Peter Koonce 🚦

Observations from #TRBAM
1. Fewer Committees makes for less specialization that advances technical knowledge ⬇️
2. ITE volunteers offer wonderful insight into practitioner perspectives that compliment state DOTs ⬆️
3. People coming together ⬆️
4. Students are the future ⬆️

The people of #TRBAM are what keeps me coming back, so grateful for the colleagues at @oregonstate.edu & elsewhere #ITE

It wouldn’t be a #TRBAM without reporting a 🚦issue to @ddotdc.bsky.social

Hey #TRBAM is this thing on?

Government agencies and their partners can build amazing things with the right leadership

Mike is a great hire!

It was set awhile ago and then it’s evaluated in the field, accounting for changing needs of users. E-bikes are an interesting consideration for the speed selection

Setting 🚦timing to the speed of cycling on one-way streets is an overlooked part of #invisibleurbanism #VisionZero

@henrygrabar.bsky.social should have made t-shirts 🅿️

Political leadership is key to plan for #LifeAfterCars In Emeryville, CA @johnbauters.bsky.social & team leads the way with research-based policy decisions that make true positive change & a city that is educating & engaged with the public 🧐 @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Transit based holiday gear may be the best stan anyone can have

I think Clarence talked to him about this in the sequel! He also was a gentrifier of Sycamore Street! Pottersville had great nightlife albeit the inequity in the community

That’s how all suburbs start, without proper infrastructure though, the further they spread….

YouTube video by BicycleDutch Ghent kicked out cars to make room for cyclists! (and hosted Velo-City 2024)

Ghent is highlighted in @thewaroncars.bsky.social #LifeAfterCars as a City that used a thoughtful traffic circulation plan to boost cycling in the central city @bicycledutch.bsky.social described it here youtu.be/rf0chvYf5Yo?...

Hot take: George Bailey was part of the suburbanization of America #itsawonderfulLIFE

In Life After 🚗🚙 there is no mention of parking

2013 was a classic

V2X is still very much a work in progress

YouTube video by Streets For All Ian Walker lunchtime chat on Motornormativity

Motonormativity is a term that should be discussed more in the transportation community @ianwalker.bsky.social @drtaragoddard.com Thanks to @streetsforall.org for this youtu.be/dVwsCFCgT_o?...

YouTube video by DgdMovies Goofy - Motor Mania

Motor Mania is my favorite @disney movie youtu.be/mwPSIb3kt_4?... 🚙👺👹

An excerpt from the Book ”Life After Cars”

Cars Ruin Society is quite the Chapter asserting that 🚗🚙 have isolated us from each other by making streets inhospitable #LifeAfterCars

Only a 🇳🇱 brand 🚲 would make that better 😀 @batavus.bsky.social or Gazelle

In NYC, the Straphangers Campaign awards the slowest high-ridership bus route the Pokey Award 🥇This is the sort of advocacy that 🚌🚍🚏 is needed @thewaroncars.bsky.social @transitcenter.bsky.social

Nearly halfway through the book and finding it worthwhile albeit discomforting given the comprehensive take down of car culture similar to Asphalt Nation www.powells.com/book/asphalt...

Analytical measures for cities assessing transportation need to improve. Traffic engineering community needs more research & refinement of methods to adequately assess the comfort of users & perceptions of safety that would help us address public health goals #VisionZero @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Life After Cars would have been a great title for the book I write in retirement

“We will never be Amsterdam” is an argument against bike infrastructure… but in a climate change future, you’re going to hope your City is more like Amsterdam when the water is approaching

Build it and they will change? After installing the Prospect Park West protected bike lane sidewalk riding dropped to 3 percent… “If your policy changes infrastructure, it will change culture” @jonorcutt.bsky.social in Life After Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Reading Life After Cars by the Team behind the @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast and reflecting on @brooklynspoke.bsky.social stop in Portland! Buy the book @powells.bsky.social www.powells.com/book/life-af...