Danny White

Another reminder that what you see in social media or on the news is far, far, far from representative.

@AJManaseer People are WAY more likely to die from cars in the US than other developed countries and, when done correctly, bike lanes can reduce this disparity.

The bike lane people have woken the sleeping giant: the 99% of people who are inconvenienced by them. Bike lanes are an idea born of Woke Era nonsense and anti-car hysteria. People who think they are eco-friendly are wrong. The congestion and longer drive times negate the carbon offset of the 1% of commutes that convert to bikes. The safety argument falls apart when you learn the bike lane lobby doesn’t support the single action you can take to make riding a bike safer: wearing a helmet. (They oppose helmet mandates because they lower overall bike ridership, which lowers the bike lobby’s political clout.) Even if this aldermanic challenger running on an anti bike lane platform loses, we have still seen the peak of the bike lane nonsense. They are becoming too hot of a potato for the average politician to stick their neck out for. We’re winning. No more tyranny of the minority.

We are throwing away much needed tax revenue and street vibrancy in favor of public storage, drive thrus, and strip malls

🚨 🚨 The Edgewater Synagogue Redevelopment proposal has been updated to include over 600 units (!), 120 affordable on-site (!!) right on the Red Line (!!!) Come Thurs May 28 @ 6:30 show you support the changes, and affordable, abundant, sustainable housing! 🙏 🌲 🌇

The entire length of Lincoln Ave should be 5 over 1's from Lincoln Park up to Lincoln Square.

America's most beautiful neighborhoods were built in a time when there was no design regulation—developers didn't complete along the margin of fighting for permits, but along the margin of producing a better product.

It's crazy how many US states, including California, allow local jurisdictions to substantially amend or adopt their own building code. How can you have an efficient, national construction industry when you've got tens of thousands of sets of distinct regulatory frameworks?

Automobile dependence destroyed American cities. People's entire relationship with their city becomes potholes and parking. They lose object permanence (can't see the door from my car). Children lose safety, independence and the joy, cognitive and physical benefits of walking.

Zoning adds $300 - 500k to the price of a home in cities with good jobs. High-speed rail takes 30 years to build. New drugs cost $2B. We pay 5-10x what peer countries do for the same infrastructure. People call this "regulation." It isn't, exactly. It's stranger and worse. 🧵

Because those affordability requirements put the entire burden of funding housing subsidies for poor people on middle class renters while actual rich people, who overwhelmingly live in single family homes they own, pay nothing.

Average voter: housing here became too expensive, we can’t afford it anymore Economists: your city needs to build more housing to increase supply Average voter: I don’t want more housing, I want housing to be more affordable That’s basically the state of the discourse

Requiring that 30% of these new high rise apartments be rented at a loss killed the project’s financial feasibility. Now 0 new apartments will get built and the 840 rich households that would’ve lived in those fancy new homes will bid up the price of older, cheaper apartments.

The Industrial Revolution would probably not have been approved by a public vote

Chicagoans took 36,247 rides on @DivvyBikes yesterday. Last year, we didn’t hit that level until June 21st. More people are choosing the city’s bikeshare system because it’s fast, reliable, and affordable.

@maxtmcc @JeremiahDJohns

Weird thing going on where YIMBYism has been very successfully at elite persuasion and it’s no longer acceptable in liberal political circles to be openly anti-housing, so you get a type of person who says shit like “I’m a YIMBY except for housing built in close proximity to me”

@BlockClubCHI Allowing more housing to be built is the cheapest way to improve our city’s finances. Also, it’s great for local businesses who need foot traffic.

A 300-unit housing complex could be coming to a busy Lincoln Square corner, alderman says. blockclubchi.co/4uPsgXS

"Illinois is lacking 225,000 housing units and this is causing real suffering in real communities and real people's lives." AHIL Lead Jack Warren on Fox 32 talking about why passing the BUILD package is so important.

Public sector unions are bad. These unions are not negotiating against billionaires or some convenient cartoon villain. They're rent seeking and negotiating against taxpayers, and they'll shut down vital infrastructure if we don't humor their tantrum.

Chicago started a new automated enforcement pilot for bus lanes and bike lanes in 2024. Since then, over $2.6 million of fines have been issued in the pilot zones. Check out this analysis that I did with Alex Cannon michaelmclean.me/chicago-smart-…

Chicago Public Schools has an enrollment crisis because the city is losing young families due to an extreme scarcity of family-friendly housing maybe we should be developing valuable urban land as a dense, family-friendly NEIGHBORHOOD rather than drive-to box stores and parking

@cornoisseur Now let’s add a million people

Chicago we are (almost) so back. The Census just dropped new population estimates through July 2025. The estimate has us at 99.6% of the July 2020 population! Upshot: the metro area has fully recovered. #v2025" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">census.gov/data/tables/ti…