vasili 🇬🇷

You are not entitled to a fixed and unchanging neighborhood character.

When you see how much rail service we used to have, it will actually make you violently ill.

(Rail Guide)

thin floor plates really are the key here.

in seattle (top) - 80' tends to be minimum. we are hitting up to and over 100' deep. leaves little room for open space/trees

in a lot of european cities (bottom) 20m/60' would be an extremely deep floor plate. new construction tends to run 40-55' deep.

You can connect NYC and Chicago via Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Toledo in 4.5 hours using Chinese HSR technology, compared to the 20 hours it currently takes via Amtrak.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I feel like we’ve been robbed

I am honestly shocked this is actually happening. I first wrote about congestion pricing in NYC 17 years ago, and I’ve spent much of the last few years simply holding my breath we would get here. What a journey. Here’s to a new era in trying to manage NYC streets and funding transit. 🍻

New York City has some of the worst congestion in the World.

NYC drivers spend an average of 101 hours stuck in traffic every year, costing the average driver over $1,700.

Congestion costs the region’s economy over $9 billion in lost time & productivity annually.

📊 INRIX

Happy Congestion Pricing Day!

Here’s a map of all of the awesome transit projects that it will fund:

The Elizabeth Line this year moved more people than the 18 lanes of the 401 freeway, the widest in North America.

Traffic is simply a geometry problem, and adding one more lane won't fix it.

how it feels telling people you like trains in a “this is a fast, safe, efficient, and affordable way to connect to more places!” manner and not in the other way

old man sunny

how it feels to play mini metro

this is funny as-is but imo way funnier when you see his lawyer

this is amazing

Lions just messing with the Bears now. Fake Fumble 🤣🤣🤣

Waterfronts should be spaces where people connect with nature, not where urban highways dominate. Cars, whether electric or fossil-fueled, pollute our land and poison waterways. Infrastructure should protect nature while maintaining accessibility.

Utrecht 🇳🇱

📸 - @ramonp.bsky.social

trucks like this feel inherently antisocial to me

chicago bears

"There's just no money for sidewalks" says every excuse-making US city with continuous turn lanes.

it’s just absolute slop

we are so bringing back selvedge and raw denim 😮‍💨🥵

I love when people at beer pong tables speak in mad libs

me getting ready 3 hours early and somehow still showing up late 😭

MISSED CONNECTION: I was the guy who posed nude for your class. You were the math professor who called campus security

urban planners of bluesky: what’s something you wish you knew before starting your career?

Thinking back to when I got my license (18), yeah there was a honeymoon phase, but it was really the places that were gatekept from me without a car that I was really excited about.

I was not excited about the gas, insurance, registration, oil changes, tires, or the 2.5k the car cost me.

working bikes is awesome! love to see it 🚴

missed a trash can paper toss, had to call out “bronny!”