Community survey results showing broad support for YIMBY policies.
When you invite regular folks at community festivals to tell you about what land use and transit futures they want, this is what they say. @montgomery4all.bsky.social #MoCo
THIS EVENING!
Come hear what the Democratic candidates for Montgomery County MD county executive have to say about transportation topics, including housing near transit, transit priority over roads, and people who aren't in cars.
Plan must be approved by Maryland DOT & must include housing. (As 1st proposed by Gov Moore, this applied only to state-owned parking lots.)
This is the first yimby legislation I know of that entirely eliminates density limits rather than loosen them. 2/2 mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
Maryland legislature last night passed @govwesmoore.bsky.social's Transit Oriented Development bill with amendment proposed by @actfortransit.bsky.social.
The ACT amendment exempts mixed-use development on @wmata.com station parking lots from all local zoning rules that limit density & use. 1/2
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With @betterdcregion.bsky.social, MCCPTA, @montgomery4all.bsky.social, and @waba.org.
“This is not just a regional crisis. It is a stress test of the nuclear system itself — and the system is failing.”
Our Danny Hall breaks down why the Iran crisis exposes the inherent failure of deterrence.
Preventnuclearwar.org/the-iran-war-is-a-stress-test-and-the-nuclear-system-is-failing
"Redirecting even a fraction [of subsidies] toward agroecological transition, renewable energy on farms, and local food infrastructure would reshape the landscape,” writes author, filmmaker, and research professor Raj Patel in an op-ed.
Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)
This is an atrocity.
Through its actions in Caracas and in Tehran, the White House has signaled and confirmed its conviction that a head of state who is corrupt, authoritarian and dangerous may be removed by other states by any means necessary. Other national governments may find this position attractive too.
Getting the US into avoidable disaster in Iraq took months and months and months.
In Vietnam, it took years and years and years.
We are just three days into this totally unnecessary, one-man's-whim fiasco.
That's a PRETTY GOOD QUESTION
New research from @cathywu.bsky.social et al. confirms something I've long suspected:
Navigation apps could save their users a lot of time — and tilt travel decisions toward transit and biking — if they showed users how long it takes to find parking.
Yes, and don't forget Brazil:
You want Amed Rosario back?
Thank you, Carrie. Very kind. I'm lucky people have been willing to coach me.
You and your colleagues deserve better.
Are there any governments acting in solidarity with the American people rather than playing Trump’s tariff games? Where are EU, Australian, Japanese, New Zealand, South Korean govts on ICE’s ethnic cleansing, human rights violations and extrajudicial murders?
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
US DOT has not signed a single agreement for a big transit project since Duffy entered office. DOT eliminated funds for billions of dollars worth of projects. Tens of thousands of people are killed each year in car crashes. Transport emissions are increasing.
Meanwhile, Duffy is focusing on pajamas
Any cabinet secretary who does not resign now
assumes full responsibility for this.
In pedestrian crashes, the story rarely refers to the driver, only the car as if it is an AV. But when an actual AV is hit then there is a driver. Fascinating.
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
What's behind the affordability crisis? In large part, it's automobile dependence.
It used to be that housing or rent was a household’s biggest expense, far exceeding any vehicle-related cost. But now those things are neck and neck for a lot of people.” [gift link]
wapo.st/3Lkugqb
We have to push back against living in a violent dictatorship. This event in Silver Spring is one way to do it.
With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is insanity. The president should prioritize governing the United States and reducing the cost of living, instead of helping Big Oil occupy Venezuela.
Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources.
Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.
Mamdani’s vision: a rejection of neoliberalism & promotion of the public sector: “For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness, while accepting mediocrity from… the public… To those who insist that… the era of big govt is over… no longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power.”
