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New squiggly lines painted on Pennsylvania road to deter drivers from speeding Drivers are going to be doing a double take when they cruise down one road in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania.

American traffic engineers really will try anything to slow down traffic except anything that’s known to actually slow down traffic

The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home “We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

We're losing the plot, y'all

(📝 Nick Truse @theintercept.com)

Well this is despicable. And I’m sure DHS made sure to get everyone’s consent to have their likenesses featured in a (probably illegally politicized) state-sponsored video.

Ah the time-tested *strongly worded letter* approach…

Boone County: www.boonecountyky.org/elected_offi...

Campbell County: campbellcountyky.gov/department/b...

Kenton County: www.kentoncounty.org/421/Fiscal-C...

If these changes upset you, it's important to communicate it to the agency. Send detailed and constructive feedback their way (specifics they can document -- and they will), but don't give them your frustration.

Save that for your county fiscal court commissioners. They set TANK's budget.

As a former transit agency spokesperson, I can attest: This was always the worst message to have to deliver. The difficulty of communicating, as in the case of the shuttle, a fare increase accompanied by a service decrease cannot be overstated.

TANK announced the plans back in January after public input sessions. More details are here: www.tankbus.org/tank-service...

The other, bigger change: All fares system-wide -- including the once-$1 SBS -- are now $2. Formerly, all fixed-route local service was $1.50. The $2 fare now matches TANK's 2X Airporter route and Metro's local bus service across the river in Cincinnati/Hamilton County.

**Anecdotally**, from both bus operators and other riders, Fountain Square was a hugely popular destination, esp. on weekdays for Downtown workers taking advantage of NKY's generally cheaper parking and shuttling across the river.

A blue, yellow and white old-fashioned trolley-style bus sits at a downtown Cincinnati curb in front of a street-side tree and a building fascia of all-glass windows. Text on the side of the bus reads: "Southbank Shuttle; www.tankbus.org; Bellevue-Cincinnati-Covington-Newport."

Among a handful of route eliminations and updates, maybe most notable... The Southbank Shuttle has stopped service to Fountain Square (it will now only run along 2nd/3rd streets while crossing between Newport and Covington).

(image via TANK)

🪡 Meant to post about this last week but life got in the way... TANK bus 🚌 service in Northern Kentucky and downtown Cincinnati implemented route changes AND a planned fare increase over the weekend. Here are details:

for a nation so obsessed with guns, you’d think the idea of a bullet train would be more popular

spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee ALT: spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee

waiting for Meta — in a zucked attempt to out-Musk Musk — to announce their line of electric, socially interfaced "self-driving" cars

This is the perfect time to have a deranged, ketamine-fueled automaker gutting federal regulatory agencies…

The only real solution to increasingly violent crashes, traffic congestion and expensive parking... is fewer drivers. The only way to have fewer drivers is to have more alternatives. It's not complicated.

US drivers log 3.28 trillion miles in 2024, setting new record Travel on U.S. roads in 2024 rose 1% to 3.28 trillion miles setting a new yearly record and topping pre-COVID 19 levels for the first time, the Transportation Department said Wednesday.

setting all the wrong records

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interesting thread on “cars and trains #urbanism” and how it perpetuates autonormativity

spotted a fresh canvas at the Fifth and Scott parking garage in Covington

lol - he's going to sue "media in general." love that for him.

Billionaires make up approximately 0.00023% of the U.S. population.

Judge upholds Trump's right to block AP for now It's a win for the White House — at least for now — as they seek to restrict the AP's access.

I meant to post a follow-up to this the other day. Judge wanted more time to consider after grilling both White House and AP representatives on Monday: www.axios.com/2025/02/24/t...

US judge to hear AP challenge to Trump's ban over use of Gulf of Mexico name A federal judge on Monday is set to consider a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President Donald Trump's administration barred them for continuing to refer to the Gulf of Mexico in coverage.

Keeping 👀 on this today:

Grampa’s “Missourah” was the voice I heard here, also

👎👎👎BOO👎👎👎

(ask me how I feel about this)

When the question is, “What city/project is this that car-dominance ruined?” I feel that at least 7 times out of 10, the answer is (in) #Cincinnati.

What is the latest status of that concept, John?

when the question is, “What city/project is this that car-dominance ruined?” I feel that at least 7 times out of 10, the answer is (in) #Cincinnati

future iconic-historical photo of early 21st-century American governance