Elizabeth "Lizzy Bee" living in North Carolina
@lizzybeeapex.bsky.social
Grantwriter, volunteer, gardener, bus rider, pedestrian. Introvert, eccentric, insomniac, vegan, frugal, book reader. Retiring after long career with Habitat for Humanity. Lived in California, Massachusetts, Texas, North Carolina.
Inspirational! I would love to reach about community volunteers creating sheltered bus stops with benches. The municipal approach is slow and expensive. Meanwhile, climate change has made that long unprotected wait for a bus more risky to health, both in the extreme hot humid summers and the cold.
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Inspirational! I would love to reach about community volunteers creating sheltered bus stops with benches. The municipal approach is slow and expensive. Meanwhile, climate change has made that long unprotected wait for a bus more risky to health, both in the extreme hot humid summers and the cold.
So true! My once charming neighborhood of 1950s brick ranch homes is being bulldozed and gentrified. Replaced by sterile white three-story cookie-cooker McMansions on treeless lots. Affordability lost forever in Apex, North Carolina.
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
So true! My once charming neighborhood of 1950s brick ranch homes is being bulldozed and gentrified. Replaced by sterile white three-story cookie-cooker McMansions on treeless lots. Affordability lost forever in Apex, North Carolina.
I just saw you referenced in Anna Letitia Zivarts's book "When Driving Is Not an Option." Glad that so many of the mobility / transit experts can be followed here on Bluesky. I am a bus rider with some physical limitations and newly appointed to my town's Multi-Modal Transportation Advisory Board.
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I just saw you referenced in Anna Letitia Zivarts's book "When Driving Is Not an Option." Glad that so many of the mobility / transit experts can be followed here on Bluesky. I am a bus rider with some physical limitations and newly appointed to my town's Multi-Modal Transportation Advisory Board.
I like this example from Los Angeles of "Neighbors United Against Hate," which signage specific to various communities.
www.lavshate.org/signs-of-sol...
www.lavshate.org/signs-of-sol...
Signs of Solidarity — LA vs. Hate
www.lavshate.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I like this example from Los Angeles of "Neighbors United Against Hate," which signage specific to various communities.
www.lavshate.org/signs-of-sol...
www.lavshate.org/signs-of-sol...
Why are seatbelts not standard in municipal buses? The special bus used for door-to-door service for eligible folks with disabilities does have seatbelts installed. That bus sometimes gets substituted for the regular routes. Buckling in makes me feel safer. Stops the sliding around on bumpy roads.
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Why are seatbelts not standard in municipal buses? The special bus used for door-to-door service for eligible folks with disabilities does have seatbelts installed. That bus sometimes gets substituted for the regular routes. Buckling in makes me feel safer. Stops the sliding around on bumpy roads.
Yikes. I wear a yellow-and-orange fluorescent vest when walking my dogs at dusk. I am a car-free pedestrian and bus rider who feels increasingly unsafe from vehicles after dark. Growth has brought intense traffic problems to my North Carolina town near Raleigh.
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Yikes. I wear a yellow-and-orange fluorescent vest when walking my dogs at dusk. I am a car-free pedestrian and bus rider who feels increasingly unsafe from vehicles after dark. Growth has brought intense traffic problems to my North Carolina town near Raleigh.
Thanks for sharing! 100% agree as a pedestrian. "Overall, the single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes."
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thanks for sharing! 100% agree as a pedestrian. "Overall, the single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes."
Helpful! Maybe you could add in an extremely low-income parameter. For the Raleigh area of North Carolina, the "Wake Transit Plan Update: Market Analysis: Fall 2024" included a Transit Propensity Index that showed people with income below $15,000 = 6.3 times as likely to ride transit.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Helpful! Maybe you could add in an extremely low-income parameter. For the Raleigh area of North Carolina, the "Wake Transit Plan Update: Market Analysis: Fall 2024" included a Transit Propensity Index that showed people with income below $15,000 = 6.3 times as likely to ride transit.
Yes, yes, yes: "One of the most important things we can do in trying to rebuild America’s liberal democracy is to get out of our own heads and into the world, meet one another, and tell a new story about this country and who we are going to be." Less time online -- more hours in real interaction!
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yes, yes, yes: "One of the most important things we can do in trying to rebuild America’s liberal democracy is to get out of our own heads and into the world, meet one another, and tell a new story about this country and who we are going to be." Less time online -- more hours in real interaction!
In my area, the only way to reach a library by bus is to ride the commuter express to the neighboring town. I need to catch the 5:05 bus, arriving at 5:25pm, race-walk to the library, check out pre-planned books, race back for the final 6:30pm loop. Often the only passenger at least one direction!
October 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In my area, the only way to reach a library by bus is to ride the commuter express to the neighboring town. I need to catch the 5:05 bus, arriving at 5:25pm, race-walk to the library, check out pre-planned books, race back for the final 6:30pm loop. Often the only passenger at least one direction!
I am from an explosive-growth town in North Carolina, where dangerous traffic and impatient drivers have become a big problem for pedestrians. These raised crosswalks look better than what we have now. Do you happen to know the cost?
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I am from an explosive-growth town in North Carolina, where dangerous traffic and impatient drivers have become a big problem for pedestrians. These raised crosswalks look better than what we have now. Do you happen to know the cost?
Yippee! Excited about improving my transit advocacy skills and networking with other non-driving bus-riding activists.
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Yippee! Excited about improving my transit advocacy skills and networking with other non-driving bus-riding activists.
Yum! I love pineapple in savory dishes. I am one of the strange people who likes pineapple on pizza.
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yum! I love pineapple in savory dishes. I am one of the strange people who likes pineapple on pizza.
Yum! I keep pumpkin puree in the refrigerator constantly. Add to lots of bean bowls and Indian sauce. My dogs enjoy a daily spoonful.
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Yum! I keep pumpkin puree in the refrigerator constantly. Add to lots of bean bowls and Indian sauce. My dogs enjoy a daily spoonful.
The book banning is infuriating. I love the artwork of two girls reading that accompanies your article.
October 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The book banning is infuriating. I love the artwork of two girls reading that accompanies your article.
Our mayor in Apex, North Carolina, certainly has that "swagger" spirit. He wears gold shoes for recognizability and posts lots of body building videos.
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Our mayor in Apex, North Carolina, certainly has that "swagger" spirit. He wears gold shoes for recognizability and posts lots of body building videos.
Yes! I live in Apex, North Carolina. Both the single GoApex route and the adjacent GoCary system are currently free. I am now quasi-retired with income declining, so now qualified for a free GoTriangle pass that works for GoRaleigh. When working full time, I paid for bus rides at reasonable fares.
September 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yes! I live in Apex, North Carolina. Both the single GoApex route and the adjacent GoCary system are currently free. I am now quasi-retired with income declining, so now qualified for a free GoTriangle pass that works for GoRaleigh. When working full time, I paid for bus rides at reasonable fares.
Increased risk for pedestrians: this is a daily reality for me. Impatient drivers, frustrated by traffic congestion, race through right and left turns, without checking crosswalks. Even with a walk signal, I scrutinize driver's faces and aggression levels before bravely crossing. I feel invisible!
September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Increased risk for pedestrians: this is a daily reality for me. Impatient drivers, frustrated by traffic congestion, race through right and left turns, without checking crosswalks. Even with a walk signal, I scrutinize driver's faces and aggression levels before bravely crossing. I feel invisible!
Interesting! "Free parking represents a greater subsidy to automobile commuting than free gasoline would be."
September 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Interesting! "Free parking represents a greater subsidy to automobile commuting than free gasoline would be."
I would love to learn more about these tradeoffs: "given resource constraints a mobility strategy requires some
tradeoffs between service frequency and coverage—a bus can run in a straight line every, say, 15 minutes or in a larger zigzag pattern once an hour, but not both." Giant loops, in my town.
tradeoffs between service frequency and coverage—a bus can run in a straight line every, say, 15 minutes or in a larger zigzag pattern once an hour, but not both." Giant loops, in my town.
September 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I would love to learn more about these tradeoffs: "given resource constraints a mobility strategy requires some
tradeoffs between service frequency and coverage—a bus can run in a straight line every, say, 15 minutes or in a larger zigzag pattern once an hour, but not both." Giant loops, in my town.
tradeoffs between service frequency and coverage—a bus can run in a straight line every, say, 15 minutes or in a larger zigzag pattern once an hour, but not both." Giant loops, in my town.
100% true in my booming town: "suburban arterial roads tend to be designed in ways unsuited and unsafe for the pedestrian, undermining walkability and, often, elongating driving distances." The "peripheries" are unserved by transit (and increasingly filled with McMansions).
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
100% true in my booming town: "suburban arterial roads tend to be designed in ways unsuited and unsafe for the pedestrian, undermining walkability and, often, elongating driving distances." The "peripheries" are unserved by transit (and increasingly filled with McMansions).
Registered and excited!
September 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Registered and excited!
Very happy that my personal transit budget for 2025 is zero! Gave up car. Local bus for my town and adjacent town is free. Income below $39,000 so eligible for free regional transit pass. Live in central downtown area of Apex, North Carolina, so over 50% of errands & activities reachable by walking.
September 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Very happy that my personal transit budget for 2025 is zero! Gave up car. Local bus for my town and adjacent town is free. Income below $39,000 so eligible for free regional transit pass. Live in central downtown area of Apex, North Carolina, so over 50% of errands & activities reachable by walking.
In the 1980s in Los Angeles, I intentionally rented on Venice Boulevard. The bus stop across the street hosted an express bus route, limited bus route, and regular bus route. 24-hour service from downtown to the beach, with three minute frequently during the day. Felt like there was always a bus!
September 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
In the 1980s in Los Angeles, I intentionally rented on Venice Boulevard. The bus stop across the street hosted an express bus route, limited bus route, and regular bus route. 24-hour service from downtown to the beach, with three minute frequently during the day. Felt like there was always a bus!
I think the "continuum" concept is so useful for describing many human characteristics. Including the mood disorders that impact my family to varying degrees and at different levels during our lifespan.
September 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I think the "continuum" concept is so useful for describing many human characteristics. Including the mood disorders that impact my family to varying degrees and at different levels during our lifespan.