Recent posts by Active Transportation Advocates on Bluesky

My latest is on the very exciting - if imperfect, LAX Metro Connector station - which will open up rail travel to one of the biggest airports in the world for the first time: nextmetro.substack.com/p/los-angele...

florida sheriffs giving a green light to run people over

When one party goes around saying the people need to be liberated from dangerous Democratic leaders, this is what you get. There is blood on the hands of the people who have used such rhetoric, of course, but there's just as much on the hands of Republicans who didn't openly condemn it.

Kansas City faces a choice: end free bus fares or cut service massively. www.kcur.org/news/2025-03...

I’m back on Amtrak traveling from Providence to Denver & then busing it up to Boulder while putting the final touchs on my keynote address for the 120 Years in Motion: Connecting Boulder Through Time event. If you’re in the Front Range next week pls attend business.boulderchamber.com/ap/Events/Re...

Big crowds across the country for #NoKings today!

Patriotism, to me, is making sure your neighbor has healthcare, a roof over their head, lunch to eat and clean air to breathe, not tanks in a parade.

I keep coming back to this video, it really is great youtu.be/6Lxk9NMeWHg?...

Grok is straight up fascist propaganda. #NoKings

This Week on PubliCola: June 14, 2025 New police chief answers council questions, county assessor fails to get restraining order against him dismissed, Harrell wants to hold clubs liable for off-premises activities, and more. publicola.com/2025/06/14/t...

I’m voting early today and enthusiastically supporting @shahanafrombk.bsky.social for City Council. Let’s gooooooo!

And Berlin. #NoKings

In Paris, too. #NoKings

OK everyone take a pacarana break.

I seem to have arrived in Poznan just in time for a Comicon of some sort.

UPDATED: Judge Declines to Lift Protection Order Against County Assessor Accused of Stalking The county council called on John Arthur Wilson to resign last week. publicola.com/2025/06/14/u...

Proposing we "ban cars" in certain places is never extreme.

Woke up in America again, which means something horrible definitely happened overnight, and if not, just give it a few hours. But hey, at least we’ve got freedom. Whatever that means this week.

Forever brilliant. youtu.be/idtE7MkHlW0?...

has anyone successfully moved a patreon or substack account to another country

Tired: Dutch Road Design Wired: Dutch Sandwich Design.

Charles Correa in Toronto … the Ismaili Centre.

There’s no disappointment quite like hearing the family wake up in the morning as you’re still mid coffee.

A concrete barrier on the road to protect people walking. Wonder where else we could apply this approach to safety.

The Reality. Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Barack Obama bicycling.

I live in the #EastEnd w/ multiple stations empty by 7.30am. It’s frustrating if this is your means of commuting. More investment? Sure, but as we all know the City’s IEC chair’s main concern is protecting parking for cars Bike Share Toronto is a victim of its own success youtu.be/c9r-URZoLwI?...

Morning #BikeTO Bike Toronto is Free today, Saturday, June 14th. bikesharetoronto.com/how-it-works/

Interesting new study finds that, although people say they need the flexibility that a car offers, drivers' journeys are no more flexible than people who travel with other modes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have, you know, just a *few* pictures of me biking during Velo-City 2025. #vc25

It looks like the military/birthday parade will need to be moved into the Capital, like the inauguration was.

The bike parade is an institution of @velo-city-conference.com showcasing the host city for conference delegates and the locals as a celebration of pedal-powered solidarity. This year’s saw 2000+ people cycle the historic, modern, and iconic areas of Gdańsk and was the perfect expression of joy!

Coming home to you today, my beloved NYC.

The zebra stripes in Poland have magical power that the ones in America don’t. Even on a fast divided highway, a pedestrian in the shadows, well back from the curb, can stop traffic.

Headlines and Hot Takes For June 13th rondezvous.beehiiv.com/p/headlines-...

Audio at 0:10: my excitement at seeing @bicycledutch.bsky.social — in person! @velo-city-conference.com

They have the evidence.

A perfect ad. Pass this along to everyone you know in New York.

Unimaginably awful. And this is in a city that has made a lot of progress on Vision Zero. Shows how far we still have to go.

Time for those Friday night Clickens. No kings, only cocks. clickens.chicken.pics We can get to 314k appraisals tonight, I know it. Click those chicks.

I'm Jewish and I know I'm better off in a city where Zohran Mamdani is mayor than in one where Andrew Cuomo is mayor. Don't rank Cuomo.

lies, projections and grifts. that's all it's always been.

this is the way www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s...

Government can't out-market giant corporations. The only tool they have is regulation.

I’ll see you all out there tomorrow. Be safe, be peaceful, and look out for one another. ❤️

Bus driver tonight getting in a honking, aggressive merging war with car drivers under I-90 underpass where there’s a fully separated bus lane a a bus priority signal on the light, but sound transit isn’t letting metro use it bc they want parking fore contractors *still* working on judkins station.

In 1994 at a mostly gay B&B in Seattle, I met a young straight couple who were looking for a house. They were planning a business that would sell books on the Internet. She explained the idea excitedly and had good answers to all my questions. He gazed into his coffee.

Remember when this was the biggest threat from our government? 1900s kids do.

I don’t follow NYC politics, but if there’s anything I learned in the past two or three months: 1. NYC has ranked choice voting (cool!) 2. Andrew Cuomo is bad

Did someone say bike lanes on hills? Here’s a hill every Montreal cyclist knows (Berri Street). In the next few years the two-way bike lane will be upgraded to separate one-way bike lanes on each side of the street.

The issue with the "there wasn't funding for better" Post hoc argument for Transit is that mone wasn't the thing that created a lot of the problems with Transit City. It's not like good intersection and right-of-way design is somehow more expensive than bad design!

“The initiative took effect at the beginning of 2021, with the implementation of a 0.1% sales tax in King County.“

Just realized it’s been Friday the 13th all day. Completely missed out on all the extra anxiety.

cool we can eat more fruits and vegetables oh wait, those are being tariffed. or this... www.latimes.com/california/s...

boy howdy is this timely maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

Happy National Golf Cart Day to all who celebrate

Clifford is 14, lives in Chicago and is a student at Stanford online high school. He’s passionate on urban planning, mathematics & computer science. He's also fan of the 15-minute city He wrote to me and I met him in Paris. There are moments in life of pure happiness drive.google.com/file/d/1M49h...

People have overly simplistic ideas about politics where they assume that people working at Transit agencies are all progressive who want change and the latest policies from Europe or whatever.

Often comments made that Rob Ford "killed" Transit City like this is a bad thing. The most valuable line in transit City was eglinton and it still got built, while the only line that I think you proj really say got killed was a bad project that we should be glad we avoided.

I've always gotten the vibe that embodied carbon was overblown as an issue relative to other emission sources and I feel like this blog post does a lot to back up that feeling pedestrianobservations.com/2025/06/08/m...

Edmonton is significantly more pro-active on housing than significantly larger cities with worse housing problems. It’s wild.

Oh my God so many people are breaking the law! We better stop enforcing the law!

People were shocked that Metrolinx has people who think trains should run in one direction per day, but TTC also has people that think trams should use single point switches, stops on every block and run like they did 50 years ago.

Which train station is intended to serve a larger population? (Yes, there's a station in the left image)

“I think when people are riding the Ontario Line they’re going to be thinking ‘crap, I wish Eglinton was like this.’”

Parking will forever be more important than people.

Colossally stupid. Par for the course with that government.

BREAKING: Awful former New York City Mayor says that even worse former New York State Governor would be the worst New York City Mayor ever. Essentially.

Early voting begins tomorrow! Find your poll site and make a plan to vote. The earlier you vote, the more resources the campaigns you like can spend turning out other people. vote.nyc/page/find-yo...

Come join me right now to talk transit - especially with the news out of Toronto! www.youtube.com/live/kzbkFHg...

Potentially a new season of Murica releasing this weekend?

"The program’s objective was to provide 1,600 housing units, and has secured 1,434 units at the end of 2024. This represents a 41% increase in people served compared to 2023."

On top of the greenery, these installations add a large pedestrian island for pedestrians crossing the road. (Avenue Bennett, Montreal)

I'm really feeling this headline. I've always tried to push back on my own behavior of swearing, but it's so contagious and it's everywhere. Excessive cussing comes off as unintelligent and classless. Having said that, I'm feeling especially shameful of my mouth the last few years.

an “environmental” law was used to extort a high speed rail agency to paying tens of millions for a highway expansion. CEQA is completely broken and impossible to defend at this point

Beauty out there folks

Does anyone else see a contradiction here? Airbnb is bad because it takes supply off the market. But new residential construction adding supply to the market has not helped the housing crisis or rents?

My new article is all about being a first-time dad, and the changes it's brought to my life. Happy early father's day to all of you with kids! open.substack.com/pub/cinqpers...

Planning a trip to Paris this summer? Be sure to check out this important exhibit on city leadership in climate action. @annehidalgo.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social

"yeah I'll spell it however the hell I want." How racist. Every day Andrew inches closer and closer to full-on MAGAism.

Toddler in chief.

My daughter sent this video to the former Infrastructure and Environment Committee Chair when she was 12. She stopped riding her bike at 10. She’s 17 years old today. “My community needs this. My environment needs this l. My life needs this. This is my demand on International Women’s Day…”

Truly love how “I think biking should be safe for people” turns into “Hey idiot how do you think food gets to grocery stores” Brilliant every time.

Ever posted. Ever failed. No matter. Post again. Fail again. Post better.

This is #TorontoDanforth To say that I’m disappointed that the elected municipal rep has decided to place parking above prioritizing the lives of vulnerable road user would be an understatement. But I am not surprised. With that, it’s your move @mayoroliviachow.ca #BikeTO #VisionZero #TransformTO

This is #TorontoDanforth To say that I’m disappointed that the elected municipal rep has decided to place parking above prioritizing the lives of vulnerable road user would be an understatement. But I am not surprised. With that, it’s your move @mayoroliviachow.ca #BikeTO #VisionZero #TransformTO

dang. in the last week i've had 2 friends who finished reading my book say that i should pitch to 99 PI. i already did. one of many rejections this year lolsob

Wandering on a Friday afternoon, art crawl about to kick off.

Apropos of nothing…

"One thing that we should note is that before this bike lane from 2018 to 2022 … this is the area that had the second largest numbers of pedestrian fatalities and crashes in the city."

My slate is the same as Ben's and I echo his other endorsements as well. It's far from where I live but please vote for a different Ben, Ben Wetzler @voteben.nyc, in City Council District 4 (Upper East Side and Midtown).

Despite all the great work @lanrickbennett.bsky.social is doing, this city is going backward, even when Dug Ford is on the other side of town.

Very cool, Paris is doing extremely exciting things for Transit, so you could go and potentially see both the massive grand Paris Express, the RER E extension, trams and thus exhibition!

EXPERIMENT: Since @slate.com has been attacking Bluesky @bsky.app lately, yesterday I tried a simple test. I posted the QUESTION below on Bluesky, X, Mastodon & LinkedIn to test my sense that Bluesky gets the most engagement (replies, reposts) with urbanism content. Guess which came in first? Last?

Vive la rue école! We’ve closed the street outside our #Montréal school to cars. When you do that, lots of fun things start to happen! (And everybody is safer.)

Mayor Adams' plan is unwarranted, illegal, and reckless. Protected bike lanes make streets safer for everyone, reducing speeding, crashes, and the number of people killed or seriously injured by 29% for all pedestrians and 39% for senior pedestrians.

I have strong positive associations with this building because it was the source of free weekend night parking when I was in high school and my friends and I would drive over from the Valley.

Even more if Doug Ford has his way.

looking forward to checking this out in a few weeks!

The problems with democracy in the US extend far beyond Donald Trump, I’m sorry to say