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Watch Montreal's REM transit system development, which is working to deliver automated light rail cost effectively in ways that should be replicable in American cities rem.info/en/reseau-ex...

Eat. Quebecois and more recent Quebec immigrant food is extraordinary and often served in ways more delightfully sociable than common in the US

Yes, learn your French pleasantries and begin and end every conservation in your tragic French. Their English is better than your French, and they will rescue you if you honor their unique culture by starting in French

Unlike Europe, Quebec's cities have a familiar North American layout and more comparable institutions. With deep ties to France, they've mastered how to adapt European best practices in ways meaningful to any North American city

Stop going to Europe for inspiration about making US cities better. Go to Quebec.

Bay Area transit advocates are leading the charge to save BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit from dire service cuts. To hone your advocacy skills join this free training Aug 5 at @spur-urbanist.bsky.social @transitcenter.bsky.social luma.com/m78g9xyz

Parsley is growing faster than we can keep up, so husband made pesto, and now I'm putting earthy fragrant parsley pesto on everything

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

One reason productive dialogue on social media is virtually impossible is that productive dialogue requires at least some minimal understanding of context & intention & on these hell sites we all encounter one another as free-floating snippets, which cannot possibly contain that information.

Kids love the line of crocheted snails carrying YOU ARE AWESOME signs, unbothered by snails' lack of appendages and apparent inebriation

Husband added new crocheted creatures to street trees on our block and the neighborhood kids are now trying to find them all

They just disrupted the transportation sector

We live in the stupidest timeline

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Sidewalk poppy

@mayorwu.boston.gov Outlines a New Street Safety Agenda in the Wake of Louisa Gag’s Killing: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/24/m...

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

SF transit nerds are leading on local and regional funding measures and thinking about a better future

Look closely. The USA is the only rich country where the risk of dying in a crash rose from 2010-23. From a new paper in The Lancet exploring trends in global road deaths (open access): www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...