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Until state DOTs get serious about calming arterials, traffic safety will remain a sick joke.

All this sprawl & traffic in order to avoid having denser infill buildings near the beach is genuinely bonkers. Vastly worse for both the environment and for humans. Rehoboth, DE

Adorable footbridges in major east coast urban parks. Yeah, it's a thing.

New York cut the ribbon on a Paris-style school street gate, allowing the street in front of a school to be blocked to cars daily. patch.com/new-york/wes...

La Sombrona?

Giving away tons of city land for free is fine with Mendo though, as long as it's used for parking.

In another universe, this little sliver of land was going to be the railyard for the Crystal City / Columbia Pike streetcar

Long Bridge construction!

I know America can build things quickly and efficiently because we do it for cars all the time. The slow, arduous permitting and construction processes we have for public transit, bike infrastructure, green energy, and housing are a policy choice that we are free to stop making whenever we want.

Toll revenue on I-66 & I-395 goes to transit. Do you want to be the person who manages that program? They're hiring. novatransit.org/employment-o...

After years of insisting it wasn't possible, lo and behold. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

Of course it does. The poor always pay more. “Public policy often helps spread the cost of geographically concentrated catastrophe risks, while the risks that contribute to high insurance costs in cities remain largely within the private homeowners market.”

Baltimore map in the #WMATA style by u/BurmudaNiccholas at www.reddit.com/r/WMATA/comm...

Inside every architect there are two wolves constantly fighting.

Riding like royalty in my private cab.

There is a Metro train with a Texas A&M ad wrap, which I find hilarious given the state of transit in College Station. OTOH I guess it's encouraging someone there embraces the cultural difference? Sadly I wasn't fast enough to get a pic. Sorry Texas stans.

In Maryland, the Dept. of Transportation can take land first and argue about the price later for highways, but for rail transit it can't get control of the land until the price is finally determined. This was a sizable factor in Purple Line delays & cost overruns.

DC already has a triumphal arch, FYI

We don't need to be giving New Yorkers this kind of ammunition to start misnaming our lines. Definitely prefer the two-letter abbrevs.

It’s a giant problem

Kansas Ave Red Line station would be an instant NoMa

okay, this convinced me to go see it

sometimes i feel like i’m screaming into the void: helping people, especially trans people, move to safety and opportunity is what the yimby/pro-homes movement is all about. but the movement, as it grows and seeks legitimacy, feels quite indifferent to us

Silver Spring, Bethesda, Ballston... they'd all be ye old timey main streets with 2 story buildings and a bunch of parking lots if they were incorporated towns. The secret sauce of the DMV's TOD success is county level governance: Zoning by a few large jurisdictions rather than many small ones.

Artist housing is the perfect nimby dodge, to the extent (in my opinion up towards 100%) that nimbyism is about protecting neighborhood social status. Art is a high-status, low-income occupation. Artist housing lets you claim to be inclusive while still excluding all the low-status people..

E-bikes are a national security issue. theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Montgomery County putting up speed cameras in Silver Spring targeting drivers who floor it to beat green lights. Colesville at Georgia and at University. Two really dangerous places for any driver to ever floor it. Good! wtop.com/montgomery-c...

Rare situation where I think the answer is probably to convert it to limited access. ggwash.org/view/104582/...

I'm sure people will get mad at @humantransit.bsky.social for saying this, but he's right. Campaigning on fare-free transit shrinks the coalition of people willing to invest in public transportation. It endangers transit's survival. humantransit.org/2026/08/an-i...

There are parts of DC less than 200 feet from a metro where anything denser than a single family home is literally illegal. And the Zoning Handbook is really clear about why.

Incredible that Seattle has passed Chicago & Philadelphia.

Baltimore Ave in College Park needs a complete cars-last overhaul. Busway, bikeways, massive sidewalks, the works. Leave two slow lanes for local cars & trucks, and let the rest use Kenilworth Ave, which is faster anyway. Let the dense high-rise spine be an actual main street.

A few years later when a different congress ends those grants, what will happen to the service they fund? It'll stop running is what. This doesn't just squander opportunities to spend that money on better service. It very likely mortgages the future. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/m...

It is not enough to dump on the trash bins piece. Save it and trot it out as an example for why sometimes it is correct to just do the obviously beneficial thing.

State preemption is coming and localities have only themselves to blame.

USDOT starting over on Union Station renovation plans. Throw out the old renderings. www.enr.com/articles/633...

A lot of public art would be better understood if we thought of it as public decor. Often that's its real purpose. "Art" has evolved into a more loaded term that means more than just pretty, resulting in argument. When we just want something pretty, we should just say so.

We know who the bad drivers are and our leaders choose to let them hurt people.

Stumbled upon the motherlode, lol

This was the worst Congressional attack on DC Home Rule we've seen, and Doordash admits they instigated. DELETE YOUR DOORDASH Account. Mobile: In the app, go to the Me tab. Navigate to Manage Account → Manage Account and enter your login credentials; then, select Delete Account.

#WMATA modernization update with renderings of platform screen doors. Full pdf: www.wmata.com/content/dam/...