Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
Leonard Bonarek
@lennibug.bsky.social
Coco Urbanist, e-cargo bike evangelist, transportation planner, urbanist utopian children's book author. Currently looking for my keys, which are hiding under the injera
Dispatch from The Portal: typical stuff (kids flipping us off and 6-7ing), then it switched to Brazil, where they have their priorities straight
It's an iconic part of my neighborhood. If another one was proposed, people would lose their minds about community character and greedy developers.
He don't miss, but this is a close one. Rebuilding it instead of kicking the can is maybe good, but perhaps a better action would be none: let it disintegrate til it can't support trucks and boom then it's an instant bike ped promenade. It was a mistake to build the BQE, no need to keep making it
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoWe're done kicking the can down the road. Here's how we're fixing the city-owned section of the BQE.
Restricting car access to cities means we can stop seeing the air our children breathe
Caroline Russell@carolinerussell.bsky.social · 2w agoULEZ was never a crack down on people driving, always a push for better respiratory health. 🚗 💨 “Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity […] stunted by exposure to pollution”.
The child liked nothing from the NextGen Acela first class menu. We traversed The Land of the Proles (business class) to the cafe car, where the attendant was HIGH AS HELL, earbuds in, getting their order wrong twice, living his best life. Love that for him.
Entering my neighborhood Ethiopian minimart & cafe to stand under a fan, then sitting with a delicious bowl a beans while the sounds of old heads visiting in Amharic fills the air... it's special
This recently was a street to drive through with negative public benefit
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
Chicory, mugwort and Virginia creeper crack weeds, taken today in Kensington @concretebotany.bsky.social
Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...
Andy Kim’s Big Health Care Pitch: Enroll Every Kid in Medicaid
The New Jersey senator takes a unique, long-game approach to a top Democratic goal.
notus.org
This video of the Commercial St Bridge demolition and replacement in Pittsburgh is impressive to see play out.
@erinkpgh.bsky.social · 2mo agoThese are the days of miracles and wonders. Commercial St. Bridge replacement project on I-376 in Pittsburgh youtu.be/M8SA-Q_VWUE
Camp carpool was 25 minutes late because I lost my keys under the injera is the most West Philly thing ever
The bokoblins and guardians are about to respawn. be careful out there folks
This is a real product for sale by the Aldi corporation
The onboard attendant on my Amtrak train just concluded his brief remarks with "you have a good day on purpose." Will say to strangers henceforth
The car pickup line at my kids school/camp is bonkers I can't believe suburbanites live like this and think this is normal this is not normal this is depraved
That I helped make moments like this possible is probably my proudest achievement to date
Whenever I'm feeling down I just add another cargo bike
Darren Buck@bikepedantic.bsky.social · 2mo agoA cargobike couldn’t substitute for the station wagon for the Goodwill dropoff. TWO cargobikes however…
I like traffic filters on residential streets and I cannot lie.
You don't know how we do all that for only $6? Honey, we simply do not pay our workers.
Technical Fy-el@sdotcarter.bsky.social · 2mo agoThey found Popeyes. 😭
Flying home from New Mexico & just got a random hankering to play some PacMan
