Peter Som de Cerff
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@psomdecerff.bsky.social He/Him
Red-state urbanist, sometimes cyclist, walkable city proponent.
Systems engineer, safe systems advocate, rail supporter.
Working collectively to make cities better for people: more housing, more transit, fewer cars!
Red-state urbanist, sometimes cyclist, walkable city proponent.
Systems engineer, safe systems advocate, rail supporter.
Working collectively to make cities better for people: more housing, more transit, fewer cars!
On the one hand, self-driving cars and EVs are only less bad cars.
On the other hand, they are at least less bad.
On the other hand, they are at least less bad.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
On the one hand, self-driving cars and EVs are only less bad cars.
On the other hand, they are at least less bad.
On the other hand, they are at least less bad.
Let's help them build on this momentum and push for better PATH funding and expansion. A new year is coming and it's high time for a strong push with support from newly electeds.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Let's help them build on this momentum and push for better PATH funding and expansion. A new year is coming and it's high time for a strong push with support from newly electeds.
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It’s real! Pretty moving to actually see this in person. 🥲
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It’s real! Pretty moving to actually see this in person. 🥲
**without driving the speed-walkers insane.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
**without driving the speed-walkers insane.
Sneak preview: You';; tell yourself "With the grandkid(s), I'll be super-available and not miss a minute!" But, it turns out, they grow up even faster.
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sneak preview: You';; tell yourself "With the grandkid(s), I'll be super-available and not miss a minute!" But, it turns out, they grow up even faster.
They still can't accept that congestion pricing works....
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
They still can't accept that congestion pricing works....
I’m really happy to see that you won Ward E! And doubly so as an unabashed street safety advocate.
I will support and assist - count me in!
I will support and assist - count me in!
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I’m really happy to see that you won Ward E! And doubly so as an unabashed street safety advocate.
I will support and assist - count me in!
I will support and assist - count me in!
Those of us who support reasonable restrictions on guns AND strong mental health care generally support your statement.
But there is a level of karmic rewards that's hard not to feel.
I won't say more than "how many deaths is too many, for those who support unrestricted guns?".
But there is a level of karmic rewards that's hard not to feel.
I won't say more than "how many deaths is too many, for those who support unrestricted guns?".
September 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Those of us who support reasonable restrictions on guns AND strong mental health care generally support your statement.
But there is a level of karmic rewards that's hard not to feel.
I won't say more than "how many deaths is too many, for those who support unrestricted guns?".
But there is a level of karmic rewards that's hard not to feel.
I won't say more than "how many deaths is too many, for those who support unrestricted guns?".
I'm really glad to see this!
What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.
What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.
June 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm really glad to see this!
What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.
What we also need is to vote out the other councilors from the most car-centric parts of town - like the Heights - in favor of others wouldn't keep voting down reasonable downtown improvements.
...Ford-transit (the small one) minivans, instead of box trucks. Let's not have vehicle deliveries overlapping school commute times. Let's charge Ubers extra to pick up in 'hoods, vs at a nearby major arterial.
Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.
Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
...Ford-transit (the small one) minivans, instead of box trucks. Let's not have vehicle deliveries overlapping school commute times. Let's charge Ubers extra to pick up in 'hoods, vs at a nearby major arterial.
Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.
Let's just make cars into second-class citizens, so humans can go first.
...for a "bus then drive" or a "walk then drive" outbound commute, if needed, and others can drive in for a "park-n-ride" train to NYC. And NOBODY needs to park on neighborhood streets.
Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...
Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
...for a "bus then drive" or a "walk then drive" outbound commute, if needed, and others can drive in for a "park-n-ride" train to NYC. And NOBODY needs to park on neighborhood streets.
Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...
Let's push for smaller delivery vans, like cargo bikes as used in many global cities, or at least the little...
We really don't need $10B spent on a turnpike here. We need a few million spent on bollards, planters, and bulb-outs, and reasonable restrictions on parking and deliveries, and simple enforcement of the laws.
Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...
Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We really don't need $10B spent on a turnpike here. We need a few million spent on bollards, planters, and bulb-outs, and reasonable restrictions on parking and deliveries, and simple enforcement of the laws.
Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...
Better still, spend the $B on a parking garage at the turnpike, where locals can park...
...is the primary commute to work, that a few seconds of convenience for a driver is not worth the lives of our children?
When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?
When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
...is the primary commute to work, that a few seconds of convenience for a driver is not worth the lives of our children?
When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?
When will we decide to simply hold our electeds accountable, and vote out those who offer platitudes, or (worst) victim-blaming, while worshipping cars and elevating drivers?
... teachers, and rabbi, calls to action, and even comments noting that anger is appropriate when our electeds and our communities fail the most vulnerable.
When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...
When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
... teachers, and rabbi, calls to action, and even comments noting that anger is appropriate when our electeds and our communities fail the most vulnerable.
When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...
When will we all decide that here, in a highly diverse global city, where 1/3 do not drive, and 1/3 are car-light, and mass-transit to NYC ...
...halfway between here and the park I take my granddaughter to visit, which is only 8 blocks away.
Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...
Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...
June 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
...halfway between here and the park I take my granddaughter to visit, which is only 8 blocks away.
Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...
Tonight I attended the vigil, with a thousand or two others. I was really happy to not hear "thoughts and prayers" or anything about "too soon", but instead, amidst the remembrances by family, ...
Chaos is not indicative of strength.
June 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Chaos is not indicative of strength.
I thought Iran had only one reactor,tho many nuke-related facilities?
Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?
Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?
June 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I thought Iran had only one reactor,tho many nuke-related facilities?
Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?
Presumably it’s one of the latter, if true at all?
Let’s just use an inherently safe tech and not 1950s light-water weapons-focused reactor designs.
June 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Let’s just use an inherently safe tech and not 1950s light-water weapons-focused reactor designs.
This is at the root of much of the problem, but it's not so much causal as correlated, as part of evolving feedback loops. Western judeo-christians are relative wealthy, and Muslims tend to be poor despite vast resources, esp since extractive-industry wealth tends to promote heavy inequity.
June 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is at the root of much of the problem, but it's not so much causal as correlated, as part of evolving feedback loops. Western judeo-christians are relative wealthy, and Muslims tend to be poor despite vast resources, esp since extractive-industry wealth tends to promote heavy inequity.
...preserving power structures of privilege while thereby ensuring a poor, unempowered underclass which is forever ripe for populist-fueled uprisings and fundamentalist fervor.
If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!
If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!
June 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
...preserving power structures of privilege while thereby ensuring a poor, unempowered underclass which is forever ripe for populist-fueled uprisings and fundamentalist fervor.
If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!
If only all were growth-mindset and collectively focused and not zero-sum selfishly minded!