miles to/from Stone Mtn. with a roadie group * Sunday, 12 miles, two mountain-bike loops at Ft. Yargo State Park * Today, 8.5 early-a.m. miles running errands on the e-bike. My legs are sore! But I'm happy.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
First Bluesky post, Hall of Fame division.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
An all-timer today in the "don't be nice, be predictable" sweepstakes when interacting with drivers on the road as a cyclist. So I'm waiting for a break in traffic in order to pedal out from my driveway, and a car stops dead in the road. I stare at it, trying to determine intent.
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Propel ATL @letspropelatl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📣 Come visit Propel ATL's booth at Atlanta Streets Alive this Sunday, 2-6 p.m.! ⁉️ "Where's my project?" is the powerful question we're asking ahead of the May 20 Atlanta Department of Transportation budget briefing and May 21 public hearing. We’ll have two interactive ways for you to engage:
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Yet another cool milestone on my ebike. Roughly 95% of these miles (over the last 15 months) directly replace car trips.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One of the best pieces of local reporting over the last year (if not THE best.) Thrilled to see it recognized and (belatedly!) making some waves.
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Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
Two people riding bikes in Amsterdam. One says “if anyone proposed this in my town I’d kill them”
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
@urbanizeatl.bsky.social Not sure who needs to get this but the "magic link" login is not working. I put in my (pre-registered) email, get the email with the link, then when I click I am told that it's an invalid link.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The regime is clearing out everyone in the military who's not a loyalist in preparation for martial law. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Enjoying pregame at @atlutd17.bsky.social with my youngest! #UniteAndConquer
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.
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a man in a blue and white superhero costume is flying through the air .
Alt: A man in a blue and white superhero costume is flying through the air - a clip from 1970s anime series "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman," re-edited in the U.S. as "Battle of the Planets."
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Best iteration of this meme ever. (Credit: pikachu_922 in @thewaroncars.bsky.social Discord)
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@lathburyjason.bsky.social Apparently we were in the same room but I managed to avoid meeting you. Happy Georgia Transit Day, Jason!
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is why we can't have nice things, and why @thewaroncars.bsky.social is becoming less of a tongue-in-cheek title with each passing day. So GA DOT literally installed this RRFB (on-demand pedestrian crossing signal) two weeks ago.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We currently have... *checks notes*... ONE of these projects under construction. So we gave MARTA a pile of extra money for basically nothing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.
newrepublic.com
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Most cyclists in Atlanta know exactly where this spot is. I hit it at the exact right time this morning. #sunrise
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hit-and-run asshole driver took out two mailboxes, street signs and a fire hydrant on my street, knocking out water service to about six streets. But hey, what can you expect when we build our society around minimally trained people operating heavy machinery with minimal licensing? #CarsRuinCities
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Posting client content on my personal account is way better than posting personal content on my client's account... amirite? Anyway, I'd be re-posting this anyway, so here it is again.
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is the way.
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Propel ATL @letspropelatl.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Tune in TODAY, March 6, to WABE, 90.1 FM, to hear Propel ATL executive director Rebecca Serna and activist Satya Bhan on "Closer Look" with Rose Scott. The topic: "The Human Cost of Mobility," our annual look at traffic crashes, their systemic causes, and potential solutions.
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Sara Gregory @saraegregory.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@letspropelatl.bsky.social has a new report out today exploring traffic fatalities in 2023 across Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton counties. They found 45% of crashes involving pedestrians happened within 150 feet of a bus station: www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...
ajc.com
Propel ATL report: infrastructure upgrades needed to protect pedestrians
The report found that 88% of cars hitting pedestrians happened within a quarter mile of bus stops.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rode my ebike down to the Georgia State Capitol to join @sairaforgeorgia.bsky.social to rally support for our public health workers at the CDC, and to call on state leaders to grow a spine and push back against indiscriminate cuts by "DOGE." I can't believe I gotta rally for this sh*t...
Sunny day, green ebike locked up at a rack, gold Georgia State Capitol dome in the background. Man with beard and a hat next to a home-made poster that says "(Re)HIRE Public Health Workers / FIRE 'DOGE'"View from a crowd of people holding signs behind a podium, facing a gathering of media representatives.Reporters with cameras, phones, and microphones interviewing a man in a tight indoor gathering.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It was nice to be in her corner, cheering, for just one day. Apparently one day is all you get.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies
ALT: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
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Jessie Singer @jessiesinger.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here we go. Trump is moving to kill NYC congestion pricing (which is working spectacularly well). USDOT is trying to pull federal permits that have already been given. Very much an open question how this will unfold.
nypost.com
Exclusive | NYC congestion pricing axed as Trump pulls approval of hated toll
Congestion pricing, we hardly knew ye.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
❤️❤️❤️
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So much winning.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
These fucking idiots are firing the air-traffic controllers!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Left: The relatively sober headline on Fox's article page Right: The lede homepage headline (same story), which will be seen by far more readers
Judge orders temporary reversal of Trump admin’s freeze on foreign aid
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers earlier this month that USAID could be abolished after its reorganization over the coming daysJudge deals blow to Trump's move saving American taxpayers' wallets
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The assumption that drivers don't have to pay attention to their surroundings when they aren't in motion is a big problem.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thanks, I hate it.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Suppressing disease studies to own the libs."
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I wrote about the great Don Shoup, who was the kind of person you'd go to for an answer to a single question about parking and come away with 20 more story ideas about how to fix everything in LA
torched.la
Feed the meter
The fact that LA could even aspire to host a "car-free" games owes a great debt to Donald Shoup repeating, for decades, that just because you're going somewhere in this city, you're not automatically ...
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Got an email about the annual FAFSA filing for my college-attending daughter. Immediately got into an online chat with a Dept. of Ed. agent to voice concerns about data security and privacy with DOGE's Muskrats pillaging government servers. I suggest everyone in a similar situation do the same.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Some absolute HERO used packing tape to keep the beg button pressed at the Bill Kennedy Way / Memorial Drive pedestrian scramble. The only thing wrong with this is that I didn't think to do it first.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is insane. How is offering resources for communities working to ensure fewer people are killed on streets and roads a partisan political issue? Yet here we are. smartgrowthamerica.org/federal-acti...
smartgrowthamerica.org
Federal actions threaten roadway safety efforts: What’s at stake - Smart Growth America
This post was written by Heidi Simon and Eric Cova. The Complete Streets movement was started more than twenty years ago to build shared energy and strategy for making our streets safer. As the conven...
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Propel ATL @letspropelatl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Georgia Department of Transportation has proposed two safety-enhancing projects -- one along East College Avenue (SR 10) in Decatur and Avondale, and another along 14th Street (SR 9) in the City of Atlanta. Each project includes new bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements.
Photo of a wide, four-lane streetscape with a bus shelter at right and a pedestrian bridge to rail transit overhead. Text on image: "Voice your support today for two safe-street projects / E. College Ave. (SR 10)"GDOT map of project scope. Text on image: "Today: one of the highest crash rates of any state road / Tomorrow? Up to you!
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The fact that so many people learned about Tulsa from HBO's "Watchmen" (and originally incorrectly assumed it to be fiction) was absolutely eye-opening.
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Reid Davis @thereidatl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The guy who once said this is now overseeing and approving USAID's illegal, unconstitutional destruction. Shame on you, Sec. Rubio!
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