One young voter in New Jersey on CNN right now:

“Honestly, the last few days [of shutdown] have been scary for a lot of Americans. And while we’re sitting here struggling and worried, they’re building a ballroom.”

🎯

Very cool to see Mad Max Sherzer still has that fire after an absolutely incredible 17yr career. Dominance, longevity, and little bit of psycho. An all-time great.

It had never occurred to me that he has also spent his entire career playing for relatively small market teams. That’s awesome.

Found out about Saint Paul’s Grand Round last night at 11pm and completed it by 1pm today. Serendipity for the win. What a cool urban loop. 27 miles of greenways, parkways, protected cycle tracks, and bike lanes.

Do you think we can 500 followers for @mplscargobikelibrary.com by the end of the weekend?

Please share the post below to help spread the word that this program is launching in Minneapolis!

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.

Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.

It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

The playbook:
1. Acknowledge the pain
2. Offer a villain
3. Promise a solution

Just had a thought: the difference between a "food desert" and a "car dependent neighborhood" is the income of the residents.

Both are food deserts (there are no supermarkets, etc) one just has enough ppl with cars for it to not matter.

This line from “Killed by a Traffic Engineer” is a good example of why it’s a fun read:

“What happens when the street network comes after the functional classification system? The result often resembles a branchy deciduous tree with streets named after the trees we cut down to build it.”

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

Some raw truth about cars

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

And so it begins, our e-bike era. We intentionally purchased an e-bike that fits a wide range of heights and can haul plenty of groceries. We’ll be selling our 2nd car, which will save our household an estimated $3,000 in 2025.

Another way to phrase it is this: How come the time of people inside of motor vehicles is a precious commodity that must be conserved, while the time of everyone outside of motor vehicles is freely expendable?
#WindshieldBias

Merry Christmas to me!

Always good to remember that people in cars are the number one danger to themselves

not a landslide

"We're not going to lower our own bar ... just because of the outcome of this election. We'll negotiate to make progress along the way, but we're not going to be changing our North Star.”

usa.streetsblog.org/2024/11/13/t...

The latest manifestation of this problem in my community is the delay to safety improvements on a connecting locally-owned corridor. Becuase the state is replacing a nearby bridge in 2028, the city is forgoeing a long-planned 1mi road diet until that project is done.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Nations too often let us down. My biggest faith is in cities.