I can hear that second picture.

Line goes up.

Purple Air PM2.5 sensor map showing levels in the 100-200 ug/m3 range.

These PM2.5 numbers are way higher than normal.

The whole project is less than two blocks long but would greatly improve the bike route from everywhere SE of the tracks into Downtown. The City could leverage off of the State's bike route investment on Memorial. It's a win-win-win.

Solution: use curb stops to protect the MLK bike lane between the cemetery and Grant Street then add a bi-directional bike lane on Oakland Ave.

One more problem: the bike lane on MLK doesn't even go a full block and is constantly filled with parked cars.

Yet another problem: turning left from Grant Street onto the Memorial Drive bi-directional bike lane is a very awkward and kinda dangerous maneuver.

Another problem: Oakland Avenue is one-way headed north between MLK and Memorial (but is very wide with more than enough room for a bi-directional bike lane).

The problem: Grant Street is the only "safe" place for bikes to cross the train tracks between Downtown and Krog (about 1.5 miles). And even that spot isn't great.

Map showing the problems and solutions for bicycle infrastructure near Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.

A modest proposal to help fix a pinch point for bikes and scooters near Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. The total cost would be a rounding error in the city budget.

My first thought was nopales from hell.

Put the panels on the roof of whatever is built there instead. Doesn’t change that parking lots are still the lowest priority land use in a city, but it’s better than having all that sunlight contribute to urban heat island instead of electricity.

What's even more emasculating than that is having such low self-esteem that you need a diesel-powered prop to assuage your insecurity.

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😍

This one was a real head-scratcher for me when I first saw it.

NYTimes gave up on presenting objective assessment of events a while ago. It’s all subjective opinion now.

Motorists: the most stressful thing about my job is my morning commute.

Cyclists: wait, whaaaat? That is the best part.

Andre Dickens, Atlanta, campaigned as a B, governed as a D.

Have they been there?

Just remembering this cringe moment in history. I still don’t know what Obama supposedly did to make Lincoln cry, but I wonder how strong the cognitive dissonance is in everyone who made this go viral.

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Strong Dick Cheney vibes.

Google Earth screenshot of a mountainous desert peninsula with a very complicated shoreline.

Not the best time to book a trip, but this peninsula on the Oman side of the Straight of Hormuz looks pretty wild.

I'm fond of the reverse example of "prendre une marche" (take a walk) which is right up there with "laissez les bon temps rouler" in terms of proper frenchness.

If you’re on a budget and looking to rent an older apartment, would you rather:

A. Compete against high-earners who also want that apartment
B. Not compete against high-earners because they’re moving into a shiny new apartment that just got built somewhere else

Your daily reminder that the fastest Dallas-to-Houston trains did the whole 280-mile run in 4 hours flat, often going faster than 100 mph.

They managed to do this in the 1930s, with trainsets powered by V8s only capable of 600 horsepower but that still weighed 12,000 pounds.

I use the parking lot crime example to illustrate the safety differences between transportation modes. If you include train station or bus stop crime in the safety risks for transit, you should include crime in parking lots in the safety risks for motor vehicles. Shows that transit is even safer.

How did they leave that off? Do they think the machines aren’t controlled by humans?

Getting Napoleon invading Russia vibes.

The “transportation” mayor.