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I'll be sharing bulletins from my life and travels as a straphanger, bicycle rider, and all-around avoider of automobiles.

I’m the author of eight non-fiction books, among them Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, which took me to 14 cities around the world looking at the best, and worst, in urban and inter-urban transportation.

I’ve got strong opinions, but also the data and experiences to back them up.

I also love food, and am obsessed with gastronomic culture and history, which is why I’ve launched another Substack, The Lost Supper. A book of the same name, my eighth, will be published by Greystone in September 2023.

My writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveller, Gourmet, Afar, The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Smithsonian, and many others.

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