Harvey J. Miller

World's buildings mapped for the first time in high-resolution 3D map Technical University of Munich researchers have just unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, a new 3D map that captures every building on the planet.

The word awesome is way overused but in this case not

In Person Live Event! | Life After Cars with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon This January, the hosts of the acclaimed podcast The War on Cars, Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, will join us for a live discussion about their new book, Life After Cars. This engaging conversation w...

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The Surprisingly Convincing Case Against Cars Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.

See Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon from @thewaroncars.bsky.social discuss their new book Life After Cars live in Columbus on January 27th! More info and tickets in the thread.

Brought to you by OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and Transit Columbus who want you to imagine a better way.

City Considering Changes to Intersection After Complaints About Safety - Columbus Underground Changes are coming to the new Olentangy Trail crossing at North Broadway, but how extensive they’ll be still remains to be seen. Complaints from users about the safety of the intersection have spurred...

Glad to see these proposed changes. Sad we had to beg for them after the fact.

"Historic preservation should never be at the expense of an entire population from accessing a historic neighborhood.”

Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

A reckless decision that will “make cars burn more gas and American families burn more cash.”

Picture of a snowy intersection with tire tracks

Picture of a snowy intersection with tire tracks

It’s sneckdown time! Sneckdown = snow + neckdown (a narrowing of a street to calm traffic). Snow reveals how little space drivers need to travel at safe, reasonable speeds. Instead, traffic engineers give them too much space, with the result that people drive too fast and recklessly.

Although I think treating cars as a public health hazard is a good take

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

America’s future as a global scientific powerhouse is in jeopardy.

They aren’t, exactly

Opinion | Don’t Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives.

True, self-driving vehicles are safer than human-driven vehicles. But this not the only choice - a third option is the reduce car dependency and rebalance our transportation systems to allow public transit to flourish.

Science Sundays: "Using AI and GIS to create virtual worlds from old maps" Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and Geographic Information Science (GIS) enable researchers to unlock the rich historical information trapped in old maps. The Ghost Neighborhoods of Columbus ...

This Sunday, I’ll be giving The OSU Arts and Sciences College “Science Sundays” lecture. I’ll talk about our project that uses machine learning and GIS to create immersive 3D experiences of historical neighborhoods using old Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. Free, open to the public, and not geeky.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Leopards, faces, etc.

I get that, but that should be regulated differently, like a moped. I also sincerely hope you are dressing for a 28 mph crash - that’s much more consequential than a 20 mph crash

I’m an e-bike purist. Type 1 is the only e-bike. The rest are e-motorcycles

The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes

Wait until they hear about cars.
But seriously - yes, agree, regulate e-bikes. But also give them space and infrastructure: protected bike lanes and designated and required parking spaces.

"Why don't kids go outside anymore?!"

Kids outside:

‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away

It was the largest investment in Appalachia since the 1960s’ “war on poverty” under Lyndon Johnson.

See Which New York City Neighborhoods Could Get Hit By the Next Hurricane (Gift Article) Heavy rain would make a hurricane catastrophic. See the neighborhoods that could face the worst flooding.

Sobering analysis of potential flooding in NYC from a heavy rain event. Not if but when.

“…Getting emissions to near zero will be incredibly, maddeningly difficult. It will be ugly. There will be losers. Ultimately, though, there will be many more winners. “

Our Almost-Apocalyptic Climate Future By shooting for 3 degrees Celsius of warming, the world could slide toward a more cataclysmic 4 degrees.

“The Earth, of course, is indifferent to what’s politically possible, and where it’s headed is still dangerous for humanity. The planet has seen entire living worlds wiped away by warming many times before, and there’s no reason to think it’s sentimental about organized industrial society… 🧵

Yesterday, I saw a good example of the problem: a driver exiting 315 did the right thing by stopping for people in the crossing. The driver behind almost rear-ended that car, and then leaned on the horn in apparent anger, trying to get the first driver to keep going.

Fix this, Columbus.

In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy

While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

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Life After Cars book tour flier

The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), Transit Columbus and Spin are pleased to announce a special live event with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon from The War on Cars podcast. They will discuss their new book, Life After Cars and answer questions.

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Opening of New Section of Olentangy Trail Spurs Safety Concerns - Columbus Underground The newest section of the Olentangy Trail opened last weekend in Clintonville, but some of the first cyclists, runners and pedestrians to try it out are raising safety concerns. First proposed in 2018...

2023: Project planners told CU that Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs) at signal changes will be installed.

2025: “The LPI wasn’t implemented because it wasn’t aligned with the city’s traffic safety standards,” said a spokesperson for the Recreation and Parks Department.

We deserve better.

The City of Columbus likes to applaud its Vision Zero initiative but it’s like applying bandages on a stabbing victim while they are still being stabbed. The bandages are important, of course, but we also need to stop the stabbing.

Interesting. It’s 2025 and we need to demand better from Columbus DPS

So what is the tl;dr here? Is the city and state violating their own safety standards? Or are they in compliance meaning we are stuck with this debacle and need to pressure them into adopting better safety standards?

I would like to know what standards they are following. Any safety standard that allows cars exiting a highway to drive through a crosswalk while pedestrians and cyclists have a walk sign is not a standard that our city should be following