Top recent posts by Active Transportation Advocates on Bluesky

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

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

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.

PARIS CITY HALL EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 21st! I’m proud to join Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, iconic artist Shepard Fairey @obeygiant.bsky.social & local leaders next week to open this conversation-changing EXHIBITION on city leadership in climate action! www.paris.fr/evenements/d...

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

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

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

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

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.

A reminder that Andrew Cuomo does not have a climate plan nor a transportation plan. Don't rank Cuomo. Lander and Mamdani are your climate and transportation champs.

Colossally stupid. Par for the course with that government.

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

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 Reality. Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

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?

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.

We're going to lose a couple of blocks of a protected bike lane that went through a rigorous community consultation all because of a moral panic cooked up by people who hate bikes. Meanwhile, Ocean Parkway hasn't been changed at all since a driver murdered a mom and her young kids.

Parking will forever be more important than people.

Always revealing which changes to infrastructure requires years of community feedback to implement and which can be done on the whim of a single politician nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/b...

it's interesting we never remove car infrastructure when children are hit

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

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.

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

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

Getting home from the Velo-City conference in Gdańsk was not easy. Due to a railway strike I stranded in Utrecht. Left my luggage there and got an OV-Fiets, (a single speed, backpedal brake bike) and cycled the 55km in the burning sun at 32 degrees C.

If Carney wants to build, he should go big on a Youth Climate Corps www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/11/o...

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.

If I could fit this in my suitcase, I would take it home to Seattle.

Dropped $183 on groceries today. Hurts a little less knowing the trip didn’t cost me gas, maintenance, or a future repair bill on the car. Errands by bike save money in ways you don’t notice, until you’re staring down a mechanic’s invoice.

Toddler in chief.

In Paris, too. #NoKings

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

This is a team sport, so I hesitate to take credit for anything, but I am claiming ownership of the initial popularization of the idea that Seattle’s Design Review Process Is an Absolute Farce™. I’m glad this fucked up program is going to be buried in a shallow grave.

And Berlin. #NoKings

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.

Barack Obama bicycling.

florida sheriffs giving a green light to run people over

Today, @jseattle.bsky.social has a post with actual info about the "two older women," as the Seattle Times described them, in this crash. (KING5 had their info wrong). They lived in the retirement community and were 66 and 77, respectively. Their lives were not worth less because of their ages.

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

At some point, someone said we should ban cars from this street and they did.

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

I wholeheartedly agree. One thing I've found interesting... has Cuomo ever even used the "greatest city in the world" line politicians love so much? It seems like he can't even lazily pretend to like New York City.

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.

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...

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

I met a guy named Alejandro from Colombia here in Gdansk who had his US visa revoked by the orange raisin and it was a heartbreaking and cathartic discussion. This crushes the dreams of real people. Potentially millions of them.

Another reason to not rank Cuomo is that if the guy does lose it will give Bill de Blasio a well deserved moment of schadenfreude.

This was a shared street but then someone dropped a few concrete blocks and pedestrianized it. (Hopefully, this is how it goes in the State of Washington.)

NEW STORY // King County’s Housing First Initiative Boasts High Success Rate www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/13/k...

Big crowds across the country for #NoKings today!

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.

Even more if Doug Ford has his way.

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!

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

Gdansk has some interesting modern reinterpretations of traditional architectural forms.

Tired: Dutch Road Design Wired: Dutch Sandwich Design.

Salt Lake City is better than average, but the airport rail connection was clearly not how the airport wanted you to get there. They used *smaller font* on signs, it was awkward to find, and the stop was not very nice.

Went and got lost biking in SeaTac. 5⭐️ Highly recommend.

At some point in this process, someone said "we should ban cars here" and a few concrete blocks later, they did. Ban cars.

The Ocean is North America's oldest named passenger rail service. Since 1904, it's linked #Halifax to #Montreal, via Sir Sandford Fleming's Intercolonial Railway line. It's a sleeper, and the food, service, and scenery are outstanding. I boarded with my wife and kids... 🛤️🧵

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

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?

Charles Correa in Toronto … the Ismaili Centre.

King County's permanent supportive housing initiative showed improved health outcomes for its residents in 2024. 95% of PSH residents stayed housed over the course of the year. Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/13/k...

"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 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...

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.

Gdansk’s Mariacka Street has prominent porches and glass cases displaying amber jewelry.

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

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

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!

Complete dereliction of duty from the Mayor and DOT. This will not keep New Yorkers safe. Story to come...

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

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).

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

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

Grok is straight up fascist propaganda. #NoKings

"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."

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...

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

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.

more of this.

I used to be opposed to fare free transit, but tickets are such a volatile source of funding for transit agencies, and also the fact that car infrastructure is so subsidized to a point that transit needs to be spectacular to justify using it.

Ed Sheeran prefers railways to runways.

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

As a baseline, I'm a very health-focused kind of person, especially in my day to day diet, but today I had ice cream for lunch because I'm not coping very well with how reality is evolving and revolving. Breaking this authoritarian grip would free more than just our minds.

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

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...

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

Beauty out there folks

Gdansk status update.

Apropos of nothing…

Not than anyone had to be Nostradamus to predict it, but I predicted it:

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.

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.

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...

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…”

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.

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...

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.