When your friends lie to you. Repeat after me: no highway expansion has ever saved energy or reduced pollution. Ever.

I'm not much for partisan politics and tribalism, but this is a fascinating result.

Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

The Bluffline wants to create a new public trail alongside the Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad in Pensacola. via PNJ pnj.com/story/news/loc…

NEW from The Wall Street Journal: "America’s happiest people have a few traits in common: They value community and close personal relationships. They tend to believe in God." wsj.com/articles/happi…

BIG, new $$ for #VisionZero planning & implementation & demonstration activities. No matter where or what size your community is, suggest tuning into upcoming U.S. Department of Transportation webinar about SS4A funding for safe mobility: 1st event 4/24, then 4/26 & 4/27 Sign up: transportation.gov/grants/SS4A/we…

Excess parking is a financial drain on cities. Housing is the heart of cities.

We’re in the midst of a dramatic decline in social connection, as the new report from the Surgeon General shows, a decline augmented by COVID lockdowns. #TheSocialBreakdown

From a conversation we had in, I think, 2020. I still remembering fighting tears in the moment when Timothy Keller (1950-2023) said this. I really do now. He was right. The stories are true.

This is excellent and an example as to why good GOP candidates should seek out opportunities to leave the right-wing media world and engage with real disagreement.

There are one-story, fortress-like libraries like this all over New York City, including in some very high-opportunity, transit-adjacent areas. Why not redevelop them with hundreds of units of mixed-income housing on top? The city could probably do it for free.

A car dependent city is not greener or more climate-resilient even if the car is electric. Reduce car dependence. How about a pic of the mayor walking to the grocery store?

Weak Town Strong Town

A big reason why people love college campuses is because there is a great and deliberate effort to be attractive. Shockingly, people are attracted to the sorts of places that put their best foot forward!

Political identity being sorted on the basis of anxiety/neuroticism/negative emotionally seems not great on a number of levels.

If humans relinquish intellectual challenges to ultrarapid machines, we will have lost a major part of what it is to be human and alive, Douglas Hofstadter writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

As a transportation engineer, I learned... 1⃣ the way professionals analyze intersection operations, 2⃣ the way lane width & number of lanes are determined, 3⃣ the way future roads and sidewalks and bike lanes are planned... is pseudo-science.

Opinion: Tale of two cities: What Pensacola can learn from Greenville, SC | Opinion pnj.com/story/opinion/…

Some people cannot hear this without responding with a lecture. Those people are not to be taken seriously.