Chris Stratton

It's not a difficult needle to thread. If people are walking, cycling or taking transit instead, great! That means less pollution, wear and tear on roads, etc. But why should drivers get free, taxpayer subsidized storage for their personal property when that space could be used for higher purposes?

Looks like an air quality nightmare, except the envelope is so leaky it gets diluted passively.

Even better: The Continuous Sidewalk.

​Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.

We have got to find ways to get fewer parents driving their kids to school. The current incentives and disincentives aren't working well enough. And many will fight it tooth and nail every step, even though everyone benefits.

Hmm this almost makes it sound like we have too much car parking and not enough housing.

Bus rapid transit on San Pablo Avenue from Oakland to Richmond (and beyond) would be a game changer.

So many folks would replace car trips with bus trips, and BRT would support the housing and commercial development that's happening up and down San Pablo.

Let's approve, fund it and make it happen!

Give me a petition to sign!

It seems to be detecting me but not telling me it's detecting me?

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

What's Levi's?

A minor thing, but I hope the NIMBYs who typically scream that safe streets and housing advocates are just paid shills or in the pocket of Big Bike or whatever understand that they're a lot closer to Trumpism than they probably care to admit.

Save bike and transit improvements on Hopkins Street! In a stunning reversal of an earlier 8-1 council vote, the Berkeley City Council is proposing to move forward on Hopkins Street repaving without any bike or transit infrastructure improvements. There...

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A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.

youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

Tierlist of bike rack types: S: Staple, Inverted U/round staple, circle rack; A: Inverted U with a design panel; B: Bollard Racks, Bike Corral, Staple on crossbars; C: bike shaped bike rack, artsy racks (swan shaped); D: Wave Rack; F: coathanger rack; HELL: Wheelbender

I have attempted a tierlist of common styles of bike racks. (Just install staple racks!)

We purposefully dismantled a robust national rail network and replaced it with forced car dependency.

Seeing high-quality European sleeper cabins for €55 highlights the freedom we lost to decades of social engineering and auto industry subsidization.

Yes I told them the giant parking lot stair entrance was pretty much impossible to access with a cargo bike and they said go around to the car sewer Ashby side, go up the ramp and through the creepy hallway. A lovely, welcoming entrance experience.

Yes please!

I noticed the same thing. I just tuned in live for the first time in a long time and found them so credulous and boot licking. Had to turn it off. So disappointed by what it's become.

This is wonderful to see. Thank you for compiling and sharing this.

My condolences. It will pass. In time. Eventually.

A cargo balance bike?!?

I have seen these old tower structures in a couple back yards along 9th St and thought, hmm. What are those about? Surely not, right? Right?

Move it into the travel lane and see how long it's tolerated there

most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice

No one could have predicted this!

(Everyone who supported congestion pricing predicted this)

We have the proven technology to address many of the externalities of driving:

-Speed cameras
-Congestion pricing
-Demand based parking pricing

Failure to implement these policies is no longer a shortcoming of knowledge, but rather political will.

She’s on a Mission to Make the World More Bike-Friendly

Oh my gosh, so cool to see Melissa Bruntlett of @modacitylife.com profiled in this NYT piece!! Well-deserved, Melissa! Hope to cycle in the NL with you again some day. 😊

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

Two women - one older; one elderly - cycling on a segregated cycle lane in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, where the Dutch invest in safe cycling, the over-65s cycle around a quarter of their journeys, while the over-80s cycle around 10% of theirs.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and cycle lanes don't 'restrict freedom', they expand it.

Okay I chipped in, because it's you asking.