Mahdi Rahimi
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Tiffany⸆⸉
about 1 year ago
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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Ben Passino (MURP)
over 1 year ago
Curb bulb outs.
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Wajahat Ali
over 1 year ago
“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI
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I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.
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over 1 year ago
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This could be Valencia Street.
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over 1 year ago
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Mark Cuban
over 1 year ago
If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
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We really need to do something about this type of abuse.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...
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How One of the World’s Richest Men Is Avoiding $8 Billion in Taxes (Gift Article)
The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/business/nvidia-jensen-huang-estate-taxes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU4.c8Nw.4qypCjYRpvCj&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Seb
over 1 year ago
The solution to poor driving is rocks Parking on the pavement? Put some big ol' rocks in the way Are cars going too fast? Cover the road in little bumpy rocks Street too wide? Big pile of rocks for cars to go around Need a bike lane? Line of chunky rocks to keep cars away Rocks 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴♂️
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Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?
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over 1 year ago
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Safe Street Rebel
over 1 year ago
even better, we should build infrastructure that makes bad driver behavior impossible: car free spaces, concrete protected bike lanes, BOLLARDS!! cheaper and more effective than cops or cameras. please consult the Triangle
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Will Stancil
over 1 year ago
Regarding insurers, this is basically true, but the problem is this: The stuff that people get mad at them for doing is often stuff that a single public entity with monopsony power would ALSO do. Remember "death panels"? There's no universe where SOMEONE isn't making these decisions.
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Will Stancil
over 1 year ago
I really cannot overemphasize to you enough that any alternative system of insurance would also limit care. There is no world in which you have free unlimited access to whatever health care you want.
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ryan cooper
over 1 year ago
good piece on how Madrid built out a massive metro expansion for like 1/20th of what it costs in NYC
worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
over 1 year ago
Dear Perro Sanxes, I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies
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YIMBYLAND
over 1 year ago
Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area. Literally government-mandated drunk driving.
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What does it take for
@sfmta.bsky.social
to be like the Spaniards?
worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...
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How Madrid built its metro cheaply - Works in Progress
Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. What can its expansion teach other cities?
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-madrid-built-its-metro-cheaply/
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Do you want to rent a mansion in Sea Cliff or stay at a parking lot in your vehicle in Bayview? Because the latter costs San Francisco taxpayers more in subsidies.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...
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After a tumultuous run, San Francisco set to close exorbitantly expensive homeless site
San Francisco's only safe parking site for homeless people living in vehicles will close after three years of legal disputes, code violations and complaints.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-parking-site-close-19962351.php
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
over 1 year ago
The FTA just released October US transit ridership data, so I want to highlight the results of 3 big recent transit expansions First is the Bay Area's Caltrain, where ridership is up 78% year-on-year in the wake of the line's recent electrification!
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NIMBYs warned us about dangers of a tsunami and we didn’t listen.
over 1 year ago
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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD
over 1 year ago
"Slower is safer. Injury collisions on SF’s 18 Slow Streets decreased 45 percent": Great piece from
@thefrisc.bsky.social
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thefrisc.com/san-francisc...
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San Francisco’s Upcoming Bike Plan Got Its Backbone During COVID
Slow Streets have cut injury crashes nearly in half. Planners will roll out a new bike network soon. Have they learned that slower is safer?
https://thefrisc.com/san-franciscos-upcoming-bike-plan-got-its-backbone-during-covid/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Frisc&utm_campaign=6e3c43f71a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_12_04_06_52&utm_term=0_-6e3c43f71a-450946480
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
over 1 year ago
The thing about YIMBYism is that it actually does work.
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Ned Resnikoff
over 1 year ago
If you've got a housing shortage, you really do just need to make it easier to build housing. Too many Dem politicians think the way forward is to make homebuilding easier in some ways while layering on new requirements to make sure it doesn't get *too* easy.
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍
over 1 year ago
I think we should charge for parking in commercial areas
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Valencia St when.
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over 1 year ago
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This is one of the grossest articles I have read from
@sfstandard.com
They’re lamenting that killing zero kids from traffic accidents is just too much to ask from speeding drivers.
sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/r...
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These San Franciscans blame pedestrians for traffic deaths
San Francisco’s Vision Zero data suggest that in recent years, motorists were at fault in most pedestrian deaths by car. Still, some readers think city safety measures do more to inconvenience drivers...
https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/28/residents-blame-pedestrians-traffic-deaths/
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Shot. Chaser.
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100000%. Being a YIMBY is baseline expectation of progressive values in politics in 2024. Like you can’t not be a feminist and then claim any legitimate progressive bona fides.
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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️🌈 🌁
over 1 year ago
In our 7x7 mile city, SF now has 75 miles of transit-only lanes. Result: - Buses up to 35% faster - 50% reduction in injury collisions on transit corridors - Highest public approval rating since 2001 - Over 10 lines exceeding pre-COVID ridership
www.sfmta.com/blog/decade-...
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A Decade of Change: How Muni Forward is Transforming San Francisco
https://www.sfmta.com/blog/decade-change-how-muni-forward-transforming-san-francisco
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Brent Toderian
over 1 year ago
Imagine if your city did transformations like this. 2020 to 2024 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Think about how that neighbourhood would feel after that. How your neighbourhood would feel. HT
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The War on Cars
over 1 year ago
"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."
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Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/paris-climate-plan-targets-emissions-by-replacing-parking-with-trees
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