Jay Blazek Crossley

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We are hiring for two Fall paid internships at 15 hours a week helping with research & education on the problem of traffic crashes in Texas and possible solutions. One position will focus on data & GIS & the other will focus on policy analysis & communications. farmandcity.org/2026/09/17/f...

Guy at table next to me at an Austin coffee shop told another guy about all the trouble on recent projects w/ zoning administrators putting up barriers & useless buerocracy. He explains he’s getting out of architecture, shifting to training others. It’s just not joyful anymore because of zoning.

Crashes cost Texans $54B a year while congestion costs us about $15B. Our funding system is built for the smaller problem. The Legislature can fix that. Farm&City submitted these comments today to the Texas House Subcommittee on Transportation Funding: farmandcity.org/2026/09/02/c... #txlege

Happy Juneteenth everybody! May we all live in freedom together forever more. May we all remember the horrors done by people who enslaved other people right here in Texas, and honor those who suffered and those who fought for freedom for all.

"We have to stop limiting the amount of people allowed to live . . . low-carbon lifestyles in walkable neighborhoods. And the whole idea that there are some places in our city where we shouldn't have tall buildings was wrong. And that idea was always wrong." - @jaycrossley.bsky.social

So cool to be at opening celebration of @capmetroatx.bsky.social’s 800 Pleasant Valley & 837 Expo Center Bus Rapid Transit lines. These were cut from Project Connect in 2017 based on foolish decision-making data, but were -arguably- saved by this blog post I wrote. farmandcity.org/2017/06/23/p...

Montserrat Garibay seems to be winning perhaps the most important state house race on the Texas Democratic primary side of things – for those that care about urbanism, equity, the environment, fair markets, etc.

Luckily, the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas research institutions have studied how to implement credit-based congestion pricing (the correct answer) for the Austin region fairly extensively. Let’s do this!

Rain garden was hard at work today near one of Austin’s roundabouts

That feeling when your state (Texas) and local governments spend more money on roads than almost anywhere else in the world, and the roads just keep getting worse.

I think one of the world clocks at the @nytimes.com offices is off in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast, which just seems kind of a a perfect little picture of where we're at in the world. The third clock from the right is apparently gonna be at whatever minutes it wants.

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Aerial bombings should be banned.

This is so good.

We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at all eligible school locations by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to start. In 2026, we’re reducing 800 locations to 15 MPH, for a total of nearly 1,300 School Slow Zones.

The opposite of those truck bloat danger pictures.

Everyone must go see Katy Perry Candy Darling Mary Magdelene at MATCHouston by March 7th. matchouston.org/events/2026/...

If we are considering high speed rail in the Texas Triangle, all of these same questions apply, but on an even grander scale, and with the added crucial element of stations needing to be tied directly into the heart of effective local transit grid networks in each metro region.

TIL that "squeek" is actually spelled "squeak," and it just seemed really fun – just like a nice little tune up for my little brain engine. You gotta take the wins you can get, I suppose.

I live in a state (Texas) w/ horribly mismanaged transportation spending that’s left us with a worthless pedestrian transportation system. The rare snow and sleet accumulation on the ground in Austin yields a sneckdown kind of effect showing the desire lines where people walk on missing sidewalks.

"I'm so sorry that we could not have done this earlier...to have saved the loved ones in your life. But I thank you fopr the work that you have done...to ensure that this pain not be felt by others who call this same city home." — Mayor Mamdani at McGuinness Blvd. presser youtube.com/shorts/uwAYI...

Mondays, ammirite?

Collin County Connects Committee members dissent against alternative options proposed

Austin would have had public fiber internet infrastructure connecting every building in the city in the 1990s (allowing private & public entities to provide services), but the same people who kept Austin from building a great transit system around that time (led by Mike Levy) killed that plan.