Ryan Dusil

Screenshot it CNN with a voter being interviewed by CNN reporter in Passaic, New Jersey

One young voter in New Jersey on CNN right now:

“Honestly, the last few days [of shutdown] have been scary for a lot of Americans. And while we’re sitting here struggling and worried, they’re building a ballroom.”

🎯

Very cool to see Mad Max Sherzer still has that fire after an absolutely incredible 17yr career. Dominance, longevity, and little bit of psycho. An all-time great.

It had never occurred to me that he has also spent his entire career playing for relatively small market teams. That’s awesome.

Found out about Saint Paul’s Grand Round last night at 11pm and completed it by 1pm today. Serendipity for the win. What a cool urban loop. 27 miles of greenways, parkways, protected cycle tracks, and bike lanes.

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.

Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.

It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

*roadway space that is

…land use, they make up for in ease of travel on two wheels. Lots of other factors at play but they’ve made the most of their space.

Fort Collins, CO has is an interesting example. They originally laid out 100-140ft right-of-ways for ease of horse-drawn carriage u-turns and transformed that into a platinum-level bike friendly community. Wide residential streets made a perfect canvas for the low-stress network. What they lack in..

The playbook:
1. Acknowledge the pain
2. Offer a villain
3. Promise a solution

Plus Mayor Johnson in Chicago. Illinois is standing on business right now. I hope it’s contagious.

A basic street redesign concept made in PowerPoint to show curb extensions with planters, bike lanes, and painted crosswalks

I second streetmix. Also, don’t underestimate PowerPoint. It’s pretty easy to draw on top of a Google Maps screen grab. This has been a helpful way to start a conversation and get people thinking about possibilities.

So close, yet so far!

Got mine! Iowa City is excited to chat with you next week.

Just had a thought: the difference between a "food desert" and a "car dependent neighborhood" is the income of the residents.

Both are food deserts (there are no supermarkets, etc) one just has enough ppl with cars for it to not matter.

The Oak Park Regional Housing Center does this to an extent I think: oprhc.org

A load of groceries next to an e-bike

Panniers and seltzers on an e-bike

An MTB tire on an e-bike

Our longtail e-bike has been a joy so far.

This line from “Killed by a Traffic Engineer” is a good example of why it’s a fun read:

“What happens when the street network comes after the functional classification system? The result often resembles a branchy deciduous tree with streets named after the trees we cut down to build it.”

Agreed, I don’t see any upside. There are 2-3 specific routes that serve both a high school and middle school and they go thru some of the cities lowest income neighborhoods.

I was wondering the same. I honestly don’t know. It seems like a real enforcement headache.

Cedar Rapids (Iowa) transit is free for all students with school ID. Elementary and middle school kids are exempt from the ID requirement. Down the road in Iowa City transit is fare free for all.

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

I’m with you. I learned from @wesmars.bsky.social that a an avg adult male on an e-bike would need to go 100mph to equal the kinetic energy of a sedan at 30mph. These e-bikes are just out of control.

Not to mention Florida metro areas hold 8 of the 20 worst ped fatality rates among large metros, according to Dangerous by Design 2024 by @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

Don’t underestimate the power of the flag vehicle escort lobby!

This was a fun listen! Excited to tune back in Friday to hear more from the MTA chief.

Some raw truth about cars

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

An Aventon Abound e-bike hauling a repaired wheel for another bike.

And so it begins, our e-bike era. We intentionally purchased an e-bike that fits a wide range of heights and can haul plenty of groceries. We’ll be selling our 2nd car, which will save our household an estimated $3,000 in 2025.

Another way to phrase it is this: How come the time of people inside of motor vehicles is a precious commodity that must be conserved, while the time of everyone outside of motor vehicles is freely expendable?
#WindshieldBias