Working for city transportation leaders as Director of Open Source Operations @OpenMobilityFnd guiding MDS/CDS. Formerly @LouDataOfficer, @CodeforAmerica.
Louisville, KY
Joined October 2016
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Percent of Louisville households that do not even own a single car. When you build only for cars instead of transit, bikes, and walking options across the county, you are leaving up to 50% of households behind and unsafe. Based on 2022 Census tract data:
data.census.gov/map/040XX00U…
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Nobody who's traveled, even via aerial maps, needs to be told that this is the USA🇺🇸.
1. Freeway walling off river.
2. Vast freeway interchange maximizing waste of valuable urban land.
3. Extensive surface parking.
I know this city, but it's also almost every US city.
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That's over 29 thousand households/families in the county with no car. About 1 in 10 households in Louisville do not own a vehicle and get around by foot, bike, scooter, bus, or ride share. Are our streets built to be safe for those children, elderly, & families outside of cars?
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The first battery electric train in America
🔋1 megawatt hour battery
⚡️2 megawatt peak charging from a pantograph
50 mile range
Fast charges a whole trip in just 20 minutes at the station
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🚘Checked Waymo pricing on Saturday night at 6 pm on my way to dinner and Waymo was charging $71.99 for a ride - one of the highest per mile prices I’ve seen here in LA. I then checked other apps and the same route on Lyft Black was $38.42 and Uber Black was $33.97.
What’s interesting is that when I flipped back to Waymo, the price went down to $19.93 - one of the lowest per mile prices I’ve seen! Not sure if it was a glitch or they knew I was checking prices on competitors but guess it always pays to shop around 🙂
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e-bike and e-scooter collisions with…?
E-bike & e-scooter collisions are up over 30% this year. More than half of e-bike rider deaths from 2017 to 2025 involved illegal bikes going over 25 mph.
Today at City Hall, we're hearing from DOT, NYPD, delivery workers & advocates, while considering legislation that would:
✅ Create a trade-in program to get illegal e-bikes off our streets
✅ Stop illegal mopeds from being sold
✅ Set safe delivery time standards so no worker has to race the clock
City with the population of Louisville.
DENVER IS TURNING THE PARKING LOTS AROUND BALL ARENA INTO AN ENTIRE CITY.
The 55-acre redevelopment could deliver:
• 6,000 homes
• 10–12M square feet of mixed-use development
• Shops, offices and hotels
• 10 acres of parks
• Up to six new pedestrian and bike bridges
The deal also keeps the Nuggets and Avalanche downtown through 2050.
This is the future of urban arenas: homes, businesses and public spaces that remain alive long after the final buzzer.
Every sea of stadium parking in America should take notes.
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New Citystate episode!🚨
This week talking about the new planning process for Big Rock at Cherokee Park, an exciting announcement about the Moving Forest project in downtown Louisville, and a little chatter about some of Louisville's new mega festivals.
open.spotify.com/episode/2NB…
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A Roundabout Way to Create a Pedestrian Plaza (for Louisville's Douglass Loop)
udstudio.org/stories/a-round…
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My new Substack piece: City Planning Has Too Many Public Meetings (link in reply)
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In celebration of Park(ing) Day, my latest Field Notes article quantifies the relative amount of surface parking that exists per Louisville resident. The infographic below summarizes some of it, but full details can be found here: udstudio.org/stories/a-parki…
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next time an engineer tells you the traffic volume is too high on your neighborhood street for stop signs show them this
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The Patricks are back after almost 4 years! Join us for a chat about changes to downtown Louisville's Main St and NuLu commercial corridor, the "resurgence" of the campaign to remove I-64 from Louisville's waterfront, and new ideas for Douglass Loop
open.spotify.com/episode/69X…
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Which has better travel times for cars: Amsterdam or Atlanta? Remarkably, it's Amsterdam.
There's a critical lesson here: it's possible to design great places for walking, biking, and transit that are also better for drivers. We just published a report on how.
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Download the report here. It's chalk full for practical strategies to create beautiful walkable places without turning drivers against the idea.
mobyconacademy.com/files/how…
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This is what good highway removal looks like. Parks and mixed use developments.
