We need change, not a consensus. Firefighters are not building scientists. To get things changed some people will have to be left mad and the firefighters are one of those groups
that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infra Law) devoted hundreds of billions to streets & highways.
But impacts are limited: While road quality generally improved, it improved more slowly than previously—and not on all rural road types.
More: www.urban.org/research/pub...
The US government should be focusing on the fact that half the country is about to be overwhelmed by a debilitating ice and snow storm. Yet here we are instead, with the government’s focus being on killing random people in the street
My favorite stat, and what I think is most insightful from our report, is easily this graph:
California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...
Uh, I am going to have to be convinced on these
What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation?
Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending.
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
I'm sorry but this whole thing makes me feel insane. Let's just be real: we stole basic independence from generations of kids and teenagers by intentionally making our cities deadly + impossible to travel outside a car, and now corporations are selling a worse version of it back to them at a price.
It also swipes or moved around ARPA-I, NEVI FY26 Rescissions, Reconnecting Communities Pilot, Fed state partnership for intercity rail grants, Reduction of truck emissions at port facilities… what else?
I imagine that there’s a chicken and egg component to project selection and what gets built, but that also helps determine how gas is taxed in the first place.
I would be very interested in how the built environment factors in an analysis like this. Gas is expensive (relative) in sprawling California, but they drive much more compared to place in the US with options and cheaper gas (thinking of the DC region).
In a truly tectonic Overton Window shift, the California Assembly just voted 63-0 to advance #AB609, a major new bill by Buffy Wicks to create a statutory exemption from CEQA for environmentally friendly infill housing.
Fantastic news for both housing and the environment!
Yes, you should be asking why Portland is getting a $2 billion freeway expansion when it hasn’t expanded its light rail system in years, when federal assistance is drying up, when climate change is worsening, & when 60% of Oregon counties are facing budget cuts www.opb.org/article/2025...
Like every other late 30-something I know, I'm thinking a lot lately about how the transportation system will shape my parents' lives as they age (which to some extent is already happening). Learned a lot from this conversation with @gregshill.com, including some surprises.
desperately searching, hoping, wishing for this one to have been real
Kurt Vonnegut man
Cherry blossom festival plus an “interspecies celebration” (?) at the Kennedy center lol
Air quality is so visibly bad with these fireworks. Seeing smoke wafted all the way to the ground level in Woodley Park. It literally smells like the little party poppers outside.
Gen Z has the disadvantage of existing in the same Wild West of internet disinfo but without as much interactions with the “real world” since the internet is so pervasive now, thanks to phones, the decline of physical hobbies and third spaces, etc. Gen Z is just less attached to baseline reality.
Did you factor the difference between place of performance data and the recipient location in USASpending metadata?
Org HQs receiving funds (in my case state DOTs) are often located in cities more politically left leaning and bias funding toward Harris counties when the work is performed elsewhere
USDOT Secretary's office sent an email to DOT agencies instructing them to review competitively awarded—but not yet fully obligated—projects under Biden that include:
—Green infra
—Bike infra
—EV infra
—Project purpose to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
DOT wants to revise project scopes or cancel.
vox dei
GOP Senators are “begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated” & that admin is illegally impounding.
Sen Tuberville wants bridge $
Sen Capito wants electric school bus $
Sen Murkowski wants EPA staff
Sen Britt wants NIH $
Sen Moran wants farm subsidies
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Not to jinx anything that might happen this week yet, but big shifts in policy at organizations require staff to implement changes.
Otherwise, expect delays...
@xpinkylemonx.bsky.social
Here's another:
smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/usdot-fundin...
...but don't stop there. Call your reps on the phone. Let your local media know exactly what could be at stake for your area. Make noise about this before it's too late.
In an hour! I'll be joining @gnd_network @4TransitJustice @americawalks @LN4S @cplusci from 7:30-8 PM ET to discuss the $20 billion+ funding freeze crisis and what you can do to ensure communities get the money they're owed.
Tune in!
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