Patrick Traughber
Patrick Traughber

Patrick Traughber

Raised in California. Berkeley grad. Product manager at Twitter.

Editor of Improving our cities and Predicting the future
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Some of my favorite online and free data sources

After this prompt from Steve McClelland, my former manager at Twitter now teaching the innovation and entrepreneurship program at Duke…

Apr 7 · 3 min read

Proposal: Streets for safe social distancing

On Monday March 16th, our San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a public health order requiring residents stay at home except for…

Mar 21 · 5 min read

Why doesn’t Amtrak run an overnight train between San Francisco and Los Angeles?

The flight route between San Francisco and Los Angeles is the second busiest flight route in the United States. And by number of flights…

Jun 7, 2016 · 2 min read

Joining Twitter

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined the product team at Twitter! This is my second week.

May 2, 2016 · 2 min read

10 people to follow on Twitter on urban transportation

Those who know me know I love many things but two in particular: Twitter, and reading about transportation. Specifically urban…

Mar 5, 2016 · 4 min read

Car alarms are useless and don’t belong in our cities

They’re distracting us, keeping us awake, damaging our hearing, and they don’t even work

Nov 4, 2015 · 3 min read

Turkey Data

Impress your family tomorrow with these bird facts

Nov 26, 2014 · 4 min read

By The Numbers: Rush Hours on Market Street

A timelapse from one of San Francisco’s busiest streets.

Oct 27, 2014 · 2 min read

Split

The Great Corporate Unbundling of 2014

Oct 9, 2014 · 1 min read

Bicycle lanes from around the world

The view from the streets. 

Oct 18, 2013 · 3 min read

San Francisco’s inadequately designed streets

There are consequences.

Oct 18, 2013 · 2 min read

Stravascript

Kerning by turning.

Aug 25, 2013 · 1 min read

Improving San Francisco’s streets

By Patrick Traughber

Aug 23, 2013 · 12 min read

A list of people killed while riding a bicycle in San Francisco

Aug 14, 2013 · 13 min read

Preventing iPhone theft: an idea

Remove the carrot.

Jun 11, 2013 · 3 min read

Bikeprints

Where the rubber repeatedly meets the road.

Jun 5, 2013 · 1 min read

Walking the goat

May 21, 2013 · 1 min read