Would you like to see more Transit Oriented Development along GCRTA‘s Red Line? Plz join @allaboardohio.org this Thurs at 6:30p at Lakewood Library for a discussion on this topic. Registration link in replies. Optional Zoom if you can’t join in person. Concept for E105 & Quincy

When I worked in a cafe in NE Seattle, I saw that the bulk of our customers were from the neighborhood and just walked to our location. Most of the cars parked in front were by people who never frequented our or any other store. Cars do not drive business (pun intended).

If you adopted, as your guiding heuristic, "not a single voter knows a single thing about policy or politics," you wouldn't be entirely accurate, but you would be closer to the truth than the impression most people who follow politics have.

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House. I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure. Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently. Here are a few others 🧵

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Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?

12. Speaking of abnormally easy terrain for HSR: Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Cleveland, both via Toledo.

TTC: turnstyle jumpers beware. Provincial Offence Officers on the scene. P.O.O. On every bus n train. You’ve been warned? Us: we don’t want POO on public transit. TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning! Us: So it’s warning… number 2? TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd

Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.

look I can’t predict how this is going to go, but even as rhetoric it’s leagues above anything that leaders in the states have even sniffed at. They’ve been content to keep trying Rube Goldberg-esque tax credits in hopes of barely nudging the margins.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

i'm often asked what are some shortcomings of seattle's single stair legislation that i'd like to see changed. to start - what's allowed. 6 stories. 4 units per stair/floor. corridor separating units from stair. pressurized stair. max 2 instances per parcel. text here: up.codes/viewer/seatt...

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It is fascinating to me how every conversation about cycling invites dozens of comments like this. It’s true that some cyclists are rude! It’s also true that this is not relevant to whether traffic laws should be changed bsky.app/profile/leth...

rebranding the 15 min city.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

They should have just called The Pitt “NewER”.

Regular reminder that Republicans are substantially less likely to understand how marginal tax rates work

It's funny how there's an inverse correlation with nominally supporting the idea of "degrowth" and the outcomes of the associated policies. To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.

New transit projects benefit drivers infinitely more than roadway expansions.

Imagine a modern fleet of trains in Cleveland.

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There's been a lot of mockery of the notion that people are being canceled for their belief ("which conservative belief were you canceled for, tax cuts?"). But in these cases, this isn't even what happened - the people in question chose to cancel themselves (among liberals) for whatever reason. /end

Guy who owes his entire career and vast wealth to Keynesian economics voice: I hate Keynesian economics

This week we’re visiting the Ohio Statehouse to meet with dozens of legislators. Take a look at our brand new advocacy guide we’ll be using there! “Ohio Runs on Rail” allaboardohio.org/RunsOnRail

Why was the Chicago O’Hare multi modal transit center / rental car facility built backwards? It is a LONG walk from the terminal transit station (red) to the Metra station (blue). Terminal transit and bus bays should have been on the east side to enable shorter walks to Metra. Stupid design.

I do feel bad for the lady who thought Trump would make IVF free and then got fired from her public sector job, but since political correctness is now dead, I'm also allowed to say I think she's dumb as bricks.

Congestion pricing keeps us safe! Crashes in the congestion relief zone dropped 18.2% between Jan. 5 and Feb. 21 vs. the same time last year. Injuries? Down 17.7%. The numbers speak for themselves, this is benefiting every single NYer. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/26/w...

NYC Congestion Pricing Month 1 🚶‍♀️Foot traffic up 4.6% 🚌 Bus ridership up 6% w/ improved bus times 🚇 Subway ridership up 7% 🚗 Vehicle traffic down 9% ⏰ Drive times 20% - 50% faster 👍 60% of NYC voters want it to continue 👍 66% support among those who drive into congestion zone at least once a week

The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.

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Please get FDNY out of the business of inspections and plan exams! This is what took down Eric Adams. They just do not do it efficiently, and it creates an opening for corruption (often called bribery, but to me it looks more like extortion)

The starting premise, that progressive drug policies lead to increased drug use or negative effects of drugs, is a lie. This has been shown more times than I can count. Harm reduction reduces harms.

This is a list of blockbuster drugs in 2024. Guess how many can trace their origins to NIH funded research? All of them.

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

Life at 110 mph Albany and Schnectady, NY, Oct 2019. We need this all the way from New York to Chicago.

Brexit making the headlines.

Congestion Pricing is creating tremendous benefits. Subway Ridership: ⬆️ 13% Bus Ridership: ⬆️ 6% (⬆️ 21% weekends) Transit Crime: 🔻36% Fatal Car Crashes: 🔻44% Trip Times: 🔻10-30%

Reminder: More than 500,000 athletes play NCAA sports. Fewer than 10 are openly transgender.

Could Greater Cleveland RTA someday reroute the green line to John Carroll University? Doing so would promote increased public transit use and transit-oriented development. Visit methodicle.com for more info and images of our transformative idea! #cleveland #urbanplanning #publictransit #rendering

Friendly reminder that building infrastructure for big sports events will never not be the worst use of public money possible. Golden mansions for the lifelong prime minister will at least feature in a documentary or two.

Confirming the point, note this from @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social:

Democrats need to stop politicizing the multiple plane crashes that occurred immediately after Trump fired the head of the FAA.

Thalidomide is a common trope (lie) in propaganda from antivaxxers and other science deniers. Thalidomide was not FDA approved in the United States until 1998 - it was never an approved or prescribable drug before then - and only then for leprosy and later cancer (it was never allowed in pregnancy)

many more people are going to die if Trump does what he wants to do to the federal government. "how dare you point out that we need a competent federal government when accidents happen" when the fuck should we point it out?