Evan Handy

City dad on a bike. He/him. All opinions are my own. Our people, our society, and our earth depend on the decisions we make today.

[Evan Handy @evan_handy]

@dcpublicschools “As planned” is unclear. Did you mean that schools will open at their normal time, with no weather-related delay?

[Evan Handy @evan_handy]

@bikeshare
There is a loose battery at station Wilson & Oak

[Janette Sadik-Khan @JSadikKhan]

Farewell to our friend Donald Shoup, the guru who showed how parking can make and break a city. He was decades ahead of his time and we're still trying to catch up with him. The legacy of his life and his times will never expire.
https://t.co/R5xy1XAuSV

[Charles Allen @charlesallen]

There’s no math of parking lots and shuttles that work if everyone tries to drive. Take WMATA. Take VRE. Take transit.

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

I think the best way to honor Donald Shoup, who just passed away at age 86, is to post 86 days in a row about the ways in which we all pay for "free" parking.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.

Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.

US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.

A THREAD

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

Older adults benefit greatly from a network of bike lanes. Bicycle urbanism is elder care.

[Evan Handy @evan_handy]

So close!!!

[Becky Hartung @beckyhartung]

One of the best things Democrats run cities can do is spend the next few years designing their cities so cars are optional. That way as car manufacturing/repair prices go up, consumers may feel less stressed with their pocketbooks because they feel safe to walk, bike, or bus.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

150 billionaire families spent $1.9B on the 2024 election through October.

It's a huge amount of money — but it represents just 0.07% of their overall wealth.

It essentially costs them nothing to drown our democracy in cash.

We must get big money out of our politics.

[Evan Handy @evan_handy]

@ElieNYC I would be interested to hear your thoughts on last-place aversion.

https://t.co/ZfxtR0oI8m

[Evan Handy @evan_handy]

@ShabazzStuart Which we cannot begin to fix until we eliminate minimum parking requirements and single-family zoning.

[natalia barbour @natalia_barbour]

You deserve a space that makes you, not your car, a priority.

[𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @grescoe]

I ❤️ (car-free) #Paris!

Starting Nov. 4, 2024, the 5.5 km2 heart of Paris will be closed to through traffic. (Buses, taxis, ambulances, residents' cars will still have access.)

Opponents claim it will make life hell.

Here's what hell looks like, according to them:

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues. Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of “Killing In The Name”. The nice lady said, “I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!” I said, “Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.” She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1920, a white mob in Ocoee, Florida, lynched dozens of Black Americans and razed the Black community, because a Black man attempted to vote. https://t.co/uD227Nfx0P

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Inbox: Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, cast her ballot for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race. She turns 110 on Nov. 10.

[Peter Cheung-bostonaruban.bsky.social @bostonaruban]

Boston Halloween Bike Ride in Harvard Square tunnel.

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

No apology can or will make up for what was lost during the darkness of the federal Indian boarding school era.

But finally, we are moving forward into the light.

[Savannah (she/her) @rx0rcist]

Orangeburg man identified and let go.