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Eno just published a report on this!
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"oh, look, it's the New Deal Great Society Obamacare people coming to cut my taxes," listen to yourself, the average voter can be stupid but nobody is that stupid

When you manage to get people to move past their preconceptions and describe travel conditions as they actually exist, it is often this kind of thing. Will describe the problem without realizing it

“Middle schoolers are biking on side streets to avoid the dangerous arterial, which is why planners are dumb and not accepting community wisdom to suggest adding bike facilities to the arterial.” Do they hear themselves? (No)

these are exactly the types of bikers who especially benefit from being given dedicated facilities on the most dangerous roads!

Not theory, but experience

Sounds like the kind of place where lane conversions like this have worked very well all over the country, tbh, with plenty of substitute transportation options for short or even longer car trips :)

Why would there be no place for bikes? Isn’t the point to use the road space to provide bike lanes? Why would removing turn lanes (whose point is to improve traffic flow by making it easier to access side streets) increase the number of cars using parallel streets?

A correction: spreadsheets should be banned

This is a tradeoff that’s made in lots of places in the US, but it isn’t a very good one if our priorities are safety, comfort, etc. But ofc in practice those are not usually the priorities.

Yes, so people in cars are given a direct route, and people on bikes (anybody not in a car, maybe…) have to pay attention to signage to direct them to designated “alternate” routes, or else accept the risk of a less safe road design as the price of a direct route. This is the tradeoff.

The solution you suggest is that people on bikes who want a safe route be made to detour, and people on bikes who want a more direct route have to accept more risk. Is that fair? Is that a good way to design a street network?

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wealthy homeowners: "my home is an investment and the value of it should increase in perpetuity and that is my god-given right"

also wealthy homeowners: "the government acknowledging that my home value has increased is an unconstitutional attack on homeowners!"

Not to defend Warren on this

Every round of discourse like this also gets them talking about corporate landlords incl SFR developers/owners being easier to hold to account, which (if we’re gonna talk about “evidence”!) may be their experience or instinct but is not in practice what research suggests

Like come on urbanists don’t have to go to bat for build to rent. I remember them on twitter being skeptical of the old school civil rights arguments against contract for deed arrangements

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Acknowledging that there is wiggle room in the standards that some pretend is not there

Maybe it’s being mean to traffic engineers, but if as a profession they decide what the warrants are for interventions (they do), how can they complain about being judged for the impacts?

here's a taste of everything that I did on one Tuesday in March 2026 for 24 hours starting at 1:07 AM, shared not because it was particularly unusual but because this really could have been any Tuesday in the past 14 months

Am curious when this will turn into budget pressure for bus ops. Maybe will wish the feds had kept up the pressure on electrification!

This is wild, never knew this about him

Paul Bremer ran Iraq for Bush. His emails show what really happened ‘I am now officially the government of Iraq,’ Bremer wrote to his wife in private messages from 2003 unearthed by The Sunday Times. In frank detail, they show the dangers of waging war without the rig...

Incredible story of what Paul Bremer—for unknown reasons—decided to stash in a Yale archive: emails that told a true account of hubris in Iraq, most concerned with DC infighting. Feels like there is a similar record happening right now about Iran on Signal somewhere www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Bam adebayo 83 point game is among the funniest things I can think of

There’s already congestion pricing-lite on the interstates, saw a family of like 6 get on at Vienna toward downtown for a hockey game yesterday, the people are ready for it. Got the NYC revenues staring you in the face and still turn your nose up, ultimate sign of institutional sclerosis

Show of hands, who wants buses to run well and a pleasant pedestrian experience on M St. I would be curious about modeled effects on Wilson/Fairfax/Clarendon pairs too

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Fact check it’s actually one of the places where it makes the most sense

It has the form of one of those “NEWS11 finds shocking waste at DMV satellite office!” where the waste is they bought too many dixie cups. But instead of dixie cups or Panera for a staff lunch it’s steakhouse fare. idk what I add by observing this