TIL about “Brownge” trains that the CTA runs to move orange line stock north to handle capacity issues. My neighbor mentioned that they got on a brown line train to work and it suddenly changed to an orange like train heading south while in the loop. www.metroblog.us/2019/08/the-...

Land use with gas cars vs. land use with EVs (artist’s rendering).

God I want this so bad.

This is a great story www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Your bicycle is not surveilling you.

People out here describing protected bike lanes and pedestrianization as massive social engineering project as if the automobile's takeover of American cities was a natural weather event

REMINDER: Those choosing to live in subsidized suburbs for a bigger house and yard are NOT also entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy car commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety (hint: bike-lanes) & quality of life of city-dwellers.

HT Ian Lockwood.

With a 3D printer, how worried should I be about fumes/particulate matter in the air for me and my pets? I’m heavily considering getting a printer but unsure about a tent and venting everything out of a window as an abundance of caution. As I’m new, I’d only be really printing PLA/PETG/TPU but…

COP29 update 🌎⚖️

Tasneem Essop saying: “This has been the most horrendous climate negotiations in years due to the bad faith of developed countries. This was meant to be the finance COP, but the Global North turned up with a plan to betray the Global South."

Great piece @davidrvetter.bsky.social

To all municipal decision makers: every second you delay making our streets more inclusive, is another second stolen from an entire generation.
Just because your childhood is over doesn’t mean you have to end theirs.

Finding Kaiser rolls at Jewel has wildly changed my Sunday plans. Lazy day has now become BEC Sunday morning and I hope and pray they come close to deli level of roll.

Very strange of WBEZ to write a neighborhood guide to Pilsen and feature as the guides residents that have lived there from 2-6 years 🫠 This is how long time residents get erased from their own community story. www.wbez.org/chicago-neig...

For public officials new to bluesky, one of the norms here is that everything you skeet is off-record. So just let it all out, especially the crimes.

Will have to ice this up. Your talk at DEFCOM this year was great.

The cost question we should be asking about major transit projects: What is the greater cumulative societal cost of NOT building them for a city over generations? What benefits have not been reaped from failing to build out a comprehensive system, supportive land use and housing...

Beale wins the worst response award: "Asked why constituents should trust his financial judgment today after he voted for such an economically poor deal in 2008, Beale referred to an unspecified poll that showed that city residents trust their alderman the most “to do right by the city of Chicago.”"

inventing a new code quality metric of TODOs per line (more is better)

As someone who didn’t grow up with access to transit and didn’t have a car, whenever I see middle school to college age kids riding the train with friends I’m always so jealous of that experience. Even more so along the NEC.

Planned fare hikes and service cuts by SEPTA in Philadelphia are a preview of coming attractions for the transit system in the Chicago region beginning in early 2026 if a much bigger funding gap is not addressed. www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...