year old axios data puts the average at 42 daily commute miles; dense areas closer to 12-15, sparse texas places nearish 60-70 miles/day www.axios.com/2024/03/24/a...

right, we're just baffled by the notion that one could assemble a group call of 30-50 people in a neighborhood association and none of them have local politics as one of their special interests 😩

brew reporting keeps featuring someone complaining their neighborhood association didn't know about a legislative action; we forget that not everyone knows what legistar is or religiously checks for mga updates. but... what about of public engagement would be enough if people aren't engaged? :|

again, earnest question: do cis people understand the purple archipelago? do they understand what they are prioritizing and what they are ignoring in this conversation? would they have sided against lbj on the civil rights act of 1964? bsky.app/profile/klei...

would it be possible to place the reported % of skipped stops due to full busses in public reporting of service quality?

(We've had to explain to people new to the MTA that sitting at a bus stop bench is insufficient and that bus drivers will arbitrarily skip stops. As best we can tell, that data isn't reported alongside OTP data on MTA's performance improvement page, but would have included both reported skips)

both that person and the person who was skipped by a driver and not allowed to board after being called a "crazy bitch" claim to have reported their issues. (we look forward to a postmortem) Does MTA have any plan to measure the % of times that bus drivers skip stops?

intrusively riffing: faegpl (the seelie court's sequel to agpl)

😔 rip

the Mapping Inequality project is so great because it collates many of these HOLC maps across the country *with* the area descriptions. dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...

😭 he was born 3 years after the 1937 HOLC map

this is a misconception that murphy holds to in other brew reporting as well www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/09/12/a...

oh we can agree with that, the yankees suck. just got nerdsniped by the sabermetrics of it all

had to wiki to check but wouldn't that be a fairly unremarkable difference given that fwar weights heavily on runs and has no measure of a catcher's game-saving defensive plays, and catchers have relatively low offensive output compared to defensive output? (repost due to wonky copy paste of frmla)

catholics likely opted to be in for the ride when they first made anti-choice a core part of their politics, a bitter pill of complicity to swallow now that those political choices are bearing fruit in brutalized people on the streets. 😩 spiritually challenging times, sending critical support vibes

😏 imagine needing 192 horses when one (1) will do

this post made by 750 watt ebike gang

zarowdsky's piece also understates that some of the street work done is actually going to be *in the way* of future bike infrastructure. argonne has pedestrian bumpouts in a few spots that intentionally interfere w/ bike lanes, much of patterson's ped bumpouts are also designed to exclude bikes too