Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

DOT Engineer | Sustainable Transportation | Safe Systems | Advocate for Livable Communities Michigan Joined September 2016

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

8 hours ago

Car brain, amirite?

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler

a week ago

Cities should not sacrifice their residents’ quality of life on the altar of suburban motorists’ convenience.

Sean Olson @ManitobaSAO

a week ago

@Corbienest Make it so I can commute into the downtown without dodging cyclists or looking at an empty bike line I could be using instead, and you’ve got yourself a deal.

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Designing our cities exclusively around cars and car-related access is just repeatedly solving this geometry problem over and over again, but with diminishing returns. Focusing on walking, biking, and taking transit is often better (and more fun).

Adam Tranter @adamtranter

3 weeks ago

Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities. This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 weeks ago

@SauntValerian I’m not thinking out of the box, I’m thinking ON the box.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 weeks ago

I’m officially CPTED certified now and my official recommendation is to put skateable benches everywhere to “activate the space.”

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 weeks ago

And plenty of lighting so they can skate at night.

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Mason Home Builder @bankertobuilder

4 weeks ago

Every neighborhood should have a cute, walkable coffee shop in it

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Dave @DE_Gifford

a month ago

Some people will tell you we can't build new buildings that fit the neighborhood character without adding acres of new parking. Corktown, Detroit.

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JC Reindl @jcreindl

2 months ago

Wow. After a month and a half closure, looks like Detroit’s People Mover is back.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

2 months ago

I left Detroit in 2008, so the city is VERY disorienting for me now.

Dion @2024dion

2 months ago

Spent some time walking around downtown Detroit this afternoon. Most of the 2010s projects that were ongoing when I left in 2022 are complete (Hudson’s Site, Book Tower, a few smaller buildings) but it doesn’t seem that there’s much that’s new, which is a crazy contrast to my

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the hotter kenny omega @SamGreszes

2 months ago

You don't hear about this bc it is specifically related to adding protected bike lanes and its illegal in the usa to imply that infringing on people's god given right to 8-lane residential roads might be necessary for traffic safety

FactPost @factpostnews

2 months ago

15 Chicago wards experienced zero traffic fatalities in 2025 under Mayor Brandon Johnson's Complete Streets initiative.

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Jason, @jasonc_nc

6 months ago

Many city parks depts view “commerce” in parks negatively. No one can adequately explain why, but it’s reality. It’s also self-defeating as it creates a revenue source & drives higher usage. Unfortunately many parks dept heads measure success by acres owned, not visitors per acre. More cities need to adopt the kiosk strategy of Lisbon and elsewhere.

Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman

6 months ago

American city parks have a SERIOUS deficiency of vendors selling tasty treats, so it's cool to see a new place popping up in Central Park to grab a pastry and a coffee.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

2 months ago

This place was super fun and it’s a shame that it didn’t last.

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2 months ago

Should’ve kept this as a public space . Would’ve been the perfect place for teens to hangout downtown .

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

2 months ago

We dig these up often in Michigan. I’ve seen a couple different styles too. I’ve heard Monroe even still has some in service!

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

2 months ago

This is crazy American worker “I've been working in Chicago for a while now. I've only heard stories of the wooden water mains, but today I finally found one” “Check that out. All wood crazy” Chicago has had public water delivered by wooden water mains…. These mains have been

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

2 months ago

@faraz_r_khan Yes, your house is absolutely making you sick. Get a dust sample and run an ERMI test on it.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

2 months ago

1. Humbly observe where people in your community are struggling. 2. Ask "What's the next smallest thing we can do to address that struggle *right now*?" 3. Do that thing. Right now. 4. Repeat

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

2 months ago

Hey New York, no one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.

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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka

2 months ago

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan. In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have. So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently. An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident. The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010. The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

France Safety Travel @francesafetytra

2 months ago

What is stopping humanity from living peacefully together?

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 months ago

@MOrcmisha They are infrastructure

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 months ago

Street trees ✅ provide shade ✅ improve drainage ✅ provide visual interest ✅ encourage drivers to slow down Why wouldn’t we save them?

Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek

3 months ago

There's a pavement near me which the tree roots have seriously raised up. One has to step over it. Many councils would consider chopping the tree down. Instead, why not fill the area with bountiful planting and create a pavement bypass. More function and more beauty.

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 months ago

@Rekt57v @createstreets Wait until you hear about roads!

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Dustin 🚌🚶‍♂️🚲 @EngineerDustin

3 months ago

@19th_c_Houston I’m speaking in terms of protected pedestrians - pedestrian safety is not a binary yes/no, so not saving the trees because they’re not in the perfect location is absurd.