A good, if sober, Year in Transit with @yonahfreemark.com and the @theoverheadwire.com. As Yonah points out, the number of rail projects in the US is dwindling even as the amount we're spending stays about even. The biggest issue: astronomical costs.
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Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud (and stressful). - expanding on @thewaroncars.bsky.social
27.02.2026 11:30 — 👍 75 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4
DC's streetcar will not live to see eleven. On its tenth birthday, let's remember the good times.
27.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The urbanism of Catania, Sicily. 🇮🇹
27.02.2026 23:33 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The urbanism of Magdeburg. 🇩🇪
25.02.2026 00:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The urbanism of Taormina, Sicily. 🇮🇹
23.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings.
People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings.
People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings.
People in casual winter attire walk, cycle, stand, and sit in a Berlin Kiezblock or "neighbourhood block". The traffic filtered street or intersection contains bollbards, planter boxes, parklets, playground equipment, painted murals, and park benches, and is lined with trees and apartment buildings.
In neighbourhoods across Berlin, a quiet rebellion is unfolding in the form of Kiezblocks (or “neighbourhood blocks”). What began as a grassroots response to political inertia and rat-running cars has evolved into a compelling experiment in bottom-up urbanism coordinated by @ccitiesorg.bsky.social.🧵
17.02.2026 10:04 — 👍 174 🔁 50 💬 2 📌 10
The urbanism of Siracusa, Sicily. 🇮🇹
17.02.2026 19:35 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"‘We’ve heard clearly that it is a priority for the community’: Bike lanes remain a sticking point on Mayo Bridge proposal"
www.richmonder.org/weve-heard-c... [@richmonder.bsky.social]
DC traffic deaths finally dropped in 2025. These cameras quite literally saved some of our neighbors' lives. The people who oppose them think getting to drive dangerously without being held accountable is literally more important than DC children getting killed. Don't let them get what they want.
15.01.2026 22:35 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0You may not believe that new-builds lower rents, but your landlord does.
15.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 83 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0
The urbanism of Zerbst, Germany. 🇩🇪
14.01.2026 00:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0until we get at why elevators and high performance windows in germany cost like 13-1/6th as much as they do in the US, increased productivity will not have a massive effect
06.01.2026 23:32 — 👍 64 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
Richmond woman (Jamie Brown) says there’s no excuse for driver hitting museum director: 'The pedestrian has a right of way'
My daughter Robyn was at VCU before she was killed bicycling in NYC.
I know the City of Richmond has been making improvements for pedestrians.
This was reckless driving.
“The auto-dominant paradigm rests on the idea that the problems cars create can be solved only with new and different cars. Electric cars, autonomous cars, cars that fly. Nothing could be further from the truth.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social
31.12.2025 09:53 — 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Holiday wishes from the Hightman Family May the lights of the season brighten you home. And the warmth of the sun, bring the holiday spirit close to you. - Robyn Avril Hightman Nali Jay Rachel Robyn Taffy
I lost my daughter Robyn on June 24th, 2019. They were killed while doing bicycle messenger work on New York City, when a speeding & distracted box truck knocked them off of their bike and then crushed them into the road.
December 24th is roughly 6 1/2 months from that date.
Congestion pricing is keeping stores from going out of business:
22.12.2025 18:45 — 👍 55 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0my position on automated traffic safety enforcement:
22.12.2025 04:21 — 👍 43 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Train departure board at Orchard, showing the Thomson-East Coast Line. The next trains to Bayshore depart in 3 and 5 minutes and the next trains to Woodlands North depart in 2 and 5 minutes.
Train departure board at Orchard, showing the North-South Line. The next trains to Jurong East depart in 2 and 4 minutes and the next trains to Marina South Pier depart in 1 and 3 minutes.
You see? It is possible to run trains in an English-speaking country frequently.
11.12.2025 09:24 — 👍 35 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0
“Leaf blowers are incredibly noisy, incredibly polluting, and the people using them don't even collect up the leaves. They just blow them into the street, into somebody else's property. Using a single leaf blower for an hour creates as much local air pollution as driving 1,100 miles.” 🍂
10.12.2025 14:30 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0Grassytrams are an effective urban stormwater management strategy, converting impervious areas into a green zone that eliminates 50%-70% of runoff.
07.12.2025 05:42 — 👍 82 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 1For every proposal to improve urban life, there is an immediate reaction from someone living in a rural exurb who is ready to lose their mind over the costs and implications on their privilege to drive a 2-ton living room on wheels through a city they don't live in.
01.12.2025 16:03 — 👍 110 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
“China's network of high-speed, incredibly advanced trains, which in recent years has just come to crisscross the country are shuttling people around the country at hundreds of miles an hour. Whereas Amtrak just tried to update its Northeast Corridor train and it left a lot to be desired.” 🚆
24.11.2025 09:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Robyn, You have been gone for more than six years... Looking at the full moon tonight, I was reminded of how often I thought of you. We never talked about this, so I will say it now. Even when we lived miles apart, I was comforted by the thought, that the the moon I saw at night, you too looked upon. Do you peer down from where you are and think of me? Everyday is one of remembrance... Love Dad Robyn Avril Hightman September 19th, 1998 - June 24th, 2019
16.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 68 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
“For some people being in roommate mode is a necessity for now. The enjoyment has been taken out of relationships because the cost of living is so extreme. And these couples and these partnerships, of course they're exhausted from working, and there's just not as much freedom anymore.” 💔
16.11.2025 11:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Who said romance is dead?
15.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My morning commute:
14.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
The cover of “If You Want To WIn, You’ve Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy” by Carter Lavin. The words “If you want to win” are in all caps, hunter green blocky font that takes up half the page in the upper left-hand corner. The words “You’ve Got to Fight” are a burnt orange of the same size and font. The words connect diagonally across the page. The words “A Guide to effective transportation advocacy” is in black, in smaller font nestled between the block of larger text. Carter’s name is in the lower left corner in black. Behind the words is a stylized, fictionalized metro map that takes up most of the page. The metro map is complex, multi-colored, showing potential expansion plans, transfer stations etc. The book cover background is an off-white. Roughly 6 inches wide, 9 inches tall.
TODAY is publication day for my first book! If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy is a practical guide for people who want to make #transit, #bike, and street safety changes in their community
Check it out at islandpress.org/books/if-you...
