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CTA wouldn’t make an ‘L’ map of what their doomsday could look like, but I did. RTA says the CTA could reduce or close four entire lines and close or greatly reduce service at 50 stations, so here’s what killing 4 lines and 50 stations could look like.
Welcome to the future.
Welcome to the future.
June 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
CTA wouldn’t make an ‘L’ map of what their doomsday could look like, but I did. RTA says the CTA could reduce or close four entire lines and close or greatly reduce service at 50 stations, so here’s what killing 4 lines and 50 stations could look like.
Welcome to the future.
Welcome to the future.
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This one cool trick can save you $12,000 a year and also make your old car last longer since Trump is ensuring you'll never be able to afford a new one:
a man in a suit is riding a red bicycle with his feet up .
ALT: a man in a suit is riding a red bicycle with his feet up .
media.tenor.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This one cool trick can save you $12,000 a year and also make your old car last longer since Trump is ensuring you'll never be able to afford a new one:
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Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think of this exchange between @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @drtaragoddard.com because it's such a perfect encapsulation of how in the U.S. we've built our environment in a way that doesn't let kids move like kids. All so drivers can go fast.
March 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think of this exchange between @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @drtaragoddard.com because it's such a perfect encapsulation of how in the U.S. we've built our environment in a way that doesn't let kids move like kids. All so drivers can go fast.
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Seems like a good time to re-up this one
Detroit killed the sedan. Trump's trade war will make them wish they hadn’t
As Trump threatens tariffs and consumer confidence plummets, the lack of options from U.S. automakers could send buyers to foreign competitors.
www.fastcompany.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Seems like a good time to re-up this one
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Want to combat exurban sprawl?
Legalize these on every lot in America.
Legalize these on every lot in America.
March 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Want to combat exurban sprawl?
Legalize these on every lot in America.
Legalize these on every lot in America.
Alas, Canoo is no more. I share @lloydalter.bsky.social 's sentiments exactly - lloydalter.substack.com/p/noooo-cano... But I guess I don't really need a new car any time soon anyway.
Noooo, Canoooo is toast!
This was the electric car of my dreams, and now it is gone.
lloydalter.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Alas, Canoo is no more. I share @lloydalter.bsky.social 's sentiments exactly - lloydalter.substack.com/p/noooo-cano... But I guess I don't really need a new car any time soon anyway.
Welcome to the #broligarchy! emilyinyourphone.substack.com/p/the-brolig...
The Broligarchy is Here
Inside the Billionaire Boys’ Club Plotting America’s Future
emilyinyourphone.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Welcome to the #broligarchy! emilyinyourphone.substack.com/p/the-brolig...
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In New York, the Governor wants to get heavy class 3 e-bikes out of the bike lanes. It might be a good time to look at all the e-bike regulations, rooted in American exceptionalism, instead of being based on European experience. lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
It's time to rethink our e-bike regulations
And just eliminate Class 3; twenty is plenty for e-bike speed.
lloydalter.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
In New York, the Governor wants to get heavy class 3 e-bikes out of the bike lanes. It might be a good time to look at all the e-bike regulations, rooted in American exceptionalism, instead of being based on European experience. lloydalter.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
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What the fuck is wrong with you
January 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What the fuck is wrong with you
Great to see this finally happening
Congestion pricing starts at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, and we're already planning to party near the toll gantries on the west side. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/02/t...
Thursday's Headlines: The Start of Something Big Edition - Streetsblog New York City
We start every new year with such optimism! And we do so again as 2025 kicks off. Plus other news.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Great to see this finally happening
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PennDOT is calling on the public to help decide the future of Roosevelt Boulevard, whose long-term redesign could include a Roosevelt Boulevard subway line in Northeast Philly if funding can be obtained.
www.phillyvoice.com/options-impr...
www.phillyvoice.com/options-impr...
PennDOT seeks public feedback on long-term transit plans to redesign Roosevelt Boulevard
Four open meetings with SEPTA and city officials will examine six options, including to build a Northeast Philly subway line.
www.phillyvoice.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
PennDOT is calling on the public to help decide the future of Roosevelt Boulevard, whose long-term redesign could include a Roosevelt Boulevard subway line in Northeast Philly if funding can be obtained.
www.phillyvoice.com/options-impr...
www.phillyvoice.com/options-impr...
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We have a petition… if you’re a Society Hill or Center City resident, please sign it!
Protect the Spruce & Pine Bike Lanes
Sign this petition to show your support of the City's plan to make Spruce & Pine Streets safer for all users.
www.5thsq.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:56 AM
We have a petition… if you’re a Society Hill or Center City resident, please sign it!
I'm enjoying the dialogue over on a new site called #CarbonParadox - carbonparadox.org #CarbonCredits are potentially effective tools to address climate change but they are full of complexity and paradox. Take a look!
carbonparadox.org
carbonparadox.org
December 6, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I'm enjoying the dialogue over on a new site called #CarbonParadox - carbonparadox.org #CarbonCredits are potentially effective tools to address climate change but they are full of complexity and paradox. Take a look!
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Although marketing is certainly part of the reason for increasing car/truck size, it's not even close to being the primary reason. The actual reason is CAFE standards. A quick explanation: (1)
Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.
December 2, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Although marketing is certainly part of the reason for increasing car/truck size, it's not even close to being the primary reason. The actual reason is CAFE standards. A quick explanation: (1)
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American cities really don't do streetcars very well. Washington DC's single 2.2-mile route - the only part of a more ambitious system to open - illustrates why they mostly fail.
seanmarshall.ca/2024/12/02/a...
seanmarshall.ca/2024/12/02/a...
Another American streetcar, another disappointment
The DC Streetcar is another example of pretty much everything wrong with modern streetcar implementations.
seanmarshall.ca
December 2, 2024 at 4:41 PM
American cities really don't do streetcars very well. Washington DC's single 2.2-mile route - the only part of a more ambitious system to open - illustrates why they mostly fail.
seanmarshall.ca/2024/12/02/a...
seanmarshall.ca/2024/12/02/a...
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This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US sets tariffs for solar panels from Southeast Asian nations
U.S. trade officials announced on Friday a new round of tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian nations after American manufacturers complained that companies there are flooding the market with unfairly cheap goods.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:27 AM
This is madness. If other countries want to sell us solar on the cheap so we can expedite adoption of clean energy, let them. Either climate change is a crisis, or it isn't.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
This looks like a great improvement on mistakes made a generation ago. And great for housing affordability in Philly
Once you see the design for Philly’s new Westpark public housing complex, the idea that we spent 30 years tearing down high perfectly reusable housing towers will seem even more insane. My column on how the city housing authority is finally giving density a try: www.inquirer.com/columnists/p...
PHA is trying a new approach to high-rise public housing. This time it just might work.
The dense, new development proposed for Westpark at 44th and Market could create an affordable, 15-minute neighborhood.
www.inquirer.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:33 PM
This looks like a great improvement on mistakes made a generation ago. And great for housing affordability in Philly
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The end of the day at a primary school in Amsterdam, situated on a bicycle and pedestrian only street
December 1, 2024 at 3:50 PM
The end of the day at a primary school in Amsterdam, situated on a bicycle and pedestrian only street
Yo. Will this actually be useful?
December 1, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Yo. Will this actually be useful?