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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07] YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

WATCH: This is STILL one of the toughest truths for some to accept, but one of the most IMPORTANT — car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtowns and urban areas!

Watch this excellent video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social.

PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible.

Quantifying the Cost of Sprawl In infrastructure, service delivery and tax receipts.

ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

Ad on housing and homelessness: “If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”

Ad on car dependency and mobility freedom: “Car Dependency isn’t freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices.”

Ad on walkable neighbourhoods and complete communities: “Walkable neighbourhood aren’t scary, they’re convenient.”

Text from the URBAN TRUTH COLLECTIVE website, “About Us” page: “The Collective will share persuasive research, evidence, and information in ways that will successfully break through the noise and influence decisions. The Collective will create new messaging, brands, and marketing campaigns to help expand understanding around the truth about better city-building, and build defences to urban disinformation. And the collective will forcefully call out the lies, and the liars, that seek to undermine both the truth about, and the achievement of, better cities for people.“

A BIG thank you to everyone for all the interest and energy during our official LAUNCH WEEK! Trust us, this is just the beginning, as we continue to “build this plane while we’re flying it.” Please keep helping us spread the word, and stay tuned for more details on how to get involved. #UrbanTruth

Happy to report that the AV bill in the Oregon Legislature that created a big stir last week is officially dead (because it didn't pass out of its first committee by EOD Monday).

Doesn't end local convo since Waymo still wants in our market.

olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M...

Print these words and hang them on your walls.

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Flip Texas
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D...

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com

Now he’s much, MUCH worse.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal “If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...

"I hardly knew the Cannibal King. I am very busy, working on very important projects, like robots, space exploration, and AI-generated pornography. Besides, I don’t need someone to help me abduct, kill, cook, and eat people. I could easily do that on my own if I really wanted to."

Comic: Image of a "push button wait for walk sign" button and the text "What if intersection crossings were designed for pedestrians not vehicles?" Second panel: A driver reaching out a window to press a button reading "vehicles yield for pedestrians. push button wait for drive sign" while many silhouettes of pedestrians cross in a marked crosswalk in front of the stopped car.

Easy solution, @councilorgreen.bsky.social: beg to drive buttons:

archive.strongtowns.org/journal/2016...

I use a kindle scribe. Notebooks can have infinite pages and I organize them into folders based on where they are in the game design lifecycle

Egg nog pie?? How have I never heard of this!

I’ve never wanted to do anything more in my life than go through this door.

Casual Games for Protesters Simple games for marches, rallies, and occupations.

Games to play during protests and sit-ins.

www.protestgames.org

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

I'm a little mad that I have to get this now. The demo is really fun!

Maglev Metro Efficiency is the key to rebuilding the city transit with maglev tech.

Maglev Metro is really fun boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30...