This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

apparently the new pynchon novel is set in milwaukee, certainly an uncommon setting for literary fiction www.milwaukeemag.com/review-thoma...

"I hope [Zohran] can accomplish the same sort of things that Hoan and Zeidler did here" — my Milwaukee mom

midtown east: where main transportation is neither mass transit nor car but a secret third thing (walking)

I grew up in Milwaukee, what happens when socialists are in charge is that you buy your lawn fertilizer from the government which makes it out of your poop

*guy who just watched a movie about the Romanian revolution on an airplane voice" this whole ballroom affair is just like when Ceaucescu tore down half of the old city of Bucharest to build a palace

I grew up in Milwaukee, what happens when socialists are in charge is that you buy your lawn fertilizer from the government which makes it out of your poop

went to see The Photograph and the print there is detailed enough that you can see it's a bike route lol

Found a weird suburb, 800sqft poured concrete houses on narrow streets with one big park rather than yards to deal with post-WWI housing information www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/l...

hello @dieworkwear.bsky.social i read this post of yours from 6 years ago dieworkwear.com/2019/05/25/t... with your bowling along cite about how people mostly don't have clubs like that anymore we do have a club like that here in nyc & have lots of nice fun outside by bike & train www.nycadv.com

also a fascinating piece of local NYC history from an unusual but illuminating lens (about how the Port Authority totally obsoleted the spatial logic of most NYC industrial space & adjacent neighborhoods especially along the docks in Lower Manhattan & inner parts of Brooklyn)

I think it is good for politicians to live in housing they can easily afford because it means they can take moral stands that may risk their reelection without risking their home It also means they needn't cozy up to those that may employ them (or hire them for "consulting") when out of office

Duffy is not just from Wisconsin but rural Wisconsin and would also soil himself riding a @ridemcts.bsky.social bus, and hates all trains as it is an article of faith among Wisconsin Republicans who also threw away a fully funded Intercity rail service from Chicago to Minneapolis in 2010

you have been visited by "Le Boulanger Quebecois" repost to receive his blessing

I think Mark Gorton should also give $250k to @davecolon.bsky.social (who I ranked first for council in D35)

Fun fact: many NYC grocery stores are already owners' coops eg Key Food and Ideal Food Basket en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Food www.idealfoodbaskets.com/about-us/

New York is the Milwaukee of America

tonight's community board committee meeting is at the same place as this tragic outcome of Cuomo's mismanagement of COVID-19 politicsny.com/2020/04/08/e...

very hot day bike commute checklist: - thermos full of ice cubes to suck on - ice pack on neck - ultralight clothing from Muji/Uniqlo - slow pace - ebike on high

The Milwaukee rally is at the site of a proud moment in the city's history

there's a great book about this

"Direct vision" trucks would save lives of solid waste workers and those in other industries.

Seen: businessman in pinstriped suit buying a pint of ice cream and slipping it into his leather briefcase

this is what we think of kings in New York galleries.lafayette.edu/2019/01/02/w...

Oyster Bay, of course, requires a resident's sticker to park at its beach during the congested beach season

What flexposts say: "We could use steel bollards but a bollard might scratch a car and that would be a tragedy. So, we're going to use these instead — things literally designed to be run over — because protecting even one car from a scratch is worth thousands of pedestrian deaths every year."

rare train experience

Dear @mta.info Please release an app where everyone on the train can vote where its controls should be positioned and it takes the average

There is no reason for this intersection to exist and it has terrible visibility and drivers constantly run the stop sign and fail to yield at it

First bike commute home after congestion pricing and the regularly-gridlocked intersection of Chrystie and Delancey was clear and safe and free-flowing today, excellent

my cooking discourse contribution: it will be good if we make it possible for 20-somethings (and other people) to live lives where they don't have to cook in a more-efficient fashion than with burrito taxis, eg legalizing adult dorms with cafeterias like in Japan www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

4000 miles of bike riding (that I remembered to record) last year. Plenty of adventuring, plenty of electric bike commuting, plenty of errands. Didn't plan to ride that much at the start of the year and probably won't again in 2025 but you never know!

Very nice to see a federal judge recognize that congestion itself is costly and there's considerable public interest in eliminating congestion. Someone please show this paragraph to Kathy Hochul.

good job to my hometown on the winter maintenance on the new protected bike lane to the mall, as well as the bike trails

this is what the newly-built houses that WWII vets could afford on a single salary in the 1950s looked like

It's not just a good idea, it's the law

looking at this very tasteful building makes it clear that aesthetics is never the real issue among NIMBYs

Drag him

when is somewhere in Hudson County gonna figure out how to set up an outdoor climbing center on the Palisades

Hello @bradlander.bsky.social is the comptroller the Count of New York County

First glimpse at the curved facade at 76 N8th after removal of the construction scaffold Developed by LTNG Designed by Pliskin Architecture / panyc Photo by Jorge Salgado

is this guy talking about the network effects of new technology in the 19th century related to @pfrazee.com

def a lot less bellyaching about what new buildings look like in NYC now that the standard building, even by the shlockiest architect, is a masonry box with nice windows and maybe a bit of ornament around the door and along the roofline better than a glass box or piling on 5 different materials

Whoa!!! This would be so cool to have in Toronto. I do bike through the winter, and I use bike share already because they're sturdier than my home bike (and I don't need to worry about salt).

this is why bike prices inflated after 2018 by the way

this is the station by my grandma's old house & thus was my first childhood experience of rapid transit

oh no Trumpflation is raising lumber costs

Mobile e-bike repair shop in Brooklyn advertising its registration with the NYS DMV. This is a very busy corner for food delivery workers

the latest way that NYC will go California Mode this fall is excited posting about the existence of a rainstorm as a major event

rip to the singer building, you would have loved office-to-residential conversion