Strong Towns' Chuck Marohn betraying all of his principles on behalf of the Michigan League in opposition to a pro-housing package of bills that would (among other things) legalize duplexes and ADUs, reduce parking requirements, and speed up permitting. This guy has completely lost the plot.

Much has been written about potential safety benefits of AVs. Given the lack of AV data transparency, I cannot speak to whether, or to what degree, AVs are safer than an average human driver. What I can say: This is the wrong question. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The same Republican state legislatures that passed age verification laws for porn are silent on Grok creating and publishing CSAM. It was never about the children.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Last week we discovered that many towns have hungry bridges.

Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel. There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

We can have safe streets for all. Leadership signals what is a priority. This is Day 3 of Mamdani's mayorship. #A2Council

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Well I guess I need to apologize to the creators of the dumb Amazon Prime Jack Ryan series for thinking the plot (and in particular, the finale) of Season 2 was laughably ridiculous Turns out real life is actually even worse than a poorly-written jingoistic fantasy. What a time to be alive.

Incredible to see no reflection here at all about how San Francisco's so-called "progressives" have spent decades using every tool at their disposal to prevent new housing from being built. Mamdani's campaign platform was like ... the opposite of that! (I just hope he can deliver...)

you can say what you want about a trans person, you can say what you want about a Somali person, but by GOD you'd better not say something mean about the pretend man who lives in my phone

Opinion | Mayor Taylor is tall and handsome. Here’s why that’s a problem for Mayor Taylor. #a2council

one last time, for the road

29. Hamch - for too long, humans have had to choose between ham or ranch. No longer.

Post a transit selfie from 2025

People who know me know I am *very* particular about bike rack designs, and 99% of the time I am telling people "just install inverted Us or staples ffs", but ... yeah, the Paris Trombone might actually be the best design I've ever come across.

Show me proof of a donation to World Central Kitchen. From now til the 31st of December, 11:59 pm ET, for every $20 raised, I’ll reveal a new type of imaginary ranch dressing from my frankly unhinged list of imaginary ranch dressings. World Central Kitchen: wck.org An FAQ: tinyurl.com/yjtwvtrf

The year is 2035. California's entire base of taxation is young renters and their entire budget goes to insuring suburban McMansions built in fire hazard regions. Half of Florida is underwater financially and the other half literally. Illinois is fine but still fucks up transit funding constantly.

What percentage of planned data center build out for generative AI will find paying enterprise use cases before 2035? My guess is single digits given the reliability of the current technology. It doesn't work for most use cases and won't get much better without significant tech breakthroughs.

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

Very weird framing here... has @sfchronicle.com never heard of bollards before? cc @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

And Joseph came with Mary, great with child, to Ann Arbor. But the Townies turned them away toward Ypsilanti, saying, "The city is full; it is not meet that every man should afford to dwell among us." And they were cast out, for there was no room for the poor in their sight. #a2council

Tax the fucking billionaires into nonexistence and feed the hungry children

Congestion Pricing's first year couldn't have been more successful. Never forget we had to fight city reps, the state, and the president for this.

You'll hear more from official comms channels next week, but an early present for everyone: Frequency on FAST Woodward is *finally* increasing! Preview the improved schedules for FAST Woodward, FAST Gratiot, and Route 710 (Nine Mile) on SMART's website: www.smartbus.org/About/News/j...

Who’s going to tell the Steelers mascot, Steely McBeam, that he’s actually been carrying around a prestressed concrete I-beam this whole time?

Cars 1.35 million!

UMich consumer sentiment (current conditions) at 50.4 is a new all-time low -- going back to data from the 1970s.

It's that time of the year again... #bikesky

Got yelled at this week for making statements that will supposedly alienate the average white male voter and what I want to emphasize is this: appealing to the average white male voter is not my aim and not my job.

The project converted one intersection to one-way for cars, with contraflow lanes to allow two-way cycling. They also installed speed humps, raised the intersections outside the school, added curb extensions, and lowered the posted speed limit to 20 mph. (2/3)

The results show that the conversion worked to slow vehicle traffic, with 97% of drivers complying with the new 20mph speed limit and zero drivers exceeding 30mph. It also led to a 50% increase in cycling traffic. (3/3) www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...

After a 16 year old on a bike was killed, and an 18 year old on foot was critically injured, Chicago decided to install effective traffic calming on Long Avenue to stop drivers from using it as a rat run. (1/3)

Kudos to the City of Ann Arbor for doing a pretty decent job of clearing protected bike lanes! (seen here: westbound Pauline) ... but the opposite of kudos to the city for putting in a paint-only door-zone lane on the other side of the road, that's now covered in ice and unusable. #a2council

🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨 We’re down to the final 16 contestants as you decide who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-round...

For too long our cookies have been zoned exclusively for uniformly sized chocolate chips. We need greater diversity in our chocolate pieces! (... and also I mean, anyone buying Pound Plus bars clearly must believe in Chocolate Abundance ...)

When I was in high school we made 69 jokes but the economy is so bad kids these days can only joke about 67

Merry Dutch Christmas! 🚲🌲

The RFK, jr effect.

The online survey for the Ann Arbor Roadway Rightsizing project closes on December 19. If you have not yet filled it out, please do so, and tell the project team to put safety for ALL road users first in their designs. #A2Council #VisionZero engage.a2gov.org/a2r2

"Local safe streets advocate has more photos of bike lanes, crosswalks and intersections than of his family from recent vacation." www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

for whatever reason, the victims of traffic violence never factor into the calculation. no urgency there. but do something that might affect a suburban lawyer who had a few drinks and then it becomes an “equity” issue

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options. humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

Some great news from MTGA! The next Michigan Trails Magazine will once again include Detroit trails. MTGA has connected us with the new publisher so we can help support this.👏 www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...