Paul Ryckbost, AICP, PE*, PMP, F.SAME
@urbanlakeeffect.bsky.social
Believer. Husband. Father.
Consultant, engineer, traveler, urban planning/design, transportation, utility, & information junky. Michigan man. Dutch fan. (*OK, HI, MI)
Consultant, engineer, traveler, urban planning/design, transportation, utility, & information junky. Michigan man. Dutch fan. (*OK, HI, MI)
Need this in my life.
A boat tour of Rotterdam with all-you-can-eat pancakes.
Don’t believe the haters, dreams can come true
Don’t believe the haters, dreams can come true
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Need this in my life.
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A classy Dutch bike in a classy Finnish environment.
October 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
A classy Dutch bike in a classy Finnish environment.
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"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text."
Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...
Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...
No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik
It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.
www.jalopnik.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text."
Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...
Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...
These Ryder Cup outfits are hideous.
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
These Ryder Cup outfits are hideous.
Now gone… for a parking garage.
union bus station sign, walker and sheridan streets, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1993
September 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Now gone… for a parking garage.
I’m not here for #SpotLAX2025, but I do have a pretty good view from the Sky Club for a couple hours on this layover…
September 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’m not here for #SpotLAX2025, but I do have a pretty good view from the Sky Club for a couple hours on this layover…
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This one has LAYERS
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This one has LAYERS
WHY DOES ANYONE GO TO SONIC ANYMORE?! (Myself included)
August 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
WHY DOES ANYONE GO TO SONIC ANYMORE?! (Myself included)
My wife and daughter just ridiculed me for calling it a drinking fountain!
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From the MapPorn community on Reddit: What do you call that thing you drink water from in a public building? I call it a bubbler!
Explore this post and more from the MapPorn community
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August 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
My wife and daughter just ridiculed me for calling it a drinking fountain!
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Good look at profit-seeking vs. everyday fandom... "If you have an all-you-can-eat-and-drink spread waiting for you, there is no need to pop into the old bar or the family-owned pizza shop across from the stadium. It separates fans and cuts into the shared experience."
www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
Augusta National ditches the masses in a quest for higher revenues
Augusta's everyman appeal loses out in the quest for luxury, exclusivity and money.
www.espn.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Good look at profit-seeking vs. everyday fandom... "If you have an all-you-can-eat-and-drink spread waiting for you, there is no need to pop into the old bar or the family-owned pizza shop across from the stadium. It separates fans and cuts into the shared experience."
www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
I love all these responses and statements. The sociology of people in regions vs made-up states (lines on a map) is fascinating. Other examples: Missouri with two big regions each split across an artificial border, Chicagoland essentially reaching across 4 states…
Oklahoma and Texas should be considered their own separate geographic area, because nothing around them is similar.
OK/TX region (which i think should be considered it’s own thing), north florida (which is more like georgia than stereotypical florida), denver/mountain west, pacific northwest
July 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I love all these responses and statements. The sociology of people in regions vs made-up states (lines on a map) is fascinating. Other examples: Missouri with two big regions each split across an artificial border, Chicagoland essentially reaching across 4 states…
Unbelievably sad.
“.. They are nurses, mechanics, sanitation workers and executives. .. They’ve opened restaurants .. paid taxes and contributed to Social Security, living and working legally in the United States since 1999.”
They have 60 days to leave.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
They have 60 days to leave.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
July 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Unbelievably sad.
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Yes. Worth watching.
TL;DR Sheriff's office sent out alerts *on Facebook* (for anyone online at 5:30am) but not to cell phones or other real-time alert systems.
Sheriff says he'll look into it.
TL;DR Sheriff's office sent out alerts *on Facebook* (for anyone online at 5:30am) but not to cell phones or other real-time alert systems.
Sheriff says he'll look into it.
1/6 Behind the story: excellent investigative work by @parksdigsin.bsky.social and Scott Friedman on the critical moments before the flood. Watch to the end- the part at 4:51 will blow your mind:
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www.nbcdfw.com/investigatio...
FEMA records show Kerr County officials didn't send EAS warnings to phones as flooding began July 4
FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.
www.nbcdfw.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Yes. Worth watching.
TL;DR Sheriff's office sent out alerts *on Facebook* (for anyone online at 5:30am) but not to cell phones or other real-time alert systems.
Sheriff says he'll look into it.
TL;DR Sheriff's office sent out alerts *on Facebook* (for anyone online at 5:30am) but not to cell phones or other real-time alert systems.
Sheriff says he'll look into it.
But I did get just get a phone alert about someone who shot one law officer a state away, and it even said there’s no credible threat the guy is in Oklahoma…
"The Texas county where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing had the technology to turn every cellphone in the river valley into a blaring alarm but local officials did not do so...as river levels rose to record heights...a Washington Post examination found."
Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods
Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
But I did get just get a phone alert about someone who shot one law officer a state away, and it even said there’s no credible threat the guy is in Oklahoma…
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every word of this:
13 thoughts on the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder — simultaneously all-time good and just getting started.
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www.lastnightinbasketball.com/13-thoughts-...
13 Thoughts on the Thunder
The Oklahoma City Thunder are your NBA champions. Let's run through 13 thoughts about the team, the season, and the future.
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* This really feels like the beginning of something, rather ...
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June 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
every word of this:
Side note - my lovely wife specified the blue upholstered bar chairs in this photo in 2009. Got yelled to directly by Clay Bennett who wanted to make sure they’d last. They certainly have. Also, she designed the Thunder locker room at that time… our little claim to helping this happen.
June 23, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Side note - my lovely wife specified the blue upholstered bar chairs in this photo in 2009. Got yelled to directly by Clay Bennett who wanted to make sure they’d last. They certainly have. Also, she designed the Thunder locker room at that time… our little claim to helping this happen.
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* AMEX CFO SAYS AIRLINE SPENDING SOFT, IN LINE WITH Q1
* AMEX CFO SAYS CANADIANS AND EUROPEANS ARE TRAVELING LESS TO THE US
@reuters.com $AXP
* AMEX CFO SAYS CANADIANS AND EUROPEANS ARE TRAVELING LESS TO THE US
@reuters.com $AXP
June 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Only ones happy that I know of some guys in the rail foamers in the Michigan Railfans Facebook group... they love their trains.
Ratepayers in 15 states will pay higher bills in order to keep a coal plant online, even though no one -- the utility, the customers, the grid operators -- wants it.
The Trump admin ordered a coal power plant to stay on past retirement. Customers in 15 states will foot the bill | CNN
An aging coal power plant slated to shutter will run through the summer at the order of Energy Sec. Chris Wright, a decision that could cost Midwest energy customers tens of millions of dollars.
edition.cnn.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Only ones happy that I know of some guys in the rail foamers in the Michigan Railfans Facebook group... they love their trains.
Every time I drive NW 13th between Broadway & Classen/Western, I’m reminded how perfect it would be for a 4 to 3 lane road diet.
June 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Every time I drive NW 13th between Broadway & Classen/Western, I’m reminded how perfect it would be for a 4 to 3 lane road diet.
I don't watch much softball, and I don't normally cheer for OU, but it's hard to admit that that wasn't amazing.
May 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I don't watch much softball, and I don't normally cheer for OU, but it's hard to admit that that wasn't amazing.
@jaycrossley.bsky.social Have you seen any updated #txleg action to fund the Heartland Flyer? Us Okies and the Kansans really want to keep it going…
May 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@jaycrossley.bsky.social Have you seen any updated #txleg action to fund the Heartland Flyer? Us Okies and the Kansans really want to keep it going…
Planes still working OKC Will Rogers and not Tinker AFB; also interesting today, KOKC is using runway 13|31 this morning. Rare to see that happening in this direction (landing/taking off SE). #avgeek
May 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Planes still working OKC Will Rogers and not Tinker AFB; also interesting today, KOKC is using runway 13|31 this morning. Rare to see that happening in this direction (landing/taking off SE). #avgeek