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In addition to East 105th and Quincy, we’ll also discuss a concept for the West Park station - imagine housing, offices, retail and a park surrounding that station instead of an empty parking lot.

AAO Cleveland Chapter Meeting | All Aboard Ohio Please join the Northeast Chapter of All Aboard Ohio for a discussion on how Transit Oriented Development can create new revenue streams for the Greater Cleveland RTA. In person plus Zoom option.

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Would you like to see more Transit Oriented Development along GCRTA‘s Red Line? Plz join @allaboardohio.org this Thurs at 6:30p at Lakewood Library for a discussion on this topic. Registration link in replies. Optional Zoom if you can’t join in person. Concept for E105 & Quincy

When I worked in a cafe in NE Seattle, I saw that the bulk of our customers were from the neighborhood and just walked to our location. Most of the cars parked in front were by people who never frequented our or any other store. Cars do not drive business (pun intended).

If you adopted, as your guiding heuristic, "not a single voter knows a single thing about policy or politics," you wouldn't be entirely accurate, but you would be closer to the truth than the impression most people who follow politics have.

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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The building is beautiful! MKE food recs: Calderone Club (Italian) and San Giorgio (pizza). Enjoy the city!

I hate that we’re having to think in these terms, but the evidence seems to be bearing out that steep fare hikes are less damaging to ridership than service cuts.

The Last Thing US Transit Agencies Should Do Now Rising costs and widening deficits as pandemic aid runs out are challenging bus and train operators in many cities. But cutting service needs to be a last resort.

2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.

I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.

Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.

Here are a few others 🧵

RENEW WAR ON SANTA CLAUS Asbury Park, N.J. July 8 - War on Santa Claus has been renewed by the School of Methods of the New Jersey Sunday School Teachers' Association in session here. The battle against the children's idol of Christmastide was begun last summer on the ground that the time-honored institution of Kris Kringle takes the minds of the young scholars from the religion [sic] significance of the day. Last year the teachers sought to have substituted a model Christmas festival, in which the stereopticon played a prominent part and the jolly old saint was banished. It failed Now the teachers have a new scheme of a "living Christmas tree." Teachers and scholars of Sunday schools are to stand in serried ranks upon a circular platform built in tiers, each holding a Christmas tree branch, laden with candles and gifts. At a given signal all are to step down and carry their branches through the audience, distributing the gifts. --Miners Journal, 9 July 1904

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Loved seeing another Oonee Pod in the wild! We need more secure bike parking all around our cities. In addition to better bike lanes, minimizing bike theft is another key to getting more people out cycling. Note @thewaroncars.bsky.social Advertisement!

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Some have argued that traffic cameras are a regressive tax on low-income people. While I agree that fines could be somewhat commensurate with income, maybe people of any income could just stop driving 15 mph above the speed limit?

12. Speaking of abnormally easy terrain for HSR: Chicago-Detroit and Chicago-Cleveland, both via Toledo.

TTC: turnstyle jumpers beware. Provincial Offence Officers on the scene. P.O.O. On every bus n train. You’ve been warned?

Us: we don’t want POO on public transit.

TTC: IT’S NOT FUNNY. This is your second warning!

Us: So it’s warning… number 2?

TTC: Yes. and there will not be a turd

Reminder: more than 60% of four year institutions let in at least 75% of applicants. A school with an admissions rate of 65% is one of the more selective schools in the country. College admissions shit is entirely elite neuroses about like 100 schools, or total bullshit.

look I can’t predict how this is going to go, but even as rhetoric it’s leagues above anything that leaders in the states have even sniffed at. They’ve been content to keep trying Rube Goldberg-esque tax credits in hopes of barely nudging the margins.

Great video! Here are some up close shots of that Budd RDC diesel self-propelled car. CVSR used to run it all the way to Canton.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

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i'm often asked what are some shortcomings of seattle's single stair legislation that i'd like to see changed.

to start - what's allowed.

6 stories. 4 units per stair/floor. corridor separating units from stair. pressurized stair. max 2 instances per parcel. text here:

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Access Ohio 2050 - PublicInput Access Ohio 2050 is the Ohio s long-range multi-modal transportation plan developed by the Ohio Department of Transportation that will guide the state s transportation policies and investments for the...

Can’t make it in person but still want to participate? Take the Access Ohio 2025 survey. Make special note of question number 8, when they ask about passenger rail and rank your choices!

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Mark your calendars 🗓️ to attend one of the 12 in person events across the state for the Access Ohio 2050 planning sessions! Be sure to tell ODOT how we want more passenger rail in our state 🚊

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It is fascinating to me how every conversation about cycling invites dozens of comments like this. It’s true that some cyclists are rude! It’s also true that this is not relevant to whether traffic laws should be changed

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beige poster with blue type in a baseball shirt style Orange type Don't wanna go far for stuff 15 minute cities no big conspiracy just lazy

rebranding the 15 min city.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

They should have just called The Pitt “NewER”.

Regular reminder that Republicans are substantially less likely to understand how marginal tax rates work

It's funny how there's an inverse correlation with nominally supporting the idea of "degrowth" and the outcomes of the associated policies.

To be clear, DOGE = degrowth, decel, and stagnation. Big fiscal policies like the Green New Deal = growth, acceleration, and abundance.

New transit projects benefit drivers infinitely more than roadway expansions.