Sam Sklar \\ Exasperated Infrastructures
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I'm Sam. An #urbanplanner and the most exasperated one you'll ever meet. Connect here! DM me and we can be pals on this app, which is simply better than TXwtr.
Losing Frank’s or…The City Almost Got Him Again open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... **NEW POST FROM guest author Tricia Davies remembering Frank Arroyo and making the case for small businesses in NYC!**
Losing Frank’s or…The City Almost Got Him Again
As cost of living increases, what can the City learn from Frank's Bike Shop to help support small businesses in 2026?
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substack.com/note/m-500a4... learning about private sector pricing incentives is helpful for your career
Public 🤝 Private Partnerships: A Legacy, with Alexis Rosenberg
We dug into the the meat of the P3 process and an successful (with receipts!) example in Georgia.
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The amount of vitriol I have toward liberals who do not understand that means testing does not make programs more fair is infinite
Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Seattle City Council just voted 6-3 to approve Joy Hollingsworth's amendment to delay universal school lunches for kids, replacing them with vouchers for qualifying low-income parents to buy groceries over school breaks and weekends. Eddie Lin, Alexis Mercedes Rinck, and Rob Saka voted no.
Ranking Transit Abundance Playbook essays by how much I learned open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/...
Ranking Transit Abundance Playbook essays by how much I learned
The online "intellectuals" are too focused on what's wrong with the playbook instead of what's right.
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This Is Why We Can't Ever Stop Superspeeders open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... however, we must. #urbanism #transportation #visionzero
This Is Why We Can't Ever Stop Superspeeders
Dangerous by Design indeed.
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i heard someone say yesterday that in the future we might manage traffic demand by literally preventing travel on roads where AADT has already been capped. induced demand is not possible. not sure how i feel about this.
open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... policy analysis takes a deep dive into superspeeders.
This Is Why We Can't Ever Stop Superspeeders
Dangerous by Design indeed.
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civic tech is essential for the modern and complex world. we can connect research with need—something @caraeckholm.bsky.social is doing with #pitchfest. get your letter of interest in by june 2!
I took action with Ryder for New York 2026. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/ryderfornewy... @ryderkessler.bsky.social for assembly!
Help Us Send Ryder Kessler to Albany! · Ryder for New York 2026
Ryder Kessler is a child of Assembly District 66: a gay kid born at St. Vincent’s Hospital who played little league basketball at Tony Dapolito and got his Bar Mitzvah cake at Veniero’s. He has spent ...
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hey friends! forms.gle/zHcv3Jdp2UUC... if you don’t know me or my work, i’ve been posting as exasperated infrastructures since mid-2020. i’ve got hundreds of posts and i’m looking for some community feedback to help guide my next years of work. it brings me great joy to write and connect.
Exasperated Infrastructures Survey 2026
I have a few questions. All respondents will be entered into a random draw to get a free yearlong subscription. Two winners will be chosen by 1/31/26. More on that later. You can expect the survey to ...
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i am not convinced that people scared of socialism or democratic socialism actually know what the words mean or, more jarring, are literate.
open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... what would make a successful mamdanistration? do we need a zohreckoning? yes! read on
Percent Zohran
The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.
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open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... what counts as a success for a mamdanistration?
Percent Zohran
The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.
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open.substack.com/pub/sklar/p/... Wrote about Zohran's burgeoning and exciting campaign for mayor, the challenges he might face and a little table setting for a rethink about his upcoming Mamdanistration. thanks to @jgee.bsky.social for the edits and for helping me think through this piece!
Percent Zohran
The Mayor-elect's platform is ambitious and quasi-DOA on paper. But the political and pundit machine are missing how powerful even 30% success for Mayor Mamdani could be for real people in New York.
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okay mamdanistration. coining it now.
josh kraft response: yea but my daddy owns patriots.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11mo agoSuch a powerful video from @boston.gov and @streets.boston.gov about the impact of e-bikes (and the city's e-bike voucher program). Just look at the joy these bikes have brought to Steven and Muriel Leonard!
A Review: The Transit Guy's Review of The Inter-borough Express (IBX) www.exasperatedinfrastructures.com/p/a-review-t... @thetransitguy.com and i collaborated on his review of the IBX. He wrote it, i just did a lil #exasperation on top.
A Review: The Transit Guy's Review of The Inter-borough Express (IBX)
Shining up the words and ideas of a great thinker and friend.
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hot take: the MTA should ghost in the IBX onto all of its digital maps. (@queenslink too)
Y’all I figured it out I figured out why Fulton Street doesn’t look as good as it could need more trees and a bike lane and no cars and frequent buses and thriving businesses and amazing people that’s all
what happened to us where traffic death is normal and expected and blamed but other death isn’t? why are we not enraged that thousands of people die every year-preventably-on our roads. why isn’t the pursuit of arriving home safe the key to our system? it’s money and power and it’s all made up.
There are four main reasons why @ndhapple.bsky.social's Momentum continues to be eminently readable, rereadable, and relevant. Candor, personality, and voice. Data relevance, not dependence. Reader-centered narrative arc. Reality-checked solutions. This paper is as much style as substance.
Sam Sklar \\ Exasperated Infrastructures@samsklar.bsky.social · last yr.happy to review something delightful, exasperatedly. cheers!
this simply makes me want to run headfirst into a wall. i don’t understand why we have 8.5 million people and we continue to elect the absolute dumbest of all of us.
Ethan Stark-Miller@estarkmiller.bsky.social · last yr.Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.
happy to review something delightful, exasperatedly. cheers!
Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · last yr.Critics say! @samsklar.bsky.social offers both thoughts and notes for Momentum, plus there’s a Q&A about the process that led to it. (Getting a review might be the most surreal part of this yet!) — www.exasperatedinfrastructures.com/p/exasperate...
