Hobo Pedestrian
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I walk. I write. I ride the rails (via Amtrak). I seem nice, but I am a prickly curmudgeon who has no patience for car culture.
In high frequency transit systems, watching your train pull away while you are still a couple hundred yards away causes no anxiety because the next train will be arriving around the time you get there.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
In high frequency transit systems, watching your train pull away while you are still a couple hundred yards away causes no anxiety because the next train will be arriving around the time you get there.
Every conversation about autonomous vehicles believes that the pilot data will scale.
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Every conversation about autonomous vehicles believes that the pilot data will scale.
They *just* replaced this railing. Maybe this time they will install something to stop the cars *before* they pop over the sidewalk.
December 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
They *just* replaced this railing. Maybe this time they will install something to stop the cars *before* they pop over the sidewalk.
The fall of the American Empire will be traced back to our investments in car storage over people.
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The fall of the American Empire will be traced back to our investments in car storage over people.
The white-hot, liquid metal core of ethical journalism is to hold on to urgent, newsworthy information until you can use it to promote your forthcoming book.
Don’t forget the other core tenet of ethical journalism: paywalling said urgently newsworthy information to the tune of $80 a year
everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The white-hot, liquid metal core of ethical journalism is to hold on to urgent, newsworthy information until you can use it to promote your forthcoming book.
When your sidewalk *is* what traffic engineers laughingly call "the recovery zone" then the people who planned it don't care if you die while walking.
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
When your sidewalk *is* what traffic engineers laughingly call "the recovery zone" then the people who planned it don't care if you die while walking.
‘I Know We Can Transform the World’: Remembering Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong | KQED share.google/f2pW4vyUJJzV...
‘I Know We Can Transform the World’: Remembering Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong | KQED
Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, writer, and MacArthur Genius award winner based in San Francisco, died last Friday at UCSF
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November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
‘I Know We Can Transform the World’: Remembering Disability Rights Activist Alice Wong | KQED share.google/f2pW4vyUJJzV...
If you have to jump the curb to park your truck, your truck is the problem. By extension, you are the problem.
November 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If you have to jump the curb to park your truck, your truck is the problem. By extension, you are the problem.
Have you ever needed to relieve yourself while you are out, and when you found a toilet, the facility was so disgusting you decided it was better to hold it than risk using the unsanitary facility?
That's why more people aren't using your paint stripe bike lane covered in road litter.
That's why more people aren't using your paint stripe bike lane covered in road litter.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Have you ever needed to relieve yourself while you are out, and when you found a toilet, the facility was so disgusting you decided it was better to hold it than risk using the unsanitary facility?
That's why more people aren't using your paint stripe bike lane covered in road litter.
That's why more people aren't using your paint stripe bike lane covered in road litter.
Shockingly, a piece of paper is not a barrier to people making bad decisions.
Miriam Yarimi’s vehicle had accumulated more than 90 tickets, including 18 school-zone speeding tickets in 2024 alone.
The Stop Super Speeders bill will save lives. Albany needs to pass it at the start of the year to prevent terrible crashes like this one from happening again.
The Stop Super Speeders bill will save lives. Albany needs to pass it at the start of the year to prevent terrible crashes like this one from happening again.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Shockingly, a piece of paper is not a barrier to people making bad decisions.
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I've rarely found myself happy to drive through a city, but I regularly find myself thankful to cycle through places like this. It changes your entire relationship with the urban environment.
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I've rarely found myself happy to drive through a city, but I regularly find myself thankful to cycle through places like this. It changes your entire relationship with the urban environment.
Chia seeds need to come with a warning label 💩👀👀
Oh no apparently fiber has replaced protein as the internet food obsession and these influencers will overhype it so much without any warnings they’re gonna have people shitting their brains out.
November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Chia seeds need to come with a warning label 💩👀👀
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That's half. Half your income is gone from just having a roof over your head and the means to leave that roof?
The second you leave your house, it's just a storage unit.
You're paying 20% of your income for a car. Are you using it 20% of your time? How much of that 20% is for car storage?
The second you leave your house, it's just a storage unit.
You're paying 20% of your income for a car. Are you using it 20% of your time? How much of that 20% is for car storage?
Transportation costs are the second largest burden on American family budgets (17%), after housing (33%)!
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
To address the affordability crisis, we must create cities with abundant housing of all types (subsidized, social, coop, market rate) and make walking, biking, and taking transit convenient.
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
That's half. Half your income is gone from just having a roof over your head and the means to leave that roof?
The second you leave your house, it's just a storage unit.
You're paying 20% of your income for a car. Are you using it 20% of your time? How much of that 20% is for car storage?
The second you leave your house, it's just a storage unit.
You're paying 20% of your income for a car. Are you using it 20% of your time? How much of that 20% is for car storage?
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We have such a stupid transportation system in this goofy country that affects every corner of our life.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We have such a stupid transportation system in this goofy country that affects every corner of our life.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
Higher costs, worse air, more deaths and injuries, no places you can go and let your kid run around.
These are all things we've given up so people can drive a car at 40 mph in a city.
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They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
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super interesting for me to hear how much people responded to Alissa and tried to push back about the percentage of nondrivers. I get the sense that a lot of people in the transportation space won't engage with me because they think that high a percentage of nondrivers can't possibly be real.
Reflections on last week's #WeekWithoutDriving in a city that still refuses to acknowledge the existence of its nondrivers — which a comprehensive new report claims make up one-third of LA's population
One-third of Angelenos do not drive
Walking back the "car-free" games promise is unconscionable in a city where the people who don't drive are also the most vulnerable users of our streets
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November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
super interesting for me to hear how much people responded to Alissa and tried to push back about the percentage of nondrivers. I get the sense that a lot of people in the transportation space won't engage with me because they think that high a percentage of nondrivers can't possibly be real.
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Downtown Brooklyn is the real life version of that meme of a million people crammed into the sidewalks and a single driver lounging in a car
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Downtown Brooklyn is the real life version of that meme of a million people crammed into the sidewalks and a single driver lounging in a car
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When people ignorantly label "cyclists" as entitled for wanting equitable infrastructure, just remember, they're oppressing people with mobility challenges as well with that rhetoric.
Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
When people ignorantly label "cyclists" as entitled for wanting equitable infrastructure, just remember, they're oppressing people with mobility challenges as well with that rhetoric.
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this is legit one of the saddest things i have ever seen
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
this is legit one of the saddest things i have ever seen
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Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam in 1971 and today, now a cycling and walking only route
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam in 1971 and today, now a cycling and walking only route
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Does Kamala Harris get $16 million now?
Only about a third of the Trump interview aired on "60 Minutes." CBS has published the transcript of the complete interview here —> www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Does Kamala Harris get $16 million now?
To anyone swallowing the BS about the White House ballroom being paid for by donors (which is a crazy form of bribery) remember my warning: Anything you add, you must maintain.
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To anyone swallowing the BS about the White House ballroom being paid for by donors (which is a crazy form of bribery) remember my warning: Anything you add, you must maintain.
Buzzfeed collects the observations of suburban Americans who discovered "cities" on their travels abroad.
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"It's Common In Europe But Non-Existent In America": People Are Sharing Little Experiences Or Traditions From Abroad They Wish They Could Adopt Back Home
"When I was abroad, I saw them on pretty much every city block. I would love to have the same thing here in the US."
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November 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Buzzfeed collects the observations of suburban Americans who discovered "cities" on their travels abroad.
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Tomorrow night, the greatest danger to your trick-or-treaters is not non-existent free drugs or razor infused apples, but it is people driving cars. Halloween is the biggest night for pedestrian travel.
Be safe while operating a vehicle, you real life monsters in your rolling murder machines.
Be safe while operating a vehicle, you real life monsters in your rolling murder machines.
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Tomorrow night, the greatest danger to your trick-or-treaters is not non-existent free drugs or razor infused apples, but it is people driving cars. Halloween is the biggest night for pedestrian travel.
Be safe while operating a vehicle, you real life monsters in your rolling murder machines.
Be safe while operating a vehicle, you real life monsters in your rolling murder machines.