Robin Chase

Now: Co-founder of Zipcar, Veniam, NUMO. @rmchase.bsky.social @[email protected] Book: Peers Inc

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity

HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

I think Amsterdam is my favorite most livable city in its density. Boston and DC have population densities in the same ballpark.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Walk anywhere in Amsterdam and you’ll sense a calm coherence: bricks, curbs, fixtures, benches, bollards and drains that look related. This isn’t accidental. It’s a product of the Puccini Method, the city’s standards—part design language, part playbook—for shaping every street.🧵

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

@modacitylife Who is in charge of the planting in these streets? Abuttors or the city? Or can abuttor request it like a community garden patch?

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

@NextGenEV @cityaestheticss @BrentToderian @CityLab @CarsRuinedCity @urbanthoughts11 @cyclist @iihsresearch @BikeLeague @UrbanMobilityEU I’ve never seen that. What does it mean? Another way of saying cars are guests ?

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: After sustained pressure from pro-Palestine students and protesters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has cut ties with Elbit Systems—Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

Just this week, Elbit’s drones bombed tents in Gaza, killing civilians. Students vow to keep fighting universities complicit in genocide.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

we have evolved past the need for light rail: Copenhagen’s automated light metro should be the template for every new project

Automating the entire system enables more frequent, smaller trains that provide better service and lower construction costs with smaller stations

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

And just like that, the Trump administration kills the Texas Bullet Train project.

[Daniel Coates @danielcoates_25]

#NOW: Massive rally at Powder House Square Park in Somerville after Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by DHS Tuesday.

The Tufts grad student, we’re told, has been transported to Louisiana.

A sea of hundreds of protestors are speaking out steps off Tufts campus. @boston25

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Do you know why luxury brands put logos all over their clothes? I'll tell you. 🧵

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

It's a principle we see in many other areas of the market. I will let you decide where you see it crop up. Where do we see artificial scarcity that ends up creating inflated profits? And how can we change those laws to reduce prices for consumers?

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

@VermonsterWx @OnlyInBOS I once went on a memorable walking tour with Fred Salvucci who could/was describing every underground tunnel, pipe, cable that we beneath our feet making the North-South station connection so very challenging.

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

Trump asking who was dumb enough to let the US to supply them with energy… wait for it. Waittttt for it.

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

I just watched the whole RFK Jr—Hannity interview where they discuss measles.

I don't know what to say.

I'm really just speechless.

Listening to health leadership bungle basic facts at best—and tell outright lies about long-settled science at worst—is just SO disappointing.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938.

History doesn't change it just repeats.

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

Mandatory speed governor! And maybe license revocation

[MEYER @dahvnyc]

3 tickets for blocking a bike lane
6 tickets for running red lights
13 tickets for for speeding
+ 1 bus lane violation, +1 ticket for double parking in the path of an MTA bus

all since jan. 2023

[Eternal Drift @drifteternal_]

Mumbai’s historic Fort area could have been a world-class heritage precinct—wide footpaths, beautiful streets, a showcase of our architectural legacy. Instead, it’s choked with encroachments and neglect. My city deserves better. It hurts to see this every day. 💔 #SaveMumbaiHeritage
@mybmc how can you allow this to happen?
@richapintoi @mumbaimatterz @RoadsOfMumbai @TOIMumbai @mid_day @MumbaiFootpaths

[Aaron Lubeck @aaron_lubeck]

Have you seen small-town America
...built before zoning?

#ThereIFixedIt

[Robin Chase @rmchase]

And here is what we’ve got:

[juan @juanbuis]

france's new high-speed trains were just revealed and... they look *incredible*

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

New York (De)Congestion Pricing news: Not only is traffic down in the Congestion Relief Zone, where it costs $9 to enter with a car, it's also down on links that motorists could be expected to use to bypass it. Even the transit agency didn't predict this.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Texas tried to build a High Speed Rail back in the 1990s.

But Southwest Airlines killed it because they convinced the state that they would have affordable travel between the cities and free checked bags.

Now Southwest has neither...
...and Texas doesn't have high speed rail.