Seth LaJeunesse

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.

It’s late 2025, our earth is melting, mental and public ill-health are endemic, life’s unaffordable for most…and transportation consultancies are hiring highway engineers. smdh

In 1920 Buffalo’s International Railway Company, then managed by the Mitten Management Company of Philadelphia, raised streetcar fare from five cents to seven cents. Many Buffalonians resented the increase and blamed the management company. ...

Rainbow facing west from Jones Ferry Rd in Carrboro NC

Auspicious start to the day 🌈 in Carrboro, NC

This #WDoR2025, families are sharing their stories of loved ones lost to traffic violence. Their voices are the most powerful call for leaders to remember, support, and ACT – so everyone can move safely, no matter how they get around.

@familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

bookshop.org/p/books/life...

Poster attached to a telephone pole in downtown Chapel Hill, NC that reads, “There’s a 1000 ways to park in Downtown. Parking in Downtown Chapel Hill’s easier than ever, with 1000+ spots at 125 E. Rosemary Street.”

Sincerely wish this instead read:

“They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”

Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressi…

As a result of this misperception, people wanting change might not express this publicly, prompting people opposed to change to believe that they represent a majority and thereby claiming (and getting) full attention in public debate." 2/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's #ElectionDay! Let's revisit insights from @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco Te Brömmelstroet

"it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2

The end of daylight saving is 2nd only to New Years for the density of totally reasonable promises we make to ourselves

“These harms are Cacophony (noise), Carbon emissions, Casualties from collisions, Community severance, Concern and social isolation, Congestion, Contamination (of air and ground), Conurbation design, and Couch potatoes.” 🙏

Highly recommend @thewaroncars.bsky.social's book Life After Cars.

A decade in - the #VisionZero movement is changing how we think, talk, and build for safety.

Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero:
visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...

Not only is it somehow legal, it’s subsidized, deregulated, even celebrated!

“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”

-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.

‘Life After Cars’ with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 10/21/2025 · 1h 5m

Great interview on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast with the authors of this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Cars are often “structural killers”—they kill directly (via crashes + pollution) and indirectly (via facilitating drive by shootings or drug ODs in the wake of car crash injury).

Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids.

100% unfair.

Your e-bike battery proves to be a solid book lean!

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

Me holding the Life After Cars book by the singular War on Cars podcast creators and hosts.

It’s arrived! (with a car-free driveway since ‘17 providing the backdrop).

The fact that local public schools are funded via property taxes, which determines each school’s resources, which determines ed outcomes, which determines economic outcomes, gives credence to notion that one’s zip code determines one’s fate.

And somehow we’re okay with this?

Hardly hear a whisper about this travesty

I-40 reopens in Durham after deadly crash leaves drivers stuck in westbound lanes for hours A deadly crash near Durham continues to block the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 on Sunday morning, leaving some drivers stuck in traffic for several hours.

How would you feel if your loved one died in traffic and your local news decided to immediately follow up the tragedy with a traffic report?

No Kings rally at Carrboro town commons on October 18, 2025

No Kings Carrboro / Chapel Hill NC

"My two favorite things: libraries + bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything."
—Peter Golkin

I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch.

(In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!)

www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...

Something about the ability to comfortably travel at inhuman speeds strips us of our humanity.

Vehicle parked in a flex post delineated bike lane in Chapel Hill, NC. View is facing east.

Safe, comfortable sharing of public space relies upon a solid social contract.

Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.

How might we shore up this social contract?

Indeed. This is an agreeable essentializing of hope. “You’re the hope!”

Report: A Third of Americans Can't Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All — Streetsblog USA So why do we plan our cities like everyone can and does get behind the wheel every day?

We seriously need to discuss this more:

Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...