Dustin Black

Welcome to all the new people joining! 👋 I’m a public transportation engineer who thinks critically about what car-centric public spaces really mean for our cities, our pocketbooks, and our planet. I regularly share articles about transportation urbanism and stories from my local advocacy work.

Couldn’t even make it a full Scarammucci lol

This seems bad…

The kid-friendly city!

Done! Get out and vote, y’all!

A silver lining is that it is through this phenomenon that I helped my state DOT acquire its first skatepark. 🦺🛹🤘

What city or community have exceptionally well thought out design standards for traffic calming measures that should be copied elsewhere?

It went well. We ended up with 30 kids (50 total with the adults).

Tomorrow is Nat’l Walk and Roll to School Day so I’m spending the evening laying out signs for the bike bus “stops” along the route.

Fire in the Sky. Had no business watching this as a 9 yr old. I stayed late to watch it at a friend’s house and had to ride my bike home in the dark.

City contractors on their first day on Earth: “Of course we know how to install bike racks!”

Has anyone taken an electric cargo bike on the Paulus Hook Ferry?

Lobstah lean

Somebody get that kid and iPad and get him off the streets!

Who’s got Hoboken or Newark recs? I’ll be visiting in a couple weeks and want to get put on some of that east coast urbanism.

Hey, you can’t park there!

Damn, I just skated at the DIY here the other day.

Thinking about visiting Philly for the day on 7/30. It would be my first time. Anyone want to hang out or ride bikes?

I like traffic filters on residential streets and I cannot lie.

Relax, the new infrastructure czar is on the job!

Car brain, amirite?

This is public joy. This is eyes on the street.

“See we save lives by having wide fast streets, so the biggest fire trucks can respond quickly to all the accidents caused by the wide fast streets that we need because of the accidents that the….”

My bike is my favorite fashion accessory. This was a "surprise" dress 👗 gift from my husband and I brought it home for them to see it out in the wild.

Every time I see this bike I make a mass transit joke and no one even laughs. 😢

Economics aside, 4-6 story midrises can make for some outstanding gentle density.

Among many other things, even decent access to food is a neighborhood crime deterrent.

Sitting through CPTED training and they’re pitching me skate stoppers like bro

Favorite shot from the weekend so far.

I found something similarly whimsical in Bentonville.

Everyone’s a fan

Who’s got examples of floating curb extensions in the Midwest?

Which other criminal acts get this sort of softsoaping?

We biked to hockey today almost entirely on all ages and abilities infrastructure. And then brought our bikes on the train back home because kiddo was tired after his games. This is what having good quality transportation options is all about!

1. Humbly observe where people in your community are struggling. 2. Ask "What's the next smallest thing we can do to address that struggle *right now*?" 3. Do that thing. Right now. 4. Repeat

40s is a wild era. Some folks are out buying fishing boats and I just bought a new skateboard. 🤘

Without my bike I’d be functionally disabled. With it I’m as mobile as ever So accusations that cycling is “ableist” really annoy me. And “Cyclists Dismount” signs are a literal pain Disabilities are unique to the individual, cycling’s not for everyone, but can be absolutely essential help to many

Unless Banksy is in the Epstein Files I don’t really care.

This Marketplace message is sending me. We’ve normalized traffic violence so much.

We don't need chain stores and car-oriented corporations dominating our cities. We need neighborhoods that are small, local, and personal. When we finally move past the era of car dependency, this is what the future of sustainability looks like.

Do YOU have an aging friend/relative who should stop driving? Tell them this story from San Francisco. Ask how they will feel if they kill an entire family. But don't tell them that even then, they'll be forgiven and be able to drive again. This verdict is obscene. www.ktvu.com/news/woman-a...

“No, skateboarding is a healthy thing. There are some places where that this has been recognized, good places provided to do their weird skateboarding things. That’s part of freedom.” -Jane Jacobs 📍Tulsa, OK

Found a Thomasson while walking around last night. This barbed wire is doing absolutely nothing. Being pointless 🤝 being well maintained = Thomasson

It’s so funny that he didn’t even watch the kid rock bullshit lol.