With reports of ICE agents staking out public transit, LA Metro reports bus ridership has undergone a 15% drop since the beginnings of the deportation raids.

Los Angeles Times

L.A. bus ridership plummets amid fears of immigration arrests

In a videotaped incident in Pasadena, immigration officials took away several people waiting at a bus stop, raising fear that public transit is bei...

June 22, 2025: A Day which will Live in Idiocy.

What's the oldest continuously-running named passenger train in the world? Not the Sunset Limited, or The Orient Express, or even South Africa's Blue Train. It's The Ocean, which has been taking passengers from #Halifax to #Montreal since 1904. I took my family for a ride... 🚂🧵

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well." —Ivan Illich, 1974.

I've got a bad feeling about this. The Narcissist-in-Chief, aware that everyone is mocking him for weakness after his pathetic parade, may do something irrevocable to the people of Iran. I sure hope I'm wrong.

AP News

Intense Israeli strikes hit Tehran after Trump demands 'unconditional surrender'

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran’s capital early Wednesday after it issued a warning about a new area it could target, a day after U.S.

NEW DATA: Car bloat is deadly. Study shows that 10 cm (4 inch) increase in height of hood raises risk of death by 27% for pedestrians, cyclists, other vulnerable road users. 🧵 https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/ever-higher-the-rise-of-bonnet-height-and-the-case-to-cap-it

"Cars make us lonely." —Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, 1981. 🧵

"We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. It's more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given." —Ian Lockwood.

AFTER | BEFORE 🧵 After 4 years, we managed to close the street in front of our kids’ school to cars. Here’s what it looks like today:

We did it! After 4 years of making our case, attending council meetings, and not taking no for an answer, we made the “Rue-École” (School Street) happen! The street in front of two elementary schools in our #Montreal ‘hood is now closed to through traffic. Kids are loving it! 🧵