chicago northside safe streets advocate. car free, cargo bike parent #bikeCHI
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4 May 2025
The author writes this article as though it is an indictment of Trump’s tariffs. But the real indictment is car culture. When your people say they can’t get food without a car, that’s a problem. Society is broken.
nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/tr… via @NYTimes
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30 Apr 2025
“Like, the party of limited government is gonna go out and, ‘say we’re gonna have [a car tax]?’”
Maybe the party of limited government should stop being communist for cars. Maybe the party of fiscal responsibility could get drivers to cover their costs. politico.com/live-updates/20…
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29 Apr 2025
These vehicles are out of control. Time to ban them.
This makes me wonder if the headlines in 1963 read: “bullet kills Kennedy”
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27 Apr 2025
When will headline writers stop infantilizing drivers?
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23 Apr 2025
Another great reason to keep Lincoln Square car free! chicago.suntimes.com/environ…
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22 Apr 2025
Perhaps these prices will start to reflect the actual cost of these products?
Let’s be more intentional about this #Degrowth
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22 Apr 2025
I sat in car free Lincoln square around some homemade benches last night and just gazed and the incredible ornamentation on these buildings. Could the loss of ornamentation and the rise of car culture be related?
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10 Apr 2025
@cornoisseur do you ever read this absurd rag? Even a broken clock is right twice a day! illinoispolicy.org/illinois-…
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4 Apr 2025
Perfect illustration for why Lincoln between Leland And Lawrence should be *permanently* closed to car traffic.
ALT Two tweets as follows. Block Club Chicago: The heart of Lincoln Square will be closed to car traffic starting on April 21. Youk_Tweets replies: Nah man, no, wtf. I use that strip as a shortcut to avoid the lights 🚦
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3 Apr 2025
Reading about the trump tariffs, this line kind of makes me chuckle. Earth is a closed system, so who could it owe its debt too? Meanwhile, another headline today said all the billionaires combined have more money than all but two countries.
This system, folks, isn’t working.
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3 Apr 2025
Like, just think about the absurdity of this statement. Humanity collectively owes $318 Trillion dollars to itself, and therefore humanity has no money to pay for humans to take care of other humans (welfare).
So we’ll just have to let humans suffer unemployment and misery.
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3 Apr 2025
Also, in order to pay our debt to ourselves we must burn down the planet.
Like, imagine that I owe my spouse $1m and to get it I have to sell our home and everything in it.
And imagine my partner and I both think this is an unfortunate but inescapable reality.
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31 Mar 2025
Democrats claim environmentalism but won’t take active steps to curb consumer culture. Trump is going about this in a terrible way, but he is doing it.
Never in my life did I expect to see the GOP risk economic growth for a principle I believe in.
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30 Mar 2025
It’s just infuriating to see republicans, and Trump of all people, pushing an agenda that gets beyond GDP as the sole measurement of progress.
Democrats are just so afraid to follow the complete logic of their Degrowth positions. And here Trump is. It’s such a shame.
29 Mar 2025
This should be front and center of every Democrat's response right now.
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30 Mar 2025
Don’t threaten us with a good time!
Increased car prices may bring them close to the actual cost to society. Let’s never raise output, but raise reduce mode share in favor of walking, cycling and transit.
We must embrace guiding societal measurements beyond GDP.
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25 Mar 2025
Chicago rapid transit and subway plan from 1925
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24 Mar 2025
Adjusting urban infra in chicago feels catastrophically hard. It’s like the populace is so entrenched that experimentation with the built environment is an existential threat.
Is our grasp on life so tenuous trying out nice things requires endless fighting?
It’s exhausting!
23 Mar 2025
66% of Parisians voted today to create 500 additional pedestrian streets, replacing over 10,000 parking spots with green space and enhanced pedestrian infrastructure.
📍 Paris 🇫🇷
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24 Mar 2025
Some 100 people turned out for a Chicago, Bike Grid Now! ride to support CDOT’s proposal to swap parking for protected bike lanes on Clark in Uptown.
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/03/…
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24 Mar 2025
Chicago’s pension debt is around $40b and my generation, who had no role in digging this hole will be a lost generation, doing little more than debt service.
Meanwhile the owner of this platform is worth $500b.
The boomers left us with a truly terrible society.
24 Mar 2025
I duno, I feel like we can raise taxes on the richest to generously care for old people? Europe seems to do this fine though I admittedly don’t know the specifics
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