yeah that actually is more impressive to me than whatever some dumb robot can do

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the baileys are officially in the minority of the party, whether schumer is willing to admit it or not

considering the gajillions of dollars being spent on this, i'm annoyingly confident the ads aren't ineffective. even worse that so many of the ads are for gambling

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

the problem is republicans and moderate dems who hold these offices and ultimately vote, not the advocates. We need all hands on deck to educate legislators on why statewide transit investment is so critical

even if he ran and lost, if it forced the republicans to play more defense for an otherwise safe seat, it’d be time well spent

Watching NBA highlights and realizing LeBron James is so great that I don’t even really hate the Lakers that much anymore

out of all the political obstacles to raising revenue for transit, the online urbanist community certainly isn’t one of them

when we pass IE4A next year once and for all we’re getting it in the a new York Time, mark my words

Seeing that apparently THOUSANDS of people showed up to pay their respects to a retired MAX train tells me that Oregonians are actively yearning for public transit, and politicians that throw their weight behind efforts to not just restore but massively expand service will be handsomely rewarded

@wutherering.bsky.social? @jenwith1n.bsky.social? @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social? Any of you wanna claim credit?

Y’all got to get yourself a @andersem.bsky.social

I’m not saying it’s even remotely used widely enough to the point of it being an appropriate punching bag for Beshar, but my point is, he didn’t make it up

for what it’s worth, yes, I’ve heard the term, but only from those actively in abolitionist /criminal justice reform spaces, and i can’t think of ever hearing it from any elected official or overtly capital P Political entity

I don’t know the full nuances of Seattle’s program to confirm it’s an apples-to-apples comparison, but based on what i read in this article - yes

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did we formally confirm it was @sharethecities.bsky.social who coined the “housing for all ages wages and stages of life?” @pnwelcome.bsky.social owes them a debt of gratitude for how often we’ve snuck it into testimony, a press release or a quote in the paper www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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and public chargers are currently inconvenient but not impossible to find/use, and hopefully will proliferate more in the years ahead

My final thought is that I’ve always wondered if automation could lead to a world where agencies instead pay for social workers/transit ambassador staff on busy routes - someone paid less than a driver but whose presence could deescalate conflict or make riders feel safe from perceived danger.

Curious to see how this plays out nationally, and i agree it’d be bad if advocates uniformly opposed any automation, although to be honest, i think in most places automation is still too far off for advocacy groups urgently focused on stopping service cuts to strategize for

i guess my take is that writ large, for better or worse, in smaller cities/statew transit advocacy groups are either largely powered by environmentalist philanthropy or geeky urbanist types and don’t often have tons of overlap with organized labor.

Yes, i’m aware it’s an issue, and unsurprised which side the unions are on. Which transit advocacy groups, specifically, are taking that position? I don’t know the full ecosystem of groups in NY and wouldn’t be surprised if some of them did

California Zephyr is just seven kilometers shorter

the idea that taxing billionaires will give us a bright new socialist future is nonsense, the reason to have a tax code that treats them with maximal hostility is because their wealth is a threat to democracy and stability

absolutely impossible to overstate how critical Jonathan’s elbow grease has been to the larger local transportation advocacy ecosystem over the past twenty years

Sure seems like we're relearning why gambling has been considered a vice since the dawn of human civilization

My favorite @pkoonce.bsky.social innovation

we are seeing some advocacy groups with knee jerk reactions to waymo, but also, a) those are cars and the implications of autonomous cars clogging streets is significant b) there’s still valid concerns about safety records.

what are you basing this on? Have any American groups explicitly taken this position yet? Don’t disagree it’s possible, and maybe even likely in some specific cities/state arenas, but in many political realms the transit labor unions aren’t as directly tied to advocacy orgs as you might expect