tl;dr Our sidewalks are too narrow and we should create more space to safely maintain social distance by converting car lanes and streets to pedestrian and bike only streets in San Francisco during the COVID-19 “stay at home” order, as other cities are doing. On Monday March 16th, our San…

The flight route between San Francisco and Los Angeles is the second busiest flight route in the United States. And by number of flights, it’s the 9th busiest in the world. A growing number of airlines serve the route. American, Delta, Southwest, United, US Airways, Virgin America, JetBlue, Spirit, and…

I’m happy to share that I’ve joined the product team at Twitter! This is my second week. I first signed up for Twitter in June 2008. Over time (and 13,886 Tweets later), it has become an essential part of my life. Through Twitter, I’ve made new friends (thanks @ mentions!)…

Those who know me know I love many things but two in particular: Twitter, and reading about transportation. Specifically urban transportation, and what is being done to improve safety and mobility, and in turn, improving the quality of life in cities. I’ve learned a lot from tweets on the topic…

They’re distracting us, keeping us awake, damaging our hearing, and they don’t even work — A few days ago I was playing tennis with a buddy of mine in Oakland. Just after we started playing, someone’s car alarm began going off in a residential parking garage across the street about 150 feet away. The alarm went off 3 or 4 times, blaring for a few…

Impress your family tomorrow with these bird facts — I had some time to spare this morning and wanted to look up some data, so on Twitter I asked if anyone was curious about anything in particular: My friend Jana replied with a timely request: So, I looked up some data on turkeys. …

A timelapse from one of San Francisco’s busiest streets — The NACTO Designing Cities conference was held in San Francisco last week. The conference brings together folks from governments and cities all over the world to share notes with one another on urban transportation. It’s basically WWDC for transportation nerds. It’s great. On Wednesday I dropped in on one of…

The Great Corporate Unbundling of 2014 — A list of technology companies who have recently announced a plan to split themselves into more than one company. Symantec | 10/9/2014 | Press release Hewlett-Packard | 10/6/2014 | Press release eBay | 9/30/2014 | Press release Barnes & Noble | 6/25/2014 | Press release

The street view. — Below are examples of bicycle lanes from cities around the world. If you know of an example of a great bike lane, send me a link via email, or @ mention me on Twitter here. Thanks for contributing! And thanks to Google for Street View. You rock. This post stems from this post about the record number of people riding bicycles who have been killed or injured in San Francisco. New York City