"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot."

This should be part of every mayoral oath of office.

via xitter/yt @wef

HT LinkedIn Marco Te Brömmelstroet

Very cool to see walkable cities being one of the top reasons (#4 on her list) this woman cites as to why she left the US and moved to Norway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVwlDYk6l8

I'm sure @notjustbikes can understand :D

Podcasts!

Strong Towns: https://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/3-reasons-this-is-a-great-time-for-walkable-streets/

Up Zoned: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/5025/4/9/upzonedpod-will-trumps-plan-to-privatize-mortgages-fix-the-housing-market

The Bottom Up Revolution: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/4/10/will-mccollum-bottom-up

Enjoy!

The Big Box CEOs of the US want to extract *wealth* from you, not just a reasonable profit, and that requires scale. It represents all that's wrong with American culture and the economy.

Link: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/3/19/upzonedpod-can-we-take-community-wealth-back-from-walmart-and-kroger

And is it a good idea to be 10 miles from the nearest grocery store in a disaster or emergency? Or when gas becomes $15 a gallon? No.

Resilience means duplication - lots of it. Stores in every neighborhood.

Several bills that can affect active transportation are still alive in the 2025 WA legislative session. How to follow them https://bikestylelife.com/2025/01/12/actions-you-can-take-for-active-transportation-following-a-bill/ and a list https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WADOT/bulletins/3d6db0f.

Interested in #walkability?
Attending #AGILE2025?

Join our workshop on June 10 to explore methods in walkability and pedestrian accessibility assessment.

Submission deadline to present your own research: 31 Mar 2025
Info: https://heigit.org/events/call-for-participation-walking-the-x-min-city-methods-and-implementations-to-assess-walkability-and-pedestrian-accessibility-workshop-at-the-agile-conference/

Hey Toronto! Make good trouble. I wish I could join you (but I'm in Madagascar).

HT Reddit u/Marslettuce

Strong Towns Presents:

The Housing Ready City
A Toolkit for Local Code Reform

Link: https://www.strongtowns.org/housingready

What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?

"Paris, for example, already ranks well: it takes most Parisians just eight minutes, on average, to reach key amenities on foot, and 93% of them live in 15-minute neighbourhoods. But the authors developed an algorithm to determine how the city’s current amenities could be moved in order to further improve its walkability "

https://archive.ph/n4Dpl#selection-507.0-507.61

Washingtonians who walk and roll, please add your names to this petition as "PRO" for HB 1518 that presumes liability whenever a motorist strikes a pedestrian or cyclist!

This bill is very important to me and the more we get these numbers up the better chances we will have during the upcoming hearing.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=House&mId=32689&aId=162747&caId=25369&tId=3

The Rosa Parks of Jaywalking

On This Day 100 years ago: Electra Lynne was arrested for violating LA's newly enacted traffic ordinance that prioritized cars over people.

HT LinkedIn Peter Norton
Attn @notjustbikes

Climate solutions from Specter.

HT Lemmy u/maxalmonte14@lemmy.world

The intersection of 10th and Monroe in Atlanta is being redone and will be way better for bikes and peds. However, they installed this screen/kiosk and it completely blocks the view of the road for pedestrians waiting to cross. Is this a big safety issue or am I over-reacting? A high school student on a bicycle was killed by a driver at this intersection a few years ago. #walkability #urbanism #accessibility #Atlanta #Beltline

Beltline walk early on a chilly Sunday morning. #Atlanta #Beltline #walkability #urbanism

I wish I didn't have to walk on the streets with the traffic, but the sidewalks are slippery as fuck and skidding/slipping/bracing undoes all my physio and cripples me up for weeks. #walking #Walkability