DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Curb bulb outs.

“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

I wonder if we can incentivize delivery companies to use these in SF.

This could be Valencia Street.

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 🧵

We really need to do something about this type of abuse. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/b...

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 👍 🪨🌳🚶🚴‍♂️

Why don’t we have a state wide permitting office?

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

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.

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.

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...

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

Dallas' minimum parking requirements mandate that bars must have one parking space per 100 square feet of floor area. Literally government-mandated drunk driving.

What does it take for @sfmta.bsky.social to be like the Spaniards? worksinprogress.co/issue/how-ma...

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...

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!

NIMBYs warned us about dangers of a tsunami and we didn’t listen.

"Slower is safer. Injury collisions on SF’s 18 Slow Streets decreased 45 percent": Great piece from @thefrisc.bsky.social : thefrisc.com/san-francisc...

The thing about YIMBYism is that it actually does work.

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.

I think we should charge for parking in commercial areas

Valencia St when.

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...

Shot. Chaser.

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.

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-...

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 @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."