Andrew Wallace
@theandrewwallace.bsky.social
Just trying to make Dallas, TX a better place to live.
There are 5 people with bikes and scooters on my DART train. We need more bike accommodations on these trains! @ridewithdata.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
There are 5 people with bikes and scooters on my DART train. We need more bike accommodations on these trains! @ridewithdata.org
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this basically how almost every NA light rail system works? As a rider of DART, the train is a street running tram in downtown and a dedicated ROW along old freight lines outside the highway loop with stops in surrounding cities.
Here's a public transit model a lot more cities need to know about.
It's the #Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. It runs tram-trains, in this metro region in #Germany of 310,000.
Outside town, they run as standard commuter trains. Inside town, they operate as trams (streetcars)—no need to change mode.
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It's the #Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. It runs tram-trains, in this metro region in #Germany of 310,000.
Outside town, they run as standard commuter trains. Inside town, they operate as trams (streetcars)—no need to change mode.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this basically how almost every NA light rail system works? As a rider of DART, the train is a street running tram in downtown and a dedicated ROW along old freight lines outside the highway loop with stops in surrounding cities.
If Dallas had the political will to keep us safe, the city should store all the impounded cars at Hensley Field instead of redeveloping it. Then we could redevelop all the space formerly taken up by serving those cars into housing inside Loop 12 instead of a far flung garden city.
In Milwaukee, police will now be able to impound any vehicle driven recklessly.
City Alderman: “It’s a two-ton weapon. We should look at this the same way we look at firearms. Let’s get as many of them off the street as possible.”
City Alderman: “It’s a two-ton weapon. We should look at this the same way we look at firearms. Let’s get as many of them off the street as possible.”
Milwaukee Gets Its Wish, City Can Tow All Reckless Drivers
Loopholes made prior policies "somewhat useless."
urbanmilwaukee.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If Dallas had the political will to keep us safe, the city should store all the impounded cars at Hensley Field instead of redeveloping it. Then we could redevelop all the space formerly taken up by serving those cars into housing inside Loop 12 instead of a far flung garden city.
We are doomed to be the Oakland of Texas.
Told you so. Plano is the likely location. www.dallasnews.com/sports/stars...
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We are doomed to be the Oakland of Texas.
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3001-3 MCNAIR AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63118
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
3001-3 MCNAIR AV, ST LOUIS, MO, 63118
The real quality of life and tough on crime stances that matter to urbanites.
If your city isn't installing speed cameras and isn't installing monitors for excessively loud engines, you are letting criminals ruin your quality of life while leaving money on the table.
The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
October 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The real quality of life and tough on crime stances that matter to urbanites.
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The Missing Middle, aka enabling housing that is universal in meeting the needs of a heterogenous demographic. Young, Old, Families, Singles, Couples, working, retired in place, able, disabled, starting out, up-sizing, down-sizing, PROMOTING MIXED USE AND GREEN UTILITY.
All anywhere but gentle!
All anywhere but gentle!
October 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Missing Middle, aka enabling housing that is universal in meeting the needs of a heterogenous demographic. Young, Old, Families, Singles, Couples, working, retired in place, able, disabled, starting out, up-sizing, down-sizing, PROMOTING MIXED USE AND GREEN UTILITY.
All anywhere but gentle!
All anywhere but gentle!
And all 15 min. or better headway buses at stoplights!
another day, another reminder that the trains should have signal priority in downtown dallas
September 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And all 15 min. or better headway buses at stoplights!
Absolutely unforgivable what our parents and grandparents let happen to this country. We need to elect an administration with the fortitude and mandate to fix this so our children and grandchildren have the cities they need to be successful.
INTERLUDE:
DYK: 1/10th of US interstate highway system was built through the center of cities, costing half of the well over budget program. For the amount spent on these highways, we could have built the equivalent of 36 Paris Metro systems at the cost of Montreal's initial subway lines in 1960s.
DYK: 1/10th of US interstate highway system was built through the center of cities, costing half of the well over budget program. For the amount spent on these highways, we could have built the equivalent of 36 Paris Metro systems at the cost of Montreal's initial subway lines in 1960s.
September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Absolutely unforgivable what our parents and grandparents let happen to this country. We need to elect an administration with the fortitude and mandate to fix this so our children and grandchildren have the cities they need to be successful.
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3938 CHIPPEWA ST, ST LOUIS, MO, 63116
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
3938 CHIPPEWA ST, ST LOUIS, MO, 63116
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point access block ftw
More micro retail in France: ~150 square feet and a dream is all you need for an organic juice bar with both table and bar seating. Would love to see more opportunities (spaces!) like this for small-scale entrepreneurs back home.
September 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
point access block ftw
G, no contest. Barbacoa, arepas, gumbo, Texas BBQ, empanadas are superior to all else.
All you D apologists can go pho-ck yourselves.
All you D apologists can go pho-ck yourselves.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
G, no contest. Barbacoa, arepas, gumbo, Texas BBQ, empanadas are superior to all else.
All you D apologists can go pho-ck yourselves.
All you D apologists can go pho-ck yourselves.
Inject this directly into my veins.
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Inject this directly into my veins.
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Homeless people are not the only people who need homes.
There are tens of millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave a bad home situation but can’t because our housing shortage makes rent too expensive.
There are tens of millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave a bad home situation but can’t because our housing shortage makes rent too expensive.
There are 16 million vacant homes in the US & less than 1 million people without homes.
Pundits keep saying we need to build more housing when what we need to do is confiscate homes & apartments kept vacant by landlords & mega-corporations for short-stay rentals & artificial price manipulation.
Pundits keep saying we need to build more housing when what we need to do is confiscate homes & apartments kept vacant by landlords & mega-corporations for short-stay rentals & artificial price manipulation.
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Homeless people are not the only people who need homes.
There are tens of millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave a bad home situation but can’t because our housing shortage makes rent too expensive.
There are tens of millions of people who would like to move out of their parents’ houses, ditch their roommates, or leave a bad home situation but can’t because our housing shortage makes rent too expensive.
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An updated thread of diagrams,
comparing Single Egress Stair (SES) buildings
to Double-Loaded buildings (with two stairs and a hallway).
aka why SES buildings are better, and - in many aspects - safer than double loaded buildings.
comparing Single Egress Stair (SES) buildings
to Double-Loaded buildings (with two stairs and a hallway).
aka why SES buildings are better, and - in many aspects - safer than double loaded buildings.
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
An updated thread of diagrams,
comparing Single Egress Stair (SES) buildings
to Double-Loaded buildings (with two stairs and a hallway).
aka why SES buildings are better, and - in many aspects - safer than double loaded buildings.
comparing Single Egress Stair (SES) buildings
to Double-Loaded buildings (with two stairs and a hallway).
aka why SES buildings are better, and - in many aspects - safer than double loaded buildings.
Cadiz, Canton, Ervay, N. Harwood, Marilla, Olive, San Jacinto, St. Paul are all streets in DT Dallas that need to be converted to two-way streets. They are little better than drag racing strips currently and always nerve-racking to cross, let alone bike down.
A simple way to improve American downtowns: Make one-way arterials bidirectional.
Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians.
Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians.
Me, in Bloomberg 🧵
One-Way Streets Are the Wrong Way to Tame Downtown Traffic
In the 1950s, US traffic planners thought unidirectional arterials were better for moving cars through urban areas. Now many cities are having second thoughts.
www.bloomberg.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Cadiz, Canton, Ervay, N. Harwood, Marilla, Olive, San Jacinto, St. Paul are all streets in DT Dallas that need to be converted to two-way streets. They are little better than drag racing strips currently and always nerve-racking to cross, let alone bike down.
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A former mayor of Santa Monica says it best: gentrification is too much money chasing too little housing
Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.
August 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A former mayor of Santa Monica says it best: gentrification is too much money chasing too little housing
Or at the very least, the least populous state's population should be the benchmark for a congressional district since they're guaranteed a seat no matter what. Wyoming at 580k would put us at 570 congressional seats. CA at 67 up from 52. TX at 53 up from 38.
DC statehood is the squishy moderate position. DC split up into 400 states so that we can reform the Constitution is the correct position. But nobody will realize that until it's too late
DC statehood now.
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Or at the very least, the least populous state's population should be the benchmark for a congressional district since they're guaranteed a seat no matter what. Wyoming at 580k would put us at 570 congressional seats. CA at 67 up from 52. TX at 53 up from 38.
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Left NIMBYs: “we haven’t let marginalized communities participate in generational wealth in housing”
Left NIMBYs when a home is sold in a marginalized community to a developer who gives them a big pay out: “this is displacement”
Left NIMBYs when a home is sold in a marginalized community to a developer who gives them a big pay out: “this is displacement”
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Left NIMBYs: “we haven’t let marginalized communities participate in generational wealth in housing”
Left NIMBYs when a home is sold in a marginalized community to a developer who gives them a big pay out: “this is displacement”
Left NIMBYs when a home is sold in a marginalized community to a developer who gives them a big pay out: “this is displacement”
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/08... I hear there's a large City of Dallas owned lot within walking distance of a DART stop that could fit the new jail. Surely the City could cut a deal for the County.
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/08... I hear there's a large City of Dallas owned lot within walking distance of a DART stop that could fit the new jail. Surely the City could cut a deal for the County.
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It is becoming increasingly unpleasant to be the customer of a giant corporation in the United States.
Every new technology seems to be used to further protect corporations from the rage of their customers, thus allowing the management to care less.
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Every new technology seems to be used to further protect corporations from the rage of their customers, thus allowing the management to care less.
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July 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It is becoming increasingly unpleasant to be the customer of a giant corporation in the United States.
Every new technology seems to be used to further protect corporations from the rage of their customers, thus allowing the management to care less.
Thread 1/
Every new technology seems to be used to further protect corporations from the rage of their customers, thus allowing the management to care less.
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These cities' govts zone and promote development totally antithetical to transit and then complain about "empty buses." Your city's insolvency is due to your buy in of the Ponzi scheme of sprawl and not the 1% of your sales tax going towards a public good. Skills issue
July 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
These cities' govts zone and promote development totally antithetical to transit and then complain about "empty buses." Your city's insolvency is due to your buy in of the Ponzi scheme of sprawl and not the 1% of your sales tax going towards a public good. Skills issue
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1 like, 1 housing opinion
1 like, 1 non-political opinion
One like, one *facially* apolitical opinion
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
1 like, 1 housing opinion