Michael Schnuerle
@MichaelMobility
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Working for city transportation leaders as Director of Open Source Operations @OpenMobilityFnd guiding MDS/CDS. Formerly @LouDataOfficer, @CodeforAmerica.
Louisville, KY
Joined October 2016
Percent of Louisville households that do not even own a single car. When you build only for cars instead of transit, bikes, and walking options across the county, you are leaving up to 50% of households behind and unsafe. Based on 2022 Census tract data: https://t.co/qrcu2wEeEw
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From my book, Human Speed. Not only did highways decimate American cities, but entire local road networks were destroyed
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Delancey Street @ the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge (Manhattan side).
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani stops by the bike path entrance to the Williamsburg bridge where DOT is addressing the “bump,” smoothing it for future cyclists. Mamdani says this is a route he’s biked many a time. While only a start, larger scale street safety improvements are to come.
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It doesn’t get as much attention as transit cost issues do but the spiraling cost of building highways is genuinely crippling to our nation’s infrastructure
Just a reminder the Duluth Interchange project was initially projected to cost $200mil, open in 2019. It ballooned to nearly $500mil and opened October 2025 Not a single peep about that, but conservatives will bitch about more passenger rail in Minnesota
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EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.
nyc.streetsblog.org
Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor of New York City at midnight on Jan. 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station.
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ATL DOT: "Don't treat streets like race tracks!" Also ATL DOT: "BTW, here's a fresh race track for you, super-wide and perfect for speeding." Design matters.
Streets aren’t racetracks. They’re shared spaces.
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Dear city staff tasked with improving your downtown environment for struggling small businesses. PR campaigns, “Love [insert city here]” are pointless window-dressing. 1) Get (qualified) officers on the street. -Stop aggressive panhandling. -Fix safety issues, real or
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MHC’s newest report shows the latest JCPS homelessness data. This report finds that housing instability in Jefferson County is worsening, with nearly 4,000 JCPS students experiencing homelessness, a rising trend despite declining enrollment.
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@YetiMoose @ArmandDoma Mixed-use, multifamily development is the foundation of walkable neighborhoods everywhere, and always has been. It's not going to happen over night, but LA can become VASTLY and rapidly more walkable if they just had mixed-use multifamily development along their obsolete
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Rule 39: Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Safety In Louisville, KY, converting two downtown one-way streets to two-way in 2011 led to: 49% drop in traffic collisions 23% drop in crime 21.6% rise in property values Walkable City Rules https://t.co/2RtkJjvNhD
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Rule 40: Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Convenience Emergency responders are often frustrated by one-way streets, which lengthen response times & require long detours when roads are blocked compared to two-way streets. Walkable City Rules https://t.co/2RtkJjwl7b
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Its out now: Population Density Shifts in Louisville since 1950. I actually underrepresented the shift in density in the other tweet, some areas in urban Louisville have seen a density reduction as high as 94% since 1950. https://t.co/vKXZP0dosC
I plan on writing a Field Notes article about it, but the shift in population density over time in Louisville is insane. Between 1950 and 2025, the average (1950) census tract in urban Louisville has had a 43% reduction in population density. Some has high as 84%.
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every once in a while you see a graph that just blows your mind
Congestion pricing improves your ride to work — and the air you breathe: "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Montgomery County officials say they won't build sidewalks near a future Purple Line station in Takoma Park because, among other things, neighbors say they're afraid of "stranger danger.":
ggwash.org
Montgomery County officials say they won’t build sidewalks near a future Purple Line station in Takoma Park because, among other things, neighbors say they’re afraid of “stranger danger.”
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We have a solution NOW that is 20-70 times safer than driving, has spatial discipline and massively reduces costs, air and noise pollution: Transit. Coupling transit with walkable bikeable communities would be a public health bonanza. Robot cars are the vaping of transportation.
"In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore. ... When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do."
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This is exactly what the waterfront of a major U.S. city with 650,000 residents should look like, no notes. 10/10.
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ACA 2023 data on percent of workers over the age of 16 that commute by public transit. Some census block groups have 40%, 50%, or 70% of workers relying on our @ridetarc bus system.
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ACA 2023 data on percent of workers over the age of 16 that commute by public transit. Some census block groups have 40%, 50%, or 70% of workers relying on our @ridetarc bus system.
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Load up this KYTC comment map with your thoughts on Bardstown Rd from Eastern to Taylorsville! One driving lane each way. Curb extensions. Shorter crossings. Mid block crossings. Parking for sidewalk walkers and businesses. In-lane TARC stops. Survey link in thread:
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