I use Omnivore as my read-it-later and RSS feed reader app.
Bike & lifestyle & light reading
Transportation & cities
- Along for the Ride, Sarah Barnes
- The Urban Condition, Benjamin Schneider
- Ephemeral New York
- Brooklyn Ramblings hasn’t posted since 2008 :(
- forgotten ny
- undercity.org
- I’m Just Walkin’ - guy walking every street in nyc
- Old Urbanist, Charlie Gardner - has a great blog roll if you’re into older urban-focused blogger and wordpress sites
- Places Journal - cool journal about cities and places and maps and geography of people, imo academic but accessible
- S(ubstack)-bahn, Seung Lee - author of that BART fart tweet writes incredibly well researched pieces on the history of transit and cities, with a focus on Asia
- Station by Station, Rose Cohen - she’s visiting every single SEPTA station and writing about it
- Straphanger, Taras Grescoe - generally transit focused travel blog from someone who knows about transit, unique perspective imo
- The Discourse Lounge, Darrell Owens - YIMBY friend who does good breadth writing on a variety of urban issues and in depth pieces on housing
- The Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark
- TransitMap.net, Cameron Booth - transit map focused
- Streetsblog SF
- Streetsblog NYC
- Streetsblog Chicago
In the weeds
- Caltrain HSR Compatibility Blog, Clem Tiller
- Pedestrian Observations, Alon Levy - Alon has become notorious among transit industry people for suggesting things like schedules for the Long Island Railroad that would require trains ten times more powerful than exist anywhere on earth (physics note: this is impossible, rail adhesion is a limiting factor).
- Position Light, Jersey Mike - explains north american rail signalling systems and tech
- Taking the Train, Ian Galinson - rail focused writing from a sustainability perspective
Communities and internet and culture
News
- Hell Gate - worker owned NYC publication
- Mission Local - SF news that doesn’t suck and isn’t owned by a conservative San Mateo County billionaire