I'm afraid I agree here. When Japan came in with fuel efficient cars in the 80s, US industry went protectionist. Japan learned to make better car & domestic producers have been chasing since. Now we're ceding the future for short term, and relying on tariffs to keep better vehicles out.

They're ripping off our restaurants, but they're also making the dining experience terrible, isolating people at home, and robbing our streets of vitality. Go be among people!

Knowing the how we spend our money is in fact our most powerful speech, decided to jump on board w/ the @profgalloway.com www.resistandunsubscribe.com movement this month. Already quit Amazon years ago, but this one was overdue.

8 companies that actively support ICE: - AT&T - Comcast - Charter - Dell - FedEx - Lowes - Marriott - UPS

Y'all, know it's convenient, but we must ween ourselves off of Amazon. Bad for our cities, our economic system, etc, but it's also consolidating more and more power in the hands of a man who doesn't have the republic's health in mind. Cancel Amazon Prime. I'll buy you lunch somewhere local.

This is what I don't get about billionaires. You could do amazing cool stuff. Why choose to destroy? I'd restore every threatened historic housing unit and build tons more and give it away at below market prices. Wouldn't that be fun?

With the promise of plenty of mud, tonight's Tuesday Night Darkness ride will probably have to skip some of our more exotic urban off-road for levees and abandoned streets. Good chance to check out a "light" version. Leaves City Market Park at 6pm every Tuesday until the time change.

Public transport needs priority.

I remain optimistic that nothing at all matters right now only because it is all boiling over to the point that it will all matter quite a lot.

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Seeing every trash thread on the lessor social media sites filled with the same shallow pro-enforcement talking points makes it pretty clear there is an active effort to manipulate the conversation. It's why it is more essential to use our own eyes and ears and speak to one another in real life.

I was excited that a small, relatively affordable EV was not only going to be available in the U.S. market but also that it was being built here in KC. But they're scrapping it after a year for a bigger, heavier, more expensive EV and gas cars. What is this country doing?

To be fair, it is currently making record time.

Took advantage of the @amtrak.com Rail Pass sale and just booked an epic work and play journey out west. Recommendations welcome! Denver > Glenwood Springs > Truckee/Tahoe > Portland > Whitefish/Glacier > St Paul > Chicago > KC

This tradition is off and rolling! Chance of a Northern Lights sighting tonight! 6pm departure from City Market Park. Bring good lights and a snack.

Let's definitely continue to build cities such that buying and maintaining private autos is absolutely essential.

How American cities get destroyed based on bonkers impressions of reality, in one screenshot.

That’s why dressing up as pikachu and frogs and blasting Yakety Sax at them through a loudspeaker is so effective! The authoritarian wants you to cower in fear. Turning their entire operation into a dipshit circus is the way.

All of those "annoying" street designs and new bike facilities that make drivers slow down and pay attention are saving lives!

Duolingo, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Wilder that some KC biz owners would rather have a net 20–30 more parking spaces next to their businesses than 300+ new residences. Because those of us who walk and bike don't complain about parking, and because owners drive and can only see from that perspective, they don't know their customers.

Instead of insisting that transit go everywhere (especially in a sprawling region), let's work on doing more and more where it does go.

Don't regularly drive in the city but had to today. Y'all are boiled frogs. Driver behavior is nuts.

@staubio.com Trivia: guess which road has a higher Daily Traffic Volume between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.?

I'm a little face blind and pop culture ignorant, so I have no idea what sighting I've totally missed. But if you want minor, I once spotted (since canceled) Garrison Keillor in the taxi queue at LaGuardia as I made my way to the bus.

Restarting an old tradition I used to do when I first moved to KC: winter darkness bike rides every Tuesday night, no matter the weather. Exploring renegade trails, abandoned streets and interesting areas in the city. Steady pace 2–3 hour drop ride with a dinner break somewhere in the middle.

Just a shockingly bad deal. So happy Missouri didn't try to compete with this madness. Remember, there is always a way to make the project work when it is a priority. This is apparently what we value.

Future home city of the Chiefs, where over $6 billion in taxpayer money will be "invested" in the team. Two major Kansas River bridges are closed indefinitely due to deferred maintenance making them unsafe, and parts of the city have been given up on to leap-frog out to 435 to build a mall.

Gonna go ahead and pour cold water on calls for rail transit. It's an almost always idle structure 20 miles from the center of the region partially through under- and undeveloped land that was leapfrogged to build a mall by the freeway. Ain't happening.

No amount of bedazzling can fix the super-human scale problem. We should think of these things like fields because they're totally incompatible with dense, human-scaled neighborhoods.

One of the uniquely delightful aspects of living in a bi-state region is that we fight back-and-forth for sports stadia and office relocations, effectively negotiating against ourselves on behalf of billionaires and corporations.

We connect the district with a premium transit option and one its largest? employers promptly announces plans to decamp to a car-dependent suburb for fresh tax breaks. Quintessential Kansas City.

I really don't think it matters a ton in which state the Chiefs play in the scheme of things, but putting this thing twice as far from downtown in an area with no density or real transit will make access more difficult and make us less competitive for major events.

KC, how the heck did we allow a hotel this close to the streetcar to have no ground floor presence other than parking and a tiny door to the elevator used to access the 2nd floor lobby? Let's hope our standards have elevated.

Last minute, but hit me up if you want a couple of tickets to the NCAA Volleyball semis tonight!

On the "Divided Lines" tour exploring race and real estate in KC. Familiar themes for me but never ceases to depress. "Prairie Village today is 95% white. But that wasn't how it was intended. It was supposed to be 100%" Also struck by how many teardowns there are in PV.

Why buy Starbucks ever? There are so many locally-owned coffee shops where your money stays in your community, the shop offers something distinct to the culture, and the coffee is better. Even amidst the consolidations of late-stage capitalism, you can still find your local.

Very cool! Now let's get the city-owned City Market to do this instead of dumping massive amounts of produce in the dumpster!

We all lament the destruction of the 50s and 60s, but it is wild how much KC was still demolishing in the 90s and 00s... and still does today.

Liz's writing is just so, so good. Laugh out loud stuff, folks. Read it.

They are boiling the frog slowly hoping we don't notice the ruining the beautiful game by turning it into American Football

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

You can actually hear the producers cranking up the audience volume to try to make the response to Trump's "Peace Prize" sound less tepid.

To kick off this celebration of football and its role in bringing us all together in our shared humanity, we welcome Donald Trump. And then we'll give him a peace prize, "on behalf of billions of football fans around the world." This is such a farce. And they can't even sort out their tech.

"Never chase reality" is the perfect US Mens' National Team tagline for the Trump era.

Important perspective. Left NIMBYs are also particularly culpable in this.

This is how we should accommodate transit when we want to close streets, instead of forcing reroutes like we do for events at T-Mobile Center in KC. Let the professional drivers pass through slowly and safely and give transit an advantage in times of congestion, not further delay.

My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "city" (63×) 2. "downtown" (35×) 3. "building" (30×) 4. "without" (26×) 5. "parking" (23×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

Consider the absurdity of expressing the number of residential units as a max and the number of parking spots as a minimum in an age of spiraling housing inaccessibility, climate change, and the crippling cost of car dependence.

While we're at it, let's rank the KC metro suburban downtowns worth mentioning. 1. Lee's Summit 2. OP 3. Parkville 4. Liberty 5. NKC 6. Independence 7. Mission 8. Shawnee 9. Olathe