A city allowed a new shiny expensive apartment tower to be built, and through six levels of moving chain, a mother got to move out of a shelter into her own cheaper apartment, and regained custody of her son. More Housing, Faster. So kids get out of foster care and back to their moms.

On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built. This comment says it all.

Also, this is a universal truth we should all really wrap our heads around: if people are trying to do bad-faith reading of your words to find material to get angry about, THEY WILL SUCCEED. You cannot ever communicate in a way that prevents this. Defensive writing is a fools' errand.

whenever I play golf I like to shout “four!” to remind everyone how many multifamily housing complexes could be built on each hole

I’m not in favor of helmet laws, but… wear your bike helmet. See the line on the bruise above my eyebrow? That bruise is from the energy that got through the helmet, when I slammed forehead first into the street (do not recommend). I’ll be fine.

Drivers who kill pedestrians and cyclists rarely get charged, oh it was just an accident when a texting driver mowed down a lawful cyclist, but somehow it’s murder when someone on an e-moto kills.

The Five Boro Bike Tour is like riding through our city with 30,000 friends! Glad to run into these two on the FDR southbound: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & (fellow former comptroller) @liunewyork.bsky.social.

This Nextdoor poster wants to preserve what 1950s historic part of Los Altos? The parking lots. They should be listed as historic. The historic charm of parking lots. The beauty of asphalt with cars on it and some trees.

Can anyone tell me which is the better bike rack design? I feel like users are 50/50

Stupid inclusionary zoning: A developer in Los Altos CA is forced, by inclusionary zoning laws, to build a townhouse that would sell for around $4.5 million, and sell it to a BMR buyer for less than half a million. This cannot possibly be the best use of four million affordable housing dollars.

Yep. Slow the fuck down everybody. Seriously. Just drive more slowly.

'Disappointed, "Surprised," 'Betrayed': 12 Toddlers on Where Did Mom Go Peekaboo Oh There She Is

/4 DoJ recruits selectively, trains fairly intensively, and demands a high level of writing. So to see DoJ product that looks like a YouTube comment is freakish and shocking. Even if all of that was a pretense (and I think it’s more complicated than that), abandonment of the pretense is horrifying.

For lots of Americans, transportation history goes like this: First, we all walked. 👞 Then we all got horses. 🐴 Then we all got cars. 🚗 Trains, steamboats, canals, ferries, trolleys, bicycles, and *having everything close enough together* so that no transpo was even needed: all memory-wiped.

Evergreen Reddit question www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

A Nissan Sentra weighs a little more than 3,000 pounds (I picked a small, common car) An Aventon Level 3 E-bike weighs 67 pounds (plus rider weight) These things do not pose remotely the same risk when traveling at 28 mph. I am begging people to understand basic physics.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

"While we're talking about who NOT to vote for, I give you Planning Commissioner and proud ultra-YIMBY, Seema Patel. ... Here she is in a recent picture she posted with Senator Wiener and other YIMBY faithfuls ... to strip all local control from cities" San Mateo - vote for Seema Patel!

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Keep the faith. Spread the faith. 🗽

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

i think people who have been working on clawing back Democratic governance in Wisconsin over the last two decades should be legally permitted to throw rocks at "what you expect me to keep VOTING??? over and over?? until i die??" people until they cannot cry or scream

Developers can now ignore NIMBY cities' ridiculous exclusionary development standards. This Cupertino project is asking for, and must get, waivers for height, front setbacks, side setbacks, rear setbacks, building forms, roof plans, lot coverage, number of stories, ...."

🌑 🌍 ☀️ - lunar eclipse 🌍 🌑 ☀️- solar eclipse 🌑 ☀️ 🌎 - apocalypse 🌑 🚀 🌏 ☀️- Artemis

Nextdoor posters out there defending the scenic beauty of... parking lots? No, seriously, that's what they're doing. (The "village" in question is Los Altos. Not a village.) It's not just M. A brigade of people are extolling the downtown parking and saying it's Los Altos' neighborhood character.

I think cars are useful but I think municipalities are going to have to start enforcing ordinances on how and where they can be driven. They currently murder more than 40k+ people EVERY YEAR.

As a person who is typically meat in this scenario - someone who walks more often than I drive - I do not want government agencies yelling things at me that I already know. I want them to yell at drivers to slow the fuck down, get off their fucking phones, and stop at fucking crosswalks.

Remember, if you’re interested in what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth & infrastructure politics, it’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.

In the United States: For every one person killed in a fire, more than 10 are killed in traffic crashes. For every one person injured in a fire, more than 100 are injured in traffic crashes.

Cotality claims 48% of single family home and townhouse sales in the San Jose metro are to investors, defined as those owning 3 or more properties. Does this sound accurate? It doesn't sound accurate to me. www.cotality.com/press-releas...

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

Merci !

Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff

This is an effort to turn the Minnesota rapid responders into criminals. If Democrats make this deal, they will send me, and many others like me who have been out protecting the community, to jail.

Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run https://theonion.com/prospective-car-buyer-takes-suv-out-for-test-hit-and-run/

The New Yorker #BikeChi 🚲🚲🚲 @bikegridnow.org @chicagobikesox.com @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social

Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:

Screaming

Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Dear Cities: If you find yourself writing ordinances to ban #Ebikes from parks, please take a look at your streets. Are they safe enough for people--all people, including kids--to ride bikes? I'd bet a lot of money they are not. Fix your streets first, and everybody wins.

From your lips to God's ear, Mike.

who did this

Quinn Hughes: It's an honor to go to the State of the Union as a political pawn for the guy whose ICE goons are teargassing, beating up, and shooting my neighbors.

Jack Hughes: Going to the State of the Union address isn't political. Sure, Jack.

Quick Reference.

Fuck cars forever. It doesn’t have to be like this.

I would like to replace our Secretary of Defense please 🇺🇸

Three on three overtime, come on, what are we doing here, this should be five on five.

We always knew Caltrans doesn't care if drivers kill pedestrians, but it's a little to on the nose to employ a traffic engineer who drove drunk, killed someone, and then drove away. I guess it's just a matter of wholesale killing versus retail killing, and Caltrans approves of both.