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Now only on BlueSky 📍FFM 🇩🇪 - ❤️ DC - Firm believer in abundant housing and safe transportation Now only on BSky
Frankfurt on the Main, Germany
Joined April 2021
There’s no reason DC can’t look like this
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Flights? Canceled. Highways? Closed. Amtrak? On time ✅ In this household we believe in train supremacy
As a now-visitor to DC, thank you to @wmata for having these earlier weekend hours. The Metro wasn’t open this early on Sundays when I lived here, and this is letting me get to Union Station for my Amtrak home in this storm when no other option could.
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As a now-visitor to DC, thank you to @wmata for having these earlier weekend hours. The Metro wasn’t open this early on Sundays when I lived here, and this is letting me get to Union Station for my Amtrak home in this storm when no other option could.
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I’ve been waiting 4 years for this meal and god damn did it not disappoint
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If state Dems in NY/CA/MA etc. don't enact YIMBY policies and actually do something about the rampant, out of control housing costs in their states in the wake of an absolute drubbing I will actually lose it.
Roughly *67%* of voters rated the economy as "not so good/poor," per Washington Post exit polls A shockingly poor number amid a hot labor market, booming stocks, much lower inflation, growing GDP But widespread voter dissatisfaction w/ the economy been clear for years
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Dear Blue State NIMBYs, This is what we get when we don’t build housing, drive up rents, and force people to move to red states. People think the economy is bad because housing costs are too high AND those states get more EC votes. We need more housing.
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I just ran 80,000 simulations and ending exclusionary zoning lowers rents in all of them
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I just ran 80,000 simulations and the only way to solve the housing crisis is by abolishing exclusionary zoning, minimum lot sizes, and parking mandates.
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It is truly incredible how little critical thinking goes into to stories like these. Not interviewing a single user of the bike lane and spending the entire time saying “motorists do something bad, but it’s the cyclists fault”
BIKE LANES ARE DANGEROUS!!! I have a new favorite Car Brained spokesman. He's so close to understanding *driver behavior* is what makes streets dangerous. Enjoy this short clip from @wusa9.
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Not a single cyclist or bus rider or local neighbor interviewed — classic!
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The potential redevelopment of 1617 U St provides an incredible opportunity to increase public services, modernize our police and fire stations, provide new housing options, and improve the pedestrian experience on U Street. It’s a win win win
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Im watching an NBCSN stream of the Bruins-Flyers game, and holy fucking shit, the electoral college is a crime against humanity. No one should have to sit through this many political ads.
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Think of how wide the streets in Navy Yard are, for example. It should be easier to build denser housing in parts of the city with smaller roads. So it’s less about repealing the Height Act for the *number* of homes, but rather for the *possible locations* of those homes.
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The reason why I disagree with this take is because the Height Act based the height of the building based on the width of the road it’s on, meaning dense housing is legally required to be on wide streets.
I actually think DC is the one superstar city in America that definitively does not need federal intervention to encourage housing production—it already permits as if it's a booming Sun Belt metro, but it's all transit-oriented infill!
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A late-night Cookout in Adams Morgan would be the most profitable business in America.
My niche opinion about DC urbanism is that we should have 1 of every regional chain/fast food chain to serve as embassies of regional American culture. We should have a Waffle House, a Culver's, Whataburger, In-N-Out, etc.
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The best way to pwn Elon Musk for all his election shenanigans is to build walkable neighborhoods so no one needs a car.
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Gee, I wonder why liberal women refuse to date conservative men. Fucking jackass
jesse: if i found out my wife secretly voted for harris, "that's the same thing as having an affair... that violates the sanctity of our marriage... that would be D Day"
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And oh look, streateries cut crashes & injuries in Georgetown by HALF because narrower streets with slower cars are safer.
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