David Shannon

@kleib323 @aaron_renn I agree with you on the land usage being terrible, though this is actually looking inside Beltway 8 at Houston proper, Katy would be behind the camera. I'm not a suburb defender, but the idea that Katy is all white bread Applebee's isn't true any more.

@DavidShannon7 @aaron_renn "I'm not like the other suburbs"

City people like to, correctly, complain that suburbanites make all sorts of unfounded, ignorant statements about cities. But the same is true in reverse. Many if not most city residents are carrying around 1990s era views of the suburbs, and are ignorant of today's realities.

@kleib323 @aaron_renn Katy, TX has one of the largest Venezuelan populations in the US (and corresponding food) and a full-blown Viet/Chinatown w more Asian small business/restaurants than many whole metro areas .

@aaron_renn Pre-COVID I used to travel frequently for work and regularly went to various suburbs. The built environment and restaurant scene pretty much always looked like this, and convinced me the stereotypes are still true

@BayouBikeyBoi Visiting NYC or Chicago is one thing, but being in Milwaukee or Cincinatti and realizing the urbanism dream best case-scenario for Montrose has been realized there can either be inspiring or dispiriting. In this moment, I despair.

@BayouBikeyBoi True; Whitmire as mayor though is just such a barrier to reversing those political decisions that I have withdrawn to a pessimistic nihilistic view on improving houston (for now).. limiting the damage is important though!

It’s kinda crazy how much easier it was to get places from my apartment 100 years ago, used to have a street car line that went straight downtown

@BobPishue @RossBarkan So you directly pay for, build, and maintain all of the roads that you drive on every day? Or is that also subsidized by taxes?

@DavidShannon7 @RossBarkan Did I summarize that incorrectly?

NYC is expensive but when you adjust for the cost of cheap 24/7 transit, it really is a nice deal compared to other cities in the US. You pay $3 and go anywhere. In other cities, you deal w/ sprawl, eternal Ubering, or you drive. Costs add up!

@BobPishue @RossBarkan Do roads appear out of nowhere?

@RossBarkan "NYC is affordable if taxpayers continue to subsidize my trip"

.@HoustonRockets it’s time to bring them back full time.

@HTX_Son @HOUrbanist Ok, then it's housing people who are no longer competing with 'average folk' on the already existing housing in more affordable areas. Still a win for everyone.

@HOUrbanist Who can afford to live there? Not the average folk…

Downtown needs more housing, not parking

My thoughts after reading Abundance by @DKThomp and @ezraklein: This should be the governing template for Democrats for the next 20 years. It's correct, it's necessary, and it has cross-partisan appeal. Every Dem staffer, politician & activist should work from this playbook.

@ErikN_NJEdition @mattyglesias Here is a recent example! In the heart of the city in one of the most transit-friendly, potentially walkable neighborhoods less than 2 miles from downtown. chron.com/news/article/m…

@mattyglesias Can you give an example? Are you talking about setbacks, or something else?

I wish we could use this energy to build neighborhood connections to this wonderful trail system instead of blocking them

Shepherd-Durham Phase 2 "We are trustful that Mayor Whitmire will listen to neighborhood feedback and allow the reconstruction to continue as planned" youtu.be/9E-YsB1YeFI?si…

Like, even if you hated the project, why on earth would you just stop it like this and potentially throw away millions of dollars? Isn’t Houston heading for broke? Some decisions just don’t make sense, and this seems to be one of several in recent months w/ current leadership.

Heads up #DistC. We worked with partners at every level to secure millions in federal dollars, the first of this type of grant that opened the door for more projects/$ for #Houston. We should not be sacrificing drainage, important safety improvements, or federally allocated $.

I’m just so confused Pros: No lanes are being removed Drainage is being upgraded 10ft multi-use path is being added 6ft sidewalk added More trees will be added than cut down Midblock per crossing added at W Clay Cons: Several trees get cut down No thru traffic W. Clay

Video is up now! Wild residential architecture, bizarre utility pole placements, incredible food, a fascinating battle brewing between the city and the suburbs, and yeah, diversity. youtu.be/0fMTaNYYvwE

Be aware that @EVAAir_US is not the official EVA Air Twitter account. In the pretext of helping passengers, they get their representative to connect to you via WhatsApp. The service rep asks you to register to Wordremit , a service used for money transfers ! 💣

@JasonHGTruitt @JRDNLTHMS 100%! I’d just say similarly to public transit in the US, a lot can be improved upon by imitating global best practices of peer nations. I do think us being “the gun country” is always going to result in slightly worse outcomes on this front though, unfortunately

@JRDNLTHMS I am comfortable decontextualizing this particular narrative- it’s bad and shouldn’t be given credence.

@DavidShannon7 To ignore the quote is to decontextualize the abolish/defund narrative the speaker is addressing. The narrative then becomes an action in and of itself and not the consequence she envisions.