has 6-7 gone woke?

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

in a true urban environment, curbside pick up for fast food restaurants is located inside the parking garage, so that private automobiles don’t block the bus lanes or take up the valuable loading zones of course, real ones know an e-bike is the best tool for food pick up and/or delivery

kinda crazy that more CIG agreements were executed during Trump I than during either Obama term or during Biden’s term and now none during Trump II

American Public Transportation Association@apta-info.bsky.social · last wk.

"As the number of pending projects builds up, so has anxiety about the federal government’s support for major transit infrastructure. Money that Congress designated for that purpose is accumulating too: More than $7 billion hasn’t been obligated to any project." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

you shouldn’t have to do crimes or pay a penny to Roy Dale to be able to build a duplex in Nashville

Stephen Elliott@stelliott.bsky.social · last wk.

The federal investigation into a Metro employee also includes two Nashville businessmen. from the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social:

Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...

GOOD: me driving fast where you live. BAD: you driving fast where I live.

Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Everyone loves big roads to drive their vroom vrooms except when those roads are in their neighborhood. I wonder why

Cars are dumb.

She just like me

Please respect your fellow passengers— it makes everyone’s ride more comfortable and pleasant 💖

I hate gay people what do you mean you’re throwing a Robert Moses deathiversary party

despite what your favorite urbanist influencer might say, Nashville's WeGo star has ~not~ been the lowest ridership commuter rail line in the US for the last six years or 24 consecutive quarters, according to APTA ridership data! (RIP NorthStar rail)

The biggest question that only @erinfor12.bsky.social seems interested in: why departments (inconsistently) pay other department to do their job? nashville.legistar.com/LegislationD...

nashville’s metro council just voted unanimously to downzone a property fronting the highest ridership and highest frequency transit line in the state of Tennessee to only allow single family or two-family use with a minimum lot size of two acres

Neil Kornutick@neilkornutick.bsky.social · 4w ago

Voting for downzoning a property that was upzoned in 2023 is exactly the type of shenanigans I was hoping not to see. This was the SP and they are going back down to ar2a. She’s wasting planning time and resources and you should say something about it.

wait what am i supposed to wear other than t-shirts, button ups, and polos???

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

When you remove so much structure out of a jacket, you lose what's special about tailoring. Without the structure underneath, the garment will hang more like a t-shirt, button-up shirt, or polo shirt, which rarely look good on men (especially when worn on their own).

ahh yes, definitely smart to appoint a second HCA executive to Nashville’s MTA board how could you build a functional transit system with only one HCA exec?

Gender roles in the Bible? Complicated. Abortion? Not in the Bible. Same sex marriage? Not in the Bible. Trans people? Not even close to in the Bible. How to treat low wage foreigners? REALLY FUCKING CLEAR.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”

@neilkornutick.bsky.social how do you feel about pool plunges in suits?

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · last mo.

Mayor Mamdani took the mayor's Inaugural Swim in east Harlem this morning to open the city's pool season. (Look out for sea hags, Zohran!) Naturally, he wore his swimsuit.

some luigi mangione support in luigi’s hometown

hourly headways on the Penn-Camden shuttle for Orioles Pride Night because the Pride train got smashed up:(

Andrew Coleman Francis@andrewcfrancis.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.

playing bar trivia with a group of 25 year olds and got to drop a “oh you went to college during COVID” because they didn’t understand that ‘titular character’ meant the character’s name is the title of the movie which made it obvious what the answer was!

"Where once 118,000 drivers crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the summer, today just 94,000 do the same." But now Maryland wants to spend $16.4 billion to build a new 8-lane bridge to replace the existing 5-lane bridge. ggwash.org/view/103837/...

Asphalt and inertia: The deeply flawed $16.4 billion Chesapeake Bay Bridge plan

This is not simply about the state’s passive acceptance of a decades-old, highways-first planning process. It is about how Maryland’s institutions, grinding through that process, doomed a transit alte...

ggwash.org

sad part about waiting to vote until 30-mins before polls close is you don’t get to wear the sticker all day to show off

he’s admiring how there are trees and power lines and the world doesn’t end in a place that actually gets winter weather

Can Nashville paint a lane red faster than the Boring Company tunnels all the way down West End Ave? the race is pretty much dead even right now www.nashvillepost.com/business/dev...

Boring Company buys West End Avenue building

Texas firm has expressed interest in expanding Music City Loop network west of downtown Nashville

nashvillepost.com

CashforCouncil@cashforcouncil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Speaking of West End, just got this. “As a part of our West End BAT project, NDOT and WeGo are performing a test run in the outside lanes along West End Blvd between 17th and 25th from 4pm-6pm on Monday June 22nd. Parking in the outside lanes during this time will be closed off.”

"every au pair we've had from europe has been very surprised about how much of our power infrastructure is above ground" is certainly a nice tidbit of feedback to give NES lmfao

funniest cybertruck i’ve seen in the wild

my favorite gayle song

the ongoing Proterra saga has probably set back adoption of electric buses by 20 years. a generation’s worth of transit professionals who are traumatized by the first gen of a new technology doing what the first gen of a new technology always does (not work great) www.local10.com/news/local/2...

UPDATE: After millions spent on Proterra buses, Miami-Dade seeks federal approval to replace fleet early

After spending nearly $62 million on a fleet of troubled Proterra electric buses, Miami-Dade County has asked the federal government for permission to replace the vehicles before they reach their expe...

local10.com

jeremiah@jerewoo.bsky.social · last yr.

Nashville’s fleet of Proterra electric buses, which have been rotting in the lot for the last 5 years bc they are unusable Can’t even be scrapped and disposed of until the end of their 12-year FTA minimum useful life benchmark bc they were purchased with federal funds

beach hair and trash can protected bike trails