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“but if we add more homes to my neighborhood, where will i park”
“in a liberal, free-market democracy, Susan”
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(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences
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(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences
@mateosfo
Housing theory of everything, buses, bicycles. Be the strange you wish to see in the world. Words for @cayimby, now available on Bluesky! Same handle.
Berkeley, CA Katılım Aralık 2009
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Nobody disputes that Mary Lau was driving 75 miles per hour on San Francisco streets when she struck and killed an entire family. On Friday, a judge is expected to give her probation. After that, she could get her license back.
The case raises the question, what is justice?
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A typical CA household is now paying an extra $290-450 per year for wildfire mitigation through their electricity bill.
About 80% of wildfire mitigation in CA is now being funded through the rate base, while only 20% is being funded through the tax base (CAL FIRE).
This is not only a highly regressive way of funding wildfire mitigation but an extremely suboptimal method of reducing fire risk (most fires are not ignited by utilities)!!!
Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal
One quick way to constrain electricity price increases? Take stuff out of the rate base and put it in the tax base.
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Me wading deep into the San Gabriel Valley community pages to argue that a mixed use development project on a 16.96 acre lot that used to be a car auction site and vacant since 2009 is not gentrification
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NYC looks like this every summer. The people posting this slop don’t see that because they live in suburban Dallas.
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84
Me too.
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Removing cars is so cheap. Building highways is insanely expensive.
Qagggy!@Qagggy
When you learn how cheap and easy it is to create safer neighborhoods, all the time and effort we spend doing nothing feels like a waste.
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Paris makes 300 school streets traffic free.
This is so obviously beneficial BUT POSSIBLE BECAUSE PARIS already has dense, walkable urbanism
US cities will struggling with massive quality of life improvements like this as long as they prioritize low-density, car-oriented development
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
Financial Times: Paris school streets are raising the global bar for children’s wellbeing - More than 300 streets in the French capital have been redesigned to be traffic free. The welcome sense of calm is not going unnoticed ft.com/content/4451e1…
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I dunno why this is so complicated but more roads = more car traffic. Turns out the inverse is true too. Less space for cars = less car traffic. If you like the idea of more pedestrian space + less car traffic, @LincolnRestler has a plan that helps end to “autocracy.” nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-…
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LA desperately needs to make a similar transition. Our reliance on cars is making us less safe and less healthy in a dozen different ways. We have perfect weather 95% of the year, we should be able to enjoy it more!
Financial Times@FT
The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n
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The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n
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I love Caltrain for what it represents: connection and a cleaner future. 🚆 Electrified trains now run faster (up to 110 mph), quieter, and more frequently. Ridership is up 56%, making Caltrain the fastest-growing transit agency in the U.S. in 2025. 🌎⚡ #Caltrain #SanMateoCounty
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LOL last week this guy was celebrating the superiority of car culture and driving mandates, this week he's paying $6 a gallon and is big mad
life comes at you fast, huh dilan
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
Again i promise i will slow down on the war, but VERY simply: THERE IS NO SPINNING THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ SITUATION. Either we get it open or this incompetence will cost the entire world a ton of money in cost-push inflation! Don't tell me how it doesn't matter. Just OPEN them!
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Every new American truck or SUV is 80 grand 6 feet tall at the grill and equipped with blinding floodlights. If you point this out as just across the board bad design and dangerous, you will suddenly encounter a bunch of guys who say actually it’s good and you’re gay.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
Scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Light and Health Research Center says that the new headlight bulbs being used in America are dangerous and causing accidents “He says, older headlights use halogen bulbs which have a softer orange color, but newer ones are bluish white. You're creating a lot of glare for those other drivers” I agree, the new headlights are awful and blind you. They should have never been allowed on the market
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Getting into the mind of drivers is truly scary. A lot of them believe that the government (which issues your drivers license) is impinging on your rights in a heinous and almost predatory way if you’re ever held accountable for speeding, texting, parking illegally…
sam@sam_d_1995
in my opinion, the best way to avoid getting ticketed by a DC speed camera is simply not driving >10 mph over the speed limit. nobody is forcing you to speed! speed cameras literally save lives!
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"populists" are converging on slop:
- banning "blackrock" from buying homes
- boomer tax cuts
- wealth taxes that don't work
zero constituency for:
1) make government efficient + able to build/act directly (vs. nonprofit grift)
2) subsidize the welfare state w/ population growth
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Over at @acitythatworks: Asian and European transit agencies are run by subject matter experts. American ones are run by local elected officials and community advocates. If we want the new Illinois transit reforms to succeed, we're going to look outside the US. (1/2)
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North America: 92% car trips
This kind of capture of movement does not come from a strong American preference for driving.
It’s the direct result of zoning, parking mandates, and sprawl.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
The American built environment is so degraded that many Americans think that an area is very walkable if you can physically walk to a destination. Anyone who has spent much time in Very Walkable cities (including NYC) knows that there are neighborhoods where the majority of households don't own cars because it is MORE CONVENIENT to walk/bike/use transit than to drive. Sadly, the few Very Walkable neighborhoods that exist in the US are in such high demand that you have to be richer than God to afford family-sized housing in them. But we COULD build more family-friendly density in MORE cities, allowing MORE people to raise children in the cities they love rather than having to choose between having kids and city living. Left: look at retail abundance on one side of one Copenhagen city block Right: A Dallas-area suburb and drive-to "neo-classical" high school
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Yep.
This is NOT “cultural.”
When Americans spend anytime at all in other countries, they start traveling…like everyone else in those countries.
We live in a country terraformed around the automobile, and that is the ONLY reason 92% of our trips are made by car.
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard
North America: 92% car trips This kind of capture of movement does not come from a strong American preference for driving. It’s the direct result of zoning, parking mandates, and sprawl.
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Over the past 20 years, America has basically stopped building condos. Owing to a mix of restrictive financing regulations and endless defect litigation, the most viable path to urban homeownership has largely disapprared. In my latest for @TheAtlantic, we explain why.
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@MattTanner41 The developers have their own lobby, my man, but how could you possibly know that
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@mateosfo “I don’t lobby for developers” - he says with a straight face.
Not an ounce of honestly in the entire lot.
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Using public meetings as a gauge of public opinion is tempting but research shows these are fundamentally anti-democratic processes designed to empower NIMBYs.
When you ask representative samples of Americans what they want, it's more housing, more transit, safer streets.
Tobin Stone 🌐@tobinjstone
Bike lanes are probably the yimby/urbanist issue where the activists are most disconnected from the general public, not just in DC, but everywhere I’ve been. And in the case of DC, where public transit is so good, they probably aren’t a hill worth dying on.
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