My late cousin’s children live in rural Virginia, and my greatest hope for them is that they are able to get out as asap.
Be that not possible, the next best thing is for their MAGA family to be gerrymandered into a district with the DC suburbs so that they can at least have healthcare.
Land monopoly is the throughline in this piece. Agribusiness moguls seizing indigenous land in the Amazon for commodity crops, then turning around and NIMBYing renewable energy in Wyoming from their exclusive ranches on "conservation" grounds.
Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton riding a Citibike
Special shoutout to the GOAT for being a Citibike user
Ironically, Formula 1 drivers are the most notorious for arriving to a competition by bike.
CNL is more hostile to left-YIMBYs than it is to NIMBYs
I don’t even know where Kate is getting that Layla is a socialist or DSA. I think she’s just projecting. Layla’s whole platform is just opposing development.
Also, Kate is conveniently ignoring the fact that DSA did not endorse Layla.
"America at the end of the Biden years was still a hugely unequal society, but less so than it had been for a generation." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...
At the very least, it should not be possible to build a new drive-thru within 500 ft of a bus stop.
This Taco Bell drive-thru will be the 4th drive-thru on this block, which is also a bus corridor.
So bus riders get to breathe in the toxic fumes of all these idling cars.
LA has utter contempt for its transit riders.
The problem is that motorists don’t even realize these are crosswalks, and I can’t even fully fault them for that.
DOT has been planning safety improvements for this intersection since 2023. Their last CB presentation said implementation in Fall 2025. No update since.
I have 😔
Realtors are fine, too. Or rather they’re good enough to sponsor her dressage horse.
There are 2 schools at this site. At 1 of the schools, 80% of students live in temporary housing—the highest rate in the district. These are not car-owning families. Most students walk to school.
Oh I forgot the 3rd invisible one! Because it’s easy to walk by it and not realize it’s even a crosswalk.
These are the crosswalks in front of my daughter’s Brooklyn elementary school.
Something tells me that if her school was in Carroll Gardens or Park Slope, and not East Flatbush, then these crosswalks wouldn’t be so invisible.
My neurotic fear of becoming agoraphobic is actually what motivates me to practice ERP for all my other OCD neuroses.
Yeah, avoiding triggers is the #1 way to make yourself way more nuts (source: me also being nuts).
I think they’re practically begging to have it challenged.
I don’t have an exact number for LA because LAPD only reported pedestrian fatalities as “more than 150”, so it could be a lot more.
And obviously this in spite of the fact that there are uh quite a few more people walking in NYC than in LA
NYC has fewer pedestrian deaths than LA not just on a per capita basis, but in aggregate.
In 2025,
NYC: 111 deaths
LA: >150 deaths
Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area don’t drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.
I thought that was only R1 (though presumably much of these areas are R1)
A two-story height limit for transit-oriented development in the nation’s 2nd biggest city. Bravo, Los Angeles.
California seems to be very good at mixing the worst urges of western cowboy libertarianism with micromanaging progressivism.
Like, I should have a god given right to build in wildfire zones, but also it should be illegal to build tall buildings in Santa Monica
Add "farmers in the American West whose farms are only viable because they are given incredibly scarce water resources for 5 cents on the dollar" to the car dealers and realtors — destructive, unproductive conservative groups that we need to reduce the influence of when we're back in power.
Add to this the fact that small businesses are often the loudest reactionary voices against housing, transit, and bike lanes, and I just don’t see the justification for the left fighting to subsidize these business owners, especially when the rights of workers are still lacking.