They also need to reexamine the design of this system, it's too expensive.
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Abundant housing, abundant transit, & abundant bike lanes in our cities occupies a lot of my thinking. I'm sure other pieces of my personality will peek through over time. Consider reading: https://medium.com/@markusjohnson2195
Rooting against giving antitrust exemptions without athlete representation like all the other leagues have. "antitrust exemptions that would allow the NCAA and member conferences to make rules about athlete eligibility, transfers and NIL compensation, while shielding them from legal challenges."
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 5d agoOur story on the Big Ten and SEC supporting the Senate bill, why it changed and what comes next: www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
@kirkhovenkotter.com sound transit needs to be pushed to do better. Not spend more. The rest of the world does this better than us. It’s not about spending less on transit. It’s about getting more for every dollar we spend.
Trevor Reed@transportreform.bsky.social · 5d agoHaving $18.1B in identified funding ($2.3B per mile) and it not being enough is the issue. Skytrain's Broadway Extension opening in '27 is delivering 6 underground stations over 3.5 miles (3.1 tunneled, .4 elevated) for $~600M per mile (US). www.broadwaysubway.ca
Having $18.1B in identified funding ($2.3B per mile) and it not being enough is the issue. Skytrain's Broadway Extension opening in '27 is delivering 6 underground stations over 3.5 miles (3.1 tunneled, .4 elevated) for $~600M per mile (US). www.broadwaysubway.ca
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The Broadway Subway Project is a 5.7 km extension of the Millennium Line, from VCC-Clark Station to Broadway and Arbutus. It will provide fast, frequent and convenient SkyTrain service to B.C.’s secon...
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Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 5d agoSound Transit: "If the region does not secure additional savings or financial capacity and must wait for existing revenues to accumulate, Link service to Smith Cove, Interbay, and Market Street could be delayed until around 2060." www.soundtransit.org/blog/platfor...
Because the Seattle City Council has let the Design Review exemption lapse, I just had all the departure requests on a small infill apartment project get rejected! And I’m sure I’m not the only one.
"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d agoA very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.
Caribbean countries are some of the only ones in the world to adopt US building codes and standards, but selectively and heavily amended. Heat pump refrigerant standards may be one example – R290 minisplits aren’t legal in the US, but I guess they are in the Caribbean refindustry.com/news/grace-s...
GRACE supplies 80 R290 air conditioners to Grenada and Caribbean - Refindustry
Fifty units will serve Grenadian public facilities, while 30 will support regional training and technical capacity across CARICOM.
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Not just taxes, but even things like fines. I had a leg staffer use the “80% of people live paycheck to paycheck” line as the reason we couldn’t fine people who commit vehicular manslaughter.
GGeorgist Georg@jacaissie.bsky.social · 6d ago
And let's think about the logic - we need broad-based taxes on the middle class in order to provide this help. But if you insist that 80% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, it certainly makes it hard to argue for those taxes.
This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...
"Florida’s [permitting reform] applies to a number of construction trades, not just solar contractors— which perhaps widened its appeal beyond renewable energy advocates"
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.Homeowners have lost interest in solar panels since the Trump administration killed federal incentives — except in Florida. Here's why installations are still holding up in the Sunshine State.
Anyway, just one more case of shitty Mexican Urbanism requiring 1 parking space per units for social housing developments where 25% of households own a car.
Another fufu amendment. Have your hired policy staff go look up the information online. The state has many resources such as the Department of Ecology's website: ecology.wa.gov/regulations-...
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.Last amendment! Bob Kettle's proposal to request a "SEPA rulebook" from city departments. Kettle is giving a little speech about how the SEPA process is not transparent or consistent.
Fufu amendment given the current EIS already has a reader friendly executive summary on the City’s website: www.seattle.gov/documents/De...
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Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.Now we're getting into amendments. The first is a Hollingsworth proposal to require environmental impact statements (EISs) to have a "reader-friendly summary." It passes unanimously.
Are the several city council meetings, dozens of public meetings, a dedicated 60 day public comment period, planning commission review, and a 9 month gap from release of the DEIS to FEIS not viable/qualified "opportunities" to ask whether the City adequately studied the impacts of a major decision?
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · last wk.Saka defends the current SEPA appeals process in a press release sent just now: "An administrative appeal is not a veto over housing or growth. It is a limited opportunity to ask whether the City adequately studied the impacts of a major decision before that decision becomes law."
I love the in-depth coverage of LeBron’s commuting options, but you did miss one major point in Amtrak’s favor. Amtrak allows people to attach private rail cars to their engines on scheduled routes. LeBron could buy a private coach with any amenities he could imagine and travel in style!
A 12-year run of building code updates raised apartment construction costs by nearly 10%, adding $222 to the break-even rent developers need in LA. www.huduser.gov/portal/pdred...
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These crazy wildfires in Spain and France have only destroyed “hundreds” of homes? LA’s 2025 fires destroyed 18,000. Noncombustible materials and a tight wildland-urban interface are probably a better strategy than clearing vegetation and spacing out houses. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
commuting by helicopter is maybe the last thing i’d do as an NBA player
So far, expenditures earmarked JUST for this EIS and the future supplemental EIS total $905,000. Without CM Lin's reform, the next EIS will be even more expensive, exhaustive, and esoteric, to the point that any zoning reform will cost taxpayers a million dollars before it even can be considered.
I was intrigued enough by this measure to do some further analysis, including looking at national data going back to 1940 and at a bunch of metro areas since 2005. I wrote about it here: domainexpansion.substack.com/p/an-easy-an...
An Easy and Useful Way to Measure Housing Supply Shortages
How many homes are there per single adult and adult couple? The ratio has been declining nationally since 1980, suggesting that Americans aren't forming new households like they could in the past.
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Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm actually astonished at how clean this graph looks as a diagnostic for our housing ills. Note how close it is to 1 at the start. Houses per single adult or married couple.
This is how the SHUT UP Act would work here:
Fietser@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2w agoA motorist in Amsterdam was pulled over for being a public noise nuisance with his car. Noise measurement tests were done and the car was found to be in violation. The driver had to continue his journey on foot and the car is not allowed on public infrastructure until the exhaust is properly muffled
This speaks well of her but it’s true insanity that city council people are acting as mini mayors in this respect. If she wins she should roll out her approach through a city wide office!
Shane Phillips@shanedphillips.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is a genuinely shocking contrast. www.latimes.com/california/s...
once again it's basically impossible to wrap your head around the scale of mobilization and the scale of destruction the world wars involved
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2w agoKeep in mind that a war with a per capita equivalent destructiveness to WWI today would involve something like 90m dead, while a per capita equivalent to WWII would be something like 250m dead. So things are not good, but they have been much worse. 🤷♂️
2 point plan to eradicate homelessness: 1. Lower housing costs for the lower middle class using code reform (zoning and building) to lower building costs. 2. Shift Affordable Housing funding away from the lower middle class toward the deeply poor—shelters, PSH, mental health beds, etc
The SF Planning Commission approved this project yesterday. Here's what the city's planning director had to say about it:
Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 4w agoOne of the first projects to show the impacts of SF's recent upzoning. 8 stories, 8 units, in a mostly 2-3 story area. sfyimby.com/2026/07/rend...
Here’s the study. This line stood out. These panel upgrades are in truth mostly unnecessary to accommodate induction cooktops and are instead forced by an overly conservative electrical code www.jaci-inpractice.org/action/showP...
Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 2w agoInsane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...