Nick Sementelli

"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.

I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages

People in the USA are really fixated on personal ownership of stuff. I’m not particularly anti-materialist but, folks, we can share stuff (cars, bikes, books, tools, buildings) and it makes the world better.

Should be noted that crash reduction and a systemic safety analysis weren’t even the motivations for the project.

It was the need to draw a bold bike line on a map between two parts of the District. When you build a bike network, safer travel is just one of the many benefits.

"The only way to have nice things is if a billionaire picks you, but if you want the billionaire to pick you, you need to offer him generous tribute" should be an obvious tautology, but not if you believe the billionaire is the only one with the "turn-money-into-stuff-machine"

The modem day circuses are not simply the distracting spectacles within the walls, but the structure itself as a load-bearing promise that this time, surely, an external hero will break the status quo and usher in an era of renewal.

I have come to see stadium politics as a real commentary on state capacity and political imagination. In a world where avg citizens see govt as ineffectual, stadiums become the only conceivable public works project, onto which they then project decades worth of hopes and dreams.

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"Over the year, bike and scooter share carried about 60% as many trips as the state’s $2.15 billion SR-99 highway tunnel under downtown Seattle. During summer months, that number may have been more like 80%."

Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

Bike parking right next to the supermarket entrance and cycle lane. Not hidden, not second-class, but prioritised. Want more people to shop by bike? Then make it an easy and accessible option. Convenience drives behavior.

Detroit’s own clown documents show taxpayers losing $39m on $45m soccer stadium subsidy After I reported here Friday about Detroit's WXYZ-TV reporting without comment that the new Detroit City F.C. soccer stadium getting $88 million in tax breaks "is expected to generate $25 million in a...

Detroit City FC owners will be able to use a large chunk of $45m worth of tax kickbacks on amenities for their stadium, in exchange for contributing just $6m in new taxes — and that's the *best*-case scenario, according to the team's own rosy projections.

At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood

​In the Netherlands 🇳🇱, data shows that for a 30 minute trip on a regular bike, only 13% of people are willing to ride. But for a 25 minute trip on an e-bike, that probability jumps to 28%.

​E-bikes don't just make riding easier, they drastically expand the acceptable range for bike commuting.

A map showing most of ANC 7F

This is the ANC (7F) with boundaries designed to let its chairman control the Reservation 13 development. Check out SMD 7F07.

It’s what the ward task force wanted, and it had the support of the ward councilmember or whoever was speaking for him.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

Wise policymakers would seize this opportunity to increase the federal gas tax for the first time since 1993, encouraging EVs while fortifying the Highway Trust Fund.

Zero chance that will happen, but it should.

'The Permanence Agenda': Paint and Plastic Won’t Deliver Real Street Safety - Streetsblog New York City Rather than continuing New York's quick-build approach to redesigning streets with temporary materials, Zohran Mamdani should aim for permanent.

Rather than continuing New York's quick-build approach to redesigning streets with temporary materials, Zohran Mamdani should aim for permanent.

Have you ever seen a bike lane sweeper - pulled behind a bike?

Volunteers in Kirkland have a new tool that attaches to the back of an e-bike. It's good for protected bike lanes, sidewalks, and narrow trails.

My @kuow.org story: www.kuow.org/stories/clea...

The $25 million econ impact is nonsense concocted by project supporters, yet it's repeated in the "news" story as if it's a reasonable expectation. This is a major reason why such boondoggle projects continue to be approved. Journalists *have* to do better than this. @wxyzdetroit.bsky.social

Little men like simple stories because the complexity of the world scares them

This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...

I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.

Giving week upper funnel?

precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened

I grew up in this building and can still hear my mother screaming every time she found a “visitor” in our apartment. @acornpark.bsky.social and I talk a lot about how MoCo’s reluctance to stand up to NIMBYs means even folks with a little money get stuck in substandard housing

A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.

Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.

Bicycle counts significantly increased on every corridor where we completed Better Bike Lanes projects in 2024. The number of people biking, and the percentage of all traffic they make up, both saw substantial increases. ▸ We counted over 3,000 more daily bike trips, a 55% increase across all projects. In our prior report on Better Bike Lane projects completed in 2023, we recorded a 44% increase in volume. The latest projects appear to have tapped into even more growth potential by focusing on mostly arterial streets and closing key new network connection gaps. ▸ Bicycles as a share of of all traffic increased to 7% of daily traffic across all projects, nearly doubling from 4% in the baseline condition. Some projects saw bicycle mode share as high as 19% ▸ Boylston Street (Back Bay) topped the list with a near doubling (+83%) of daily bike trips, leading four other corridors that measured growth of nearly 50% or more.

The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.

Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...

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I'm exactly the same. Have a home gym. Trainer comes, I turn my brain off and do what he says, then it's over.

I used www.acefitness.org/resources/ev...

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