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Jay Blazek Crossley
@jaycrossley.bsky.social
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Texan husband dad safe streets advocate YIMBY freeway fighter policy wonk punk rocker serial boards & commissions member democracy builder pepper grower hot sauce maker advocate for sustaining human life on this planet executive director of Farm&City
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jaycrossley.bsky.social
If you live in between San Antonio & Texarkana (specifically San Marcos, Austin, Taylor, Temple, McGregor, Cleburne, Fort Worth, Dallas, Mineola, Longview & Marshall) you’ve really got to try hopping on the Texas Eagle for 2-4 day trips.

It’s lovely as long as you’re not in a hurry to miss it all.
Shot from my seat in a four person booth in the lounge car with my laptop showing the Palm Royale tv show in front and a journal on the side with a pen and a hot tea cup and sparkling water and water bottle and old hot dog basket and some Amtrak napkins. Selfie in my blue clouds shirt sitting in a booth in the lounge car of the train.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Where I’m at at this time.
Selfie on the grounds of the US Capitol with the big Congressional rotunda behind me. I’m wearing my nice new bright blue suit and trying my darnedest to smile properly for photos.
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
And now welcome to the 1st in a 4-part series with each step costing more of my Amtrak points.

I took the Northeast Regional (Train 94) from Newark, NJ, to New Haven, CT, with a coach ticket. I spent about half the time sitting at a table in the cafe car.

It was right on time at 2 hrs 20 minutes.
Arty photo looking across three rows of train tracks at a grey concrete wall with grey gravel in between the train tracks and the yellow edge of the platform with its tactile bumps at my feet just at the bottom of the photo. Selfie in coach in an aisle seat on a regular speed Amtrak train. Selfie sitting at a table in the cafe car of on a regular speed Amtrak train with me making a kinda funny expression mostly with my eye lashes. Picture of the other people sitting in the cafe car on a regular speed Amtrak train with the cafe in the background and the guy working there preparing something for a guy standing in the aisle. The people sitting at tables: a guy on his laptop, a lady on her phone, a lady on her laptop, another lady where you can just see her back but I think on her laptop, and then you can just see the side of another guy who I think was on his phone.
September 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I love people mover / airport shuttle style transit and wish for more places valuable enough in Texas to merit so much human activity that we need super frequent high capacity transit.

#ZoningIsDumb
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
When you land at Terminal A in Newark and want to get to the Amtrak station you have to walk out to a shuttle bus to the AirTrain.

This was explained repeatedly and very politely by the bus driver.
Selfie on a packed bus. Shot looking forward on a packed bus. In this one you can see that people have luggage all over the bus. People walking from the shuttle bus to the entrance to the up escalator to the AirTrain. There’s a sign that says “Transit to City” with an arrow pointing left among other directions.
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Oh. Here’s the neat looking old stuff I flew over. I don’t know what river that is, but I think those are sunken boats you can see.
A shot from an airplane window looking down at a river where there seem to be two large and a handful of smaller boats sunk below the surface of the water, so you just see the outline of the old boat. A shot from an airplane window looking down at what appears to be a decommissioned oil and gas storage area. There are three rows of circle footprints of giant old drums that must have held chemicals. This site is along a river that bends around the bottom of the photo. A shot from an airplane window looking down at a river where there seems to be some old ruins in the bend in the river, like its old docks or piers of some kind that look like they’re just kind of very slowly sinking into the river.
September 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
I flew over some sprawl and some land and some old stuff.
Shot from an airplane window looking down with agricultural fields of different things making different colors of geometric shapes on the ground. There are little puffy clouds too. Shot from an airplane window looking down and there’s more agricultural fields making different colors of different geometric shapes, but there’s some kind of tight pocket of stuff in the middle that makes a neat pattern that almost looks like a little city in the countryside. There are also little fluffy clouds. A shot from an airplane window looking down at more fields of different colors and different geometric shapes but this one has little fluffy clouds all around the edges like a picture frame and it’s neat to see the shadows of the clouds on the ground below them. A shot from an airplane window looking down at a little sprawl housing subdivision that seems new and plopped down next to some woods and some fields and some older sprawl.
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
I’ve never experienced this before. We’re boarding our flight and TSA is checking ids and bags before people get on the plane.
Shot at an airport gate from the boarding line showing a line in front of me at an improvised TSA checkpoint where they’re searching people’s bags.
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
Random thought in the airport:

My perception is that love of football has allowed a significant shift in American media normalizing black men talking on television, being seen as experts and valuing their takes.

It seems a really good thing that seems to have happened over the last decade or so.
Crappy shot of a couple airport TVs. There’s a man with a cool hat on the screen and the crawler has pictures of football players and various text about football.
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Got the @yimbytown.bsky.social Mayor’s sashes I’d left at the old @farmandcity.bsky.social office (and the last remaining schwag from last year) and now I’m on the #20 headed to the airport.

A thing that’s important to me right now is that the a/c on this bus is working great. Thanks bus mechanics!
Shot of a guy walking onto a #20 bus as the door opens. Picture of me holding a dozen little notepads that are branded “YIMBYtown 2024” Shot of a blue sash that has gold letters that say MAYOR hanging off the side of a bookshelf.
September 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
I’m headed on an adventure across the country, so you may get to enjoy excited posts about riding a bus, train, or a tight curb radii.

I started out walking a half mile to North Lamar with my luggage to catch the #1 bus to my office. It’s a completely packed bus. Thanks @capmetroatx.bsky.social!
Shot from my seat near the front of the bus with lots of people standing and all the seats filled. There’s a guy holding a suit in dry cleaner plastic wrap.
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I’ve got limited amounts of my first batches of hot sauce for the year. Anyone in need of some good and some weird hot sauce will have to find me in the real world. Free but donations to @farmandcity.bsky.social are always appreciated.
Picture of three hot sauce bottles. The labels are black text on white and have names for each one and then all the ingredients and say Sky Farm, Industry, TX and the dates they were made. The three sauces are called Abundant Love, Sun Scream, and Oh My Gosh Sauce.
July 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
Riding the light rail train that comes every three minutes in Houston is a much more pleasant post NRG game experience than the commuter rail that’s spaced out more like ten or fifteen minutes after a Q2 game, but just because of the track capacity to have more frequent trains.
Selfie of George and I sitting in train seats in a somewhat but not too much packed train. Shot of Lily standing in the same train with a bunch of people standing in the train.
July 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
However, I love HOU
Family selfie with the Astrodome in the background. I’m holding the camera and my son George is next to me and wife Lily next to him. It’s a hot sunny day in a giant parking lot.
July 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
The Texas House will vote on SB 1013, the Safe Driveways bill, on Tuesday or Wednesday!

Please write your rep right now!

secure.everyaction.com/oIQrPSOS1UuY...

#txlege
Shot of the south front of the Texas state Capitol at night with lots of lights on in the building.
May 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
He's still doing it.
Same scene as the previous post, but this time the guy is looking at the camera and pointing straight at you and standing over to the right this time.
May 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
I think a dude just posed for a portrait with a POO.

#txlege
Screenshot of live feed from Texas House floor that shows a guy facing directly at the camera standing just at the edge of the balcony with the house debating behind him. At the bottom it says "Point of Order, HB 3520."
May 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
Seems funny to share here that now I’ve got the Texas House going on one monitor and Dallas City Council considering parking reform on the other monitor.

A lot going on!
Picture of my desk with a laptop monitor showing a live feed of the Texas house and the second monitor showing someone testifying at Dallas city council on that live feed
May 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Live feed from the meeting of the Texas House Committee on Transportation that was supposed to start ten minutes ago. Perhaps #txlege is just very tired of all this.
Screenshot from video of the hearing room that says “Committee on Transportation on the bottom left and a Texas house seal on the bottom right and just shows an empty Dias with no one in the room.
May 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
jaycrossley.bsky.social
Once again I’ll be at the Texas House Committee on Transportation Thu morning asking #txlege to end the ban keeping cities from providing Safe Neighborhood Streets, like counties can give the kids in unincorporated neighborhoods.

Please contact your reps

mailchi.mp/8252603928ec...
Picture looking up at the South front of the Texas State Capitol at night with lots of lights on in offices around the building.
May 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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At least one state rep has posted a picture with the train on the goose.
Screenshot of a tweet. If you zoom very far into the back of the picture, the goose is there with the train. The text of the tweet by Rep. Caroline Harris Davila says "It’s nearly 1 a.m., and the Transportation Committee is still hard at work. Grateful to serve alongside dedicated colleagues—and to represent constituents who expect and deserve commitment and perseverance. #txlege"
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Rep. Shaheen and the kid got to talk a little bit.
Another screenshot but the video is from the back of the room perspective and shows an 8th grader standing in khakis and a button up shirt turned back to his left side to have a conversation with Rep. Shaheen who is sitting in the chair nearest to where the kid is standing at the clerk's desk.
April 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Train on Goose on WalkableDFW
Another screenshot of Patrick Kennedy speaking with the train on the goose.
April 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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full train on goose.
Another screenshot with another speaker at the same hearing on the same bill, HB 3187, with the toy train resting on the back of the duck, which is still sitting in the third or fourth aisle.
April 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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yeah, I could only get a shot with a headless duck.
Another screenshot of the hearing, but its a little more zoomed in, so the top of the goose's head is cut off, but the toy train is now resting on top of the goose.
April 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM