When your response to a kid being hit is to cite them for “being outside the crosswalk“, you’re really doing things wrong www.fox13memphis.com/news/15-year...

i don't get the love for waymo in certain urbanist circles. it's safer cars, at least it seems that way from available data, but it's more cars. more cars are bad! we should want less cars!

I want one so bad

BNA looking like Cities Skylines 2 is so funny

Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”

Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.

Drivers are seriously not ok

local man clearly suffering from economic anxiety

What happens when you downzone? Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago. Findings: —Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas; —Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.

me: towers are good them: no, we need nice 4-6 storey, human scale buildings me: we do! let’s rezone the city so we can get 4-6 storeys everywhere them: oh no, not like that

please spare a moment of pity for the folks struggling with the choice between "userbase that hates the current Silicon Valley trend" and "Skinner Box for making Nazis"

Welp I guess this is why they made this announcement. www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one

Something that frustrates me about transportation is that we are so obsessed with particulars and the exact conditions of any crash, you miss the glaringly obvious problem. It's getting darker and colder, so there's been a wave of pedestrian crashes.

Oof. It'd be an understatement to say that my RadCity changed my life. Rad has been a brand I recommend to people for many years because I thought they likely had staying power but I suppose no one is invulnerable to the Times. brb going to buy as many spare parts as I can while I still can...

Villains used to obfuscate. They looked normal on tv and said things like "Fiscal discipline." Now you have grotesque guys hissing "Empathy is weakness" like a cartoon

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Especially good episode! John and Andre are heroes when it comes to missing middle development, especially cool to hear them talk about it from a policy lens!

Pittsburgh could’ve had this headline already if folks hadn’t decided to tie the obviously effective, slam dunk, political winner of parking mandate repeal to the immensely more controversial, less obviously effective, political football of IZ

Way

In that place today

At the heart of this mindset is the idea, "our best days are behind us" -- that more people can only make things worse, never better. For such an inherently conservative idea, it's espoused by far too many people on the lefty end of the spectrum.

Essentially Amsterdam weather, except it happens about 11 times a day, always as soon as you step out of the shop/restaurant/tram

I want everyone who wanted to /did snidely deride No Kings to read this.

For my newsletter, I wrote about how I was affected by the No Kings protest in my town. (I am no longer thinking about fleeing the country) www.burnsnotice.com/no-kings-cha...

As I eat this 6pc spicy tenders with a truly perfect biscuit (even tho I ordered 3pc), I can’t help but think about the time Bo Bice got mad online about Popeyes’ customer service. Probably no better way to tell everyone you have rancid vibes!

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

Dang so glad we have the national guard here to protect us from the war zone that is Memphis, just overrun with gang bangers and criminals

Vacancy trutherism is the left’s Voter fraud, a totally made up, exaggerated, angry because they’re wrong, made up issue that is so tiring to talk about because it’s a fools errand. Dispel one thing, they pivot to another. Waste of time. We need more homes and voter fraud doesn’t exist

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

See: this gorgeous home with a rentable ADU on a corner lot in one of the most “luxury” neighborhoods in Memphis, $685k. www.zillow.com/homedetails/... I can’t afford it, of course, but the point stands.

These unique North American elevator standards are generally mandated in the name of safety, but they perversely make us less safe by increasing travel by stair and by lowering the supply of dense housing in urban environments, increasing driving. This is really important.

Every time a city prioritizes non-car travel, pedestrianizes thoroughfares, expands transit, improves bike networks, implements congestion pricing or creates new public spaces, that city becomes better. It’s not a war on cars. It’s an effort to make cities better & more livable.

The power of Shade

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Today, the Center for Building published “Beyond Zoning” by John Zeanah, Memphis’s Chief of Development and Infrastructure. He chronicles the non-zoning barriers faced by Malone Commons, a low-rise multifam/mixed-use project, and how they worked through them www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...

You people always say this like you think putting evidence in the evidence machine (copyright @dansheehan.bsky.social) is a brave political act instead of a pointless addiction to faves

Homeless people are also not a static, monolithic group of people. People fall into and get out of homelessness all the time. Homelessness is not just One Thing. Underemployed guy couch surfing until he has more steady employment and the hard sleeping schitzophrenic are both homeless!

Another beautiful Sunday morning aka another day where I am compelled to work on my plan to bring about the gas leaf blower’s demise

Personally, I hope the absence of quality transit, fast trains, and safe bike lanes makes Americans notice how far their country has fallen behind.

these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes

happy labor day

The ring is ugly, right?

Americans are the most spoiled people on earth

appreciating the miracles of modern technology while still understanding its limitations is one of the most important modern skills one can cultivate the "that's cool" to "that can do anything" pipeline has been weaponized, but it's not enough to just retreat to the safety of "actually, it sucks"

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

When I started Pittsburgh Remains to be Seen, I said my goal was to create walking tours of the mapped artifacts. That project became the PastFinders app and today there are now four walking tours that highlight visible artifacts of long-gone structures and places! Give them a try!