Eric Herot🚰🏙️🚲

Just allowing more housing to be built would raise tax revenues without making housing more expensive or making taxes more regressive. It’s crazy that this alternative is never even discussed.

I love how they spent all of that money to rebuild those ramps in the same bad locations that are not aligned with the bike path as they were in before, presumably to avoid having to move any catch basins.

Same! We use it pretty much exclusively for fun and holidays.

After Years of Increases, Study Says Jersey City’s Rents Are Falling | Jersey Digs A new report says the average rent in Jersey City is falling, with a year-on-year decline in the double digits.

As rents continue to rise across the country, they're falling by ~12% to 16% in Jersey City. Why? The city spent 2019 to 2024 on an absolute building tear. Building more housing works. jerseydigs.com/jersey-city-...

Half-measures like bus lanes full of parked cars or bike lanes that don't feel safe and are not part of a connected network don't end up being used by anyone and just end up pissing everyone off and making the streets feel lawless.

Respectfully, madam mayor, this is an area that requires leadership, not pandering to the loudest voices in the room. Everyone wants less traffic and safer roads. It's up to you to decide how we're going to get there then do it *right*.

90% of voters would not even believe that this is controversial.

(So just fucking do it already!!!)

So just to recap the current policy...

Protesters: Masks to conceal identity not allowed
Federal Agents:

I think this is actually the story of how a LOT of our current crop of GOP "leaders" rose to power...

Administration obsessed with "waste, fraud, and abuse" causes massive waste by blowing up project deadlines all across the country.

Cities should be designed for:

❌ A̶u̶t̶o̶n̶o̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ C̶a̶r̶s̶

✅ Autonomous Kids

Um, ok. We’re not talking about charity *or* wealth redistribution here. Just whether or not towns should be granted the authority to block certain kinds of housing.

But also, those kids are already alive and they are going to live somewhere. Is it really acceptable to allow towns to skirt their responsibility to educate by limiting housing production? Who should pick up the slack, exactly?

Okay yes but given a particular school district, which housing type do you think is more likely to attract families?

Quick question: Which kind of housing do you think is more likely to attract households with children: Detached single family homes or apartment buildings?

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

"Lossy" doing a lot of work here

Okay so I know I often have my differences with our mayor but I still think this is pretty exciting. Congrats @mayorwu.boston.gov!

In the transit-poor neighborhoods, where you actually need a car to get around, you don’t need to tell developers to build parking. They will build it anyway.

I think you might be a little confused about where this is happening though. Right now developers build tons of spaces that sit empty in transit rich neighborhoods because we make them. People without cars (who tend to be poorer) end up paying for those empty spaces.

The whole diesel heaters thing really confirms for me that, at least for the MBTA, BEBs are mostly about scoring points with the legislature rather than a genuine commitment to lower carbon emissions.

Cities will be all like "its snowing, please don't drive if you can avoid it, it's dangerous to drive in the snow," and then do shit like this to make driving the only real choice to get around.

Apparently diesel engines being left to idle all night because they won’t start in the cold do not count.

Basically the same as me. I wear a ski helmet when biking in the winter because it is more wind proof than a hat.

what if instead of being transphobic garbage, KOSA was actually the Kids Outside Safety Act and it was a sweeping federal investment in modern bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure (w/ shade trees) across the nation so that the most vulnerable members of society are able to safety go outside to play

Dropped a comment on the post. Thanks for the link. Not sure how I missed that one. Probably Facebook decided to show me pictures of car crashes instead. All hail the algorithm.

Snow and ice covered city owned traffic island

Snow and ice covered sidewalk in front of a gas station

Curb ramp next to clear street blocked by snow that was clearly pushed there by city plow drivers

Another snow and ice covered sidewalk and curb ramp in front of a different gas station

A small sampling from my walk along Centre Street this afternoon

How are folks getting them in the US??

Family Rain Cover Plus - Urban Arrow The Urban Arrow Raincover Plus for the Family cargo bike is your reliable companion for carefree cycling adventures in all weather conditions.

Gotta get a weather shield for that thing! urbanarrow.com/product/acce...

Excuse me but what are those cool bar mitts??