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27 Jul 2025
There are about 30 other U.S. cities that need to do what Seattle did.
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Jun 11
Life comes at you fast
A humanoid in every home in the not too distant future. It will be near impossible to live without one. Indispensable to everyday life like your cell phone.
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a weird general rule in urbanism is that the more aesthetic choice often delivers some enormous public benefit
narrow lane widths are not just picturesque; they're also associated with FAR LOWER pedestrian fatality rates
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Stockholm’s pedestrian fatality rate per 100k is 0.45. The U.S. is over 5x that.
Like much of the EU Stockholm uses standards of 9.8’ for city street lanes, even narrower for residential ones, and allows for 10.8’ in bus and truck corridors. The U.S. sets 26’ as a minimum width for a two lane street and common lane widths on city streets are 12-14’.
Yet when proposals are made to narrrow lane widths along dangerous streets, local fire departments are first in line to stop them.
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Stockholm’s pedestrian fatality rate per 100k is 0.45. The U.S. is over 5x that.
Like much of the EU Stockholm uses standards of 9.8’ for city street lanes, even narrower for residential ones, and allows for 10.8’ in bus and truck corridors. The U.S. sets 26’ as a minimum width for a two lane street and common lane widths on city streets are 12-14’.
Yet when proposals are made to narrrow lane widths along dangerous streets, local fire departments are first in line to stop them.
Jun 12
Lots of cars in Stockholm.
Lots of bicycles.
Lots of pedestrians.
Seems fine?
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Jun 13
Disclosure Day is just further proof that at a certain point great directors should just retire with their dignity.
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My new Substack piece: Florida's Property Tax "Relief" Legislation Will Decimate Public Sector Budgets and Cause Massive Service Cuts (link in reply)
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Downtowns and mixed use neighborhoods subsidize the suburbs.
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My recent Substack piece: Why is Copenhagen's bike network amazing while your city can barely paint a door-zone bike lane? (link in reply)
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just saw an email come through with URGENT in the subject line and shut my laptop. it's 5.10 on a Friday grow up
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Why am I news?
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Jun 11
a bus every 6-7 minutes is the entire secret of good transit. no schedule, no app, you just show up. the kids have been screaming the answer at us for over a year. six seveeen. headways. they're talking about headways
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Jun 11
In America today, it's nearly impossible to get financing to build new buildings like the ones on the left.
The building on the right is easy to finance.
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May 31
Crimes committed on public transportation should carry 2x or 3x penalties. It is a uniquely vulnerable environment. You can't run away.
It makes the whole system feel unsafe and pushes normal people out of public space.
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May 30
The reason Japan can have great trains is not high trust. It's LACK OF VIOLENT CRIME. If you have even moderately high levels of violent crime, people will want to drive instead of taking the train. You can't have trains without suppressing violent crime.
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Hot take: NYC is the most overrated city in the world and people destroy their lives attempting to live there when they really belong (and would be happier) in a much smaller city.
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Jun 11
The final stage of spirituality is having fun again, but this time you're awake inside the experience.
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Jun 10
I truly just don't understand this attitude. Pratt is hardly even conservative. More like a concerned citizen pointing out the obvious... and they just ridicule him? Why?
😅 Jimmy Kimmel trolls Spencer Pratt, rents him a U-Haul to leave L.A. after election loss.
Credit: ABC
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Demolitions and highways really damaged Albany.
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Jun 10
Another Costco outing. Everything is more expensive. It's not just things like coffee - which were a result of tariffs. It's everything except the $1.50 hot dog deal. Milk, eggs, even apples. And Costco is very good at keeping costs down. Inflation is up in a real world way.
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San Diego.
Almost all 4 or 5 lane urban roads could be right sized to add medians, bike/ped infrastructure, or even diagonal parking.
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