$15,000 in 1971 is about $125,000 today. This house should have become something like 4.2 houses.

one thing about buildings is that they are products. Sprawl spreads as a slow motion wave across the landscape like an algae colony, with the inner rings cheapening as they become obsolete. This broke down in Seattle as we hit the mountains, and now it’s harder to grow the inner rings beyond algae.

what’s crazy to me is that the rail and public transit modes here are fantastically deadly by modern standards. Deaths nowadays are an order of magnitude lower for these modes and we have 3x as many people.

I want 98% less discourse on naughty e-bike riders and 98% more discourse about e-bike camping setups that are this dope.

I’m gonna be real with you all, I think that anyone who thinks America’s a shithole that isn’t worth saving isn’t worth listening to. The idea of a purifying revolution-to-come is a fantasy, a terminating piece of cope that keeps you from believing it’s worth putting in the work now.

much as we celebrate the 250th anniversary by starting the struggle against tyranny instead of overcoming it, we celebrate this fair with a global warming disaster

let's goooo!

“what if soccer had baseball schedules?”

“We bankrupted our city, can we join yours?” is not a particularly strong sales pitch for a city looking to merge with another city because they went bankrupt

this both looks great and also like it cost about six thousand dollars to build

I walked through this looking for some vegetables to buy and the vegetable vendors were all closed, a missed opportunity for them likely

“Successful man in his 60s moves to Florida” is like one of those banal Onion headlines. yes, this is one of the more cliche things that someone who qualifies for senior discounts can do

People (and many studies) are saying!

Suburbs aren’t inherently car dependent, and can be quite convenient on a bike. Sometimes, nothing you need is more than three miles away.

⚽️ Seattle Is Beautiful I’m loving images from around the country of fans gathering and celebrating in our civic spaces This is what the Seattle Waterfront was made for!

strategic buggy-whip reserve

A data centre is usually treated as a grid problem: a large, growing electricity load. In Finland it's becoming a heat asset. Fortum has switched on two industrial heat pump plants that will recover waste heat from neighbouring data centres from next year. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/l...

Vancouver can sure put on a good mega-event.

Some of us went through the list of North America World Cup stadiums and concluded: 1) Most are in the middle of nothing, not great 2) Atlanta and Seattle are the only remotely good US sites 3) Seattle would be remarkable if it wasn’t so close to Vancouver, an even better city

based on weekend ridership, trains caused this. Seattle is a city of fun, and locals like taking the train to have fun! Building more trains is more economic power

it is stupible that “stupification” is a word but not “stupific”

people in Seattle really do seem to like the train!

How many customers drive a motor vehicle expressly to eat ice cream or drink coffee here? This is where I get coffee when I come out of the train station and am going places. The street is already kind of a pain in the butt to drive, which I think makes any street a good pedestrianization candidate

complete street

20th Century Silver Foxes The Who were they again? Don’t Cry For Me In Argentina

Like, we're surrounded by information which tells us fuels are bad. Gas leaks cause explosions! Gasoline is a known carcinogen! You have to be very careful around fuels because they're extremely flammable! We're surrounded by evidence that "electricity is just the better way to do this" AND YET

This is dope

Maybe we can agree on something

“no no, bring the sign with ’bikes‘ on it! That sign is for the *other* protest.” - conversation in Sandpoint, ID as these protesters were leaving for this protest

I dunno, I showed these photos to a pickup truck driver and he said ”sorry about that, I didn’t see any bicycles there”

this is a subtle humblebrag

Much as nature keeps reinventing the crab, so too do we keep reinventing the bus

If only the Mariners were as reliable tonight

“Free pinkeye? What a deal! I’ll take eight!” *Zoidberg voice*

One thing I really enjoy about St Pete is they have this but for cocktails

A single ticket provides access to all the regional modes - including the pirate ship

the most hardcore cyclists I know all also have e-bikes to do things in their normal lives, if that helps

What’s going on in Kansas City? I almost never see them on lists of growing cities like this.

Okay fine, you can name all the stations ”downtown [place]”

Kitchen-Dick Rd x Woodcock Rd

Coastal marsh grass does more than just breed mosquitos, it can act as a natural sound barrier. https://acoustics.org/can-grass-quiet-the-shore-lab-experiments-reveal-how-coastal-vegetation-muffles-sound/ #ASA190

There was a time in this country when we believed in progress and celebrated the improvements it brought. Were there problems in the progress? You can fix them with more progress!

⏫ Some Data: Neolithic wall as shown U=~0,5 - 0,7 W/(m2K) WSchVO '95 wall U=0,5 W/(m2K) Straw bale wall U=0,136 W/(m2K) Dont believe me, calculate it with ubakus.com and use earth plaster and straw or gramitherm grass insulation for example.

Looks like I need to take some trips down to LA to fill the mass transit ribbon-cutting void for a while, at least until Sound Transit gets its act back together

so in about a hundred years or so, after which the cockroaches will ride our trains in the Arthropozoic that is scheduled to start after the Anthropocene mass extinction I think we can still go faster though

Post your favorite transit ghettos! 16th Street Mall, Denver

this is just a hundred year old Midwestern neighborhood, we built this already

this calls for the hacker future promised by my late 20th century cyberpunk childhood

Science has a solution. Ten urbanism points to whatever guerrilla traffic calmer is able to pull this one off.

The best part of the incredible numbers of people riding Link on weekends is watching all of the kids who are so excited to ride trains.