M1EK D
@mdahmus.bsky.social
It’s me, M1EK; your pal from the internet. Ask me why AURA sucks!
This is the kind of 'social spending' that's a complete waste; paying a consultant to produce a plan to pay people supposedly being 'displaced' and the end cost of all of this is worse for 'displacement' than just letting more things get built more easily at the start.
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is the kind of 'social spending' that's a complete waste; paying a consultant to produce a plan to pay people supposedly being 'displaced' and the end cost of all of this is worse for 'displacement' than just letting more things get built more easily at the start.
New bridge sitch from a couple days ago:
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New bridge sitch from a couple days ago:
One of AURA's bad (but not as bad as Those Three) actors even got frustrated enough by a couple of such grifters who steered the transit policy the wrong way to coin this glorious term:
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
One of AURA's bad (but not as bad as Those Three) actors even got frustrated enough by a couple of such grifters who steered the transit policy the wrong way to coin this glorious term:
Did they perhaps miss this session while yukkin' it up at YIMBYtown? (pic courtesy of friend of ye olde crackplog):
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Did they perhaps miss this session while yukkin' it up at YIMBYtown? (pic courtesy of friend of ye olde crackplog):
the local purportedly urbanist organization in Austin talked like this for a decade, and this guy didn't care
August 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
the local purportedly urbanist organization in Austin talked like this for a decade, and this guy didn't care
this was my best retort in years on OTE and it only got 5 likes because 75% of the commenters left for OTR
August 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this was my best retort in years on OTE and it only got 5 likes because 75% of the commenters left for OTR
Carceral urbanism is good, actually. We need more of it. Thread from the bad place incoming.
July 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Carceral urbanism is good, actually. We need more of it. Thread from the bad place incoming.
Went home the long way early to take my last meeting from home and encountered two vehicles in the temporary bikeway detour, neither one with a good excuse but I especially expected @CapMetroATX to know better.
July 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Went home the long way early to take my last meeting from home and encountered two vehicles in the temporary bikeway detour, neither one with a good excuse but I especially expected @CapMetroATX to know better.
Here's the one and only email I sent Felicity, as an example of what she's calling "harassing board members". I sent to about five total over the years. It's been a while since I did one.
July 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Here's the one and only email I sent Felicity, as an example of what she's calling "harassing board members". I sent to about five total over the years. It's been a while since I did one.
The only thing truly permanent is Jarrett Walker making a living by peddling an attractive falsehood for money to transit agencies desperate to believe it (that buses can attract choice commuters as well as trains can)
July 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The only thing truly permanent is Jarrett Walker making a living by peddling an attractive falsehood for money to transit agencies desperate to believe it (that buses can attract choice commuters as well as trains can)
Painted bike lanes (unprotected) are by far the best choice for a bike facility on most US streets where a bike facility would be merited at all.
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Painted bike lanes (unprotected) are by far the best choice for a bike facility on most US streets where a bike facility would be merited at all.
this is why 2-way bike lanes suck, guys, and no, you can't undo 50 years of driver training to suddenly make the cargo cult function.
June 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
this is why 2-way bike lanes suck, guys, and no, you can't undo 50 years of driver training to suddenly make the cargo cult function.
Let’s check in with another episode of “What my direct reports have to tolerate”:
May 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Let’s check in with another episode of “What my direct reports have to tolerate”:
Three of the top ten worst offenders in preventing progress on urbanism and transit in close proximity, but too late to call in a drone strike.
May 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Three of the top ten worst offenders in preventing progress on urbanism and transit in close proximity, but too late to call in a drone strike.
The Anderson Mill suburbanite doesn't have the knowledge to call out MCM on anything, but guess who does? Me.
When being paid by Nick Barbaro, he opposed the Villas on Guadalupe, folks; which has let >10,000 students live within walking distance to UT by now.
When being paid by Nick Barbaro, he opposed the Villas on Guadalupe, folks; which has let >10,000 students live within walking distance to UT by now.
May 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Anderson Mill suburbanite doesn't have the knowledge to call out MCM on anything, but guess who does? Me.
When being paid by Nick Barbaro, he opposed the Villas on Guadalupe, folks; which has let >10,000 students live within walking distance to UT by now.
When being paid by Nick Barbaro, he opposed the Villas on Guadalupe, folks; which has let >10,000 students live within walking distance to UT by now.
In my experience, cyclists who act this way effectively create their own dangerous conditions and then say and apparently believe things like "drivers are always trying to kill me".
May 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In my experience, cyclists who act this way effectively create their own dangerous conditions and then say and apparently believe things like "drivers are always trying to kill me".
Anderson Mill suburbanite has strong feelings about two urban neighborhoods, for some reason!
April 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Anderson Mill suburbanite has strong feelings about two urban neighborhoods, for some reason!
Speaking of which… looks like SOMEbody got tired of being in second place and decided to cheat
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Speaking of which… looks like SOMEbody got tired of being in second place and decided to cheat
You with your interminable and thens i.pinimg.com/736x/e3/03/c...
April 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You with your interminable and thens i.pinimg.com/736x/e3/03/c...
Williamson County suburbanite continues to believe he's part of the "we" in Austin.
April 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Williamson County suburbanite continues to believe he's part of the "we" in Austin.
The only good thing the HPNA does is their annual April Fools' Day article, and now that one of their ideological allies has fallen for it, it's probably not long for this world.
April 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The only good thing the HPNA does is their annual April Fools' Day article, and now that one of their ideological allies has fallen for it, it's probably not long for this world.
Anderson Mill suburbanite (parasite) who helped the Austin urbanist org in its early shift into the kind of thing where you had to show up in person once a month* if you wanted to be heard, only to be called a racist, has thoughts.
*no basement, though; this is Texas
*no basement, though; this is Texas
March 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Anderson Mill suburbanite (parasite) who helped the Austin urbanist org in its early shift into the kind of thing where you had to show up in person once a month* if you wanted to be heard, only to be called a racist, has thoughts.
*no basement, though; this is Texas
*no basement, though; this is Texas