Air travel is fine. There are just more opportunities to forego creature comforts in exchange for a lower fare, which is why most people don’t travel long distances by bus anymore.
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I'd describe my interests as eclectic if it didn't make me seem like a tool. But if the shoe fits... Urbansim, politics, history, cycling, football, and many other unhealthy obsessions. Sydney YIMBY member: Build more homes! Sydney, NSW, Australia
Thankfully the petrol station wasn't injured. Priorities!
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3d agoTwo seriously injured in Sydney building collapse next to petrol station
i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like
And then this World Cup happened. and FIFA did the Balogun thing. And the target was Belgium. and if European history teaches us anyrhing its that no European power gives a shit about Belgium until suddenly EVERYONE does. Because if you can fuck with Belgium, you might do it to any Euro power.
Need to make sure I have some time blocked out each day in my calendar for scheming. Don't want to be interrupted while doing it
Michael Mazengarb@michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 7d agosame
Last week, a tweet about a stadium shot went viral and it sparked a really interesting conversation. I looked into it. Why Was That Picture of MetLife So Bleak? wideleft.football/p/why-was-th...
Why Was That Picture of MetLife So Bleak?
A post of mine recently went viral, earning over 100,000 likes across two platforms and over 7 million views. Why? And what can it tell us about civic design?
wideleft.football
I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.
Hundreds slam proposals to turn car park into children's home in Bromley
Plans to build a children’s home on a car park in Bromley have been slammed by nearby residents who call the current parking situation “a…
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The idea that the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor are all in completely separate housing markets with no overlap ignores how things work in the real world. In the absence of new high end housing, wealthy people outbid the middle class for the best available existing housing and renovate it.
Barbara Samuels@bsamuels72.bsky.social · 2w agoNew MR housing flattens or marginally lowers cost of housing for people in mainstream market, i.e mid-class & some working class people. Which is good. But we shouldnt pretend it meaningfully helps the poor or homeless. They are not competing in the same mainstream market w/ rich or even mid-class.
The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."
We build vehicles that weigh 9000 pounds with 1000HP, can go 0-60mph in 3 seconds and market them recklessly. We then ask people to wear construction vests to cross the street. This is all so beyond absurd and it's truly incredible that we've normalized this.
One of the great things about the World Cup is how you get squads no sane mind ever would've designed. World-class defenders with strikers who couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, an unstoppable forward with nobody to get him the ball, unbeatable goalkeepers forced to stop 20 shots every match
Owner of a vape store in Tempe, Arizona, part-time DJ, still dates ASU students
Jason Davis@davisjason.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat does Ecuador manager Sebastián Beccacece look like his job should be?
If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon’t forget what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth and infrastructure politics. It’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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What if the things we love about the cities we visit on vacation weren’t illegal in OUR city? #UrbanTruth
Fantastic news that the Planning Institute of Australia has finally accepted the evidence on Auckland. Broad upzoning works, and it’s great to see PIA get instep with the evidence. But the strategic planning process made Auckland’s reforms worse: the process locked up wealthy inner-city areas.
Kids are riding what are basically light motorbikes all around where I live and I am as certain as I can be that a) if I’d had one at their age I would have died a very rapid death on it and b) it would have been incredibly fun
Did you know 40% of apartment parking spots spend the night empty? Come along to our talk on Grattan’s latest report advocating removing parking minimums, this Wednesday 6pm in thr city: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
📅 Wasted Space: Axe Car Parking Rules to Ease the Housing Crisis - 27-05-2026
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Oh no! Not the pop-up picnic industry! That's a load-bearing sector of the economy
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo agoFantastic news. Housing forms that have already been consulted on in detail when the area gets upzoned should not be subject to a further drawn out process by the local vetocracy whose only goal is delay. Endless consultation processes only get in the way of housing we desperately need.
I love* that we now have left-maoists, right-maoists *and* centrist-maoists
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The wokes don't understand the transformative power of hard physical farm labor" says staff editor at NYT who has never actually done hard physical farm labor
Australian governments are afflicted by thinking that conditions in Australia are so unique that we can't learn from overseas. Sometimes it's true, but only in limited circumstances. It's a constant battle to get decision-makers to look internationally for experience
Robert Llewellyn@bobbyllew.bsky.social · 3mo agoI don't want to be rude to my many Australia pals, but mate! There's electric ferries running all over the globe. Oslo has dozens. Get on with it! Sydney harbour will be transformed by these, and they'll be cheaper, faster, cleaner and 100% better.
And just like always, there's a bunch of people getting mad about what they think the @grattaninstitute.bsky.social report says, rather than what it actually says.
YIMBY Melbourne@yimby.melbourne · 3mo agoGrattan Institute’s new report shows that letting Australian homebuyers choose the car-parking they need will: → make housing cheaper, → get more homes built faster, and → create more walkable cities.
Good to see the SMH calling out their own hyperbolic reporting on e-bikes. Shared (and private) e-bikes, and just plain acoustic bikes are brilliant, and way more people should be riding them instead of driving. Motornormativity is a blight on our society www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Are e-bikes the biggest threat to Sydney pedestrians? Here’s what the figures show
Alarmism over the perceived dangers of e-bikes ignores their positive qualities and lets dangerous drivers off the hook.
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A great look at why affordable housing doesn't meet the needs of people who need housing, across the entire spectrum of our various housing markets.
Supaluminal@supaluminal.bsky.social · 3mo agoAgainst ‘Affordable’ Housing: It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t. via @inflectionpoints.work inflectionpoints.work/articles/aga...
Against ‘Affordable’ Housing: It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t. via @inflectionpoints.work inflectionpoints.work/articles/aga...
Against ‘Affordable’ Housing | Inflection Points
It’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.
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This is a good way to think about your understanding of the world. It took me a long time to accept that how it was when I was 20 is not just the way things are and to be alert to those ingrained assumptions that are no guide to the future
Chris Dillow@chrisdillow.bsky.social · 3mo agoPet peeve: talk of millennials, gen X etc is silly. A better qn (if you want one) is Napoleon's: how did the world look to someone aged 20? One born in 65 saw mass unemployment at 20; one in 1980 had a boom, internet & mobile phones. Yet both are called gen X. This is daft.