Spokane's alt-weekly, , interviewed me about SpokAT, the local active transportation advocacy group that I founded and currently chair. Check it out!
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Tweets about active transportation, Spokane WA, and sensible land use. Founder and chair, SpokAT.org.
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It's pretty simple: provide car-free blocks on commercial corridors in major cities, and people will show up. Imagine if we put a *protected* bike lane on NE 28th. :)
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👀 You really love to see it.
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Holy mobility, Batman. Have you LOOKED at the WSDOT multimodal dashboard lately? Walk/bike really rose in 2020 as compared with 2019--and then it rose more in 2021. Dashboard shows you 2020 + 2021 over 2019 baseline wsdot.wa.gov/about/covid-19 #WSDOTactive
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The greatest thing about this is putting the sign in the middle of the street where drivers will actually see it.
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If you're a driver & kids doing wheelies makes you nervous, I have some advice.
Remind yourself you are driving what is essentially a tank. Cars are the number one cause of injury deaths for US kids.
Slow to a stop & wait 2 mins for them to pass. Give a 👍 out the window.
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If your state’s climate plan leans heavily on “and everybody buys a new electric car” it’s not a serious climate plan.
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Great but I biked to the grocery store today and they had new electric vehicle charging stations and zero bicycle parking.
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Picture it: American workers building quality, affordable EVs, installing 500,000 charging stations, and electrifying 20% of our yellow school buses.
That's not some far-off future. That's the American Jobs Plan.
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I didn't become a cycling activist out of a unique passion for bikes, I became one out of a very basic need for survival
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Why don't more students cycle to school?
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I can’t protest anymore. The police won. And that defeat hurts so much, I feel like I failed. I went from the fearless kid at the front with a megaphone to the thought of a flash bang keeping me up. All that time in jail, batons, watching my friends bleed, the chaos and screams.
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Are you a resident in Spokane County without access to transit? If so, Mobility Management wants to learn about your needs. They are hosting a Transportation Community Forum on May 10 to learn about community needs and gaps in service. Learn more at:
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Pedalpalooza 2021 is on! This year we're going to promote three whole months of fun on two wheels in a reprise of BIKE SUMMER. Start listing your rides in June, July, & August on the calendar now. #pedalpaloozapdx #pedalpalooza #shift #shift2bikes #bikefun #portland
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Older folks: “Why don’t kids go outside anymore?”
The outside they built:
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One crazy paradigm I think about a lot is the one where older people constantly talk about how they used to play in the street all the time, but then are unable to connect the dots as to why that's not a thing anymore.
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LOCAL POLITICIAN: I declare a climate emergency!
ME: Right on! Let’s build bike lanes to reduce auto emotions!
LOCAL POLITICIAN: no
ME: Okay, what about dense infill housing?
LOCAL POLITICIAN: also no
ME: ...reduce parking minimums?
LOCAL POLITICIAN: also...also no
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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost!!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane?
City: No, we’ll lose parking spots.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateEmergencyWeek
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Did your parents drive you to school? I took the freaking bus or I walked. I know I sound like an old person but it's true.
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has launched a survey to gather public input about the proposed alignment of the Fish Lake Trail-Centennial Trail Connection. surveymonkey.com/r/YCPNSNZ
Learn more about the project at my.spokanecity.org/projects/fish-
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Safe streets for all means a person biking should be able to get around without fear of traffic violence. Safe streets for all means BIPOC should be able to get around without fear of police violence. When we say safe streets for everyone, it's safer roads and so much more, too.
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We are calling for a pause on all car manufacturing and driving after discovering that 40,000 Americans are killed in automobile crashes each year.
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WSDOT Secretary: “Highway expansion cannot and will not keep up with growth, but we can make game-changing investments, like #highspeedrail.”
Biden administration: “I want to US to be the world leader in high speed rail.”
WA State legislators:🛣🚗🚙🚗🚙
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From the industry that brought you the terms "jaywalking" and "pedtextrian" comes whatever the fuck this is.
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Check out how the smart screen inside the Sony Vision-S looks like in this video taken during a test drive. 
Find more at bit.ly/30OWbEp
fujiwarahiroshi / Instagram
#engineering
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#engineering
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New proposition, any street where a crash kills someone should have speed limits dropped to 10mph -- as a sign of respect and as a reminder that all this carnage is because we choose speed over safety.
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Let me be clear: American highways were too often built through Black neighborhoods on purpose—dividing communities, adding pollution, and making pedestrians less safe.
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Do you ever wonder what the subject of your last tweet will be? This was this gentleman’s last. Soon after he was struck and killed by a driver while Jim was riding his bike.
Folks are saying Jim was passionate about cities and urbanism, and about safer design for people.
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Had to bike through a roundabout over a highway to get my Covid jab. Lifespan maximization function is clearly perfectly well-calibrated.
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Our transportation secretary has said a lot about the racism built into this country's roadways but today would be a good day to say something about the racism built into the enforcement of this country's traffic laws
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Wow. France just banned domestic flights between cities <2.5 hours away by train.
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Every city should do this.
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.@AldermanLaSpata introduced an ordinance to replace all references to traffic "accidents" in the Chicago Municipal Code with "crashes."
chi.streetsblog.org/2021/04/05/las
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Part of the problem for passionate pro-housing reformers is they often frame allowing more dense development as more regulation -- instead of, more accurately, as more deregulation and freedom.
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Job: Help me find a new colleague! Pls RT. humantransit.org/2021/03/job-2.
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Every city needs a “Climate Commission” that can pick apart plans with the same level of excruciating minutia as Historic Preservation and Design Review Commissions.
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Spokane is no different than most any Washington cities. Zoned almost 70% exclusively for land hogging single family homes
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Spokane is not all too different from the Seattle area. That’s a lot of single-family zoning. Is it any surprise that there might be a housing crisis? twitter.com/PedestrianMan/…
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:BIG NEWS:
No More Freeways, , file lawsuit to challenge 's $800 Million Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion in the backyard of Harriet Tubman Middle School.
See you in court, ODOT.
nomorefreewayspdx.com/2021/04/05/law
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This question has an easy answer.
To most of our city’s leadership class, this isn’t a crisis—it’s a huge economic boon from which they are directly profiting.
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How the hell did Joe Biden get greener than WA state on transportation policy? you gonna take that?
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This House proposal includes $800 million for US 2 trestle, $1B for the I-5 bridge, $413 million for widening SR3 in Gorst, $500 million for widening SR18 near Tiger Mountain, and $204 million for I-5 widening near Nisqually. leap.leg.wa.gov/leap/Budget/De
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SPOKANE CLIMATE ACTION ALERT: Ask to vote YES on the new ordinance updating our climate pollution targets for the #CityOfSpokane! actionnetwork.org/letters/climat
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You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you're living in.
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