What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
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Portland: I'm quoted in @wweek.com today on the budget crisis at our transit agency @trimet.org. Big service cuts coming in a city that used to be proud of its public transit.
www.wweek.com/news/2026/06...
In Portland, the Mayor has suggested using the "clean energy fund" to bribe our basketball team to not leave town. Meanwhile, our transit system is facing dire service cuts.
opb.org/article/2026...
Sounds like fun, with my smart friend @humantransit.bsky.social. #UrbanistShoutOut
Hang out with me drawing colored lines on maps! Our “inexcusably fun” 2 day intensive course in public transit network design comes to Portland July 30-31 and Chicago Oct 1-2. Please share!
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A distressing pattern has begun to emerge which is to view that not having regressive taxes (and therefore not fund gov't or its programs) is preferable to having them and maintaining services.
A desperate country cries out for tax reform and we're met with status quo or no taxes, nothing else
There are good arguments from both the left and right that professional sports franchises in North America (because this is a Canadian problem as well), with their incessant demands for public funds, are leeches who take far more from local regions than they ever give back.
Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker
Brent Toderian
Jarrett Walker
Last day to get @humantransit.bsky.social 's Human Transt and If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy for under $35 at the @princetonupress.bsky.social & @islandpress.bsky.social spring sale
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We’re delighted to announce two new sessions of our “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in public transit network design. This course, which we at Jarrett Walker + Associates have been teachin...
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Here’s a refresher on how and why the city’s playing an active role in negotiations and how the public can get involved.
As the agency trims services, close observers worry the quality of Portland public transit could erode for the long haul.
www.wweek.com
Hang out with me drawing colored lines on maps! Our “inexcusably fun” 2 day intensive course in public transit network design comes to Portland July 30-31 and Chicago Oct 1-2. Please share!
humantransit.org/2026/05/new-...
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Steve Fanning
In Portland, the Mayor has suggested using the "clean energy fund" to bribe our basketball team to not leave town. Meanwhile, our transit system is facing dire service cuts.
opb.org/article/2026...
An updated and expanded new edition of an acclaimed book about how to make public transportation work better for everyone
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Carter Lavin
“America does an excellent job generating wealth & a poor job translating that wealth into things we value. For example, the State of the Nation Project says the U.S. performs better than 98% of countries worldwide in economic output, but better than only 57% of nations in child mortality…”
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We’re delighted to announce two new sessions of our “inexcusably fun” two-day intensive course in public transit network design. This course, which we at Jarrett Walker + Associates have been teachin...
Portland: I'm quoted in @wweek.com today on the budget crisis at our transit agency @trimet.org. Big service cuts coming in a city that used to be proud of its public transit.
www.wweek.com/news/2026/06...
In Portland, the Mayor has suggested using the "clean energy fund" to bribe our basketball team to not leave town. Meanwhile, our transit system is facing dire service cuts.
opb.org/article/2026...
Jarrett Walker
Here’s a refresher on how and why the city’s playing an active role in negotiations and how the public can get involved.
In Portland, the Mayor has suggested using the "clean energy fund" to bribe our basketball team to not leave town. Meanwhile, our transit system is facing dire service cuts.
opb.org/article/2026...
Patrick Siegman
In Portland, the Mayor has suggested using the "clean energy fund" to bribe our basketball team to not leave town. Meanwhile, our transit system is facing dire service cuts.
opb.org/article/2026...
Here’s a refresher on how and why the city’s playing an active role in negotiations and how the public can get involved.
