The Quad Urbanist
An Urbanist Blog from the Quad Cities
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Build Streets Safer
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If you want cars to be less dangerous, the best two ways are: A. To have fewer of them B. To have the ones that are there go slower Unfortun...
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Why Suburbs Should Love Urbanism
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We often see transit planning and urbanist design cast as a fight between suburban and urban interests: spending money on transit in urban a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Build EV Charging Better
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I use two electric cars on the regular, and I've noticed a real problem with how we're deploying EV charger technology as a country...
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Weaponized Vehicles
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Recently, we have heard an increase in claims that cars are deadly weapons; specifically, from ICE claims that someone driving a car near th...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Congestion Pricing
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This little article , concisely summing up that congestion pricing looks like it has really really worked in New York, and suggesting tha...
Sunday, January 18, 2026
The Perils of Light Snow
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This week in Iowa we've been getting a lot of light snow, and it made me have some thoughts about which kinds of transportation are bes...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
What To Build, When
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This post about ST3 (the third installment of the Sound Transit Link expansion) interested me in its own right, but I want to use it as a j...
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