How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

oh HELL YEAH

Ok just for fun what’s the most deeply WMATA station in the system? I think Forest Glen is a strong contender, but Wheaton might take the cake—also made entirely out of concrete, longest escalator in the western hemisphere, all to serve a mall and (at the time) a small suburban downtown

Hello! I am back in the community meeting saddle after a stretch of heavy work and a lull in local meetings. Tonight’s meeting is the University Boulevard PSAP.

Last night’s election was big for housing ⬇️ —NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate lost decisively. —Mamdani, promising to pause rent increases & develop 200k affordable units, won NYC decisively. —All pro-housing referendums in NYC passed. —Housing funding measures passed in Columbus & Denver.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

As a lifelong DC resident I resent being forced to care about NYC but also lol lmao etc

None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that

DC needs a better answer for teenagers than saying they can never legally go outside after 8pm again

The crowds on 18th street today are as huge as any festival I've ever been to in DC. Perhaps we should consider closing 18th street to cars more regularly! Certainly seems good for business.

The 2400 block of 18th street is the easiest and most obvious candidate for pedestrianization in the city (if not the region) and so naturally Bowser and DDOT are *checks notes* removing a wildly successful streetery pilot and replacing it with parking and 2 18 foot traffic lanes.

Exciting! Some good stuff in here and it’s good to see bus priority projects moving forward after DC’s budget issues and DDOTs waffling on safe streets and bus lanes. Option 2 seems best to me from a transit perspective but all options have good improvements for all modes

🚴‍♀️REMINDER🚴‍♀️ On October 28, at 6:30pm, MCDOT will hold a virtual👨‍💻public hearing to discuss the proposed Carroll Avenue Separated Bike Lanes project in City of Takoma Park. The public will have an opportunity to provide testimony.▶️ https://tinyurl.com/4sezy4np Montgomery County, MD Government

Tonight Baltimore City Council took a step toward increased housing flexibility and choice and decreased housing costs by passing on second reader parking minimum repeals and updated bulk and yard standards, as well as sending single stair reform to the mayor for signature.

Oh hey Fairfax City system is re-structuring its (pretty good) CUE bus system. Frequencies going from 33 mins to 20 mins at peak and 60 to 30 mins off peak

Man @ggwash.org’s coverage of DC ‘s bus shelters is great—it really highlights how arcane agreements and underfunding shape a very basic piece of infrastructure.

I think about this a lot when I see media coverage that treats the arguments of anti-bike folks as good faith and logical. They are not. They are just angry people lashing out at bikes from whichever direction seems most convenient.

Oh wow up until a few days ago I thought this was a slam dunk. Small win for the climate.

A streetcar reaches the end of the Route 74 line on Upshur Street NW at Rock Creek Church Road NW, in 1957. The Eagle Gate of the US Soldiers Home is just behind the photographer.

1/2 This 1928 building originally housed Raphael's, a 2 story 450 seat restaurant of such excess that it could only have been built in the 1920s. You entered through a space meant to mimic an outdoor garden, complete with trees & fountains. At night, colored spotlights bounced off the 60 ft minaret.

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Good Decorated Shed

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

rabbit watermelon with melon balls, menges lakeside, livingston manor, new york, 1978

Slight uptick in crime (or perception of)? Attack the decades long criminal code rewrite! Youth curfews! Is there evidence they work? How dare you ask that! Do you think we should do NOTHING? Some restaurants close? Is it actually a trend? Do we have data? No time for that! Repeal the last thing!

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Pen drawings of Chicago substation stone details. Left is at 2950 E. 80th, and right is at 6910 N. Glenwood (now the Lifeline Theater).

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

🚨ACTIVE CHECKPOINT ALERT 🚨 There is an active checkpoint at the intersection of 30th St SE and Alabama Ave as of today, September 9, at 7:25 p.m. Avoid the area if possible! 1/2

Some good news for local bikers—the state has fully funded the Georgia Ave safety project

Cry more NIMBYs (again)

Oh great we’re doing this shit again

We are less than five years from having congressional hearings on Tartaria.

None of this is true.

Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe

Jesus Christ man abolish this fucking agency

I took a trip to Richmond over the weekend to see a NASCAR race and it was as great as everyone says it is

The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”

Man these are all better than the 7k series (by default) but they’re still pretty bad. Why not keep the classic brown stripe and the logo on the front?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Constitution “was not some kind of sacred compromise that came down a mountain on tablets,” and we should consider ourselves empowered to make dramatic changes to our political system, Osita Nwanevu says on this episode of “Interesting Times With Ross Douthat.”

DC is not a thought experiment for armchair commenters. Hundreds of thousands of people live here. None of us have representation at the federal level.

🚨The Denver City Council voted 9-3 to abolish minimum parking requirements citywide for all uses. This means more room for homes, small businesses, and people—not empty asphalt. A major step toward a more affordable, sustainable, and people-focused city. 📍Denver, CO

Former Valentine Chicago Boy's Club, built by a philanthropist after the death of his wife. He died himself soon after it opened. The totem poles flanking this remarkable entrance were based on real ones & are meant to protect the children entering these doors. Architects: Childs & Smith, 1939

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Some good news—Montgomery County finally killed a zombie highway! Hopefully Montrose Parkway/the Outer Beltway and the beltway widening projects are next

so many things in Montgomery County feel stagnant rn but I am proud that we’re doing so well with social housing that it’s being called “the Montgomery County model”

If you post a thread complaining about speed cameras in DC, and you conveniently ignore that the cameras only get triggered at 10+mph over the posted speed limit, I’m just going to assume you think it’s your right to speed through my city with zero consequences.

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these so come along with me as I travel to Vienna to ride Fairfax City’s CUE bus system (and go to MetroFest).