Nick Klein

SB2111 in Illinois also:
—Eliminates all parking requirements in areas within 1/2 mi of transit stations or 1/8 mi of frequent bus routes.
—Gives transit agencies the ability to undertake transit-supportive development, including through purchasing new land and developing joint development projects.

We're excited to announce a series of guest blog posts by our PGR prize winners from this year's #RGSIBG25 conference! ✍️ 📜

First post, first place, Yi Fan Liu @yifan-liu.bsky.social:
🚘Why does gender matter in car-sharing services? 🚗

Read her post here! transportgeography.org.uk/2025/10/20/p...

This book finally got published today - free for download here cssn.org/news-researc...

A monumental effort documenting climate obstruction across sectors, countries & governance levels, by 110 @cssn.org scholars

I was chuffed to contribute to one of the chapters (thread)

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

A banner showing details about the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice to be held January 16th at the MLK Library in Washington, DC. The image at the top shows multiple intersecting zebra crosswalks with pedestrians.

Bored with TRB's censorship and cancellations?

Submit your work to the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice instead -- proposals due October 25.

www.crossroadsconvening.org

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

Hearing reports that TRB is censoring annual meeting content. Authors are receiving a "Notice of Non-Selection" when notified that their papers were not sent out for review. Esp shitty for students who submitted work on Aug 1 only to wait two months for no reviews. Shameful behavior by TRB.

'Treated and Streeted': How The City's Safety Net Fails Homeless People in the Subway - Streetsblog New York City The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net cannot reliably get a homeless person in psychiatric crisis out of the subway and into a hospital bed, a Streetsblog investigation has found.

TREATED AND 'STREETED': "The Big Apple’s $30-billion social safety net amounts to a badly frayed patchwork of systems that still cannot reliably get New Yorkers in psychiatric crisis from subway platforms to hospital beds, a Streetsblog investigation has found." - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/23/t...

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

Fact sheet outlining the different ways a billion dollars could be used to improve transportation in the Hudson Valley instead of widening a highway. Projects like better bus service, street safety and beautification and additional bus shelters are mentioned.

Love this campaign from @mountainkeeper.bsky.social fighting a proposed highway expansion in New York’s Hudson Valley by presenting an irresistible vision of all the useful transportation upgrades $1.4b could bring to the region instead.

www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/invest_in_ou...

Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.

I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc.

www.wbir.com/article/traf...

This project documents Black travel networks & resilience. Your memories can power the research! Learn more and add to this growing body of work: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu
#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

How did Black families travel during Jim Crow? Learn the history

A few days ago, Berlin opened a new stretch of urban motorway, with the stated aim to reduce congestion.

Today, the stretch was temporarily closed because of too much congestion.

The firm, Marzulla Law L.L.C., which has close ties to the conservative legal movement, called the research “false and injurious” and said it would complain to Brown’s public and private funders, including the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...

EXCLUSIVE: In response to threats of criminal prosecution from the Department of Justice for performing gender-affirming care, the University of Michigan hospital system will tomorrow announce they are ending gender-affirming care in the UM hospital system. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

Massive service cuts in Philadelphia yesterday and are just the beginning. Public schools start today and many students rely on SEPTA.

Unless state and local govt’s step up, we will see the same thing at many transit agencies in the US

more details @ wwww.septa.org/fundingcrisis/service-cuts/

Cars Are So Expensive That Buyers Need Seven-Year Loans They make monthly payments manageable but add thousands to the car’s total cost.

Cars are getting more expensive. People take out longer loans to afford them. Longer loans means more total interest cost, adding thousands of dollars to the already expensive car. And when they go to trade it in, they find they still owe more than the car is worth. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.

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New job! We're looking for a qualitative researcher to work with us on two projects, a participatory project on urban greening and a mixed-methods study on impacts of cycle infrastructure. 0.9 FTE for 8 months (combined maternity cover role). More info: vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

Book cover - Overbuilt by Erick Guerra

Erick Guerra’s new book is very good. I particularly liked chapter 5, How, Where, and Why Do We Build Roads?

1/3 of BLS leadership positions are currently vacant.
Field offices around the country are closing due to staff shortages.
They fired the advisory council that was assessing how to increase survey response rates.
These are not actions you take if you actually want to improve the data.

The 14th amendment to the constitution is quite clear: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State."

You can't just exclude certain people from the count!

It’s very strange that the Times is normalizing the fact that the whims of the president and the far-right ideologues who staff his “crusade against top schools” have become a predicate for “deals.” This is authoritarian behavior and should be covered as such.

Cornell Expected to Reach Settlement with Trump Administration to Restore Federal Funding Cornell University is expected to reach a settlement with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that has been revoked over the last several

“The ransom that [Columbia] ended up paying strikes me as a pretty good value if you decide you’re going to pay ransom,” he added. “But the problem with paying ransom is that it incentivizes the taking of more hostages.”

www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

Cornell Reportedly Nears Up to $100 Million Settlement With Trump Admin to Restore Frozen Federal Funding Cornell is reportedly in talks with the Trump administration to soon close on a settlement to pay up to $100 million to restore its frozen federal funding.

Not surprising but depressing nonetheless

China exports far more clean energy tech, like lithium-ion batteries, solar panels, and electric cars, than does the United States.

The US exports far more fossil fuels than China. The US is clinging to old, dirty technologies as China transforms for the future. The Trump administration will worsen the situation.

The world we live in: "The Trump administration wants to keep the world hooked on fossil fuels like oil and gas... China is racing in an altogether different direction. It’s banking on a world that runs on cheap electricity from the sun and wind."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our multi-campus research team shared preliminary results from our work about the evacuation experiences of transit riders with LA county transportation and emergency management professionals yesterday! Can’t wait to release these findings publicly later this summer