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Perpetual transient from #pureMichigan. Mostly tweets about bikes, busses, trains and housing.
ATX/NYC
Joined March 2008
A reminder that the subway lines (4/5/6) under Lexington Ave in Manhattan move 1.3 million people daily.
Took a Tesla ride through the Boring Company tunnels in Vegas. Only two cars were running. Got stuck in traffic behind the other car.
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what expanding interstates best accomplishes: turning farms into sprawl
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It’s insane that TxDOT can preemptively spend $1B of fake money to create the worst places in existence while Austin has to scrape together funding to no be destroyed.
TxDOT to Austin: "The side-effects of our highway is your problem." @TxDOT's indifference toward the community is on full show here in this dialogue between @VanessaForATX & a TxDOT rep about funding for even as mild a measure as highway caps. Our leaders are pushing back! 😆
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Hindenburg about to explode in this photo, but look at that incredible mixed-use building with ground level retail. Hydrogen airships and nice places now both prohibited.
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This is Manhattan at its highest population density. Over 2 Million ppl living on the island. Its fertility rate was ~4 “Urbanization is the biggest engine of demographic collapse” is ridiculous.
Urbanization is perhaps the biggest engine of demographic collapse. YIMBY does not solve fertility. Societies with endless vertical building in cities doom themselves to decline. Jiamusi city (in NE China) recorded a TFR of 0.41 in 2000, the lowest fertility ever recorded.
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If this row of townhomes from the 1800s still existed today it would be a beloved part of the City with extensive historic designations placed on it to protect it. However, based on heavily restrictive modern zoning, nothing like it could ever be built here today. 📍Newton, MA
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Lots of new @TxDOT @TravisCountyTX subsidized sprawl around Cameron Rd north of Austin = lots more wasted time zooming around non-places in giant metal boxes. #Atxcouncil much prefers this to legalizing housing, though.
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How does this opinion still exist? $80k NIMBY bike lane removal versus TxDOT’s $104B boondoggle ten year road widening budget of pure waste.
Austin spending $80k to remove bike lanes put in 6 months ago after complaints. What an incredible waste of time and taxpayer money. The city facing budget deficits should stop shoving bikes lanes nobody wants down residents throats
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This is what I think of when a politician says “hard working Americans just trying to put food on their table and gas in their car”.
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It’s weird how we say that transit is expensive even though that expense is dwarfed by the cost of the mega sprawl its lack enables.
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How we could be growing instead
This is what the growth of Princeton, TX—the third fastest-growing city in the country—looks like. We are a nation that measures growth in endless cul-de-sacs.
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