Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends

A really great reframing for single stairs: it’s about prevention-based protection measures vs redundancy-based compensation

This article covers a breadth of issues very well. Not all of these issues have great answers on their own but their collective uncertainty should give us pause as robotaxis expand Most notable to me from this: if RTs are safer but shift people from transit, it will make the system wildly less safe

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

I'm not in general a kantian but I feel like this quasi-kantian point is important. You can't be denying permission to build in this or that spot just because there's some other more optimal spot, because there will always be another more optimal spot. the norm cannot be universalized

Huge fans of NORTA’s 11 bus

Currently in NORTA and I think you could argue it is WAY too cheap. $15 for a week pass for bus, streetcar, AND ferry. I mean as a tourist I love it but this is def worth $25 at least if not more. Also $3/day is crazy! Idk how much more service they could run with double the fare, but it’s not zero!

In case you need more proof that drivers are NOT ok, see this person deciding it’s reasonable to use their car mirror as a weapon bc they refuse to legally park their car. This should get you in actual legal trouble and probably court mandated counseling.

Urgh. Starting to think we need someone to write a good article on what’s going on with MATA bc it touches a lot of these points in an illustrative way and I’m even more worried it might need to be me who writes it

What happens if a Republican admin fully pulls off the bandaid and no longer funds transit operations? Will locals adapt and plan more efficient, scalable systems or just let them die on the vine? I have my suspicions.

So much of the issues related to transit governance is downstream from the fact that both the boards of these agencies and many of advocates in this space believe that transit is a welfare program that acts as “transportation of last resort” as opposed to a viable, affordable alternative to cars.

When your local pol complains about the cost of transit fares it immediately becomes clear they do not actually use or rely on transit

The equity case for infrequent buses at low fares only makes sense if you believe low income people’s time has no value or that they don’t value their time.

NOLA bound via @amtrak.com!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

To be clear, while Trump's HUD is telling a racist lie when they blame the housing shortage in CA and NY on immigrants, what they're saying is not all that different from the people who complain about transplants or who say California is full.

“X is fine because I’m too savvy to have my brain corrupted by the X algorithm” and “I have amazing and interesting takes about every goddamn thing under the sun” kind of go together

A lot of the resistance to traffic enforcement seems to come from people taking it as a personal judgment on their decision to occasionally speed, check their phone while driving, or roll through a stop. So I want to be absolutely clear: Yes, I am judging your shitty, selfish, reckless behavior.

Can’t wait for this block to remain a vacant lot for another 2-4 years while the company pretends to try and build this wreg.com/news/local/a...

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...

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