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El Cerritto and BART are transforming a dying mall into mixed housing/retail.
Would be terrific if @trimet.org/Prosper teamed up to transform Eastport Plaza into the city's first Social Housing/retail center!
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Yes, but what if we have to remove a few car parking spaces to make room for bus lanes, bike lanes, or pedestrian corner extensions? Let’s not get hasty here
This would have cost us less than the last week of bombing Iran, and would have actually made America wealthier rather than just Defense contractors.
The greatest thing we can do for national security, energy independence, and reducing healthcare expenses is to:
1. Re-legalize building apartments/plexes every urban city 🏘️
2. Low-interest (2-3%) loans to infill developers
3. Fund transit with sub 15 min. frequencies 🚍
4. Give everyone an E-Bike ⚡🚲
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
Monthly Happy Hour Thursday!
Time: Thursday, March 5th, 6pm - 8pm
Place: Migration Brewing (outdoor patio) - 3947 N Williams Ave
Join us for this month's happy hour! This month we are focused on all things single-stair as part of the DREAM Single-Stair Design Competition.
Landlords are raising rents more than ever before on small businesses in Downtown and elsewhere. We need a Commercial Rent freeze/Commercial rent-control.
This isn't going to make that big of a dent compared to compared to Commercial rents going up 40-50%.
Portrait of Miguel Anxo, former mayor of Pontevedra, standing outdoors in front of blurred greenery. A large white serif quote appears on the left side of the image reading: “It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.” His name and title appear below the quote.
It is not the government’s job to provide storage space for your private property. Cars are no different.
Roads exist to move people and goods, not to store private vehicles. Governments at all levels need to start calling out and enforcing that reality.
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
The data is clear: walking and cycling are good for our health, for the public purse, and for our cityscapes.
That's why @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social continues to push for better active travel infrastructure across our whole city.
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A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
There's nothing fiscally conservative about sprawl. There's nothing "small government" about the costs of sprawl.
This is funny to me because Vancouver’s suburbs have towers around train stations and it looks wildly popular
The bill also doesn’t touch the millions of dollars ODOT intends to use for bonding to pay for another $160 million allocation towards the doomed, $2 billion Rose Quarter Freeway Expansion.
These cuts to Safe Routes were a deliberate political choice.
-$17 million in cuts to the Safe Routes to School program, which builds out sidewalks and bike lanes near schools, -$42 million in cuts to Connect Oregon, which funds Amtrak Cascades among other transportation services, -$35 million in cuts to miscellaneous safety projects, like bridge preservation and seismic resilience -$8 million in cuts to the Community Paths program, which builds our multi-use paths
folks, SB 1601 is bad news. from the @portlanddsa.bsky.social ecosocialist working group newsletter, it would result in the following cuts:
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
Meanwhile expect gas prices to jump to $6 / gallon by the summer. That oil in the gulf isn’t going anywhere for a while.
China is counting the # of high precision missiles the US used to bomb compounds and schools.
CCP is so delighted the US created a new Iran Front, so when they try to take Taiwan next year the US will be dragged down by this war.
The Generals know this, so why aren’t they looking for an off ramp?
A zonking great cry-for-help pickup truck labelled "Mobility" and a person on a little escooter labelled "micromobility"
A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?
The fact that the streetcar still doesn’t have signal priority after 25 years of operation is a policy failure.
Transit is not functional when it can be outwalked.
In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Netherlands: calmed where it can be, protected where it must be, and always comfortable and connected.
The result? You can now pedal across the city on infrastructure made for everyone—not just the fit and brave.
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Keeping the buildings the same does not preserve a community.
When you make it illegal to build new housing at the high end of the market, rich people just buy up existing less-expensive housing and renovate it into luxury homes.
In 95% of War Games, AI will push the big red button and destroy us all.
But don't worry about giving it control over your email, calendar, and most importantly your Intellectual Property!
"Susan Collins wants to make it harder for Maine married women to vote" should be a pretty easy attack ad.
Woah. I knew folks were trying to get in under the Federal Tax Credits expiring, but December must have been NUTS.
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
Land value tax would solve this
