Alec Georgoff
@ageorgoff.bsky.social
Usually the sole user of the bike rack at Costco ⚡️🚲
@thepressbox.bsky.social strained pun headline for ya
A truck crash that set 250 million bees free has sparked warnings in the western US, with police telling people to avoid swarms of the stinging insects
Bee-ware: US truck crash leaves 250 million bees on loose
A truck crash that set 250 million bees free has sparked warnings in the western US, with police telling people to avoid swarms of the stinging insects.
www.rte.ie
May 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@thepressbox.bsky.social strained pun headline for ya
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This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
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Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
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Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.
Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.
Reposted by Alec Georgoff
Sprawl is a way for the rich to remove themselves from larger society, set up segregated gated communities and then force everyone else to shoulder the costs until, as it has in many American cities, the entire thing collapses and you wind up with Cleveland
Not a single time in this article glorifying the need for sprawl to address the US's affordable housing crisis is there a mention of the vast transportation costs of sprawling living patterns. Nor is there mention of the fact that sprawl is directly linked to disinvestment in urban cores.
America Needs More Sprawl to Fix Its Housing Crisis
The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sprawl is a way for the rich to remove themselves from larger society, set up segregated gated communities and then force everyone else to shoulder the costs until, as it has in many American cities, the entire thing collapses and you wind up with Cleveland
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If you never take transit, you never see people walking onto a bus with groceries, or taking their kids to school, or commuting that way. It's easy to believe that everyone does their everyday tasks in a car when you spend most of your time in your own car, looking at other cars.
January 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you never take transit, you never see people walking onto a bus with groceries, or taking their kids to school, or commuting that way. It's easy to believe that everyone does their everyday tasks in a car when you spend most of your time in your own car, looking at other cars.
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cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys.
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
The first several speakers at this morning's comprehensive plan meeting have been longtime homeowners in Seattle's wealthy Madrona neighborhood, arguing that a two-block "neighborhood center" where some apartments will be allowed, saying it will destroy their neighborhood.
January 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys.
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically