Transportist: February 2026

Welcome to the latest issue of The Transportist, especially to our new readers.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

• Findings Press — Newsletter (There was also a nice shout out to Findings in this CityNerd video by Ray Delahanty)

• TransportLab – Newsletter

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Consider submitting an extended abstract for the International Symposium on Transport Resilience – (July 15-17, 2026, Lyons). Submissions DUE: February 15, 2026.

POSTS

RESEARCH

GRADUATIONS

MEDIA

Lord Mayor Calls For Cycleway Ramp On Harbour Bridge’s Southern Side

The new facility coming off the Bridge looks nice. See this video by Chris Topher to get a sense of it. A better Cycleway Ramp on the south side has risen in importance. Bikes, and e-bikes especially, coming off the bridge will collide with pedestrians and vehicles. Now, with this new northern ramp, there will be more of them.

North Sydney’s bike network presently looks pretty fragmented, which tends to make it far less effective than a connected network. The plan (link) is better, but there is no reason aside from priorities that it can’t be done in a year or two instead of waiting until 2045. The cost of the whole network ($124M) is on par with the North Sydney pool. ($122M).

BOOKS

While I finish up my next book, you should check out these:

The 30-Minute City: Designing for Access by David M. Levinson

YOUR REGULAR REMINDER, AND A NEW REMINDER

• Vehicle Ramming

  • Protesters try to attack driver after truck speeds through Iran demonstration in Los Angeles

  • Driver crashes into McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport

  • Officers fire shots as police car is rammed in Melbourne

• False accusations of vehicle ramming are used to justify state-sponsored domestic terrorism.

  • Chris Mims: “WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon.” Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
    A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

  • AlsoJesse Ventura comments on killing of Renee Good.

  • Bluesky thread from expert on vehicle ramming attacks.

  • Ninth ICE shooting into vehicles since September

  • Previous claims that ICE agents were being rammed by vehicles thrown out.

LINKS

• Automation

  • Chinese driverless delivery vans

  • Delivery robots climbing stairs in Pittsburgh

  • Waymo uses Philippine based tele-operators

• Trains

  • Death toll from Spanish high-speed train disaster rises to 45

  • Commuter train crash in Spain

• Architecture

  • Rendering of lots of new buildings in Sydney. Minecraft architecture seems to be ending.

• Micromobility

  • Hundreds injured in Melbourne’s e-scooter trial, new data shows

  • ‘E-bike cowboys’ swarm Sydney northern beaches golf club
    

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On the one hand, there is now evidence many good people would hide you from the Nazis; on the hand, there are Nazis.

US Federal agents are responsible for two out of three homicides in Minneapolis this year.