Jeff Ryan

What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding “The Unbreakabke Law Of Congestion” aka #InducedDemand. Via @wired.com

Let's goo! #chiefskingdom

Parking Requirements Are Not a Useful Bargaining Chip for Increasing Affordable Housing - Streetsblog California Opponents of A.B. 1401 concede that parking requirements are bad policy, but worry that removing them will undermine affordable housing production. Evidence suggests that's not the case.

After #SanDiego removed minimum parking mandates for homes near transit, “its density bonus program produced much more housing…more market-rate housing, more affordable housing in 100%-affordable buildings, and more affordable housing in mixed-income projects.”

cal.streetsblog.org/2021/05/19/p...

Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

"Did you hear they finally banned Red Dye no. 3? Thank God" My brother says as he takes a drag of his cigarette

Excited to test!

A group of men sit in front of a chart that incorrectly spells "military" as "miltary."

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

The demographic most responsible for Trump's return are landowning liberals who have been opposing zoning reform and affordable housing developments in their cities.

You cannot be a progressive and believe that your home value or parking inconveniences are more important than housing families

For the record this is what he is considering masculine energy

#meta

If we're handing out CEQA and Coastal Act exemptions for homebuilding in the event of an emergency, maybe we should consider that virtually all of California is in a state of perpetual housing emergency.

Would you take Storr or Timberlake

Yikes

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Isn't Tang's buy out pretty big?

That's the third time in as many years the Chiefs ended the Bengals season 😂 #nfl #arrowhead #chiefskingdom #whodey

Any school that chants "f*ck XXXX" at games against unrelated teams probably automatically qualifies

Can't wait to hear how ASU losing a 2OT all-time classic vs UT is terrible for the Big12

Who's going to the SeaTac NYE show tonight?

Morally bankrupt

Idk The Carter Doctrine set the US on a disastrous course.

Make America healthy again amirite?

Like waking up early is a choice that many people make lol

Who cares if its hours or not 5 minutes. Joy and gratitude isn't zero sum.

Something grimly hilarious about how the nebulous Boogeyman "liberals" are blamed for anything and everything on here except NIMBYism, the thing they deserve significant blame for.