A Changing Lanes Update from 1910
Off-Ramps for 28 May 2026
Welcome to Off-Ramps, Changing Lanes’ occasional round-up of curated items for discerning readers. Today I’ll highlight three time-sensitive items for your consideration, and to keep things fresh, will do so as if the update was written in 1910, not 2026. Or, to put it another way:
Welcome, dear reader, to Off-Ramps, that occasional miscellany of intelligence, carefully gathered in these pages of Changing Lanes, for the discerning subscriber. Upon this occasion I beg leave to lay before you three matters of some urgency.
1. Mr. Bern Grush, in Person, at Noontide
Upon this day, at the hour of noon (by Eastern reckoning), I shall have the honour of opening the Changing Lanes Substack Live series of colloquies with Mr. Bern Grush.
Mr. Grush is a co-author of my volume The End of Driving. We will discourse upon the subject of the future of urban mobility, as well as the new commercial enterprise he has founded in pursuit of that future. I give fair warning that Mr. Grush and I are not in perfect accord upon this subject, and we shall probe our disagreements with some vigour. I expect it will prove a spirited exchange.
Pray make a note in your diary and join us, here. The discussion shall be open, and I shall be entertaining questions; and so I do beg you to bring your own.
2. The Roots of Progress Fellowship Closes upon the 1st of June 2026
To any reader who writes, or who aspires to do so, this notice is deserving of your attention, all the more so given how little time now remains.
The Roots of Progress 2026 Blog-Building Intensive (BBI) Fellowship is a course of ten weeks — part-time, conducted at a distance, and free of any charge whatsoever. It pairs a programme of instruction in the long-form explanatory essay with the benefit of professional editing and counsel. Besides these, it offers its members a fellowship of some thirty kindred spirits, not to mention that the Fellows shall be brought into the company of the foremost thinkers in the study of progress and the policy of abundance.
This intake is the fourth cohort of the BBI. I myself was a member of the second, and the experience has altered the course of my life. The BBI furnished me with the implements, the camaraderie, the encouragement, and the confidence I required to set down my thoughts in public. Should these be the things you yourself require, that you might advocate for a better world, then by all means you ought to apply.
The final day for application is the 1st of June; pray, then, apply here, and without delay.
3. A Word Concerning the Subscription
Changing Lanes owes its existence to the fact that I take pleasure in writing as an independent man, unbeholden to the editorial line of any single publication. Yet it must flourish sustainably, given the cost in foregone labour that its writing exacts. And so, by way of reminder, upon Tuesday, the 16th of June, the price of a subscription shall be raised.
The present rate of ten American dollars per month, or one hundred per annum, will be discontinued; from that date, new subscriptions shall be thirteen dollars per month, or one hundred and thirty per annum. Those presently subscribing on an annual basis shall retain their current rate until the date of renewal, whilst monthly subscribers shall be moved to the new rate upon the first occasion of their being billed (subsequent to the sixteenth of June).
The implication is that the prudent reader who has been contemplating subscription would do well to act now, for annual subscriptions taken at today's rate shall be secured for a full twelvemonth.