Ben Ross
@benrosstransit.bsky.social
Transit advocate. Social Democrat. Author of Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
Mine was a general comment that findings in Yellowstone may not extrapolate well, not addressed to the 30% number.
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Mine was a general comment that findings in Yellowstone may not extrapolate well, not addressed to the 30% number.
Yellowstone is *much* more seismically active than most places.
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Yellowstone is *much* more seismically active than most places.
FTA New Starts grant process essentially requires environmental review to subsume planning. Much less true for highways, because mostly they're built with formula funding and the discretionary grants are evaluated separately from the NEPA process.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
FTA New Starts grant process essentially requires environmental review to subsume planning. Much less true for highways, because mostly they're built with formula funding and the discretionary grants are evaluated separately from the NEPA process.
CSX, in the last two years, has become much more amenable to expanded MARC passenger service on the Brunswick Line which goes from DC to West Virginia. I don't know how much this is due to decreased coal traffic & how much to Gov Moore whose DOT, unlike Gov Hogan's, has asked for this.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
CSX, in the last two years, has become much more amenable to expanded MARC passenger service on the Brunswick Line which goes from DC to West Virginia. I don't know how much this is due to decreased coal traffic & how much to Gov Moore whose DOT, unlike Gov Hogan's, has asked for this.
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Social justice NGOs need to engage with yimbys and listen to their lived experiences of de facto alliances between left-nimbys and exclusionary suburban homeowners who call themselves the "community." Focus on ways to be better & incorporate a "build build build" element in your campaigns.
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Social justice NGOs need to engage with yimbys and listen to their lived experiences of de facto alliances between left-nimbys and exclusionary suburban homeowners who call themselves the "community." Focus on ways to be better & incorporate a "build build build" element in your campaigns.
Social justice NGOs need to engage with yimbys and listen to their lived experiences of de facto alliances between left-nimbys and exclusionary suburban homeowners who call themselves the "community." Focus on ways to be better & incorporate a "build build build" element in your campaigns.
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Social justice NGOs need to engage with yimbys and listen to their lived experiences of de facto alliances between left-nimbys and exclusionary suburban homeowners who call themselves the "community." Focus on ways to be better & incorporate a "build build build" element in your campaigns.
How about coronation?
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How about coronation?
This was sarcasm.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This was sarcasm.
This smells like a fake account from an offshore troll factory. Content is almost a parody of tankies. Frequent departures from idiomatic English (not in vocabulary, but in word order) that suggest someone who learned English well in school but never spoke it day-to-day.
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This smells like a fake account from an offshore troll factory. Content is almost a parody of tankies. Frequent departures from idiomatic English (not in vocabulary, but in word order) that suggest someone who learned English well in school but never spoke it day-to-day.
It's too long for a noun phrase. Drop the only. Then you don't need any hyphens. Also, "local" is imprecise, because it includes nearby.
Transit and direct access street. Or, better, make up a short name, and define it as a street open only to transit or for access to properties on the same block.
Transit and direct access street. Or, better, make up a short name, and define it as a street open only to transit or for access to properties on the same block.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's too long for a noun phrase. Drop the only. Then you don't need any hyphens. Also, "local" is imprecise, because it includes nearby.
Transit and direct access street. Or, better, make up a short name, and define it as a street open only to transit or for access to properties on the same block.
Transit and direct access street. Or, better, make up a short name, and define it as a street open only to transit or for access to properties on the same block.
Connecting all those (the architecture of FL Wright & Le Corbusier too) was the general intellectual vibe of the 1950s and 1960s among the New York intellectuals and I think much more widely.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Connecting all those (the architecture of FL Wright & Le Corbusier too) was the general intellectual vibe of the 1950s and 1960s among the New York intellectuals and I think much more widely.
Some clues - but no answer - here. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Some clues - but no answer - here. [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
This needs to be considered alongside anti-American terrorism as a motivation. He could be angry because friends or relatives who oppose the Taliban are being denied asylum in the US. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump shuts the door to Afghans who face crises at home.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This needs to be considered alongside anti-American terrorism as a motivation. He could be angry because friends or relatives who oppose the Taliban are being denied asylum in the US. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Today's DC shooting was on the corner where my optometrist is. I hope I can pick up my new glasses next week.
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Today's DC shooting was on the corner where my optometrist is. I hope I can pick up my new glasses next week.
Seriously, people don't think public policy should just benefit them personally. It's just that they think of the "public" as people like themselves. This is what Marx called class consciousness.
Prices going down would benefit everyone. My salary going up would benefit just me.
Prices going down would benefit everyone. My salary going up would benefit just me.
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Seriously, people don't think public policy should just benefit them personally. It's just that they think of the "public" as people like themselves. This is what Marx called class consciousness.
Prices going down would benefit everyone. My salary going up would benefit just me.
Prices going down would benefit everyone. My salary going up would benefit just me.
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The basic appeal of ultraleft & left nimby (overlapping) is status - "I'm cooler than you."
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The basic appeal of ultraleft & left nimby (overlapping) is status - "I'm cooler than you."
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
The basic appeal of ultraleft & left nimby (overlapping) is status - "I'm cooler than you."
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The basic appeal of ultraleft & left nimby (overlapping) is status - "I'm cooler than you."
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
Actual leftists calling out their threatens their status. Greedy developers do not. That's why yimby makes them so much angrier than the developer does.
The ultraleft in general is staying on the Nazi app.
TBF, a lot of people who shouldn't stay are staying too.
TBF, a lot of people who shouldn't stay are staying too.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The ultraleft in general is staying on the Nazi app.
TBF, a lot of people who shouldn't stay are staying too.
TBF, a lot of people who shouldn't stay are staying too.
That's not quite right. Since seniors overall are a growing part of the population, households led by people age 15-64 are a shrinking portion of households. So single age 15-64 would still be a growing portion of households led by people age 15-64, and thus part of the overall growth in singles.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
That's not quite right. Since seniors overall are a growing part of the population, households led by people age 15-64 are a shrinking portion of households. So single age 15-64 would still be a growing portion of households led by people age 15-64, and thus part of the overall growth in singles.
Perfect example of traffic engineering inspired by sanitary engineering.
You don't care how long it takes for sewage to reach its destination, you do all you can to prevent it from backing up.
(I have studied the history of sanitary engineering & believe this is a real intellectual connection.)
You don't care how long it takes for sewage to reach its destination, you do all you can to prevent it from backing up.
(I have studied the history of sanitary engineering & believe this is a real intellectual connection.)
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Perfect example of traffic engineering inspired by sanitary engineering.
You don't care how long it takes for sewage to reach its destination, you do all you can to prevent it from backing up.
(I have studied the history of sanitary engineering & believe this is a real intellectual connection.)
You don't care how long it takes for sewage to reach its destination, you do all you can to prevent it from backing up.
(I have studied the history of sanitary engineering & believe this is a real intellectual connection.)