🛑 means stop, even when your child is late for school!

I had to drive somewhere during rush hour and was getting really frustrated with traffic when from the back seat, my precious 5-year-old said, “You should try taking some belly breaths, mommy. That helps me.”

40 units with 0 parking spaces in a highly transit-served location. You simply love to see it.

Date night at an undisclosed location

Bombay Wraps deserves to be as big as Chipotle.

How well is congestion pricing doing? Very.

This is actually insane. If you get *hundreds* of speeding tickets in a year, the state should revoke your license for life, impound your car, and smash it into a tiny cube while you watch.

Many people are saying it.

Send me your urbanist London recs! I want to be inspired by pedestrianized streets, public squares, LTNs, and good bike infrastructure.

LET'S GOOOOO

A Earth Day reminder that cities hold the key to saving the planet. When we live close to each other, we consume fewer resources and emit less pollution per capita. If we grow inward instead of outward, we can build wealth and community while preserving our precious wild places.

Currently visiting London and I found a great school street in Vauxhall with a traffic diverter, lots of seating, felled tree trunks for climbing, cargo bike parking, and plenty of plants and bright colors to create a welcoming atmosphere.

This is my favorite tourist attraction in London. 😍

Not a single blue state here because we make it insanely hard to build housing

I've been thinking a lot lately about trust and how it has deteriorated in our society. It feels like the root to many of our current problems, but I don't know how we can solve it. Does anyone have any good studies, articles, or books on this topic?

Maybe someday, Chicago can aspire to have just one street as nice as the mostly pedestrianized city center in the 5th-largest city in Romania.

🧵/ After allowing former CTA President Dorval Carter to remain in his position despite considerable pushback from transit advocates, a majority of the city council, and Governor JB Pritzker, Mayor Johnson plans to follow up those bad decisions with moving forward with an

On a recent trip to DC, I was very impressed by the Metro, and it was a stark reminder of what the CTA had once been and how far it’s fallen.

If the White Sox continue to suck after this, I think it’s clear that it’s because God hates them.