@nyaollen.bsky.social
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Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
December 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
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Canada and the US are both car-centric, spacious countries. But an American is 2.5x more likely to die in a crash than a Canadian – and the gap is widening.
My latest, in Bloomberg. 🧵
My latest, in Bloomberg. 🧵
The US-Canadian Road Safety Gap Is Getting Wider
Despite similar infrastructure and vehicle fleets, the US and Canada are going in very different directions when it comes to traffic safety. A new study breaks down the divergence.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Canada and the US are both car-centric, spacious countries. But an American is 2.5x more likely to die in a crash than a Canadian – and the gap is widening.
My latest, in Bloomberg. 🧵
My latest, in Bloomberg. 🧵
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People’s brains are fried by the 15 stories a year of a cyclist hitting a pedestrian but completely ignore the 40k per year that are killed by cars.
News is news because it’s different from the norm. But the process of reporting tricks our lizard brains into thinking what’s in the news is common.
News is news because it’s different from the norm. But the process of reporting tricks our lizard brains into thinking what’s in the news is common.
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
People’s brains are fried by the 15 stories a year of a cyclist hitting a pedestrian but completely ignore the 40k per year that are killed by cars.
News is news because it’s different from the norm. But the process of reporting tricks our lizard brains into thinking what’s in the news is common.
News is news because it’s different from the norm. But the process of reporting tricks our lizard brains into thinking what’s in the news is common.
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I've been very lucky that the folks at @51st.news have let me start reporting again, but this small-yet-mighty outlet has big ambitions: including hiring me full-time. We'd love it if you'd help support independent local journalism in D.C.! (And thank you a million billion times. Really.)
The 51st recently hired our first salaried employee (!) by bringing Christina on full-time as Executive Editor. Now, we need to hire Martin as our full-time reporter!!! You can help us get there by tossing a few dollars (or more...) to our fundraiser. 🥳 51st.news/help-us-hire...
Help us hire Martin Austermuhle!
The 51st is growing — but we can’t do it without you.
51st.news
July 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've been very lucky that the folks at @51st.news have let me start reporting again, but this small-yet-mighty outlet has big ambitions: including hiring me full-time. We'd love it if you'd help support independent local journalism in D.C.! (And thank you a million billion times. Really.)
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NEWS: On an 8-4 vote, the D.C. Council has voted to fund ranked-choice voting in D.C., starting as soon as the 2026 election cycle. The follows voters' approval of Initiative 83 last November. Second and final budget vote in late-July will be final say on this.
NEW: @brianneknadeau.bsky.social and @chenderson.bsky.social have circulated an amendment to the budget that would fund the implementation of ranked-choice voting and semi-open primaries in D.C., which was approved by voters as Initiative 83. It's just over $1 million.
July 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NEWS: On an 8-4 vote, the D.C. Council has voted to fund ranked-choice voting in D.C., starting as soon as the 2026 election cycle. The follows voters' approval of Initiative 83 last November. Second and final budget vote in late-July will be final say on this.
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The WNBA is great.
Courtney Vandersloot can tie Allie Quigley for all-time scoring in Sky franchise history with eight points tonight.
If she scores more than eight points, she will break her wife's record.
If she scores more than eight points, she will break her wife's record.
May 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The WNBA is great.
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Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
May 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
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NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
NYC’s congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasn’t produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Adding this to my list of talking points for the next time people bring up “crime in the city” with me www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p...
These Charts Explain Why Public Transit Is Safer Than Driving
The rates of fatal crashes and crime are both lower on public transportation than on roadways
www.scientificamerican.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Adding this to my list of talking points for the next time people bring up “crime in the city” with me www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p...
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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.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
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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apparently more than half of Americans do not have proficient reading skills. we can get that number a lot higher www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...
Reading the numbers: 130 million American adults have low literacy skills — APM Research Lab
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education. This means more than half of Americans between the ages of 1...
www.apmresearchlab.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
apparently more than half of Americans do not have proficient reading skills. we can get that number a lot higher www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...
Since I listened to Sold a Story and Gen Z are the least likely to enjoy reading to their kids it makes me wonder how many of them aren’t great readers themselves…
the fraction of parents reading to their 0-4 year old kids frequently has apparently fallen by 23 POINTS since 2012 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Since I listened to Sold a Story and Gen Z are the least likely to enjoy reading to their kids it makes me wonder how many of them aren’t great readers themselves…
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Paige Bueckers has been through everything at Connecticut. She came out the other side.
After five long years at Connecticut, Paige Bueckers gets her moment
Bueckers ends her incredible college career with her first national championship, an emotional end to a winding journey.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Paige Bueckers has been through everything at Connecticut. She came out the other side.
The markets will be so bad but the memes will be so good tomorrow
had the intrusive thought of marketplace doing the stock numbers to peaches’ “fuck the pain away”
April 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The markets will be so bad but the memes will be so good tomorrow
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So if ChatGPT wrote the tariffs policy, has anyone considered whether this a first strike in an AI uprising?
April 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
So if ChatGPT wrote the tariffs policy, has anyone considered whether this a first strike in an AI uprising?