HowDoYou Guide

Graphic entitled "How Do You Navigate in Queens", featuring a stylized street grid with the number "60" written several times on top of it in red, orange, and blue.

We should probably turn in for the night, we're getting weird ideas.

Our personal un-favorite is playing Where's Waldo for the "Read More" button.

We love to see it!

Screenshot of an excerpt of a how-to guide for "Get On The Train", encouraging readers to Let People Off First and Stand Away from the doors. Contains simple diagrams of an overhead view of subway cars with people getting on and off.

Preview, work in progress...

Translation of "How Do You Avoid Hitting People With Your Car" mini-guide into Italian: "Come Fare Per Evitare di Investire Persone Con La Tua Auto"

Our guide to not hitting people with your car is now available in Italian!

Check us out on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@howdoyouguide) where we give a shout-out to our translators!

If anyone would like to see it in other languages, we'd love to collaborate!

Getting Around: Galesburg, IL Traveled April 2025

Week Without Driving: GALESBURG, IL

Our favorite story of the week.

People don't walk much in Galesburg. But we did! And we had a much better time than we would have if we drove!

#WeekWithoutDriving @americawalks.bsky.social

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Getting Around: Harrisburg, PA Traveled April 2023

Week Without Driving: HARRISBURG PA

Harrisburg's big win was how easy it was to buy a ticket. Right in the @transit.app app! Wish the buses ran more often and later though.

#weekwithoutdriving @americawalks.bsky.social

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Getting Around: Buffalo, NY Traveled October 2024. Best recollection as of November 2024.

Week Without Driving: BUFFALO

👍 Buffalo had better transit than expected, and the light rail is free within downtown! Got around without driving just fine.

🤷‍♂️ Not sure what's up with cars driving on the tracks.

#weekwithoutdriving @americawalks.bsky.social

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We love a good illustration!

Some people are claiming we should only daylight (make it easier to see pedestrians) at intersections with crashes.

Luckily, there's a map of crashes! Play with it yourself here: crashmapper.org#/

Golly, looks like people could use our guide!
(data Sept 2020-2025)

Getting Around: Flagstaff, AZ Traveled April 2025

Week Without Driving: FLAGSTAFF, AZ

We actually didn't take transit in Flagstaff. But we learned some lessons about how you get a different impression of a city on foot. A complete rediscovery of somewhere we *thought* we'd been before.

@americawalks.bsky.social

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This is the kind of nuanced take that was too big to fit on a business card.

Send us a picture (or tag us) if you do? 🥰

We're figuring out details, leaning towards CC-BY-NC-ND licensing. Essentially, do what you like as long as it's intact and you're not selling it.

Regardless, you have our permission for the shirt. 🙌🙌🙌

Feel free to distribute as-is, as you like, as long as you leave the logos intact. Thanks!

Indeed!

Oh interesting! On further inspection, we don't even show up with "howdoyou". You have to get to "howdoyou g" and then we show up.

Looking into it, thanks for flagging it!

We might only show up if you search "howdoyou" as one word. The perils of a name made up of three common words. 🤷

Thankfully, the card has our website URL, and our site links to our active socials including bsky. Some people likely found us that way.

Happy to put out a translation if you provide the text!

Shoot us an email at hi@howdoyou.guide if you're up to it. No pressure!

We already have an Italian version coming, other languages are up for grabs.

Think we're good, thanks! So far nobody has reported any issues.

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths

Getting Around: Portland, OR October 2024, May 2025

Week Without Driving: PORTLAND

✅ Friendly, walkable city
✅ Tap to pay makes it easy for first-timers
✅ Trains are wheelchair accessible
✅ Not the bastion of crime politicians and media claim
❌ Streetcar frequency was poor

@americawalks.bsky.social #walkabilitywin

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Really great timing for that advice, as this is Week Without Driving!

Several posts on the topic coming shortly.

Fantastic article! Thrilled our guide is helping further the conversation.

We'd be happy to put one up if someone provides the text!

Anyone who'd like to help, please contact hi@howdoyou.guide. We don't have in-house fluent French speakers unfortunately.

Already in collaboration for an Italian version.

Absolutely a great point.

We only had so much room on our card, and felt our current bullet points best aligned with the message. It's so easy for people to skip over things if they skim.

Another one that didn't quite make the cut was "Don't read this card while driving."

We see this often.

Pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers alike all like to claim the others are to blame. And yes, EVERYONE should be diligent.

However, the larger and faster you are, the more danger you introduce, and the more responsibility you bear to keep everyone safe.

We're flattered! It was so much fun to make.

We've only tested this on our own printers. Please let us know if you have any issues.

It's Letter sized; we *think* the margins will also work on A4.

Mini Guides See below for free printable mini-guides.

This just in!

You can now print our infamous "How Do You Avoid Hitting People with your Car" guide on your home printer, 4 to a page, for free!

Or we can print it for you in color on beautiful matte stock!
Pre-orders now available, ships in October.

howdoyou.guide/mini-guides

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Interesting idea, curious how it would pan out.

For CA freeways currently listed at 65, would it be:

Limit 75, suggested 65
or
Limit 65, suggested 75
or
Limit 65, suggested 55
or...??