Daniel Hanggi

I'm so hungry I could eat a Beyond Horse™️ (trying to be vegetarian!)

First, do no harm. Second, STAY AWAY from the apples.

What is Oreo's favorite milk?

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.”

In the first 12 days of congestion pricing, 37 people were injured in 90 total reported crashes within the congestion relief zone, down from 76 injuries in 199 crashes over the same 12-day period in 2024. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/con…

A thing nyc area drivers need to understand about congestion pricing is outside of the policy, revenue, outcomes etc. from a pedestrians point of view since 2020 you've all lost your fuckin minds. You just act insane all of the time and we're all just completely sick of it

One place it appears the NYC congestion relief tolls are already working is the Holland Tunnel, where trips as of noon today are about twice as fast as normal

Congestion Relief Zone tolling is now in effect. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info

After 50+ years, congestion pricing is finally active in New York City. We did it!

what if we kissed underneath the congestion toll cameras at midnight 🥹

Some thoughts on the eve of congestion pricing!🧵

The reaction emoji means nothing. All that matters is what slot it is in

Steven hawking the tuah of everything

Had a dream @McDonalds sold a tote bag that looked like a giant red fry container and the straps were golden Ms

Marathon Sunday is a great real-world experiment in how making driving in NYC extremely inconvenient drives up transit usage.

Okay! This is going to take a while...

Permitting motorists to turn right on a red light at most urban and suburban intersections is deadlier for pedestrians. We’ve known this for 40 years.

Harvard economics professor Ed Glaeser: VP Harris housing plan is "too small and too poorly targeted." To solve the housing crisis, Dr. Glaeser says we must borrow from The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. What does booze have to do with housing? Glad you asked: -- Like housing, drinking ages were highly local issue. The federal government couldn't change it directly, but they could incentivize states to change it. -- The law "demanded states raise the minimum age to buy or publicly possess alcohol to 21 — or face a reduction in federal highway funds. The threat of losing such funds is a big stick," Dr. Glaeser writes. Why should housing be a federal issue? -- "And while the merits of any battle over a particular project are debatable, the overall cost to our country is beyond doubt. We are just not building enough homes, especially in the coastal markets where there is the most demand. Per capita, there was less than half as much permitting in 2023 as in 2003 or 1973." -- "Residents have made it particularly difficult to build in the most productive parts of America, such as Silicon Valley, which means that America’s G.D.P. is much lower than it would be if people could move to where the jobs pay the most. Areas with the most upward mobility limit building the most, which makes America more permanently unequal." How could such a proposal be structured? -- Target problematic offenders with high housing costs AND low construction. "The legislation could establish minimum construction levels over three years for all counties with median housing values above $500,000. States with high-price, low-construction counties would have to figure out how to overrule local zoning codes themselves or lose federal transportation funding." In closing: "America’s housing crisis is a deep, self-inflicted wound. Ms. Harris is right to want to do something, but it is hard for the federal government to engineer change at the hyperlocal level. Tying federal transportation spending to building activity may be the best way to induce change."