Embodied carbon ("Building material production") is really insignificant compared to other emissions. It is not worth adding cost to densification to drive these numbers down – concrete and steel are nothing compared to the energy required to heat/cool suburban houses and fuel cars to access them.

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social · last mo.

study: not only do apartments reduce emissions through improved energy efficiency and better travel patterns, they also have significantly less embodied carbon per resident than low density housing because they use building materials more efficiently www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We've shared our alternative Met Hub plans with the city and they didn't bite. There is no reason that part of Met Hub couldn't be built today with enough space for transit to be added later. This is a deliberate choice made by the Parks Dept. and Mayor's office.

Deeply silly decision from the Parks Department that seems to be driven much more by Council prerogative than anything else. Reactivating is these tracks is the one of the cheapest, easiest ways to run more trains on Queens Boulevard.

Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen@vanshnookenraggen.com · 2mo ago

NYC Parks, Queensway, & TfPL don't want a train here. The plan from day 1 was to use the entire ROW for park space and intentionally design the Queensway in a way that would require demolishing the entire park to add trains later. Anyone claiming this won't preclude transit is lying or an idiot.

NYC Parks, Queensway, & TfPL don't want a train here. The plan from day 1 was to use the entire ROW for park space and intentionally design the Queensway in a way that would require demolishing the entire park to add trains later. Anyone claiming this won't preclude transit is lying or an idiot.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2mo ago

Mayor Mamdani is going full speed ahead with plans to build the QueensWay park over abandoned train tracks in Central Queens, after his administration decisively told advocates for bringing transit to the right of way that he won’t change course.

This is the wrong decision for transit in New York. Existing rights-of-way that travel through dense, under-served neighborhoods do not grow on trees, and it's a massive own goal for any city to not take advantage of them. No plan does this better than @queenslink.org.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2mo ago

Mayor Mamdani is going full speed ahead with plans to build the QueensWay park over abandoned train tracks in Central Queens, after his administration decisively told advocates for bringing transit to the right of way that he won’t change course.

This is an incredibly poor decision from the Mamdani administration. AFAIK the QueensWay park proposal exists almost entirely to block QueensLink. Blocking an existing right-of-way that travels through dense, under-served neighborhoods is an own goal that no city can afford.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2mo ago

Mayor Mamdani is going full speed ahead with plans to build the QueensWay park over abandoned train tracks in Central Queens, after his administration decisively told advocates for bringing transit to the right of way that he won’t change course.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

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Let your city and state leaders know YOU WANT QUEENSLINK

QueensLink is a grassroots, community lead organization fighting for better transit, parks, and safe bike lanes along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch. Our leaders have heard from us, but now they ...

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If you thought those platforms were packed already, just wait. But QueensLink tackles this directly. More trains = Less crowding. Use the Link in Bio to Tell Mayor Mamdani and the City Council: NO WAY with QueensWay! #buildtheQueensLink

QueensLink transforms Queens Boulevard with the G to Forest Hills! 50% more local service means shorter waits, more destinations and fewer delays and disruptions

down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU

Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

The central question of the last decade+ in America is if the police can kill you if they feel afraid, and it was my understanding that you sign up for the job knowing there’s going to be danger and you’re paid to be better than “I shot him because I was scared”

Sorry but anyone who tries to tell you (leftistly) that Calhoun is a more authentic exemplar of the American political tradition than Frederick Douglass is a wrecker.

This family did every single thing they’ve been asked to in order to seek asylum here. Yet in less than 24 hours, this kid and his Dad were nabbed off our streets and sent to Texas, using tactics that can only be described as pure evil.

Liberals/social democrats must show solidarity with each other. We have a common cause. Let's help each other out

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Lessons from YIMBYism: Taking “Abundance” Back to Its Fundamentals

Lessons from YIMBYism examines how supply-side reforms, public investment, and state capacity can make progressive social policy work as intended.

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It should never be normalized or dismissed as dementia that the sitting president of the US is inciting pogroms against American minorities and immigrants.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump: "MN is a very corrupt place & the elections are totally corrupt. I feel I won it all 3 times. Nobody has won it since Richard Nixon. It's a rigged state. The Somalians vote as one group even if they're not citizens. They all ought to get the hell out of here. They're bad for our country"

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

In the pantheon of psychopaths, Jesse Watters is an apex predator.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"

The woman murdered by ICE: 37-year-old Renee Good.

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

Defenestration@madwonk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Holy shit it's real

Watching the segment: The first thing I'm going to zero in on is the crime stats. Here's how 60 Minutes set it up: - Leavitt saying the people going to CECOT were the worst of the worst - Then 60 Minutes saying the Human Rights Watch report says that nearly half had no criminal history at all

Ben Krimmel@benkrimmel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's the rest of Bari Weiss' memo. "We do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT," and on Sec. Noem's trip "no comment from her or her staff about what her goal on that trip was... or if she had or has concerns about the treatment of detainees." LOL!