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No highways expansions anywhere, ever • Proud Urbanist • Product Designer • Former Advisory Board • Language Lover: EN FR RU AR DE IT ES • 
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This performance is insane 🤯
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when you transfer from the G to the L at Metropolitan-Lorimer
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who felt that corden needed to be the person to hand beyonce her history making grammy. and why.
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You are very welcome, Beyoncé 😌
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The Grammys are fun and entertaining and dare I say classy / not desperate to appeal to 16yos for once?
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I suppose not every piece of the railroad system needs 6-minute service but dear God, 20 minutes would be wonderful compared to 2 hours
This is on a Saturday at the St. Albans station
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Really sad to see the progression of the West End and Crosley Field from 1955 to 1972 :(
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We had an emergency vet visit today and someone got his first subway ride (he’s fine, but not impressed w the subway)
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The idea that better transit (even at the “expense” of space for cars) would in any way hurt the poor or middle class in this country is just laughable.
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Average price of a New car is up *42%* in the last 3 years.
Jan 2020: $33,500
Jan 2023: $47,500 (!!)
Unsustainable.
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Hier j’ai loué une voiture. Si on s’amusait à compter les infractions ce serait dingue. Sur le périphérique de Lyon il y a une infraction toutes des 10s: pas de clignotant, ligne blanche ou zébra, dépasse sur bande d’arrêt d’urgence, vitesse, téléphone, distance de sécurité…
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wow. i wish this was legal to build in the US. alas, only elsewhere (germany)
has completely changed the way i will look at apartment buildings in the US forever.
bonus points: breaking up the massing is bad, actually. what a great design. archdaily.com/995694/pergole
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One of 's top priorities for USDOT is recognize and require induced demand to be measured. USDOT's response? Widening I-10 from 4 to 6 lanes from just west of Diamondhead will improve overall energy efficiency and result in a reduction in pollution and noise.
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The police will drive and park their personal vehicles on the sidewalk but if a boy rides his bike on the sidewalk...straight to jail.
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Horrible and worthless NYPD officers bullying and arresting a young black boy for riding his bike on the sidewalk. There were at least 25 cops just standing around. Abolish the fucking police.
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I had to block Ang*e. Admire most of the work but I can only take 10-15 tweets per day about how Twitter urbanists are posting wrong - good lord.
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Seriously though, I am irrationally excited to ride one
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An open gangway in NYC 🥹 it feels great to pioneer this new technology
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daydreaming on what its like to live in a better city than anything the US has to offer archdaily.com/803510/kroyer-
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i wish seattle had a square like this. but we are too obsessed with cars archdaily.com/880388/israels
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This week 's was asked about the danger that oversized SUVs and trucks pose to pedestrians. He punted, claiming we need “further research.”
That’s simply untrue. Here’s a 🧵 explaining why.
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what's the holdup on #oakland planning department mandating parking maximums??!
734-car garage a short walk from 19th BART
596 apartments
this ratio of car parking to housing should be illegal
anyone covering the planning dept and planning commission??
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I just love bouncing around this city seeing all the new pockets of life & activity popping up everywhere because of new building — it’s so weird some people are scared of this 🙃
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Long Island is one of the most anti-housing parts of the country, and any plan to make New York more affordable starts with denser, transit oriented housing on Long Island
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How has Hoyt-Schermerhorn not been renovated yet 🥴
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Truly massive changes coming for San Pablo Ave from Downtown Oakland through Albany.
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We just keep winning. $15M more in federal funding now awarded to the San Pablo Ave corridor project through W Berkeley/Albany. twitter.com/prinzrob/statu…
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There is no happier moment in life than when you’re eagerly anticipating your food at a restaurant and have a lil glass of wine to sip on
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Lease is signed, I can finally let this cat out of the bag: as of Saturday I will be a resident of Jackson Heights! Excited for my third borough — transit/streets/housing people of Queens (…there are so many of us) let’s get coffee!
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Six months ago, my bill to turn New York City's speed cams on 24/7 in school zones became law -- and since then, 70% more drivers have been held accountable for flouting the law. We have much more work to do to fully achieve Vision Zero, but this law brings us one step closer.
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Ideas that are going mainstream at warp speed:
1. Suburbs are part of a metropolitan housing market and need to build lots more dense(r) housing
2: Cities & states need to be planning & building orders of magnitude more high-quality transit than we have for the past ~8 decades
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Philadelphia needs this subway. Other cities make new transit expansion happen regularly. It is time for Philadelphia to join them.
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There are lots of things I’m (politically) demoralized about right now but I have to say the speed at which the housing stuff is going mainstream is breathtaking
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I feel like contributing to bodega discourse today so let me just say it really livens up a street corner when the goods are on display like this 😊 only in NYC baby
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Absolutely massive Milwaukee news:
Northwestern Mutual will overhaul existing 1990 building to match 32-story tower, relocate Franklin employees to downtown and build pedestrian plaza as part of $500 million investment
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“Most passenger rail startups consume cash by beginning with a ridership study, but that isn’t happening here. As Midcoast’s Smith puts it, ‘We can just run the damn service and see if it works!’”
We need this energy more. Just run trains and people will ride them!
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A governor realizing that they can put something other than parking lots next to transit stations
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Hochul is speaking more vocally than normal about transit-oriented development in her budget speech right now.
"We spent all of this $ on these stations and trains... and what's next to the station? A parking lot? Rundown factories? Abandoned shops? We can do better than that."
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This… rules? I can hardly believe these words came out of the mouth of an American governor - it’s like lifted straight from transit Twitter lol
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Hochul is speaking more vocally than normal about transit-oriented development in her budget speech right now.
"We spent all of this $ on these stations and trains... and what's next to the station? A parking lot? Rundown factories? Abandoned shops? We can do better than that."
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Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?
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Skepticism of Gov Hochul's transformational housing plan is basically:
1. It would be extremely good and solve ~2 of the top 3 policy problems in America's biggest region
2. Good things don't happen because NY is ungovernable
3. Therefore this can't happen
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