If you wouldn't build your house like this, why would you build your city this way?

Our network map for AC Transit in Oakland was just released! Thread from our lead designer…

Homes can either be an appreciating asset or something we make enough of for everyone to live in, but not both.

Like its cousin “jaywalking,” “loitering” is a fake word. There is no such thing as “loitering.” But if we’re going to insist that loitering is a thing, we should do everything we can to encourage it. Cities need much, much more loitering.

Put 👏🏼 housing 👏🏼 on 👏🏼 top 👏🏼 of👏🏼 everything

How many more flood videos will go viral before we stop spending 80% of federal transportation funding on highways?

broke: a regular boring roof woke: a solar roof bespoke: a roof deck so awesome it convinces people to stay in the city rather than moving to the suburbs thereby reducing their carbon footprint by over 50%

Sometimes I wonder how city planners and engineers can put up signs like this and declare victory with a straight face . This is Edith blvd in Albuquerque, a designated bike route.

Fine words from the Vice President JD Vance, but the problem of poor bus frequency isn't about infrastructure funding. It's about operations funding.

Good The New York Times article on the freeway debates in my home town, Portland. Our city and state have done great things, and often it did them first, but it's so nice not to be viewed as "Perfect Portland" anymore. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Onion is not playing today.

“Each additional need that is met by the network strengthens it, and allows it to grow, meet more needs. “ Denis Agar 🚌🕸️ piece on what can be achieved w abundant network of intercity transit designed to serve a diversity of users, traveling for diff reasons: capitaldaily.ca/news/opinion-v…

Wales Cancels Major Road Building Projects - h/t BBC dlvr.it/SjSJ5M

Transportation professionals, do you have a good example of a metric used in alternatives analysis to capture pedestrian inconvenience / delay at big intersections with many lanes where you press the button wait forever? Dongho Chang @schmangee Nick Falbo

Have a pet theory that VT has structural issues causing it to over-invest in transportation infrastructure, especially rural infrastructure, while under investing in residential construction.

These charts really highlights how inconsequential congestion is as a contributor to climate emissions. 1st chart shows changes in CO2 are totally uncorrelated with changes in congestion (using TTI index). 2nd and 3rd show near-perfect correlation with hours and miles of travel.

Some inaction on road safety in USA can be attributed to Fed. Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, w/ standards on everything from lane striping to traffic signals. It's getting an update for better bike/ ped protections, and for AVs. Website still looks like year 2000