Seth LaJeunesse
@sethlaj.bsky.social
🚲 🚶🏻 are the best. 🚗 are not. autonomous people. systems science. social sciences. let’s change the culture.
As @sgoodyear.bsky.social so eloquently conveys, dependence on a functioning car to satisfy the needs of life is the antithesis of ‘freedom.’
🚗💥 What if life after cars is better for everyone?
In LIFE AFTER CARS, @sgoodyear.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social shows how communities can thrive when we design for people, not traffic.
A bold, hopeful vision for the future of our cities.
In LIFE AFTER CARS, @sgoodyear.bsky.social of @thewaroncars.bsky.social shows how communities can thrive when we design for people, not traffic.
A bold, hopeful vision for the future of our cities.
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
As @sgoodyear.bsky.social so eloquently conveys, dependence on a functioning car to satisfy the needs of life is the antithesis of ‘freedom.’
Fact. People perceive, appreciate, and use quality bike/ped/transit infrastructure.
Induced demand: it works for more than just cars
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fact. People perceive, appreciate, and use quality bike/ped/transit infrastructure.
It’s late 2025, our earth is melting, mental and public ill-health are endemic, life’s unaffordable for most…and transportation consultancies are hiring highway engineers. smdh
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It’s late 2025, our earth is melting, mental and public ill-health are endemic, life’s unaffordable for most…and transportation consultancies are hiring highway engineers. smdh
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
In 1920 Buffalo’s International Railway Company, then managed by the Mitten Management Company of Philadelphia, raised streetcar fare from five cents to seven cents. Many Buffalonians resented the increase and blamed the management company. ...
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In 1920 Buffalo’s International Railway Company, then managed by the Mitten Management Company of Philadelphia, raised streetcar fare from five cents to seven cents. Many Buffalonians resented the increase and blamed the management company. ...
Auspicious start to the day 🌈 in Carrboro, NC
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Auspicious start to the day 🌈 in Carrboro, NC
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
This #WDoR2025, families are sharing their stories of loved ones lost to traffic violence. Their voices are the most powerful call for leaders to remember, support, and ACT – so everyone can move safely, no matter how they get around.
@familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social
@familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This #WDoR2025, families are sharing their stories of loved ones lost to traffic violence. Their voices are the most powerful call for leaders to remember, support, and ACT – so everyone can move safely, no matter how they get around.
@familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social
@familiesforsafestreets.org @roadtozero.bsky.social
Sincerely wish this instead read:
“They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”
“They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Sincerely wish this instead read:
“They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”
“They’re a 1000 convivial pocket parks in Downtown.”
It's #ElectionDay! Let's revisit insights from @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco Te Brömmelstroet
"it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2
"it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's #ElectionDay! Let's revisit insights from @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco Te Brömmelstroet
"it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2
"it is possible public support for changes to road systems becomes ‘hidden’ because people tend incorrectly to assume that their (majority) desire for change represents an unpopular minority view. 1/2
The end of daylight saving is 2nd only to New Years for the density of totally reasonable promises we make to ourselves
I'm sure the extra hour of sleep tonight is what it is going to take to get my shit together. I can't wait to wake up and start my new routine where I eat healthy, work out regularly, and keep up with all my emails.
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The end of daylight saving is 2nd only to New Years for the density of totally reasonable promises we make to ourselves
“These harms are Cacophony (noise), Carbon emissions, Casualties from collisions, Community severance, Concern and social isolation, Congestion, Contamination (of air and ground), Conurbation design, and Couch potatoes.” 🙏
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @reenamahajan.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social @parismarx.com @norton.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
www.fph.org.uk/blog/cars-as...
www.fph.org.uk/blog/cars-as...
Cars as commercial determinants of health
Transport is important for health.
www.fph.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“These harms are Cacophony (noise), Carbon emissions, Casualties from collisions, Community severance, Concern and social isolation, Congestion, Contamination (of air and ground), Conurbation design, and Couch potatoes.” 🙏
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
Highly recommend @thewaroncars.bsky.social's book Life After Cars.
“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
October 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Highly recommend @thewaroncars.bsky.social's book Life After Cars.
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
A decade in - the #VisionZero movement is changing how we think, talk, and build for safety.
Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero:
visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...
Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero:
visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...
October 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A decade in - the #VisionZero movement is changing how we think, talk, and build for safety.
Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero:
visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...
Check out our Top 10 Signs of Progress and what they mean for the next decade of #VisionZero:
visionzeronetwork.org/top-10-signs...
Not only is it somehow legal, it’s subsidized, deregulated, even celebrated!
“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
October 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Not only is it somehow legal, it’s subsidized, deregulated, even celebrated!
“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“If someone was walking along the streets spraying poisonous fumes into people’s faces, they’d be arrested and probably locked up. But if you spray those fumes into people’s faces using a car, it’s somehow legal.”
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
-Tyre Extinguishers rep in @thewaroncars.bsky.social ‘Life After Cars’ book.
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
Great interview on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast with the authors of this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
‘Life After Cars’ with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 10/21/2025 · 1h 5m
podcasts.apple.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Great interview on @chrislhayes.bsky.social podcast with the authors of this book: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Cars are often “structural killers”—they kill directly (via crashes + pollution) and indirectly (via facilitating drive by shootings or drug ODs in the wake of car crash injury).
Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids.
100% unfair.
Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids.
100% unfair.
October 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Cars are often “structural killers”—they kill directly (via crashes + pollution) and indirectly (via facilitating drive by shootings or drug ODs in the wake of car crash injury).
Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids.
100% unfair.
Yet cars are frequently compared to “direct killers” like guns and opioids.
100% unfair.
It’s arrived! (with a car-free driveway since ‘17 providing the backdrop).
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It’s arrived! (with a car-free driveway since ‘17 providing the backdrop).
The fact that local public schools are funded via property taxes, which determines each school’s resources, which determines ed outcomes, which determines economic outcomes, gives credence to notion that one’s zip code determines one’s fate.
And somehow we’re okay with this?
And somehow we’re okay with this?
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The fact that local public schools are funded via property taxes, which determines each school’s resources, which determines ed outcomes, which determines economic outcomes, gives credence to notion that one’s zip code determines one’s fate.
And somehow we’re okay with this?
And somehow we’re okay with this?
Hardly hear a whisper about this travesty
Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hardly hear a whisper about this travesty
How would you feel if your loved one died in traffic and your local news decided to immediately follow up the tragedy with a traffic report?
I-40 reopens in Durham after deadly crash leaves drivers stuck in westbound lanes for hours
A deadly crash near Durham continues to block the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 on Sunday morning, leaving some drivers stuck in traffic for several hours.
www.wral.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
How would you feel if your loved one died in traffic and your local news decided to immediately follow up the tragedy with a traffic report?
No Kings Carrboro / Chapel Hill NC
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
No Kings Carrboro / Chapel Hill NC
Reposted by Seth LaJeunesse
"My two favorite things: libraries + bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything."
—Peter Golkin
I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch.
(In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!)
www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...
—Peter Golkin
I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch.
(In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!)
www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"My two favorite things: libraries + bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything."
—Peter Golkin
I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch.
(In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!)
www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...
—Peter Golkin
I take a look at transit, bicycles, and books in this HIGH SPEED dispatch.
(In keeping with the public spirit, paywall removed!)
www.highspeed.blog/the-little-s...
Something about the ability to comfortably travel at inhuman speeds strips us of our humanity.
An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Something about the ability to comfortably travel at inhuman speeds strips us of our humanity.
Safe, comfortable sharing of public space relies upon a solid social contract.
Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.
How might we shore up this social contract?
Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.
How might we shore up this social contract?
October 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Safe, comfortable sharing of public space relies upon a solid social contract.
Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.
How might we shore up this social contract?
Yet when the owner of a popular local business consistently violates the contract, safe and comfortable travel for people unprotected by roll cages becomes precarious.
How might we shore up this social contract?
We seriously need to discuss this more:
Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...
Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...
Report: A Third of Americans Can't Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All — Streetsblog USA
So why do we plan our cities like everyone can and does get behind the wheel every day?
usa.streetsblog.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We seriously need to discuss this more:
Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...
Report: A Third of Americans Can’t Rely On Cars — And 16 Million Have No Access At All - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/02/r...