Dad on the Bike
@measuredworks.bsky.social
Architect turned livable streets advocate. “An encyclopedia of plans and dreams.”
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Zohran Mamdani you must keep the city’s historic bike boom going nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a...
AGENDA 2026: Mayor Mamdani Must Sustain The City's Bike Boom - Streetsblog New York City
The newly christened mayor may have only won a narrow mandate last night, but an ongoing cycling boom gives him maneuverability to build bike lanes.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Zohran Mamdani you must keep the city’s historic bike boom going nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/a...
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The value of #schoolstreets #openstreets #plazas cannot be measured by cranks. But ask children - they know our streets are out of balance. Broadway near UnionSquareNY! #Urbanism
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The value of #schoolstreets #openstreets #plazas cannot be measured by cranks. But ask children - they know our streets are out of balance. Broadway near UnionSquareNY! #Urbanism
Very happy to cast my early vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to be the next mayor of NYC.
October 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Very happy to cast my early vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to be the next mayor of NYC.
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“Kids make mistakes. Kids get distracted. It's our responsibility when designing cities to think, what is that child's experience and how do I ensure what I'm doing will have a positive impact. as opposed to putting the burden on their caregiver to ensure they're safe.”
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Kids make mistakes. Kids get distracted. It's our responsibility when designing cities to think, what is that child's experience and how do I ensure what I'm doing will have a positive impact. as opposed to putting the burden on their caregiver to ensure they're safe.”
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
Pumpkin on a @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social in Central Park
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Pumpkin on a @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social in Central Park
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I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
unevenearth.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
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Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.
Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?
My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?
My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.
A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.
www.bloomberg.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.
Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?
My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?
My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)
Gale Brewer’s sudden reversal of support for universal daylighting is supposedly not about preserving a few free parking spaces, but all evidence suggests otherwise.
“You can’t tell me a parking space at the corner of a street is worth a life.”
Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.
Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Gale Brewer’s sudden reversal of support for universal daylighting is supposedly not about preserving a few free parking spaces, but all evidence suggests otherwise.
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What if New York City’s restaurants and bars didn’t have to pack up their curbside outdoor dining set-ups at the end of November? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/10/f...
Friday's Headlines: Refining Outdoor Dining Edition - Streetsblog New York City
Council Member Lincoln Restler wants to bring back year-round outdoor dining back to New York City. Plus more news.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
What if New York City’s restaurants and bars didn’t have to pack up their curbside outdoor dining set-ups at the end of November? nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/10/f...
"The Waymo Driver is generalizing well" 🤖💀
The only thing that makes this dystopian hell inevitable is acting like it's inevitable. There is no reason @nyc-dot.bsky.social needs to accept & encourage robot cars in our communities.
Maybe let's go all in designing NYC streets for people instead?
The only thing that makes this dystopian hell inevitable is acting like it's inevitable. There is no reason @nyc-dot.bsky.social needs to accept & encourage robot cars in our communities.
Maybe let's go all in designing NYC streets for people instead?
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"The Waymo Driver is generalizing well" 🤖💀
The only thing that makes this dystopian hell inevitable is acting like it's inevitable. There is no reason @nyc-dot.bsky.social needs to accept & encourage robot cars in our communities.
Maybe let's go all in designing NYC streets for people instead?
The only thing that makes this dystopian hell inevitable is acting like it's inevitable. There is no reason @nyc-dot.bsky.social needs to accept & encourage robot cars in our communities.
Maybe let's go all in designing NYC streets for people instead?
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I actually agree with Jimmy Nederlander about bike lanes in Times Square but not in the way he means it. We shouldn't have narrow bike lanes along the curbs near Broadway theaters. What we should do is completely ban cars from most of the theater district.
variety.com/2025/legit/n...
variety.com/2025/legit/n...
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I actually agree with Jimmy Nederlander about bike lanes in Times Square but not in the way he means it. We shouldn't have narrow bike lanes along the curbs near Broadway theaters. What we should do is completely ban cars from most of the theater district.
variety.com/2025/legit/n...
variety.com/2025/legit/n...
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New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
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September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New episode up! We talked with researcher Tim Gill about how we need to make our cities safe for children, not cars. "Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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@nyc-dot.bsky.social is making up math here. There are roughly 300 intersections on the UWS or ~2,400 potential daylighting spots, many of which are already bus stops or fire hydrants.
@galeabrewer.bsky.social got some bad information.
Why are we bean counting street safety in the first place?
@galeabrewer.bsky.social got some bad information.
Why are we bean counting street safety in the first place?
DOT's crusade against a Council bill for universal daylighting was able to peel off support by Council Member Gale Brewer, after agency officials told her it would remove 13,000 parking spots in her Upper West Side district. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/30/g...
Gale's A-Blowin': Brewer Abandons Daylighting Bill After Push By Parking-First DOT - Streetsblog New York City
DOT's anti-daylighting "scare tactics" have peeled off Council Member Gale Brewer, who says the policy will gobble up too many parking spots.
nyc.streetsblog.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@nyc-dot.bsky.social is making up math here. There are roughly 300 intersections on the UWS or ~2,400 potential daylighting spots, many of which are already bus stops or fire hydrants.
@galeabrewer.bsky.social got some bad information.
Why are we bean counting street safety in the first place?
@galeabrewer.bsky.social got some bad information.
Why are we bean counting street safety in the first place?
New York isn’t Amsterdam, they said.
September 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New York isn’t Amsterdam, they said.
More than two dozen bikes at drop-off every day this week at my kid’s school. You love to see it.
Our next mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should give @nyc-dot.bsky.social a mandate to quickly transform NYC into the safest city in North America for kids to bike. The demand is there & growing.
Our next mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should give @nyc-dot.bsky.social a mandate to quickly transform NYC into the safest city in North America for kids to bike. The demand is there & growing.
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
More than two dozen bikes at drop-off every day this week at my kid’s school. You love to see it.
Our next mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should give @nyc-dot.bsky.social a mandate to quickly transform NYC into the safest city in North America for kids to bike. The demand is there & growing.
Our next mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social should give @nyc-dot.bsky.social a mandate to quickly transform NYC into the safest city in North America for kids to bike. The demand is there & growing.
The dysfunction of NYC's streets in one photo.
Private cars get the majority of space while everyone else (including bus riders) fight over what's left. Let's hope mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social takes up this issue with the urgency and at the scale that's needed (see: Anne Hidalgo/Paris).
Private cars get the majority of space while everyone else (including bus riders) fight over what's left. Let's hope mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social takes up this issue with the urgency and at the scale that's needed (see: Anne Hidalgo/Paris).
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The dysfunction of NYC's streets in one photo.
Private cars get the majority of space while everyone else (including bus riders) fight over what's left. Let's hope mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social takes up this issue with the urgency and at the scale that's needed (see: Anne Hidalgo/Paris).
Private cars get the majority of space while everyone else (including bus riders) fight over what's left. Let's hope mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social takes up this issue with the urgency and at the scale that's needed (see: Anne Hidalgo/Paris).
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We expect more from CM @galeabrewer.bsky.social than this.
There are ways to make the UWS more appealing for families and more livable for everyone. Continuing to fight over every single free parking space ain’t one of them. That’s the kind of thing that’s actually chasing families out of NYC.
There are ways to make the UWS more appealing for families and more livable for everyone. Continuing to fight over every single free parking space ain’t one of them. That’s the kind of thing that’s actually chasing families out of NYC.
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We expect more from CM @galeabrewer.bsky.social than this.
There are ways to make the UWS more appealing for families and more livable for everyone. Continuing to fight over every single free parking space ain’t one of them. That’s the kind of thing that’s actually chasing families out of NYC.
There are ways to make the UWS more appealing for families and more livable for everyone. Continuing to fight over every single free parking space ain’t one of them. That’s the kind of thing that’s actually chasing families out of NYC.
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Street improvements aren’t a popularity contest decided by who screams the loudest and most often.
Letting a tiny minority hold the curb hostage because they want to keep getting something for free should be embarrassing for a progressive politician in 2025.
Letting a tiny minority hold the curb hostage because they want to keep getting something for free should be embarrassing for a progressive politician in 2025.
August 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Street improvements aren’t a popularity contest decided by who screams the loudest and most often.
Letting a tiny minority hold the curb hostage because they want to keep getting something for free should be embarrassing for a progressive politician in 2025.
Letting a tiny minority hold the curb hostage because they want to keep getting something for free should be embarrassing for a progressive politician in 2025.
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The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵
August 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵
My most memorable parking story is that time they repaved my street in Brooklyn and there were no cars parked on it for a couple days and we met a bunch neighbors across the street who we had never talked to before because the cars had always been in the way.
August 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My most memorable parking story is that time they repaved my street in Brooklyn and there were no cars parked on it for a couple days and we met a bunch neighbors across the street who we had never talked to before because the cars had always been in the way.
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It takes about half an hour to get used to it. And less than that to ask: “Why the fuck can’t people have this everywhere?”
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman
In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.
www.newyorker.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It takes about half an hour to get used to it. And less than that to ask: “Why the fuck can’t people have this everywhere?”
Note to @nyc-dot.bsky.social pedestrian signal is damaged at La Salle & Amsterdam
August 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Note to @nyc-dot.bsky.social pedestrian signal is damaged at La Salle & Amsterdam
My son loved this book when he was younger, and we loved reading it with him.
Fauja Singh Keeps Going by Simran Jeet Singh: 9780525555094 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The true story of Fauja Singh, who broke world records to become the first one hundred-year-old to run a marathon, shares valuable lessons on the source of his grit, determination to overcome obstacle...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My son loved this book when he was younger, and we loved reading it with him.
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Neighborhood streets, where kids used to just tool around on bikes, haven’t changed. But what probably has changed is the kid’s friend’s dad, who lives next door, likes to drive his SUV fast and thinks people shouldn’t be in the street.
Walk down a quiet American street a few decades ago, and chances were good that you’d come across a vision of the Spielbergian sort: a gaggle of school-age children charging down the block on bikes, armed with a steely sense of purpose, and without any protective headwear. +
A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Neighborhood streets, where kids used to just tool around on bikes, haven’t changed. But what probably has changed is the kid’s friend’s dad, who lives next door, likes to drive his SUV fast and thinks people shouldn’t be in the street.