Michael G. Parker

Until gerrymandering is outlawed, Dems can't keep bringing knives to gunfights.

Our democracy.

Those must be some odd apartments.

When does the next bus come? GoTriangle reduces wait time on its busiest routes The regional agency joins GoDurham and GoRaleigh in offering bus service at 15-minute intervals between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed.

Over last year, city’s high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth.

People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!

There are no GOP moderates. Always remember that.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” — Hannah Arendt

Our society is engaged in a relentless race to the bottom.

Everyone Wants to Fix 14th Street Going beyond the busway, the city and BIDs are aiming to overhaul almost everything.

The car-free busway on 14th Street has been a huge success, speeding up buses and increasing ridership.

But more than that: it's also created more public space, enabling the upcoming full transformation of 14th into a complete street.

@nymag.com:

Opinion | Democrats, This Is Our Moment to Lead. We Can’t Blow It.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Thread. Never would have imagined such a heartless approach, rather attack, on homelessness and all the by now proven strategies for ending it. This EO breaks the hearts of so many both experiencing homelessness and spending their careers to combat it.

Actually, this translation is already a few years old. We are in the process of improving it, by adding new designs, like this one called “bicycle prioritized street”.

Wide street with no cars

Good news. Since I have a picture of a street with no cars in it, we don’t need streets for cars.

I know that because of all the helpful people who have told me over the years that because they have a picture of a bike-lane with no bikes in it, we don’t need bike-lanes.

“Common sense,” right? #not

How many students could have gotten free tuition with that $200 million. How much important research could have been funded? And how much will you give Trump the next time he comes calling -- and he will.

FEMA will send $608 million to states to construct temporary immigrant detention centers, like Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Meanwhile, Trump is preparing to cut $1 billion in grants that help communities prep for disaster response.

Cruelty is always the priority.

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months.

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"High Cost of Free Parking," anyone?

Do you have a free @GoTriangle GoPass through UNC? It’s time to renew! Do it here: apps.fo.unc.edu/move/gopass-...

A very, very important book.

"just wait until you hear about the slightly more common, slightly more deadly vehicle we’ve been quietly tolerating for the last hundred years....They’re called cars. "

Any deal that she gets -- pardon, commutation, whatever -- will be for her silence, not her revelations.

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Cooperating with whom and saying what?

car seat checks

Free car seat checks! Tell your friends! Bring your car seats!

Opinion | New York City Has the Power to Bring Down Grocery Prices. All Cities Do.

New York City Has the Power to Bring Down Grocery Prices. All Cities Do. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle." Thomas Jefferson

New York City intersections see one-third fewer pedestrian injuries with longer head-start intervals Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New ...

"Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights is associated with a 33% reduction in total pedestrian injuries—both fatal and non-fatal—at New York City intersections."

Maybe, just maybe, transit is the answer.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair

Wouldn't want to meet them in a dark alley.