Jeff Schrader 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 🇫🇷

Hypercentre works best for what you describe. Neither downtown nor CBD encompasses everything you'd find in a city's core.

Walking, biking, and transit are components of urbanism, but they all serve the higher goal of improving cities. Implicit in this is a reduced focus on cars.

"The Last Crumbs (In The Restaurant La Mie)" captures the intimate atmosphere of a Parisian café, featuring a couple seated at a table with remnants of a meal. Toulouse-Lautrec's keen observation of Parisian life and expressive depiction of the characters' features emphasize his unique blend of realism and innovative use of color and line.

The Last Crumbs (In The Restaurant La Mie)

They do in Portland, where it rains a lot. They also cycle in Montreal, where there is considerable snow and subfreezing temps 4-5 months each year.

Even though that wasn't their intention. In fact, they'd be horrified if anyone pointed that out to them.

One is aesthetically pleasing and fits in with its city, the other is a concrete eyesore that required an entire Hispanic community to be cleared out before it was built.

"Cause, you know, induced demand only makes car centric problems worse."

In other news, the sun rose in the east.

It ties into a deeper issue: the act we're now a quarter of the way through the 21st century and still desperately clinging on to styles 50 years old or more, with no curiosity as to what else could be made.

I'd say rap/hip-hop is just experiencing what rock has had to deal with since 2000 - a genre that's been around so long it's both taken for granted and divided into many sub genres, many of which are decidedly anti-commerical by design, as you noted.

That's the same problem with the Sounder train service in Seattle. Running trains only during morning and afternoon commute, and just into and out of downtown respectively, limits the effectiveness. It could be so much better.

It would be funny to hear Burton Cummings sing these lyrics.

They could, but it's not as effective as cynical rage bait posts for driving clicks.

They don't care. You need to be far more aggressive if we're ever going to get the files released.

That could be the basis of an unusual dystopia novel: society in general decides to go backwards and permanently freeze all culture and tech to a time 50+ years ago, only to find it doesn't create the paradise they thought it would.

Reads like an early description of why The War On Cars is necessary.

What we ultimately learned from Game 7 of the ALCS last night:

Elbows Up >> Tridents Up.

Anyone who was born, raised, and lived in Seattle since the Mariners were formed aren't surprised the story ended this way.

OTOH, the Jays 2025 logo looks better with the clean lines and compact feel.

Interesting to see how the various stadiums (stadia?) score on accessibility via non-car methods. Vancouver and Seattle both do well here.

That whole eternal life bit does make it more difficult.

It won't crash, but it can burn (re: Fahrenheit 451).

So, asking as an outsider, why are Ensemble Montreal so popular? Are there really that many people in the city against the recent initiatives and that pro-car?

Oh, I forgot that in addition Springer used to play for the Astros, which makes him an easy target for Seattle fans' ire.

Not defending it at all, but Mariners fans have always had a particular hatred for the Jays because of the droves that come down from Vancouver to fill up T-Mobile Park. Combine that with an arrogance about the M's success, and the booing isn't surprising at all.

Oliver Cromwell was an extremely brutal and vicious military dictator. Might want to find a better historical example of opposition.

Beautiful prominences launching off the Sun's eastern and western limbs today, wow!

Sadly, no, and even on the left they care far more about Gaza than they ever will about Ukraine.

This is the best way to drive the point home (pun intended).

It's a good experience to have a store where the parking lot isn't disproportionately huge compared to the store itself. Makes it more inviting to those of us not reaching it by car.