Brent Finnegan
@brentfinnegan.bsky.social
Posts about the intersection of climate, housing, and transportation with a focus on land use in Harrisonburg, Virginia. https://brentfinnegan.substack.com/
Harrisonburg is in the final round of the Strongest Town Contest. Last chance to vote!
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April 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Harrisonburg is in the final round of the Strongest Town Contest. Last chance to vote!
www.strongesttown.com
#strongesttown
www.strongesttown.com
#strongesttown
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"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."
#handsoff rally in #Harrisonburg today. It's a good start. Americans will need to learn from others how to grow, escalate, and sustain anti-authoritarian movements in order to push back the ongoing coup in the US.
April 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#handsoff rally in #Harrisonburg today. It's a good start. Americans will need to learn from others how to grow, escalate, and sustain anti-authoritarian movements in order to push back the ongoing coup in the US.
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This isn't a tax hike. The rich could absorb the cost of tariffs if they wanted to. Instead, they're going to raise prices and pass the cost on to us. This is a price hike.
April 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This isn't a tax hike. The rich could absorb the cost of tariffs if they wanted to. Instead, they're going to raise prices and pass the cost on to us. This is a price hike.
Happened in the United States of America because she spoke out against genocide.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Happened in the United States of America because she spoke out against genocide.
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Harrisonburg deserves and needs your Strongest Town votes! It’s a great community committed to a broad range of housing and quality of life initiatives!
Harrisonburg won the first two rounds of the @strongtowns.org Strongest Town Contest, and we're competing in Round 3 this week. www.strongesttown.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Harrisonburg deserves and needs your Strongest Town votes! It’s a great community committed to a broad range of housing and quality of life initiatives!
Harrisonburg won the first two rounds of the @strongtowns.org Strongest Town Contest, and we're competing in Round 3 this week. www.strongesttown.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Harrisonburg won the first two rounds of the @strongtowns.org Strongest Town Contest, and we're competing in Round 3 this week. www.strongesttown.com
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Car infrastructure is a barrier to civic engagement.
Tesla protest in Tucson AZ and all I can think is "holy shit, look at that fucking stroad!".
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Car infrastructure is a barrier to civic engagement.
No one seems to be asking the question: In the event of rolling blackouts or brownouts, who will be prioritized by the power companies to keep the power on? Data centers or local residents.
Public speakers largely favor proposed data center
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is expected to decide April 15 whether to approve special exceptions for the proposed nearly 1 million square-foot Cross Mills data center.
www.loudountimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
No one seems to be asking the question: In the event of rolling blackouts or brownouts, who will be prioritized by the power companies to keep the power on? Data centers or local residents.
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A new CDC report shows that pedestrian deaths fell across the rich world 2013-2022 -- but not in the USA.
Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013.
By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.
Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013.
By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.
Pedestrian and Overall Road Traffic Crash Deaths ...
This report describes traffic-related deaths rates in the ...
www.cdc.gov
March 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A new CDC report shows that pedestrian deaths fell across the rich world 2013-2022 -- but not in the USA.
Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013.
By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.
Americans were 50% more likely to die walking in 2022 than they would have been in 2013.
By 2022, the US was more deadly for pedestrians than all other countries studied.
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Bit sick of watching pundits who’d rather eat glass than interview a leftist organizer complain about how the US has less centralized resistance to national authoritarianism than a country with one big city and a population of 9.5 million who all live in an area smaller than Michigan
March 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Bit sick of watching pundits who’d rather eat glass than interview a leftist organizer complain about how the US has less centralized resistance to national authoritarianism than a country with one big city and a population of 9.5 million who all live in an area smaller than Michigan
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American cities know how to design safe and equitable streets. The problem is, they generally choose not to.
March 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
American cities know how to design safe and equitable streets. The problem is, they generally choose not to.
"If countries that have long claimed to believe in an international rules-based order truly believe in human rights and international law, it’s time for them to break with the United States."
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
The United States has gone rogue. There must be consequences.
Countries must form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech in response to Trump’s trade war
www.disconnect.blog
March 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"If countries that have long claimed to believe in an international rules-based order truly believe in human rights and international law, it’s time for them to break with the United States."
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
www.disconnect.blog/p/the-united...
Self-driving cars aren't the answer.
“As self-driving companies pour billions of dollars into advancing their technology, it’s impossible to know how safe and energy-efficient their products could eventually become. But the #JevonsParadox… how much more driving will AVs induce — and will those added miles swamp any possible upside?”
What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future
When you make something easy to use, people want to do it more.
www.theverge.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Self-driving cars aren't the answer.
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Trump is stealing from us to enrich his cronies in the most transparent possible way
All the people who were in on this and knew ahead of time which ones he was going to mention just made insane returns.
March 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Trump is stealing from us to enrich his cronies in the most transparent possible way
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It is possible for lots of people to live close together comfortably, with a high quality of life. But it's not possible if they all have cars.
"How a compact metro area of 37 million people manages to feel this relaxed isn’t really a mystery: the city declared war on cars, and then won that war. Citywide, there are 0.32 cars per household, half the level in New York or London."
10 Observations About Tokyo
Notes on the world's most successful failing society.
www.persuasion.community
February 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It is possible for lots of people to live close together comfortably, with a high quality of life. But it's not possible if they all have cars.
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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
In case there was any doubt. The American oligarchy and the Russian oligarchy are united. Can We the People, the 99 Percent unite against the billionaires? Can we leave space for people who were lied to and believed in the lies? We can either unite against the oligarchs or wither away in our silos.
March 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
In case there was any doubt. The American oligarchy and the Russian oligarchy are united. Can We the People, the 99 Percent unite against the billionaires? Can we leave space for people who were lied to and believed in the lies? We can either unite against the oligarchs or wither away in our silos.
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In a very literal sense, a generation of victorious Americans came home from a world of destroyed cities and thought it would be clever to destroy their own.
American cities were not built for cars.
They were bulldozed for cars.
They were bulldozed for cars.
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In a very literal sense, a generation of victorious Americans came home from a world of destroyed cities and thought it would be clever to destroy their own.
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Under Trump and Musk, America will fall behind every nation in terms of economic success, academic research, scientific breakthroughs, and more. But we'll still be a world leader in traffic deaths.
Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. apnews.com/article/musk...
Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.
apnews.com
February 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Under Trump and Musk, America will fall behind every nation in terms of economic success, academic research, scientific breakthroughs, and more. But we'll still be a world leader in traffic deaths.
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. Every once in a blue moon, those nightmares still resurface.
February 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. Every once in a blue moon, those nightmares still resurface.
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We pay taxes.
We want them used to employ people, help people, and give back essential rights such as education and healthcare to our country. We do not want OUR hard earned money gate kept and hoarded by out of touch billionaires and a delusional political cult.
We want them used to employ people, help people, and give back essential rights such as education and healthcare to our country. We do not want OUR hard earned money gate kept and hoarded by out of touch billionaires and a delusional political cult.
February 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We pay taxes.
We want them used to employ people, help people, and give back essential rights such as education and healthcare to our country. We do not want OUR hard earned money gate kept and hoarded by out of touch billionaires and a delusional political cult.
We want them used to employ people, help people, and give back essential rights such as education and healthcare to our country. We do not want OUR hard earned money gate kept and hoarded by out of touch billionaires and a delusional political cult.
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One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying.
Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.
Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.
Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56
(Via Torsten Slok)
(Via Torsten Slok)
February 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One thing the US failed to address in any sort of meaningful way over the past 4 years: The housing crisis. Young and even middle-age people are increasingly cut out of homebuying.
Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.
Situation likely to worsen in coming 4 years with tariffs, deportation of immigrants, & high interest rates.
We need more of this energy in the US right now. Cities telling the feds to come and take it.
“Toronto’s bike-lane expansion program is going full steam ahead despite the Doug Ford provincial government’s legislation limiting the city’s powers.
According to a new proposal, city staff are recommending a $28.5-million project to build over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes.”
Good. Keep going.
According to a new proposal, city staff are recommending a $28.5-million project to build over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes.”
Good. Keep going.
Toronto forging ahead with new bike lanes despite provincial crackdown
City staff are proposing over 12 kilometres of new bike lanes, including in Bloordale, Cabbagetown, the Annex and the Junction Triangle
www.torontotoday.ca
February 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
We need more of this energy in the US right now. Cities telling the feds to come and take it.