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Conrail Twitty

@grenadine.bsky.social

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Is that urban planner yelling into the Internet again? Detroiter from St. Louis Posting about city services & urban planning from a justice perspective, the Rust Belt, community outreach, transportation, historic preservation, and cats.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi new people! Nice to meet you.

I am a Detroit area urban planner, transit advocate, and historic preservation professional.

#1 fangirl of the Open Meetings Act.

Come for the local government commentary, stay for the everything else (It’s mostly everything else.)

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 1m

Didn’t even have to check that this was Southwest, it just announced itself. I love it

Every Lot Detroit @everylotdetroit.bsky.social · 3h

4035 TRENTON, DETROIT, MI, 48210

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 4m

A view of the Heidelberg Project (my old job!) from the next street over

every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 22h

3670 ELBA PL
Parcel ID: 13001392.
Year built: None
Zoned R2
Tax status: EXEMPT (211.7GG)
Image dates: Dec 18 2019 on left; May 02 2024 on right

Street view imagery of 3670 ELBA PL captured on Dec 18 2019

Street view imagery of 3670 ELBA PL captured on May 02 2024

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 5m

Another good “passage of the seasons” one

every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 20h

3655 E HANCOCK
Parcel ID: 13002669.
Year built: None
Zoned R2
Tax status: TAXABLE
Image dates: Oct 28 2018 on left; Jan 30 2025 on right

Street view imagery of 3655 E HANCOCK captured on Oct 28 2018

Street view imagery of 3655 E HANCOCK captured on Jan 30 2025

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 7m

These two houses are best friends

every lot detroit.. before and after @everylot.det.city · 8h

1249 NEWPORT
Parcel ID: 21054223.
Year built: 1910
Zoned R2
Tax status: TAXABLE
Image dates: Dec 03 2019 on left; Jul 31 2025 on right

Street view imagery of 1249 NEWPORT captured on Dec 03 2019

Street view imagery of 1249 NEWPORT captured on Jul 31 2025

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 9m

They couldn’t fit the whole LRA stencil on the board for the door so they tried to make it diagonal and then gave up

Every Lot St Louis @everylotstlouis.bsky.social · 9h

1124 CHAMBERS ST, ST LOUIS, MO, 63106

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 10m

That’s a little on the nose

Every Lot St Louis @everylotstlouis.bsky.social · 4h

4240 RED BUD AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63115

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 15m

I also partly learned to drive here and it def helped. Driving places where people go normal speeds and aren’t aggressive is chill in comparison

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 15m

Yes! I’ve seen it repeatedly, today was just extra blatant

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 16m

Human car wash but fancy!

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 34m

It’s actually raining here!!!! Congratulations to my garden

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2h

It’s wild to me that it’s a drought here and repeatedly raining there!

I just saw that the Maumee River is completely dry in a park I like outside of Toledo. There is no water in it

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2h

Once I tweeted about someone posting an effectively windowless 1BR in Downtown Hamtramck for $1k/mo. Didn’t seem like it had been updated.

The old tenant found the tweet and said she’d been paying in the 600s, it was indeed not updated at alllll, and it had roaches.

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Nowcowan @nowcowan.bsky.social · 2h

The AVERAGE increase is near 97%

I remember the bad old days before the ACA & it’s not great when you’re rawdoging life w/o health insurance

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2h

Covered California this week will alert ACA enrollees that 2026 premiums could jump without extended subsidies, with average hikes near 97% and coverage at risk.

Californians may get a price shock this week on health insurance

Covered California this week will alert ACA enrollees that 2026 premiums could jump without extended subsidies, with average hikes near 97% and coverage at risk.

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not great about posting my photography, similarly. I really should.

On the flip side sometimes I’ll share urban policy or history thoughts that feel unfinished to me and they absolutely pop off, people find value in them. You never know

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 3h

Do this in every county

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 5h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 3h

Hey @detdocumenters.bsky.social check this out!

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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 3h

Dope! This looks like a great tool. We could have used it when we were working to pull public hearing data across B.C. municipalities on the public hearing reform work we conducted.

Looking forward to testing out the tool when it’s available.

Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 6d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 6h

Detroit drivers stop driving the wrong way up highway on-ramps at the slightest traffic inconvenience challenge (impossible)

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 9h

A similar thought crossed my mind but I don’t wanna teach her to go for hands! She does have long toys we can use for her to wrestle

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 9h

My old roommate is genuinely great in an emergency but I’m not asking her to drive ten hours

Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 9h

I did the same recently with forcing myself to learn my bf’s number!

I should probably try to learn a couple more Michigan people’s numbers. My pre cell phone era was before I moved up here, so the old numbers I know are not those of anyone who could reach me in an urgent moment

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 11h

Taking like 5 hours away from the news now is awesome because you come back and like 5 stories have occurred any of which alone would have the biggest story of any normal presidential term

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 19h

She wants to play fight so bad but I am not fighting my cat

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 19h

I came downstairs to check on laundry.

Yazzy first tried to get me to pet her like a regular cat (What a surprise! Yes)

Then she tried to get me to pet her really hard (Okay, sure)

Then she tried to get me to fight her (No)

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2d

Since ppl were curious, actual report:

Pupuseria El Tunco on Cicotte was indeed open late.

They only take cash and Zelle.

This is their list of flavors, tho they were out of a couple.

The pupusas were good and the guy was nice!! He gave us 2 free drinks and Marcus loved his pineapple agua fresca

A business card listing menu items.

Pupusas: revueltas, chicharrón, frijol, pollo, birria, camarón, calabaza, jalapeño, loroco, and pepperoni.

Orden de pasteles: pollo y carne.

Orden de plátano frito.

The business card of Pupuseria El Tunco. 3200 Cicotte St, Detroit mi 48210.

They are on fb and tiktok as Pupuseria el Tunco.

(313) 247-4495

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