Christopher Addison

Zohran is set to be the most urbanist, pro-transit, pro-pedestrian mayor that New York City has ever had

It's impossible to convey; you have to experience it. Two weeks in pretty much any major EU city and you will see, by way of contrast, just how much grubby, pointless unpleasantness is involved in day-to-day US life. We are rich as hell & yet we voluntarily eat shit, every day. It's crazy-making.

Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped? A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.

They started building a bunch of apartments in Bozeman. You'll never guess what happened next.

A graphic of Bernie and Zohran smiling. Text reads “BERNIE ENDORSES ZOHRAN.”

As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life.

As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud.

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas?

LUTNICK: Generally 10%

DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8%

LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff

DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

NIMBYism is strangling California. It causes our severe housing shortage, which pushes middle income, working class & young people out of our state. It fuels homelessness. It harms our economy by creating workforce shortages. It undermines child care, clean energy & so many other needs.

A 7 year old and 10 year old should be able to walk around the neighborhood on their own. On Google maps, it looks like the road they were on has sidewalks, but it’s a “stroad,” which is dangerous for pedestrians.

Charging the grieving parents in this situation is sick.

It's like a death cult

My first steam game ISLANDS & TRAINS has just released!! What began as a tiny hobby project has grown into something that I'm so thankful, excited and proud of.

It would mean the world if you could give this a repost and try the game on Steam 💌🌻 s.team/a/1957760

In the next session, it is absolutely essential that #waleg give transit agencies their own permitting authority.

“Across the board, building a single-family home remains easier than developing even the smallest multiplex—revealing a system that rewards the former and hinders the latter.

If cities want to support the kind of housing they say they value, they need policies that make it possible.”

I spy a train on a floating bridge! 👀

That’s right.

I absolutely love all of the neo-art deco that’s been built in NYC recently

The Union Station Train Shed Should Go. A historical structure that hurts Toronto.

The situation with Union Station and it's train shed is silly. Battery trains in the centre of a city are silly. We should probably remove the train shed. My latest, and possibly last transit post:

open.substack.com/pub/nexttoro...

it’s kind of annoying that almost every large democratic city is sitting on a nearly-infinite money printer

all they have to do is override the NIMBYs and implement major upzonings that will massively boost tax revenue

Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.

Sing it from the rooftops: congestion pricing in NYC is an unambiguous triumph. It is succeeding beyond its backers wildest aspirations & none of the second-order effects people worried about have come to pass.

It's a pure win. Celebrate it! Talk about it! For once, let's own the f'ing narrative.

Imploring City of Vancouver engineers to understand that this is not a recipe for patio enjoyment or success. Loud, polluted, and one driver mistake or medical emergency away from disaster. Stop ruining vibrant commercial streets by simultaneously making them car sewers.

Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

Had my first bike commute this week since congestion pricing went into effect and the improvement is *insane*. Totally transformative.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Degrowth is a cancer on the left.

Down with the BRT, long live the Bus Why Bus Rapid Transit is a failed planning concept

"Down with the BRT, long live the bus."

I've just published an unusually polemical, argumentative post on my Substack explaining why I think Bus Rapid Transit is a failed planning concept.

open.substack.com/pub/marcochi...

this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from

The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”

Via @theguardian.com

About time! Taking the 55 is miserable during peak hours...

Elevator Reform Falls Short at Washington Legislature - The Urbanist # Despite considerable momentum behind SB 5156 coming from the state Senate, the idea of reforming Washington's strict elevator codes met resistance from firefighter groups and the powerful elevator c...

Elevator reform is dead in Washington after opposition from a firefighters and elevator unions, who often have side deals with US elevator manufacturers that increase costs. As is typical, it doesn't seem like defenders of the status quo had any actual evidence?
www.theurbanist.org/2025/04/03/e...

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

U.S. Threatens to Cut Off M.T.A. Funds Over Subway Safety Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, demanded a long list of details about crime in the subway and on buses in New York.

The Trump admin is threatening to pull back funding from the MTA, if it doesn’t crack down on crime. But crime *is* down on the subway, and it’s unclear what the letter intends to accomplish. The timing is noteworthy: Trump wants congestion pricing to end this Friday www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...