won't anyone think of the uhhhh sales executives who will be harmed by transit-oriented development in California

I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that giving low income and homeless people money to the tunes of thousands of dollars a month, unconditionally, would be more effective than building subsidized housing right now. The tremendous now $1.5 mil. per unit construction costs just doesn't scale.

Shout out to the California local elected officials who banned the construction of new housing for decades, causing the state's population to stagnate while places like Texas grew by 1-2% every year since the 1990s.

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I'm probably stepping on a few toes with this one ...

As a fully occupied, 400,000-sq. ft. office building, it would’ve likely had over 2,000 people working there. I don’t feel good about these conversions, I think they are part of a process that is sapping vitality from cities.

Let’s talk about driver solidarity: whenever there’s a news piece or social media post about a driver clearly at fault for hitting a pedestrian or cyclist, other drivers flood the comments to justify the driver’s actions and victim blame the person who’s been hit. Like clockwork. Why is the case?

This bit is correct and especially helpful in understanding How It Came To This: 1) politicians and media will never accept the left holding meaningful power 2) if there’s any prospect of that happening, they will unite to destroy it by any means necessary 3) they are all fine with the far right.

Okay let me avoid my deadlines by making a thread of the recommendations you all made to this verbal hiccup I made this morning:

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.

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Did you know transit is 20 times safer than driving a car? Each year, public transportation prevents more than 2,500 injuries related to car accidents. Take Metro!