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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃

@lewislehe.bsky.social

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Asst. Prof at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Traffic, transit and economics. https://lehelab.com/

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · Aug 2

monarch on my zinnia

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 20h

i really like the bubble quote. almost too on-the-nose.

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 20h

i think it's the general culture of architects and americans. among a network of people, these principles are plain as day and keep going as common sense w/o argument, even when they contradict personal experience. you don't know anyone who thinks differently.

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 20h

my dad once said, "never ask a tall person if they play basketball. it's very annoying to them if they don't. i learned this the hard way." a very generalizable rule, but i never learned what the hard way was.

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 20h

"Fueling the anxiety: a raft of recent California laws and bills that make it easier to build duplexes and apartment buildings
"the gentrification question."
“I want it to feel like the old neighborhood...Like if you put all those houses pre-fire in a time bubble.”

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 20h

"He was working out of that Altadena rental as a private architecture consultant when he struck the record-setting jackpot."
"He said he wants to sell exclusively to families who want to settle down in Altadena, rather than people who might turn the homes into rentals."
www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

He Won the $2 Billion Powerball. Now He’s Buying Up Lots Burned in the L.A. Fires.

Edwin Castro is one of the biggest investors snapping up destroyed properties—and he wants to lead in rebuilding his hometown of Altadena.

www.wsj.com

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan has a certain type of sign. I could tell a Michigan sign from a picture. Can’t put my finger on it

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 3d

Good post diego

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 4d

Curious about the exports controls on the things they don’t even make. As a trump linguistics watcher, I know what happened. He adds amplifying parenthetical phrases: windmills kill birds, and even bald and golden eagles, by the thousands. this one happened to be nonsensical, but is ordinary

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

the argument I would make, were I to argue this, is: hours of reading or doing practice problems needed to get a decent grade has overall declined. so students have more time to go on social media. much of social media is political, so more use what they know and become activists

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

it all goes back to accounting

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

love showing visitors around campus

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

gonna do one on how bad bunny is an icon for the 5’ 11” community

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 5d

warm October until today. new flowers still blooming.

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 6d

proud of transportation academia as regards ffpt. a policy idea started to gain interest, and new studies came out to inform the discussion with fairly consistent results. sort of how you envision academia is supposed to help things.

Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 6d

A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 6d

could you observe any transit travel time changes on the ods in the sample

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 6d

lol

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 6d

an underrated part of the story of excess chinese ev capacity you read about.

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 7d

The first step is to point out they aren’t real doctors, root docere: to teach. While we need more respect for trades such as physicians and welders, words have meanings.
www.britannica.com/topic/doctor...

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 7d

good semiotics here. ordinarily, you cut spending to keep tax rates low for residents and to encourage commerce. here the spending cuts are an end in-themselves. the rates are cut to prevent spending even though residents dont pay the rates and want to discourage the commerce.

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 7d

slow growth final boss: Loudoun Co VA is cutting data center taxes explicitly to raise less revenue, so as to lower government spending. it isn't to encourage data centers: they're restricting them w/ regulation. they just want the "i cut spending" merit badge. www.loudounnow.com/news/county-...

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Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 8d

true.
this also means it’s very hard to understand what people in the past were getting at.

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 8d

he made a trumpcoin crypto and they called it crass. now he mints a metallic trumpcoin and they’re STILL mad! The guy can’t win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Treasury Defends Lawfulness of Minting a $1 Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

Boo-is Lehe 🦇 🎃 @lewislehe.bsky.social · 9d

this is the best book I’d never heard of until reading it on my study abroad.