Surface parking is an untapped gold mine of value, especially city-owned lots. Here’s the surface parking acreage within Houston city limits. Some of the city’s most valuable land is parking lots generating little property tax and near-zero sales tax. Your taxes subsidize those lots downtown.
Ok so what is up with the one episode of King of the Hill where they claim drug addiction is a disability
Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 7-mile, 3-station extension across Lake Washington today! This is the system's 5th new segment opened in 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!
Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe full 2 Line is OPEN
What if there was one big management district for the entire city
a cartoon of spongebob with the words i need it
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob with the words i need it
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ITDP@itdp-hq.bsky.social · 8mo agoTo meet the Paris Climate goals, #electrification alone isn’t enough – and neither is mode shift by itself. The solution: compact, mixed-use cities built around walking, cycling, and public transit, alongside rapid electrification of vehicles. Download the report 👉 itdp.org/publication/...
We thought everyone could use a refresher... Pensamos que todos podíamos beneficiar de un repaso...
Anyone into organizing a Montrose Urbanist photo walk? Or a bench making workshop?
Can we keep this after the World Cup? Asking for a friend
Ryan@classicryan17.bsky.social · 8mo agoHouston METRO revealed their World Cup service plan. This plan includes: -All-day express bus service until midnight, every day -Increased frequency and spans of service on buses and trains -New service to Hobby Airport -Shuttles connecting hotel zones to popular entertainment districts
the way in which the montrose tirz and its engineers use the language of safety while pushing through oversized roads and failing to use all kinds of safety infrastructure is genuinely disgusting
Amtrak's Newest Train on film Their "Airo" trainset in Cascades livery looks fantastic on Fuji 200
I need to investigate how Law Harrington Center ended up on Hutchins st. The best guidance on the locating of sensitive uses (schools, senior centers) says they should be more than 500 ft from a freeway (or road with 100,000 Average Daily Traffic). Does this look like 500 ft?
in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
lambasting the toll roads is such a silly opinion. Its no pinata lol. Its roads that actually pay for themselves, unlike the interstates and state roads. Tolls raising 100M each year to be used for trails, sidewalks, etc is one of the good policies going on here!
Chron.com@chron.com · 9mo ago"...the city should be looking like Dubai from all the money it brings in every year."
What if I made the critical preservation of pumpernickel bagels my entire personality www.grubstreet.com/article/why-...
Why the Pumpernickel Bagel Is Disappearing
At shops around town, a once-standard flavor has become an endangered species.
grubstreet.com
the way Omar straight up goes to sock him
Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 Trustee 🍁@djdynamic.ca · 9mo agoIt's time to revisit this 2016 platform plank
I think I’m gonna abandon TikTok. I’m not sure if I wanna migrate to my personal Instagram a new Instagram or try up scroll or maybe I’ll do here?
Dirt and debris and water fill every single crosswalk in the city. It’s easy for me to go around cause I’m perfectly mobile and can step onto the curb. I don’t know what the city expects you to do if you’re in a wheelchair or have any kind of mobility issue.
EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with Michael Scherer, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.
Trump: Delcy Rodríguez Might Be Next
The president told The Atlantic that the interim Venezuelan president will meet a fate worse than Maduro’s unless she complies with U.S. wishes.
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Nearly 100 people gathered Saturday evening for a “No War With Venezuela” protest in downtown Dallas’ Main Street Garden Park. The event comes mere hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday.
‘No War With Venezuela’ protest begins in downtown Dallas after U.S. seizes Maduro
Nearly 100 people gathered at a “No War With Venezuela” protest in downtown Dallas' Main Street Garden Park on Saturday night.
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We need to shut down Amtrak's graphic design team until we figure out what the hell is going on
We need a name for the weeks following Black Friday/holidays when everyone at at once tries to sell their old jackets, boots etc. happy Honda days or sm shi.
Peace monks falling victim to Houston traffic violence is really something!
Houston Public Media@houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 12mo agoBuddhist monks on a "Walk for Peace" were reportedly injured in a traffic collision northeast of Houston.
Got 800+ followers after like 10 years on Twitter and now I gotta restart? I hate this gameeee
At the Nov evening Houston city council session. Telling of the *city's priorities* that Shabazz +Whitmire have given Blodgett st haters more time to speak but are enforcing the 1 minute speaker rule for the many outraged at the family separations HPD and ICE are carrying out
New rail line drop: REM Deux-Montagnes line (light green on this map) from Gare Centrale, 33km of new light Metro in Montreal.
Taras Grescoe 🚇@taras-grescoe.com · 12mo agoHere’s the front-end view of the new REM line to Deux-Montagnes in #Montréal. Between Côte-de- Liesse and Montpellier. A very smooth ride so far…