Meg Merritt

Ⓜ️ovitas Ⓜ️obility & 🤘 UTSOA CRP Practicum Professor. Alum of UT 🐂, Penn 🔔, Cap Metro 🚍, Deloitte 🟢, and Nelson\Nygaard 🚲. Wife. Madre. Austinite.

[Alexandra Sweet @ASweetPlanner]

Want some feel-good news? Highlights of April's @SFMTA_Muni operator customer feedback. 🧵🚍🥰

"I was on the 22 with my 2-year-old and my child started singing “As the bus goes round and round” when the verse got to the “windshield” the driver turned on the windshield’s wipers.”

[Streetfilms (Now 1,145+ films!) @Streetfilms]

Good Lord! We are seriously messed up here in North America. This is even WORSE than I thought it would be.

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

@FastCompany + fast trains = good news https://t.co/LO5p35VgUr

[Streetsblog USA @StreetsblogUSA]

A 2021 study found that creating a car-free space in front of schools at the start and end of a school day carries massive benefits for communities, without increasing traffic on surrounding streets. Amanda O'Rourke explores the findings; HT @TransAlt. https://t.co/UHwj0aSWrF

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

THANK YOU for the protected bike lanes on Barton Springs Rd @austinmobility. A true safety game changer. These little 🎸rock stars 🎸got a seamless ride to @aclfestival. Madre couldn’t have done it with out the electric⚡️assist compliments of @madsencycles! 👊#cargocowgirls

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

It with great joy that @UTSOA CRP ‘23 Rail Studio presents this semester’s final report + presentation! Central Texas’ economy will be well-positioned for growth & industrial redomestication w/ the #BluebonnetBypass 🛤️🚂 & #BluebonnetExpress 💺🚉. More at https://t.co/GjAZk4VOM8

[#BikeATX @BikeATX]

Unfortunately, due to the weather this weekend, we are postponing the Austin Cargo Bike Festival.

Fear not! We've rescheduled it for June 3rd! Please save the date, and come join us for the test rides, tasty food, & lovely cargo bike ridin' Austinites.
#Austin, #ATX, #BikeATX

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

@ksimerly Shooting is actually another bit of scar tissue in the US right now. Maybe a different description?

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

@UTSOA *Mother Earth* - with capitalization. She deserves it.

[Meg Merritt @mobilitymeg]

In a world of hell-no-s, these students inspire a hell-yes. They created a roadmap to make freight and passenger rail SO much better for Central Texans and mother earth. Report out next month. @UTSOA #whatstartsherechangestheworld 🤘🚉🧑‍🎓

[Transit Forward @transit_forward]

A full bus can take 50 single driver cars off the road. A full train car can do the same with 150.

Less traffic. Less parking issues. Less stress.

More safety. More affordability. More jobs. More climate friendly.

Let's take @CapMetroATX
& keep supporting Project Connect.

[The Recount @therecount]

Rob Wilcox of @Everytown explains why ghost guns are “one of the fastest growing threats to public safety” in the U.S.:

“Building a ghost gun … is as close to gunsmithing as making a LEGO set is as close to architectural design.”

[Texas Architecture @UTSOA]

A multidisciplinary team of #UTSOA students is moving on to @HUDgov's Innovations in Affordable Housing competition finals! One of only four teams selected, they'll travel to D.C. to present to reps from @HUDgov and @theCHAtweets in April.

Learn more: https://t.co/8718bkS9Go

[Lior Steinberg @LiorSteinberg]

One of the greatest achievements of the car industry is convincing people that driving is efficient and fast.

London, video by @PeterStuart3

[Texas Architecture @UTSOA]

Join us in welcoming this semester's slate of adjunct and visiting faculty members in the Community & Regional Planning program!

Ashley Lyons Fisher, @urban_SCALE, @mobilitymeg, @Lynn_Osgood_ATX, @kathietovo, Stephen Zigmund, and Deirdre Zoll

https://t.co/zPUuQAuzdo

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

“The problem is the bloody guns. I’m only here because my husband is in the military. Otherwise I would not have chosen to come to this country.”

Outraged mother at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia after a 6-year-old shot a teacher

[Daniel Moser @_dmoser]

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The arrogance of space 👇👇

(by Karl Jilg)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Obama: "Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was a heck of a football player... does that make him the best person to represent you?... let's say you're at the airport & you see Walker & you say, Hey, there's Herschel, Heisman winner. Let's have him fly the plane!"

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

“Self-driving cars eliminate human error”

[21st Century City @urbanthoughts11]

30 people getting coffee.
Sprawl vs. urbanism