Celebrating my 19th wedding anniversary with my wife. We're currently up near Bangor, Maine (for an unrelated memorial service for a family member), and this is the view from my hotel.
“some people are made important by their work while others are made untouchable by theirs, and boy do most of us get it backwards on which is which” WHEW
A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes.
Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities.
RIP Riley O’Neil.
It's amazing how many posts and stories like this you see. E-bikes are revolutionizing transportation, enabling people to go more places without cars, and there's an all-out assault to kill them.
Tell Cambridge City Council not to turn back the clock and reinstate anachronistic parking mandates tonight! www.abettercambridge.org/multifamily_...
"moving people slowly is moving people safely" is a core part of the presentation of every street safety project in Cambridge, and I stand by that perspective when looking to how we should design city streets.
solar over new surface parking lots is more expensive than solar on the ground, and this is good because it discourages new surface parking lots.
Solar over *existing* surface lots is less good because it discourages redevelopment to better use, which is what most surface parking should be.
Some people park a car in their driveway, but Ichabod would rather see you park 10 bikes with a carrying capacity of 23 people.
This is part of the fleet of bikes we’ll be loaning out today to help families learn whether e-bikes are the right answer for their transportation needs!
my "Wellesley has a strong and well-established record of supporting housing production and affordability" Select Board has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my Select Board
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/10/b...
‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’
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The town of around 30,000 this week sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over its plan to develop 180 homes on a parking lot owned by MassBay Community College.
Counterpoint: they're not, they're an inefficient way of raising the cost of parking lots which would be better accomplished by removing parking minimums/requirements or outright Pigouvian taxes on surface parking.
No parking minimums/parking maximums > solar over parking > status quo
Solar canopies over car lots are a terrible idea relative to just sticking them in a field somewhere but it is an idea that will never ever ever die because it’s like catnip for boomers
"France passed a single law and instantly unlocked 11 gigawatts of #solarenergy — without using new land. In 2023, France's government mandated solar canopies over all car parks larger than 80 spaces. The scale was enormous: There are 400,000 parking areas across France #ActOnClimate #Renewables
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Montreal, Edmonton, Cambridge, Portland, Missoula, Buffalo, Denver, Minneapolis, Austin, Kansas City, Vancouver and Toronto are just some of the hundreds of North American cities that have eliminated arbitrary, minimum parking requirements.
Jonathan Berk 🏠
Your city doesn't owe you a speedy commute, it owes you a safe commute.
Every speedy commute your city built for people in cars is a deadly commute for people outside of them.
#WindshieldBias
