First test ride with the LaneSaber went great!

The concerns about interchange details are fair but miss the irreconcilable difference. GDOT aims for greater traffic volume between neighboring municipalities along 285 and Roswell. #SandySprings benefits from less through-traffic on those state roads. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/04/09/g...

@atls.city !set US-GA-SandySprings

At the zoo, saw a really nice, wide, well marked, 'protected' bike lane with plenty of bikers, and a van turning into it

MARTA app crashes, won't display bus location. Seeing it on multiple phones. Is anyone else getting that?

generally a Costco fan so I was happy when they said they could deliver and install a replacement dishwasher in 2 business days less happy when there's no dishwasher and they respond to my question with a big shrug and scheduling a week later in case a dishwasher from points unknown materializes

That aside, good new route for Atlanta Streets Alive. Great to see permanent protected bike lanes. Didn't have to wait long for trains despite single tracking. Finally saw the magnet man!

The Beltline Ambassador pickup is too on the nose

@brooklynspoke.bsky.social hey Doug, here are those videos of Franklin I took. Fwiw I think there are better places to walk to since last time you were there. youtu.be/NRaYy6D34x4 pt1 youtu.be/icdikS75CtQ pt2

maybe a more approachable goal for car-dependent areas like Sandy Springs and most of metro ATL, is to make it safe for kids to walk or ride bikes most places. That's a relatively feasible amount of concrete protection, versus building transit for metro wide connectivity, and inexcusable to ignore

I want more parents to read this until they too demand change from their local maximize-traffic-flow professional at city hall.

www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sandy-s... Warning, video shows violence against children. I do not know their medical condition. Glad the Sandy Springs Police Department apprehended this guy. Sandy Springs needs more public space safe for kids to ride bikes.

"Columbus currently use a total 550 megawatts of power. Project Ruby is requesting access to up to 600 megawatts" saportareport.com/the-affordab...

wow so much MARTA content! Eg digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/coll...

just saying the #SandySprings Transportation Master Plan should include letting some more kids ride bikes with protection from drivers

For beltline rail but also society in general, I'd like less innovation and more using proven technology to help people saportareport.com/beltline-hir...

Georgia, this is the sort of thinking behind your rising power bills. georgiarecorder.com/2026/02/17/p...

I don't know about the art, but one of these dense midtown condos is selling for 4.8MM. The claims about it being politically difficult in #SandySprings to subdivide are true. But a more useful question is, how many homeowners would like a politician to increase their property value through zoning?

Don't let age hold you back from your dreams bsky.app/profile/flav...

AJC ignoring the main issue. The primary way to increase the population of school age children would be to allow denser and more affordable housing, which is why Dekalb's school enrollment and closure problem will keep getting worse. www.ajc.com/education/20...

@brian-goldstone.bsky.social There is No Place for Us is required reading for understanding housing policy. Said during the Sandy Springs City Council Retreat: "many of those households are leaving Sandy Springs and not necessarily experiencing income growth" www.youtube.com/live/nmcalKY...

I want this on an analog watch www.facer.io/watchface/YY...

when its snowing lawn crews should get the day off with pay

Atlanta mentioned in the new Practical Engineering video about stormwater

this was an effective reminder of how to use basic stop the bleed equipment, without anything graphic. Which I appreciate because I'm easily overwhelmed. youtube.com/shorts/76vXA...

sometimes the pool noodle on a kickstand feels silly, but then I see drivers and I'm glad @sundance.bikesky.social gave me the idea

oh it's me roughdraftatlanta.com/2026/01/12/r...

At school bus dropoff, I heard on their radio that there was traffic on Riverside because a driver hit a pedestrian. It was loud enough for all the kids to hear. I have no further information about the victim's condition. It's horrible how this is normalized, as if only the traffic bears concern.

GDOT blocking the path for the stroller for no good reason youtu.be/OSS9yWgMq6I

Imagine if GDOT closed all car lanes with a sign announcing sidewalk repair a mile down the road

According to the Sandy Springs fire department, a quarter of the fires they respond to are car fires (over sixty per year) and they have had zero EV fires, ever. A lot of people are making bad risk assessments about cars based on what goes into headlines.

Here's a witness describing today's crash into a daycare parking lot, youtu.be/ho8f9pvotFM

Another driver just crashed into the daycare parking lot, where I was filmed for a news segment. Totalled a teacher's parked car. Video to come. #SandySprings needs to hurry up improving this bend in the road, it is unsafe. That sign to the right is new, a driver crashed into the old one last year

Walking out of the Dunwoody MARTA station, my kids commented how our destination was one of the closest to the station but not actually close. Then we talked about the mostly empty MARTA parking deck as we walked past it, before crossing the five lane road. youtu.be/HZwf0au0vDE

my new years resolution is to try to help the city govt make Sandy Springs safer for kids in strollers, walking, or riding bikes

if anybody needs a USB c charger or audio to help you fall asleep youtu.be/1jAeEPHvDyA

what did the six year old say to the seven year old? "Together we're six seven"

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Good read. Among other things, it convinced me that the overwhelming prominence of Toussaint Louverture in my prior (and still) limited understanding of the revolution, without any disrespect to him, was a product of anti-Haitian historiography.

"The commission is set to discuss a request from Georgia Power to increase the state’s energy capacity by nearly 10,000 megawatts, equal to about five Hoover Dams, to meet an expected spike in demand because of the projected growth of energy-hungry data centers"

Georgia Republicans are using their last moments of power in the Public Service Commission to give massive clearance for data centers and higher energy bills. Guess whose dad wants to build 11 MILLION square feet of data centers in Middle Georgia? Burt Jones, who wants to be our Governor.

We have reinvented the calculus in the elevator

I want to move some awkward furniture, not worry about why Ace is showing me three different prices online for the same item. Their service has been great. I am still planning to pick up at my local store, just looking to make sure they had stock and, sigh

wow youtu.be/ARZA6pmdD8Q not only pressure, this phyphox app is going to do so many experiments, esp with kids off of school

Sandy Springs has a poll up about transportation planning that's open to residents or anyone who works, studies, shops, or just passes through. If you ever spend time in Sandy Springs please share your thoughts about how they could make it safer. safersandysprings.blogspot.com/2025/11/sand...

Piedmont Hospital and associated medical facilities have so much traffic going to them, and only the 110 bus for transit connectivity. State route 19, Roswell, is clogged. It's not going to happen but a new heavy rail line going north from Arts Center would be a better project than GDOT's new lanes.

Does anybody who does not regularly ride MARTA want to crowdsource weekend destinations? open call Shout out to Rough Draft for starting their dining series roughdraftatlanta.com/marta-dining...

Please spread this far and wide. A maker/artist space that I know and love called South River Studios burned down over night. Many artist friends and artisans have lost everything. Consider giving if you can www.southriverartstudios.com www.fox5atlanta.com/news/artists...

looking at Costco food court pictures, reminded that since Atlanta Costco locations (re?)started executive member hours in the morning I haven't been at lunch time. But, maybe the food court could have coffee.