The article skips this but as a camberville cargo bike parent you absolutely can’t undersell how important the incredibly growth of high quality *protected* bike lanes has been on making this viable for our family: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

I think one can reasonably debate who will be better stewards of these roads, but I will say reducing the number of required agency approvals for critically needed bus and bike lane projects WILL be a positive of this.

We’ve got a plan for that! 🚍❤️

TransLink in Vancouver have such a great comms team working with their bus priority program. I love thid busting the myth of the empty bus lane 🚍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9gj...

This is so gutting, we need so much more transit, orders of magnitude more if we have any hope of mitigating the worst of climate change.

Something very interesting about working on the public side of transit projects is how absolutely essential an understanding of public finance and procurement are for getting anything at all accomplished.

When I was still at Muni about 10 years ago, we got a FOIA from a startup with a similar business model. They wanted our stop-based ridership info and stood up routes along our highest demand corridors.

Sometimes we do know what we’re talking about.

This is hardly an original observation but childcare in the US is the fucking worst.

So the thing about this mandatory US DOT review of unobligated grants is that they are flagging things like equity and GHG reductions as incompatible with Trump admin goals. Those were mandatory elements of many grant applications. You wouldn’t have won without explicit mention of those benefits.

If there is a public policy or a city planning grad student out there looking for a juicy PhD topic, I’ve found it for you: regulations vs. business rules for automated camera enforcement.

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It’s no surprise to see bizarre guidance coming out of Washington but I take particular issue with this NYTimes article where they uncritically present a bunch of nonsense about suburban car-centric policies as “family friendly”: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

Welp the American public is about to learn just how much the Federal government spends on things they’ve never had to think about before.

Thinking about how to not only keep sane but also make material advancements in community and environmental sustainability over the next four years and I’ve got a few thoughts to share.

It’s odd having such exciting local(ish) policy changes kicking in just as the wheels come off things at the national level. I’m just gleeful watching the data on congestion pricing roll in. I’m a kid in a candy shop thinking about camera enforcement in MA.

Happy BNR Phase 1 launch day to all who celebrate! I’m out in Harvard Sq for the new 109 👋🚍❤️