The solution to Los Angeles’ bad transit ridership? It might just be more buses. Read the latest Infrastory now: open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

It really would be remarkable how much benefit la would see from just running buses like Toronto

KHive has like a high batting average or whatever, idk how people fell for Planter.

Graham Platner minutes ago posted a video calling these allegations of sexual assault him "categorically false." He goes on to say: "we're taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" but also: "you never turned your back on me, and I will not turn my back on you now."

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

So pumped for this stadium and the new district of mixed income homes, retail, and activity it'll bring, all right next to Albuquerque Rapid Transit and replacing abandoned and under utilized structures and empty parking lots ❤️❤️⚽🏟️

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

The cats of South St Louis 😸

Happy "SB 79 Becomes Law" Day! Let the building begin!

Do not ask for whom the cold one cracks open for the cold one cracks open for thee

It’s surprising how many people who mention the climate crisis in their bio viscerally hate bikes (and bicyclists)

Man Waving Pride Flag Like Wand at Egypt-Iran World Cup Match Accidentally Turns Both Teams Gay: tinyurl.com/ycxhuuxf

The thing I would really like people to understand is that policymaking is all about choosing between imperfect options and doing nothing is very often a much worse choice than doing something that has some downsides as well as upsides.

YIMBYism works

Something i try to convey when talking with people concerned about "luxury apartments:" the most "luxurious" form of housing is in fact the large single family detached home.

Correct take. Trump is the embodiment of the worst fears about developers that we hear people express.

People across North America want to make World Cup pedestrian zones permanent. We should be doing this in Seattle too.

How UNM is helping the World Health Organization respond to global disease outbreaks

abqurbanist.substack.com/p/alvarado-d... I am agitated that the waiting room at Alvarado is closed since the pandemic so I yapped about it becoming a brewpub/restaurant like we see at Denver and LA Union Stations-why not make it into something, especially now that the new Rail Trail is right there?

The best time to influence what gets built in your neighborhood is before a project is proposed. Join the Near North Valley CPA Open House on June 24. Speak up for housing choice, cottage courts, safer streets, and better transportation, all while enjoying free food, live music, and a bike carnival.

“Smaller changes can be more arcane, but taken together, they can reduce a builder’s costs. A simple example: allowing builders to use a single central staircase, instead of two, which frees up space to add larger apartment units more suitable for families.”

The first part of the ramp across the railroad tracks between Downtown and East Downtown has opened!

Come along with us onboard the ART to the monthly Strong Towns ABQ meeting. Join us next month and let's keep making ABQ stronger ❤️🚍 #abq #strongtowns #albuquerque #yimby #urbanism #strongtownsabq

The ART remains America's most goated BRT

🏳️‍🌈 Who gets to belong on Central Avenue? My latest essay explores queer Albuquerque, Route 66, zoning, bathhouses, urban renewal, and the long history of using regulation to decide who belongs in public space. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...

Many traditional urbanists are more into the form/function but so many of us are in the broader YIMBY camp particularly due to both the failure to create good, new places and how that failure has cascaded into affordability and access issues across the continent. I think most urbanists get that

A little preview of Independence Day.

By popular demand housing-developer-game.dhertz.workers.dev

One of my inspirations in trying to make the US better Is going to be in Albuquerque this Thursday, don't miss it!!

What if we came back from vacationing in great cities around the world and made the great things about them legal in Canadian cities? #UrbanTruth

Bass speaking here kind of reminds me of that Matt Christman clip that went viral a few years back about “Zen Fascism” Bass doesn’t get why Raman is an earnest reformer, these objections to Raman’s candidacy read like “Why are you upset? We’re on the same team? Why don’t you just enjoy yourself?”

the yard sign juxtaposition has also been cited by writers, researchers, etc. www.mercatus.org/macro-musing...

Planners only want one thing and it's disgusting.

My sad, neglected neighborhood

ABQ Ride is in a bad place, and Carlos unpacks how do many of its issues are due to a clear lack of political ownership and leadership. He goes deep ⬇️⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/cmichele...

Why is Los Angeles spending millions of dollars fighting to block affordable housing during a housing crisis? We have the highest rent burdened population in America, the result of years of decisions motivated by politics rather than the needs of Angelenos. That ends when I’m mayor.

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It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

@strongtowns.org wrote about Albuquerque Rapid Transit, and they didn't do their research. I explore what went wrong with the article and why ART is far more of a Strong Towns aligned project than many may think open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...

So denser housing subsidizes lower density housing, & keeps taxes artificially low for the same low density home owners that ironically commonly protest against that higher density housing in their neighbourhood. It’s not surprising that people can be hypocritical. But they should be called on it.

Working on a post about a recent Chuck Marohn article that got a lot wrong on Albuquerque Rapid Transit - but while I scaffold that, figured I'd share older writing about the ART from 2023 that I did for Urban ABQ. ART is good, actually!! open.substack.com/pub/abqurban...

The Final Judgement Oil on canvas, 1912

An amazing write-up that connects all the things together. Zoning, voting …it is all about who gets to say who “we” are. 💙🔥🙏

“We just can’t stand for that.” From duplexes to democracy, Albuquerque’s politics of scarcity is holding the city back. reimaginingalbuquerque.com/2026/04/14/r... #abq #albuquerque

California: cities need to plan for new housing. NIMBYs: we don’t want any change in our neighborhoods and we don’t want to displace any tenants so let’s rezone to put all the new housing capacity on commercial corridors. Planners: you got it. NIMBYs: wait no we need to save our small businesses!

Advocates against free fare transit often point to the idea that it degrades the social view of transit by making it an object of welfare and not utility, and thus also subject to the whims of govt, susceptible to service cuts and bad service. Now ABQ Ride, a free service, is facing large cuts 🙃

But let's be honest: there's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying "fuck off back to X, then". And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.