Frank Chiachiere

Cargo bike carrying inflatable paddle board and beach bag, child on second bike behind it.

Also, you can fit an entire paddle board and beach gear and drive right up onto the beach with it.

I cop to being a little smug. Especially soccer practice, where everyone else has a quarter-mile walk from the parking lot and I just roll right up to the turf.

lol at the replies saying it must be a russian bot farm stirring up resentment. have you ever lived in a city where they tried to expand public transportation to a Nice Part of Town

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Which is not only absurd from an energy standpoint (uses more energy than it "saves"), it's poisoned the soil, led to Iowa being #2 in the nation for cancer, and destroyed crop diversity that has created dependency from abroad. 90% of Iowa's food is imported. Iowa!

Because it’s a competitive market. If 1.7x were profitable, someone would do it and take market share from the other guys.

Father of 2 here: it's completely insane that this guy has six kids and somehow doesn't know that the placenta is located on the exterior of the mother and does not interact with the baby at all.

Skagit also up there.

They were a mere 24 hours away from putting the UN in Philly when Moses stepped in and whipped up the Turtle Bay plan. Just incredible.

Switching local government to a ward system may depress new housing construction New research from the Upjohn Institute's Evan Mast shows that a town's switch from at-large to district, or ward, representation can empower NIMBYs to stop local housing development, as ward represent...

Here we go www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

There’s a study somewhere showing district councils are more NIMBY than at-large ones and this thread is a vivid example of why.

Speaks volumes about the mayors overall housing approach. The current situation, where supply is bringing down prices, is viewed as a temporary, inconvenient aberration rather than something to aspire to long-term.

This article is pretty damning.
-Political pressure to maximize units led affordable housing projects to target just below the income thresholds
-Market pushed rent growth below expectations, subsidized units face competition
-Buildings stuck, lower rents because bankruptcy, so they sit empty

Seattleites love their summers, but it’s a little more complicated for parents. What if we had universal summer care for all children in Seattle? This isn’t a pie in the sky idea. We can make Seattle a great place for working families.

Pretty good! Enough to narrow the ROW and add some sidewalk/bike space I’d think.

So cool. How many busses on 3rd Ave in the PM peak in this world?

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

This is better than learning about the Spinal Tap sequel.

Wake up, babe, new @davidl206.city frequent transit network dropped.

It’s now used mostly as a joke but “Welcome to the resistance” was a helpful antidote to this tendency.

Anecdotally, many folks I know kept their starter house to rent out. This may be ebbing with the end of low interest rates, though.

Alaska Airlines safety brochure features a dude in a Sub Pop shirt

about a dozen flights a day or so, mostly Alaska and a few Frontier Airlines routes.

Obligatory

Recently did this with my kids as well; all the stuff you remember of the kid flying the spaceship is basically in the last 15 minutes.

A legislature dealing with a shortage of houses, such as exists when this is written, illustrates this rule, first by doing nothing to increase the number of houses, second by smiting the greedy landlord on the hip, third by investigating the profiteering builders and working men. For a constructive policy deals with remote and uninteresting factors, while a greedy landlord, or a profiteering plumber is visible and immediate.

very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922

It’s crazy to look specifically at how effectively France builds rapid transit and conclude that *unions* are the problem.

Special shout out to our Canadian brothers and sisters. You answered the call, you deserve better than our current US leadership.

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yeah that’s gotta be it. It’s never blue!