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Imagine the uproar if someone banned lifted pick-up trucks from an area on account of them not fitting with the character of existing vehicles in a neighbourhood. Yet this is routinely done for new homes, in a housing crisis. Absurd.

Every big paper has run a story like this in recent years. Why nothing changes: “The state can’t add more crosswalks, reduce the number of lanes or lower the speed limit on Union Avenue, all of which would take time and money,“ said the state DOT, which owns the road. 🔓: www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich

now get rid of pedicabs with music speakers. pedicab riders should listen to the city, not boom boxes.

More from @bethosborne.bsky.social: Dems in office keep the highway machine humming @usa.streetsblog.org

Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office.

MSG lease is up again in just under 2 years - just saying @council.nyc.gov

A housing development is not carbon neutral if it’s car dependent

Corporate executives from OpenAI, Meta, Google and Anthropic deflected, attempted charm, and repeatedly invoked their own personal health battles to justify the rapid expansion of their technology at an hourslong New York City Council hearing Monday.

"In the states examined in this analysis, a drop of approximately 20% in inflation-adjusted rents—as happened in Austin, Texas, and Minneapolis after those cities made reforms—could reduce poverty by 18% to 26% and child poverty by 21% to 38%." www.pew.org/en/research-...

Monday’s Headlines Get Schooled

So much public money lit on fire. The Trump way.

Remember in the 1990s when Dominos' drivers killed people bc of the '30 minutes or less' delivery guarantee? This plays out on NYC (and elsewhere) delivery apps -- just behind the scenes. Good to see a Council bill addressing it: www.amny.com/news/nyc-cou...?

I'm not crying you're crying

Missed this earlier this month, but Mamdani and the YIMBYs won and City Council approved John Mangin as BSA chair on September 10 citylimits.org/city-council...

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

Please do something to reduce the numbers of massive vehicles on our streets. @streetsblognys.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/6Dqyn...

Suffolk County accounted for a QUARTER of the road fatalities in downstate NY counties, 2020-2024. Now the people in charge who've been building tons of wide roads want to spend millions of tax dollars to widen Sunrise Highway again. Can we stop this? westchester.news12.com/2026/09/15/s...

The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud

In addition, the Reimagining Regional Rail master plan has been released! We finally might get the S-Bahn Philadelphia deserves. Read now: wwww.septa.org/initiatives/...

Freakin' love this! nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/18/u...

These folks are not just corrupt — they're clowns.

Amazon threatens to pollute and endanger more if NYC doesn't protect workers. Really awful corporate behavior. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/14/d...

When they tell you that walkability and public transit can't work here, just remind them that it once did until we let a single industry dismantle it.

Don’t buy the lie about a war on cars. They’ve been waging a WAR ON WALKING for a century. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking

Nazi shit

What about a carbon influence footprint? How much do you: • oppose new transit lines • complain about not enough parking • vote for pro-highway politicians • register in AADT counts used to justify road expansion • post glamorous pictures of driving trips • post angry reacts to infill housing

It is straight up *insanity* to talk about engineering our society away from physical activity without mentioning what civil engineers in the US *actually do,* day in and day out. Is this actually invisible to these people?

Today on Volts: disinformation about clean energy is everywhere these days -- online, in local siting meetings, in regulatory dockets. The folks at GoodPower are fighting back with a rapid-response team, an army of local influencers, & new tools to identify bots & fakes. I talk with the CEO.

The whole analysis starts and ends here. If you're fishing for other explanations, as The Times seemingly does here, you've missed the story about how baseless conspiracy theories infects right-wing urban planning.

This is a wild statistic (from IIHS, a very reputable research org): "Cellphone use prior to crashes is undercounted in police reports by a factor of at least 7."

oh no... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🆕 IIHS news | A new study from IIHS data confirms that far more drivers are using cellphones in the lead-up to crashes than is reflected in police reports. Read the latest IIHS news release: https://go.iihs.org/news-police-reports

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

"'She goes this way every day. She was on her way to work when she got hit,' said Osman Cevallos, 60, of Rockaway, who told Streetsblog he was Pec’s boss at the Sonic... 'If there was a [bike] lane, maybe it wouldn’t have happened. It’s a crazy street,' he said."

NEW! Calling for a moratorium on ‘Trump says’ headlines Includes 18 New York Times ‘Trump says’ headlines in a recent 3-month period that spread misinformation presswatchers.org/2026/08/call...

Don't re-abandon rail, Mayor Mamdani! Support QueensLink. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/05/m...

This IMO is the best ongoing study of NYC congestion pricing. An update w/data thru 6/26 is encouraging: "The toll raised cordon-area speeds by 11%, with little effect on air quality, consumer spending, or foot traffic. Speeds also rose outside the cordon." shoshanavasserman.com/papers/the_n...

what a healthy society

I wish when Musk "predicts" money won't matter someone would ask him why he's not giving any of his away.

Here's a schematic of the work of Donald Appleyard that ALL serious transportation experts & urbanists should know but I'd wager 90% DO NOT - including many of my best friends working in the field. Want to know what he did? Rather than me explain just view the video in the attached post below!

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

Is it stunning? Or is it something literally every sentient person knew already? Something that the media should have been able to point out a long time ago, without waiting for an official admission?

This should be highlighted in every tight congressional race in California, NJ, PA, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Virginia, etc. Let the people there know that by voting for a Republican, they are voting to deny their own states funding www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...

No. This thinking needs to change. Apartments are homes and should not be thought of merely as buffers between busy roads and 'real' neighbourhoods. Just stop. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...