Ann Hartell
@annhard2tell.bsky.social
Background in transportation planning and policy, research management, and architecture. Out of the labor force, but still curious about what smart people are working on.
More over here: http://www.annhartell.com
More over here: http://www.annhartell.com
Really appreciated this documentary from @pbs.org
The story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is fascinating--the process of navigating a public design, reckoning with history, and an extraordinary person Maya Lin.
youtu.be/Shw7hb0mUwU?...
The story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is fascinating--the process of navigating a public design, reckoning with history, and an extraordinary person Maya Lin.
youtu.be/Shw7hb0mUwU?...
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | Official Trailer | POV on PBS
YouTube video by POV
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October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Really appreciated this documentary from @pbs.org
The story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is fascinating--the process of navigating a public design, reckoning with history, and an extraordinary person Maya Lin.
youtu.be/Shw7hb0mUwU?...
The story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is fascinating--the process of navigating a public design, reckoning with history, and an extraordinary person Maya Lin.
youtu.be/Shw7hb0mUwU?...
“The far right feeds off the rejection of urbanism,” Felix Butzlaff, a scholar at Central European University in Vienna.
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Opinion | The Viennese paradox: Urban superstar and right-wing whipping boy
Outside the multicultural city, antimigrant forces see Vienna as unfamiliar, uninviting and un-Austrian.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“The far right feeds off the rejection of urbanism,” Felix Butzlaff, a scholar at Central European University in Vienna.
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wapo.st/4kBplfY
What a shame. The Fulbright program was the perfect example of American soft power.
The board of the Fulbright program appears to have entirely resigned, accusing the State Department of illegally canceling scholarships "based mainly on research topics": www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...
Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What a shame. The Fulbright program was the perfect example of American soft power.
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"Wir stehen zusammen für Graz", liebe Wiener Linien gerade sehr.
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"Wir stehen zusammen für Graz", liebe Wiener Linien gerade sehr.
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Trump’s “science transparency” executive order is packed with positive sounding buzzwords, but it could gut the use of most health studies in policymaking. It revives tactics once used by Big Tobacco to bury studies that showed the dangers of smoking.
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#news #science
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#news #science
How Trump’s ‘gold standard’ politicizes federal science
The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.
buff.ly
June 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Trump’s “science transparency” executive order is packed with positive sounding buzzwords, but it could gut the use of most health studies in policymaking. It revives tactics once used by Big Tobacco to bury studies that showed the dangers of smoking.
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
buff.ly/DY1ftlB
#news #science
The just-announced contraction of the volunteer committees is so very unfortunate. The @trb.org I first engaged with as a masters student felt like a great on-ramp to the multidisciplinary, always-evolving field of transportation.
nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/oth...
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Transportation Research Board: Technical Activities Division Organization Chart
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June 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The just-announced contraction of the volunteer committees is so very unfortunate. The @trb.org I first engaged with as a masters student felt like a great on-ramp to the multidisciplinary, always-evolving field of transportation.
nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/oth...
nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/oth...
Nothing to do with the transportation priorities of Americans. Oh?
www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Defunds Woke University Grants
Grants were funding DEI & Green New Scam agenda that has nothing to do with transportation priorities of the American people
www.transportation.gov
May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nothing to do with the transportation priorities of Americans. Oh?
www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
www.transportation.gov/briefing-roo...
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🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives:
Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.
That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.
Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.
Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.
That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.
Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧪 Concrete evidence of political motives:
Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.
That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.
Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.
Out of 1044 NSF terminations so far, *not a single one* started under Trump 1.0. Zilch. Nada. 0%.
That is, all terminated NSF awards started Feb 1, 2021 or later after Biden took office.
Yet, Trump 1.0 awards still account for 15% of still-active awards.
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If you thought MelaniaCoin was bad...
Holy shit. Even from an administration of grifters, this is some spectacularly shameless grifting.
Truth Social launches scheme to profit from Trump's tariff policies
A jaw-dropping conflict of interest.
popular.info
April 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you thought MelaniaCoin was bad...
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The Accessibility Turn
From Practice to Theory and Back Again
open.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Ab diesem Monat gilt eine neue Regelung auf Wiens Rolltreppen: „Links stehen, rechts gehen“. 🧍🚶♀️ Grund dafür: Die asymmetrische Abnutzung der Rolltreppenstufen. Um diese auszugleichen, wird die Seite zum Stehen ab jetzt alle 2 Jahre in einem alternierenden Intervall getauscht.
April 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ab diesem Monat gilt eine neue Regelung auf Wiens Rolltreppen: „Links stehen, rechts gehen“. 🧍🚶♀️ Grund dafür: Die asymmetrische Abnutzung der Rolltreppenstufen. Um diese auszugleichen, wird die Seite zum Stehen ab jetzt alle 2 Jahre in einem alternierenden Intervall getauscht.
Sigh. All of mine are on the list. Including those behind paywalls in the TRR. @trb.org can you explain how Meta did this?
Meta used 9 of my articles, only 2 of which are open access, to train the AI it will use to make billions of dollars.
I have earned zero dollars from these publications.
I have earned zero dollars from these publications.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
March 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Sigh. All of mine are on the list. Including those behind paywalls in the TRR. @trb.org can you explain how Meta did this?
Thank you @metrotransitmn.bsky.social !
March 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thank you @metrotransitmn.bsky.social !
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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
March 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In a world of Matts, be a Derek.
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The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired.
The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.
From me (w/scoops) 🧵
The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.
From me (w/scoops) 🧵
The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Transportation Research
Researchers warn of a “chilling environment” as studies examining road safety and other topics are killed off and layoffs hit federal agencies.
www.bloomberg.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Trump admin is causing chaos in transport research. Studies have been canceled, datasets have vanished, and experts have been fired.
The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.
From me (w/scoops) 🧵
The Nat'l Academies’ Transportation Research Board has caved to Trump’s demands for censorship, triggering upheaval. Its future is in doubt.
From me (w/scoops) 🧵
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Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
February 8, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
Reading about trump's EO pausing funding for EV charging projects sent me back to this 2022 NCHRP report on uncertainty in federal transportation funding. A great explanation of how this stuff works & how DOTs can navigate the new normal of whiplash changes in funding. doi.org/10.17226/26591
Federal Funding Uncertainty in State, Local, and Regional Departments of Transportation: Impacts, Responses, and Adaptations
Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.
doi.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reading about trump's EO pausing funding for EV charging projects sent me back to this 2022 NCHRP report on uncertainty in federal transportation funding. A great explanation of how this stuff works & how DOTs can navigate the new normal of whiplash changes in funding. doi.org/10.17226/26591
And of course there are plenty of "bureaucrats" in private sector entities.
January 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
And of course there are plenty of "bureaucrats" in private sector entities.
Joining AME80 committee mtg at #TRBAM to follow along current and forthcoming research. Will be tuned to download NCHRP 08-155 'Handbook on Addressing Racial Disparities in Project Delivery' later this year. apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBN...
Handbook for Addressing Racial Disparities in the Project Delivery Process
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January 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Joining AME80 committee mtg at #TRBAM to follow along current and forthcoming research. Will be tuned to download NCHRP 08-155 'Handbook on Addressing Racial Disparities in Project Delivery' later this year. apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBN...
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So this week Elise & I hosted a small gingerbread gathering, and @cottomanempire.bsky.social created… an EDIBLE WILDLIFE OVERPASS. Check out those migrating animal-cracker bison! The crushed Oreo asphalt of the road! The flawless curvature of the gingerbread bridge! A true #roadecology masterpiece.
December 27, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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Interesting. Would be curious to know the rationale. Historic purity? www.startribune.com/someone-coul...
Cyclists say new guardrails on historic Twin Cities bridge are dangerously low
Recent construction on the Mendota Bridge lowered the guardrails to 42 inches.
www.startribune.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Interesting. Would be curious to know the rationale. Historic purity? www.startribune.com/someone-coul...