North American and Australia/NZ public transport advocates. Looking for cities to envy? Have you considered sprawling Perth, Western Australia? The city looks like Dallas but the transport feels like Switzerland. Darren Davis shows us around. adventuresintransitland.substack.com/p/nine-publi...

Nine public transport lessons from Perth

Perth is a very sprawly, low-density, car-oriented city. Yet it has great public transport. What follows are nine lessons we can take from Perth in order to make public transport great anywhere.

This is wonderful! Woo Hoo! 'California Governor Signs Complete Streets Bill Into Law' "The state’s transportation agency will be required to prioritize multimodal transportation infrastructure and improve transparency." #California#cities#urbanismwww.planetizen.com/news/2024/09...

When you refuse to fact-check the liar, you're complicit in the lie.

Smart new modular curbs help keep drivers out of Downtown L.A.'s Main Street parking-protected bike lanes. Thanks LADOT and can you do these all over? la.streetsblog.org/2024/09/30/e...

Eyes on the Street: New Modular Curbs on Main Street Protected Bike Lanes - Streetsblog Los Angeles

Hopefully these quick-build improvements will prove effective on Main, and can be expanded to other protected bikeways throughout the city

San Francisco Bay Area's regional planning agency MTC is thinking about a new regionwide transit mapping standard. I have thoughts humantransit.org/2024/09/san-...

San Francisco Bay Area: A Consistent Regional Mapping Standard? — Human Transit

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the regional transportation planning body, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), has launched a major effort to improve the coordination between the region’s...

One of the legendary moments of pop musical history in 1971 was the late Janice Joplin’s cover of Kris Kristofferson’s song, “Me and Bobby McGee”. youtu.be/dNblxfWTWU4?...

How Janis Joplin Recorded "Me & Bobby McGee" - Told by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster

YouTube video by Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum

My favorite Kris Kristofferson song which has been covered by countless country and pop musical artists is “Help Me Make It Through the Night” youtu.be/3SeKnQY-HlQ?...

Sammi Smith - Help Me Make It Though The Night

YouTube video by Poison Ivy Lovers

Gee, the director of Project 2025 doesn't respect women. What a shocker.

Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Study details 'transformative' results from L.A. pilot that guaranteed families $1,000 a month

L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.

Acting legend Dame Maggie Smith had passed. What a loss to stage and screen. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/se...

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall