Not upzoning near this park is the equivalent of running rail in a highway median. Your design choice effectively sets a glass ceiling on community use/benefit. Highway rail is mostly limited to commuting and the mega park to occasional visits. Go big, people.

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There are historical reasons for siting big parks like Wilson Park in Detroit or Grant Park in Chicago along rivers & lakefronts. But doing so without permitting adjacent intensification of housing consigns them to occasional destination use rather than letting them blossom into everyday amenities.

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What I Learned About Loss While Skateboarding at Costco

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First time in Houston. THIS TOWN CANNOT BE REAL.

the best way for California to tax the rich is to simply abolish prop 13

Fat check: True.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · 3mo ago

Just an appreciation post: DC Metro @wmata.com is a daily miracle—consistently fast, reliable, clean, frequent. This city is so much better because of it.

Americans: This proposed duplex will destroy the fabric of the neighborhood and broader human civilization. Also Americans: This double-decker highway will be sustainable and iconic!

Dave Amos - City Beautiful@citybeautiful.nebula.tv · 4mo ago

I'm working on a video about highways, and this project "fact sheet" in Miami had me cracking up.

DC runs a consolidated RFP for a group of federal and local programs that support affordable housing production and preservation. This is the list of the controlling laws and regulations. Yikes.

Brits know how dumb it is to call it maths, right?

1/2 EVs, like all vehicles, should pay for their use. The operative word is *use*. A fee is a property tax, which decouples the vehicle from its impacts. The real solution is charging for VMT based on location and time of day. This can be done without tracking because GPS is a passive technology.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

* SENIOR HOUSE REPUBLICAN SAM GRAVES SAYS AT EVENT IN WASHINGTON THAT HE WANTS TO IMPOSE FEES ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES FOR HIGHWAY USE @reuters.com

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The Real Reason California Can’t Build

In trying to accomplish every objective and accommodate every interest, all at once, the state set up its housing agenda to fail.

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1/2 A problem we have in public policy is that we use the word ‘regulation’ in a way that obscures the actual fight/issue. The issues isn’t regulation; the issue is safety. Can a car without a steering wheel be safe given everything that can and does go wrong put in the real world?

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How China Learned to Love the Classics

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

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Infinite Jest is simply fantastic and worth reading. There are still character and scenes I think about frequently even 23 years after having finished the book.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 6mo ago

“Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/xQHtnb

This reality is one of the strongest arguments in favor of buses. And it raises an interesting but depressing question: Is harder to get urban choice riders over their class- and race-based stigma against buses or to get dedicated (and consistently enforced) ROW for streetcars?

Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Streetcars need priority.

The year is 2137. The EIR is now 2.7 million pages. And at a community meeting on the west side, an old man stands at the microphone to tell the assembled public officials that the process is undemocratic and lacks proper public input. He and others have filed a lawsuit to block the project.

China is not stopping its massive EV push. Policy volatility comes at a huge cost.

There’s only one thing dads want this year: Isotoner gloves.

One incredible aspect of AI that doesn’t gets enough attention is that it completely changes the ratio of searching to learning. With AI, you skip most of the time/effort that goes into finding and instead focus on reading/learning. This is not a small efficiency.

Was it money? I’ll bet it was money.

No, WaPo, the pedestrian fatality crisis is not a result of a lack of investment. In fact, just the opposite. Pathetic.

The New Yorker and the Atlantic often provide the option of listening to an article. When I see the button, I think: “Wait, I’m supposed to be able to read this one in 9 minutes?” Then I feel like Kramer in the Vandalay Industries episode: “No, no you’re waaaay off!”

I’m legit shocked this is a serious proposal. This thing is a serpentine pile of awful.

Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 10mo ago

LA is building a new $1.5 billion freeway into LAX. The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away

From LA NIMBYs: 1. Water & power may be strained but no more/less than growth outside transit corridors. 2. That’s what the transit is for. 3. Density allow for more open space. Height improves privacy. Light…have you been to sunny CA? 4. New housing ⬇️ displacement & ⬇️ prices.

This is a really well done piece by John Cassidy. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How to Survive the A.I. Revolution

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

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There is a difference between housing investment and housing transactions. Transactions just change ownership. Investment either expands supply or recapitalizes existing assets. We shouldn’t confuse one for the other.

It should be for the things that the donors signed legally binding agreements for with the university. It’s not a slush fund.

Every time then run an article that lists the starting salaries for BIG LAW they should have to include a photo of an associate doing discovery file review at 3AM.

This is beyond dysfunctional.