“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s really incredible that white progressive men don’t seem to understand that Graham Platner’s campaign was grown in a lab to play on their insecurities

Eighty five more people were killed by cars in Los Angeles than New York City despite the latter having over twice the population as the former.

Lmao of course it’s NIMBY shit

If everyone reacting to this incredulously/asking why we can’t have nice things could take a few mins to email Manhattan CB 2 about how the proposed project’s design and aesthetics are appropriate for the historic district that would be great. 🫶🏻 📧 cbmanhattan.cityofnewyork.us/cb2/contact/

The current NIMBY speaking literally just said “I live right next to this parking lot and it gives the area a real neighborhood feeling”

Personally I don't think CA should give Tesla or any other Musk company a single penny of public subsidy after Elon's war on democracy and the state budget. Basic exercise in fighting back!

It really annoys me that the moral panic over e-bikes obscures the incredible impact they have had for disabled people.

They should start showing cut scenes of Santa Clara. Give us a dilapidated 1970s strip mall and an 8 lane arterial road. Show us how many restaurants are already closed even though it's only 5:30.

this interaction (about me!) says everything you need to know about the Bay Area neolibs

Very telling that the initiative exempts all home value for CA seniors. Could have easily capped the exemption to the first $1M in value, but the motivation isn't about low-income seniors in modest homes, it's about the rich wanting an exemption.

Because they're fucking idiots that's why

Wow. While neighbors marched for safety, CM Joann Ariola chose to drive on Freedom Dr through the rally. Her message to families in the area and kids who attend school 2 blocks away? Their safety matters less than a 0.3 mile shortcut for a few. 🎥: Safer Streets Richmond Hilll

The bad news: our amazing Chief of Staff and Policy Director @andrewdfine.bsky.social is leaving. The good news: He’s joining the Mamdani administration as Senior Advisor for Policy & Regulatory Reform to Deputy Mayor Leila Bozorg! 🥳 Exciting news: We’re hiring a new policy director ⬇️

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Importantly, it also means we are hiring for a new Policy Director - job posting is here, please share far and wide! open-new-york.breezy.hr/p/851ac1ee79...

Some exciting (& bittersweet) news: our Chief of Staff & Policy Director @andrewdfine.bsky.social will be leaving Open New York to join the Mamdani admin, where he will be a senior advisor to DM Bozorg overseeing housing policy 🧵

America: where the alignments of $100B transportation projects are chosen based on whether a chain store would have to be relocated.

dawg the pedophiles are unionizing

This I think is a big part of the appeal of AI to the oligarchs. Not that it will replace labor or raise profits in general, but that it will specifically replace the labor whose autonomy impinges on them personally.

There's a weird amount of Newsom glazing that comes from people who are unfamiliar with California politics and I can assure you that a hypothetical President Newsom would be the American Keir Starmer

It's pretty simple, you can care about preserving free curbside parking or you can care about housing costs, homelessness and climate change.

One day NYC will catch up to the urbanism of Missoula, MT

"I know Kid Rock's real name" is an amazing negative flex, good job JD

Every person running for local office should be asked, “Are you brave enough to undermine the sanctity of a parking space?”

That money could buy 200,000 e bikes

Tragedy in Playa Del Rey, as a 7-months-pregnant mother was killed by a driver while biking with her family. The baby was delivered by C-section but died in the NICU. The crash took place on Pershing Ave., where safety measures were removed in 2017 after NIMBY backlash. Donate here:

The problem with Prop 13 vis-a-vis the state budget isn't just that it cratered property tax revenue, either. It's that a budget so heavily dependent on taxing income and financial asset wealth is inherently volatile. We have a system designed to make long term fiscal planning extremely difficult.

“Catholic schoolgirl” was an extremely normalized trope sexualizing underage girls. A common punchline. I never received more sexual harassment from grown men, in my life, than when I was walking to school in my uniform as a 14 year-old. Mostly suburban men catcalling from their cars.

WSDOT: Hi SEPA we want to build a massive "diverging diamond" interchange on I-90 at SR-18 to facilitate additional sprawl is that cool? SEPA: Sounds fine to me City of Seattle: Hey SEPA, we'd like to allow people to build more homes in the heart of our city SEPA: Slow down just a minute fella

When NY and California are literally losing congressional seats to red states I really don't give a shit what "the community" wants. build housing.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

"Democrats can't abolish ICE right now so don't ask for it." Republicans spent decades screaming "End abortion." Then, when they had the power to do it, they basically did! Repeating out loud what you want to happen even though it can't right now is good politics!

Why is the Dept of Transportation trying to torpedo NYC congestion pricing? Why - in God’s name - is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on TV smearing the Minnesotans killed by ICE? For @newrepublic.com, I show Trump has turned USDOT into an authoritarian weapon. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Leading democratic politicians should make plans to be in Springfield on February 4th

We're looking for translators in French, Spanish and ASL Springfield, Ohio is bracing to protect our neighbors and keep Haitian children from being swept up in our foster care or youth incarceration systems www.haitiancss.org

There’s still 2 weeks or so until the filing deadline. Any Zohrans out there want to jump in? Anyone?

Southwest Ohio is home to some of the most MAGA and pro-ICE electeds in the country (including Vance, who still has a home there). This will be a very different situation from Minneapolis.

"this soda has 7 grams of protein" and this earth has fallen into irreversible corruption

Transit revenue idea: bring back banger merch for transit construction projects. Couldn’t hurt.

Once again, comments from NYers about “newcomers” are indistinguishable from MAGA rhetoric about immigrants. Especially when the subject matter is the mostly-immigrant delivery workforce.

I love a wrestling-style teaser

Can draw a direct line from this result back to the 1970s era degrowther ideology that holds new neighbors to be a pollutant and public health hazard

we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics

“San Francisco taxes new housing at about the same rate that it taxes cigarettes.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... by @dbroockman.bsky.social

This five year old is still in jail

I worry that the transit advocate high from congestion pricing revenue will be short-lived, and the reality of crippling, uncontrolled costs leaving New York dependent on the federal gov’t to throw billions at shorter and shorter lengths of tunnel will kick back in www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/n...

Someone convince me which team I should care about winning this game. Need to feel something.

ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!