Matt Caywood
@mattcaywood.com
Urban transportation. "I don't think you solve town planning problems by dropping bombs all over the place, he's embarrassed himself there."
I need a mariachi band covering Massive Attack: “Mexxanine”
October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I need a mariachi band covering Massive Attack: “Mexxanine”
Highbearscalers unite
Build-A-Bear Stock Outperforms Nvidia
https://theonion.com/build-a-bear-stock-outperforms-nvidia/
https://theonion.com/build-a-bear-stock-outperforms-nvidia/
September 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Highbearscalers unite
DC kills outdoor streatery spaces by charging a ridiculous $20 per square foot. Surely sales tax revenue makes up for whatever parking revenue was being lost - this is the wrong direction. @cmfrumin.bsky.social @brianneknadeau.bsky.social
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‘Time to say goodbye’: Outdoor dining will soon look different in DC - WTOP News
Downtown D.C. will see a reduction in outdoor dining as the city phases out its Temporary Streatery Program.
wtop.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
DC kills outdoor streatery spaces by charging a ridiculous $20 per square foot. Surely sales tax revenue makes up for whatever parking revenue was being lost - this is the wrong direction. @cmfrumin.bsky.social @brianneknadeau.bsky.social
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wtop.com/dc/2025/09/t...
93% of Bitcoin ATM transactions are fraud, average age is 71, average loss $8000, according to @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social filing. Get the #AARP on this.
NEW: Bitcoin ATMs are facilitating scams across the country. In Idaho, where there are no laws regulating the machines, I spoke to store clerks who have been stopping scams as a last line of defense.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/cry...
How Bitcoin ATMs Are Helping Scammers Steal Millions
As Bitcoin ATMs spread unchecked, gas station employees are becoming the unlikely the last line of defense against crypto fraud.
www.inc.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
93% of Bitcoin ATM transactions are fraud, average age is 71, average loss $8000, according to @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social filing. Get the #AARP on this.
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DC so unsafe that 19.7% more people rode CaBi in July than in 2024 ggwash.org/view/100635/...
Bikeshare Beat: Over 700K rides in July, over 4 million in 2025
Capital Bikeshare recorded 705,343 trips in July, an increase of 19.7% from July 2024. Annual ridership in 2025 is up 27.1% from the same time 2024.
ggwash.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
DC so unsafe that 19.7% more people rode CaBi in July than in 2024 ggwash.org/view/100635/...
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Join us at the 82 Alliance Conference in Nashville, TN on November 12-13! Hear from Matt Brooker, Automotus and Matt Caywood, Actionfigure on AI and Transportation! See the full list of panels and register today! vist.ly/434pd
August 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Join us at the 82 Alliance Conference in Nashville, TN on November 12-13! Hear from Matt Brooker, Automotus and Matt Caywood, Actionfigure on AI and Transportation! See the full list of panels and register today! vist.ly/434pd
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The @rpa.org was exactly right in proposing Triboro-RX (now IBX). Next-up should be the RER like T-Rex system that would vastly change the metro area by enabling people to live farther from Manhattan than ever before by turning commuter rail network into a regional metro.
August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The @rpa.org was exactly right in proposing Triboro-RX (now IBX). Next-up should be the RER like T-Rex system that would vastly change the metro area by enabling people to live farther from Manhattan than ever before by turning commuter rail network into a regional metro.
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only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago
July 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago
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A new survey found that biking is down -- way down -- among kids 7-17 over the last 30 years.
"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "
Yup.
"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "
Yup.
A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A new survey found that biking is down -- way down -- among kids 7-17 over the last 30 years.
"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "
Yup.
"By adding more bike-friendly infrastructure—lower traffic speeds, separated bike lanes, calmer intersections—local governments could encourage children and other residents to start riding again. "
Yup.
Weaving is a refreshingly bizarre #datavisualization technique. Almost visualize 4 variables in one map! Hard to see correlations though
A new SofC map represents modes of travel – car, transit, walking, cycling – across Toronto neighbourhoods using weaving space, a Python library that visualizes multiple variables in a single map by weaving them together with a variety of pattern options schoolofcities.githu...
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Weaving is a refreshingly bizarre #datavisualization technique. Almost visualize 4 variables in one map! Hard to see correlations though
Well deserved. Just from the customer’s point of view - @wmata.com let us tap in with credit cards, restored automatic train operation, and rolled out secure fare gates - all in the last year.
BREAKING: Honored to report @apta-info.bsky.social names @wmata.com as Outstanding Public Transportation Agency. I’m so proud & thxful for our board, 13k staff & partners who are being recognized for all their incredible hard work serving our community! Congrats 🎉 t.co/lHHy3cqDSc
https://aptapassengertransport.com/apta-announces-2025-public-transportation-awards-hall-of-fame-winners/
t.co
June 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Well deserved. Just from the customer’s point of view - @wmata.com let us tap in with credit cards, restored automatic train operation, and rolled out secure fare gates - all in the last year.
“Bergen County and Hudson County, congestion pricing was responsible for cutting time spent in traffic by 14 percent and 12.8 percent respectively” 🔜 NJ stops suing NYC for fixing their problems?
Good data alert nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/18/c...
Congestion Pricing Is Cutting Traffic Jams In New York AND New Jersey: Research - Streetsblog New York City
Travelers in Manhattan's central business district — and even those far beyond it — have gotten back tens of thousands of hours thanks to fewer traffic jams.
nyc.streetsblog.org
June 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Bergen County and Hudson County, congestion pricing was responsible for cutting time spent in traffic by 14 percent and 12.8 percent respectively” 🔜 NJ stops suing NYC for fixing their problems?
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I’m legit impressed by this. Pittsburgh has lowered traffic deaths for four years straight www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/15/p...
Pittsburgh reduces fatal crashes, serious injuries for fourth year as city touts 'calming' traffic projects - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Pittsburgh has concrete numbers to show its efforts to slow traffic and improve road safety are working. The city released statistics last week that show total crashes, fatalities and serious injuries...
www.unionprogress.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’m legit impressed by this. Pittsburgh has lowered traffic deaths for four years straight www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/15/p...
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a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane
Alt: a yellow sign that says under construction hangs from a crane
media.tenor.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Back to the future! A whole generation of riders have missed out on the smooth grooves of ATO
Metro is launching Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines this Sunday, enhancing safety, reliability, and efficiency!
This marks the first time the entire Metrorail system will be in automatic mode since 2009.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
This marks the first time the entire Metrorail system will be in automatic mode since 2009.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
June 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Back to the future! A whole generation of riders have missed out on the smooth grooves of ATO
This site is Under Construction, gifcities.org/search?q=Con...
June 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This site is Under Construction, gifcities.org/search?q=Con...
Fantastic short history of the immigrant tech entrepreneurs who started today’s luxury watch industry
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Fantastic short history of the immigrant tech entrepreneurs who started today’s luxury watch industry
This “R&D disincentive” was amazingly stupid, hard to believe it hasn’t been repealed yet. Big tech companies didn’t fight for R&D as hard as expected.
This article links tech layoffs that started in 2022 to a Section 174 change in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which ended immediate R&D write-offs.
The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.
The assumption was companies using savings from the tax cuts to cover the increased tax bill on R&D spending. Instead they’ve cut headcount.
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
qz.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This “R&D disincentive” was amazingly stupid, hard to believe it hasn’t been repealed yet. Big tech companies didn’t fight for R&D as hard as expected.
Amazing. Vertical transportation carries more people than all other transportation, but as usual, America is in last place. Build more apartments and houses!
it's sort of amazing that the abundance bros never seem to acknowledge one reason we can't have nice things is because our building standards and codes are voted on largely by anti-urban ruralists and suburbanists... our urban land use is dictated by homeowners and landlords
take the lowly elevator
take the lowly elevator
June 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Amazing. Vertical transportation carries more people than all other transportation, but as usual, America is in last place. Build more apartments and houses!
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Washington DC now officially has the strongest post-pandemic transit ridership recovery of any metro area in the United States, recently beating out New York City!!
June 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Washington DC now officially has the strongest post-pandemic transit ridership recovery of any metro area in the United States, recently beating out New York City!!
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Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
May 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
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Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year
How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very.
One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.
www.curbed.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing:
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year
- Complaints about car-honking are down 70%
- The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48%
- 6 million fewer cars
- Half as many traffic-related injuries
- 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year
Mountaineering site SummitPost covers the whole solar system www.summitpost.org/olympus-mons...
Olympus Mons : Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering : SummitPost
Olympus Mons : SummitPost.org : Climbing, hiking, mountaineering
www.summitpost.org
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Mountaineering site SummitPost covers the whole solar system www.summitpost.org/olympus-mons...
Is it just me or did they completely break the IRS FIRE system for filing business returns? Can't log in, can't reset password, can't create account
February 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Is it just me or did they completely break the IRS FIRE system for filing business returns? Can't log in, can't reset password, can't create account
What’s the best way to get an ad-free Super Bowl tomorrow? Planning to use YouTubeTV as a DVR, are there other streams that are completely ad free?
February 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What’s the best way to get an ad-free Super Bowl tomorrow? Planning to use YouTubeTV as a DVR, are there other streams that are completely ad free?