Helping people 🚲,🚶🏽♀️& 🚍 more since 2001. Self-taught evidence nerd; your volunteer transportation reference librarian.
Portland, OR
Joined November 2007
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Jessica Roberts retweeted
This is not how we expected to show up on Page Six.
NYC’s most rat-infested subway stations: New app reveals the rattiest rides trib.al/IeB94jB
If you use @transitapp and ride a bike, we'd love your input on the recommended bike routes we give you. Love 'em? Hate 'em? Room for improvement?
Send an email using this link on your phone to sound off: transit.app/contact_us
How excited am I about this? If you're a transit advocate, @transitapp wants to talk to you!
We're cooking up some ideas to help transit riders understand how to speak up for transit. Please DM me if you'd like to chat.
🗣️ Are you super plugged into public meetings in your city for transit and street safety projects?
✊ Would they be better if more people who take the bus or don't own a car showed up?
@transitapp is working on something that might interest you! Drop me a line. DMs are open…
Jessica Roberts retweeted
Come work with @WSDOT Active Transportation Division! TWO openings: GIS/Data Systems Specialist – TPS4 governmentjobs.com/careers/w… and Senior Connecting Communities Planner – TPS5 governmentjobs.com/careers/w…. #WSDOTactive #MoveEquity #planning #GIS #transportation #ActiveTransport
Great company, great colleagues, great projects…you should probably apply!
Senior position also open, remote work possible for that one.
Come work for us! Transit planner/analyst with 2 years experience or graduate degree, Portland OR or Arlington VA, closes July 6. Also hiring more senior positions. Please share! humantransit.org/2023/06/wer…
You’re the likely #1 NBA draft pick, and you’re in NYC for the first time. What’s your top priority?
Why, taking the subway, naturally… 😍
nytimes.com/2023/06/20/sport…
Dear transpo reporters: I would read the shit out of an article about the operations/comms ways transit agencies are trying to manage the Taylor Swift transit demand spike. I want details! Added runs? Targeted social media? Please spill!
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/22/b…
Having just spent a week in Montréal, I agree 100%. US transit advocates & professionals: go to Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, weep at how good the transit is, then come home and demand the same!
US transit advocates: Don't just envy Europe; start by envying Canada! sf.streetsblog.org/2023/06/2…
There’s no possible excuse about “well, European cities just weren’t built for cars.” These are North American cities, and everything they have - density of the network, span + frequency, reliability, cleanliness & safety, and transit signal/ROW priority - can work in US cities.
TFW the Cincinnati reporter covering expected car congestion to the Taylor Swift concert starts by recommending everyone download @transitapp 🥰local12.com/news/local/metro…
Jessica Roberts retweeted
Things we know (but are always helpful to see reinforced):
1. Speeding is the top reason for traffic fatalities
2. Reducing speeds requires street redesign
3. Reducing the number of lanes (this is a 4-3 conversion) can reduce speeding and improve safety.
This one weird trick forces people to drive the speed limit on Lyndale Avenue.
lims.minneapolismn.gov/downl…
Y'all, my old job is open - if you love managing people and building campaigns that change how people get around, please apply!
Prefer PDX/SEA but other locations possible.
altago.com/careers/programs-…
For more context: the 7 people you'll manage are seriously the. best. ever. Super smart, creative, passionate about the mission, positive, low-drama, supportive...a dream team and then some.
I’m going to be here - so excited!! Who else is going?
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Jessica Roberts retweeted
I wonder if the car industry knows that when motorists kill pedestrians, that's good for selling cars, just as mass shootings have proven to be good for selling guns. To be a pedestrian in a car dominated place is to be constantly reminded that everyone but you is armed.
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Oh, no big deal, it’s just that it’s my first day as part of the Partnerships team at my favorite app on the entire planet @transitapp?! I’m definitely keeping it together over here…
PDX: a friend is planning to buy a fairly expensive ($900) road bike, and lock it behind his house. It will be locked to something solid, but this is a very bad idea, right? It’s just a matter of time before it gets stolen, right? @BikeIndex