Narrow car-free streets can be so charming 🌸

Yeah, I was going to buy a $750,000 home in the east bay but the guy mowing lawns outbid me. Stfu

Today, Putin rejected another plan. He doesn’t want peace. He wants Ukraine. It’s long past time for secondary sanctions against Russia.

In 3 yrs this #solar installation at an Arkansas high school turned the district’s budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to pay teachers more We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #climate #NoWarNoWarming

I want to thank everyone for the kind words. We are in the process of fighting this vigorously. We will have more details soon. All I've ever wanted over the past decade was the opportunity to work w/@NYC_DOT to do this in the right way.

Probability: harm from automobiles scales with dose. The dose of US driving exposure is incredibly high wrt speed, volume and ubiquity of traffic. There is no way to opt out. Every aspect of the system is designed to prioritize driver convenience over pedestrian lives. So we die.

US intersections have wide turn radii, where people are expected to cross, which makes them 2–3 times wider than a mid-block crossing. So the intersection is designed for fast turns right into pedestrians. Forgiving turns for fast drivers and mean harder pedestrian hits.

Geometry: another determinant of outcomes is where a person gets hit. If you’re hit in the legs you may never walk again but at least you aren’t dead. Modern cars are increasingly tall with flat fronts. That means hits to the head and vital organs and pulled under the car.

Even more important than weight is speed. US roads are extra deadly there too. For much of the past century speed limits were set using the 85% rule which means that the limit is set according to the 15% fastest drivers. So both design and posted speed keep ratcheting up.

Physics: Kinetic energy roughly maps to crash force especially if you’re on foot. KE=1/2mass*velocity^2. Since the human tolerance for blunt force trauma is fixed the bigger and faster the car the more deaths. The weight and power of American cars is already huge and ramping up.

Roads deaths are a product of physics, geometry and probability and every single one of these is stacked against pedestrians (really all road users) in the American context and getting worse as peer nations improve. @aashtospeaks . A 🧵

Co-op City bus riders already have some of the longest commutes in the city Slowing buses down by limiting camera enforcement would be a big step backwards and a waste of riders' time This bill should never have passed--now it's up to @GovKathyHochul to stick up for bus riders

If the city government proposed demolishing a couple restaurants near the Metro to build a parking lot everyone would understand why that’s moronic. Yet that’s functionally what we’re accepting in DC today All this is achieving is making Adams Morgan a worse place to visit

This regime subscribes to the Thanos school of public policy: They’d rather eliminate half the population than just build on surface lots near train stations and run some bus lines. Sick stuff.

Great article praising Mamdani and Lurie’s push for small independent retail. The main takeaways from the article, followed by my urbanism-focused additional point: 1. This is a healthy shift in progressive politics: away from the old regime of over-regulation, permissiveness

This is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about housing policy in high-demand cities. If you don’t build the “luxury” condos for wealthy people in new buildings, those rich people will just buy existing homes and turn them into luxury housing.

Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies. They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or

Trump just pardoned a Ponzi-scheming sack of shit in a way that lets him keep millions of dollars in stolen money. Money taken from middle-class Americans, many who lost their life savings. Our system is utterly broken. Light years worse than any corruption in U.S. history.

Traffic deaths are preventable
 New York City is proving it: Vision Zero is delivering the safest streets in our history
 Safer street designs and people-first policies strengthen neighborhoods and save lives — and the work must continue with urgency https://t.co/08Tk55NSxp

We need kei truck abundance.