Why not close the slip lane too?

because many economists are still in the stone age.

don't ask me what I do...

Wrong site for that… i hope.

No it’s confusing since it has a very specific purpose and everything to do with industrial/agricultural structure and almost nothing to do with ‘green’ energy.

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

15 years ago this entire demographic would have been at private schools/suburbs. remarkable buy-in to DCPS/charters.

(disclosure: we did mexico)

do i want to know what he just did?

Folks. We really need to pedestrianize the mall and rock creek drive. Like ASAP.

Weirder that the house republicans are seemingly cool with this too.

Huh, economists are pretty united in saying the only thing going really well in the US economy is for those who directly benefit from data centers.

Noooo! Im in new york. We have to this again.

Your semi-regular reminder that @bikeshare.bsky.social is the best value in bikeshare. I have 4 bikes and a car and i still use a cabi weekly.

13k for 6kw with near optimal angle for our latitude. Payoff with tax credits and net metering was under 5 years.

I got solar panels. Charges the car and bikes.

Fyi, trader joes insulated bags perfectly fit inside our standard monkey bars on the cargobike. Fit one with a kid. Up to three without a kid seat.

Our daycare needs more room for bike parking. And yes there is an urban arrow out of the picture.

just do it. I did it 6 years ago. been in the black for 2 years now.

fed incentives are less important than you think; prices are endogenous to the existence of incentives.

So it's a comic about a kid with an imaginary lion as a friend?

The comic:

The easiest way to get an elite clerkship is to be conservative in law school. since there was such a death of such candidates they all got DEI jobs.

So obviously ‘we’ cant buy new. So let me look for 4 year old midsized used compact SUVs. A 2021 tiguan is $19k. A 2021 id4 is $18k.

A ton of new gsds in my good. And by ton, a handful. But noticeable.

Car addiction has destroyed the US. More deaths than the opioid crisis. Huge cost of living. Screwed up housing markets. EVs are a bandaid at best (and yes i have one)

How LA Became A Dystopia YouTube video by Hoog

Los Angeles engineered its housing crisis by prioritizing car storage over human shelter. Mandating parking minimums made affordable housing illegal and forced 130 km of suburban sprawl. This is exactly what happens when you build a city for cars instead of people.

Yes in 2005.

Let’s say we spent $300M in capital and operating. That is 150,000 $2,000 ebikes.

Imagine if cabi had 10,000 more ebikes in DC proper.

basically change a few words and this is evergreen: A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

EVERYONE gets services. we can tax incomes on the back end.

In DC, universal free prek may have kept a number of ‘rich’ families in DC and stay in the public school system (for elementary) and not move to the suburbs.

This is a good thing for both integration and a healthy tax base.

We should do the same for all local things.

How DC’s mayor and council chair thwarted every effort to better the streetcar Politically, the two biggest problems with the streetcar were named Bowser and Mendelson. Failure wasn’t inevitable, but they guaranteed it.

Very well put and hard to deny. None of this was an accident

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No there isnt. All approved ones autocutoff if the line isnt live.

Yup. Have a hard time criticizing the state spending millions to build a college campus as a TOD.