Angie Schmitt

This but for every kid.

(What the book I’m working on is about)

Kneecapping electric cars right before disrupting global oil markets 😭😤😡🤯

Sue the traffic engineer and the municipality into outer space

By the way, these people CONSTANTLY tell on themselves online.

There's a lot of people out there on the roads that have no business being there and are a threat to public safety.

Everyone knows it and no one's willing to do anything about it. 😡

In practice in the US, we have a "right to speed" that is more protected than the "right to arrive at your destination safely."

Reckless jerks are protected and innocent people get hurt.

A Fatal Tesla Crash Shows the Limits of Full Self-Driving As Elon Musk touts robotaxis in Austin, federal regulators are investigating whether Tesla’s system is dangerous even with a human behind the wheel.

Excellent hate read about Tesla’s fraudulently named “full self driving”

“The Tesla hit Story, a 71-year-old grandmother, at highway speed. She was pronounced dead at the scene.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Detroit Abandoned Sedans, Now It Wants Them Back | Carscoops American brands will need to find a way to ensure they can build and sell sedans profitably

Omg omg omg look what came across my timeline 😱

If they don’t bring back orange Chevy Cruises built in Youngstown like it’s 2004, I’m gonna be disappointed! www.carscoops.com/2026/02/detr...

Can Anyone Stop Baltimore City’s Most Dangerous Drivers? Crashes have killed nearly 500 people in Baltimore City over the past decade, and safety advocates say leaders have left tools on the table.

“We’ve been brainwashed to believe—and this is reinforced through our decisions about the design of our streets, speed limits, every sort of built environment decision, as well as the law—that car convenience is more important than human life.”

www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...

merchants national bank (designed by purcell & elmslie), entrance detail 1, third & lafayette, winona, minnesota, 1988

merchants national bank (designed by purcell & elmslie), entrance detail 1, third & lafayette, winona, minnesota, 1988

Thanks to @johngreenfield.bsky.social for showing me Chicago's best bike infrastructure.

Whole 'nother Story - February YouTube video by KMOX

“If you can live through February, you’ll live another year.”

Till I die I will love this rant about the horribleness of February

www.youtube.com/watch?v=38PB...

Thanks for showing me around John!

Former Streetsblog USA editor Angie Schmitt was in town for a CNU Midwest board meeting. She's been working on books about pedestrian safety and building cities for kids.
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We did a short facilities tour on Divvy, checking out PBLs, Loop Link and the riverwalk.

I love these. The “bye bye buggy.” My daycare had one when my kids were there. For walks

Liberty and Waldo intersection with paint and bollards to narrow the intersection

Grateful for all of the ways El Cerrito city staff are making our streets safer, like this improvement on Liberty at Waldo.

Drivers fly down Liberty, a residential street, avoiding higher traffic streets. These bollards should help slow them down and protect people biking and walking.

Boring take but boys would do better in school if they were walking and biking to school instead of getting almost no exercise all day.

Why America Funded Roads Instead of Recreation How Infrastructure Choices Quietly Reshaped Play, Health, and Community Life

I feel like there's a relationship between everyone being depressed, lonely and out of shape and this:

noahboutit.substack.com/p/why-americ...

The end result is a criminalization of walking. Something that should be the most normal thing in the world -- walking somewhere -- becomes this dangerous, punishable offense.

Free to jaywalk: How Kansas City killed the discriminatory law it helped to invent Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full...

Jaywalking is sort of a scam imo.

We arrest pedestrians sometimes for not using a crosswalk. And blame them if they get killed outside a crosswalk.

Meanwhile, we secretly instruct engineers (thru MUTCD) NOT to build crosswalks with traffic signals.

www.kcur.org/history/2026...

Free to jaywalk: How Kansas City killed the discriminatory law it helped to invent Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full...

Really great reporting on "jaywalking" laws, and reasons more and more places are reconsidering them.

www.kcur.org/history/2026...

Guess how much they're asking for this mansion in Cleveland Heights?

Ohio coal plants, including one formerly propped up by HB6, to get new federal lifeline under Trump Two Ohio coal power plants have been picked by President Donald Trump to get a share of $175 million worth of federal funding to pay for upgrades to rural coal plants keep them in operation.

When fake conservatives say this is all about letting the market decide I get so mad. He’s literally subsidizing failing coal plants.

A 19th century technology that spews poison into the air. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...

So rare to get a functional walkable retail corridor like this in Ohio. This one, Lorain avenue in cleveland, is emerging as a legit one tho imo.

‘Not the same town anymore:’ ICE surge hit businesses in Worthington, where 1 in 3 are immigrants • Minnesota Reformer WORTHINGTON — Typically about 10 to 15 cars and their new owners drive off the lot each month at Los Partners Auto Sales in Worthington, a small city in southwest Minnesota where roughly 1 in 3 reside...

Minnesota Reformer reports from Worthington: "You can feel it, the sadness from town. There’s no people walking around." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/n...

ARIZONA! TENNESSEE! MARYLAND! CONNECTICUT! Get on the phones/emails and tell your lawmakers to #StopSuperSpeeders

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MD secure.everyaction.com/Lgxe3mwSMUuH...

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We can #StopSuperSpeeders BEFORE they kill people. Similar to how drunk drivers are sometimes required to use ignition interlock devices.

People 👏🏼 like 👏🏼 this 👏🏼 should 👏🏼 still 👏🏼 be 👏🏼 with 👏🏼 us! 👏🏼

I love how Waymo used its huge megaphone to blame the child (darting into traffic!) but we didn’t hear the family’s side.

One reason I think these huge companies should be held to a higher standard than normal drivers is they are incredibly powerful and wealthy.

City Boosters Can't Ignore the Quality of City Services This is a big missing piece to rebuilding the urban middle class.

I love @schmangee.bsky.social 's honesty & perspective here. the way she describes how people wanting to trust the system get let down and eventually give up.

good governance matters

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Los Angeles is becoming a cautionary tale about what happens when cities just completely abdicate their responsibility for keeping people safe on the roads imo. Site where a pregnant mother was killed on a family bike ride