Seth LaJeunesse

Been thinking how anti-hope propaganda (e.g., your op-ed is useless, that protest was worthless—as though visible and collective actions never help build momentum) is little more than “I’m so clever and world-wide” signaling.

That we won’t get very far in the mode shift program if we simply appeal to folks’ financial or moral sensibilities. Instead, we have to restructure the entire constellation of incentives so that driving becomes relatively less attractive/adaptive than biking/walking/rolling/transit. Easy peasy.

Having thought a good long while about how to incite measurable mode shift, I’m at last coming to terms with the notion that driving—in the vast majority of places in the U.S.—is an entirely rational behavior given the nature of our material, financial, political and social environments.

Not tonight.

5 years in: Cleveland Heights’ first community orchard is thriving – The Land A little more than five years ago, what’s now Delmore Orchard was one of nine vacant lots on Delmore Road in Cleveland Heights’ Noble neighborhood. It boasted a buried asphalt driveway, remnants of a ...

Hear me out: fruit trees (orchards, guilds, idm) in public parks. Let’s get this going.

Look at Cleveland Heights.

Food need not be scarce.

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Confirmed: Non-Driving Infrastructure Creates 'Induced Demand,' Too — Streetsblog USA Widening a highway to cure congestion is like losing weight by buying bigger pants — but thanks to the same principle of "induced demand," adding bike paths and train lines to cure climate actually wo...

Providing what quality social science does best: confirm what we’ve intuited all along. Build 🚲 infra and they will 🚲

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Cartier building in NYC. Built in 1905. 5-story building with red fabric awnings designed in the neoclassical style but has a mansard roof—a multi-sided roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartier_Building

Drakeford Library parking deck in Carrboro, NC. Built in 2025. 5 stories of concrete parking deck with first floor floral mural. Photo: author.

What our not-too-distant ancestors propped up (left) vs what we prop up today (right) 🧐

Truth

Cartoon featuring two drivers attempting to enter a popular pocket park in a city, realizing there’s no parking there and exclaim, “This city is going to hell! This used to be a parking lot.”

Tracks to this day.

What is happening to Carolina? 🏀

poster for an event at Queens University featuring me 'Reframing our roads" Jan 28 4-5:30pm

Two weeks today will be in Kingston at Queens University talking a little Reframing Our Roads. Open to the public if you are in the area.

It would seems. Appears best to “weaponize” socially moral and legal behavior while operating tanks.

Only in America can we unironically galvanize the masses by “weaponizing” compliance with a pro-social law.

Also, slowing down helps everyone—even large SUV drivers!—from avoiding death and injury on top of identifying feds. Win win.

Was thinking the same. Also, not there for the first time in too long a while. Enjoy time with friends!

Buck with rather long antlers facing the camera from the top of a small, wooded hill in Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

Would this guy limit himself to only ever enjoying “man cereal?”

Course not. He’s secure with who and what he is.

Houston, Kansas City, Bentonville, San Jose, Detroit, MI; and San Francisco may not appear to have much in common

However, they all are committed to the same sou: permanently reducing or removing car traffic on some of their streets

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Carrboro (NC), take note

View of dozens of people-, animal-, and earth-unaliving cars outside a popular local brewery in Carrboro, NC.

Relish the day this is no longer a common view from a local brewery in Carrboro or anywhere. Happy 2026!

Oh my.

Christmas ornaments in the shape of stars, bells, and trees with Pittburghese vocab like nebby, jagoff, yinz, happy holidays n’at!, etc. from Pittsburgh’s Christmas market.

Hard to deny the mellifluousness of Pittsburghese around the holidays.

Would like to see this global plastics production line next to the global VMT (or car production) line.

How many academic research center closures at UNC will cover his salary? Two? Three?

Sunrise in Carrboro, NC illuminating the underside of clouds, casting a pinkish orange light over the town

Almost makes the cold worth it

We’d be wise to appreciate Margaret Heffernan’s keen insight on ‘manufactured inevitability’:

“Anyone claiming to know the future…is just trying to own it.”

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Highly recommended

Suppose that is what these researchers are saying—kudos for enduring it all!

New study shows how your brain changes at four key ages: 9, 32, 66 and 83 New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

New study by Mousely and colleagues illustrates how for most, “adolescence” persists until age 32.

Consider what adolescents are permitted to do in the U.S., often decades before we might consider them biological adults. 🤔

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Ice is menace—you’re quite right.

I suspect many of our northern friends and colleagues understand this simple truth:

snow, in less auto-dominated places would be a delight, magic to the young and old alike.

Instead, all we hear about is how this natural and otherwise wondrous occurrence foils car travel.

As @sgoodyear.bsky.social so eloquently conveys, dependence on a functioning car to satisfy the needs of life is the antithesis of ‘freedom.’

Fact. People perceive, appreciate, and use quality bike/ped/transit infrastructure.