"Greatest city in the world" be like: "In 5 years, we'll learn how to put trash in a trash can like the rest of the country!" 😅 Really though, it's about time those sidewalks can get GROSS!

Could you imagine if bikes were doing this kind of damage every day across the city 😂 They would have been banned in a heartbeat!

Y'all, from the behavior I'm seeing out here in the wild gas isn't expensive enough yet.

I legitimately had a neighbor tell me the other day that a certain house was a problem because kids were always playing in the street in front of it when she drives by. I'm like, lady YOU'RE the problem not them! They wouldn't be in danger of you weren't driving your murder wagon by them 🙃

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. Gah, you just can't make this stuff up. We basically have center right and far right parties that bicker endlessly

It was so nice of Indiana to create the new "black out" Indiana license plates to warn us that the owner is indeed a confirmed d-bag!

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Noooooo! 😭 I guess it is Indiana, I should have known better than to get excited about positive change 😔

That's awesome!!! I'm working on doing the same today :-) I feel like they should be careful with the restrictions on controlling "architectural detail" as it might prevent form based rules like "parking lots go in the back"; but over all seems promising!

Cars in red at top with silhouette of person on a bike - below in blue is a white car from the top giving off smoke. Play off of Jaws movie poster

In cities everywhere.

Looks like there's a bill being considered here in Indiana on Tuesday that among other things would allow some single stair buildings! 👀 HB1001 iga.in.gov/legislative/...

Right!!! We had our whole family on the Red Line the other day and they made all of us re-scan our transit cards (that we had just scanned on the platform) at the front of the bus (we were in the back). Like, what is going on here. They need a little portable scanner thing or something.

Just wait until you start hitting the teens/pre-teens and you look back like "life was so much easier and simpler when they were little" 😅

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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Cover of the book "Life After Cars"

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Sitting at a local coffee shop where weirdly I'm the only one here, it took half an hour to make a latte, most of the lights are off, and the barista playing a playlist of Phoebe Bridgers Christmas songs on repeat. Either she's trippin'or I'm going to get murdered right? Or am I trippin'? 😅

Not to be a dick, but sometimes people should feel imposter syndrome.

It's just called being new to something and lacking experience; which will improve as you learn!

Or, rather than relying on the largess of rich individuals, how about the rich pay their share of taxes so we can fund social programs to help each other and publicly fund elections so we can get money out of politics.

Well maybe now she and Jesse Brown can form their own caucus of "actual progressives who want to get shit people care about done"

We're cooked

"Hot" take:

Summer is the worst season. I don't like sweating just because I exist.

Related, it's way easier to bike for transport in the colder weather than the heat; I can get to my destination in decent clothes without sweating through 😅

Based

It's been 0 days since Indiana was an embarrassment.

So in my opinion, best thing you can do is keep whatever car you have for now, but find ways to drive it less.

And don't give subsidies for EVs, but to these other things. EV subsidies are just a give away to the car companies.

That's my thoughts:-)

So EVs are too little, too late; but are a great marketing gimmick for car companies to essentially sell you a battery subscription (because you'll need to replace that expensive battery after awhile) while also "green washing" their product as "part of the solution".

Unfortunately with electric cars, you still have a whole host of issues (most emissions from a car aren't even tailpipe emissions). To even be slightly effective, they need a clean power grid (something still missing in much of the US).

As a side note, I live in suburbs that have been slowly transforming to make biking safer. We can get better, but I already now use my bike to go most places. I've also seen more and more neighbors get curious and do the same!

I do! More than half of trips in the US are less than 3 miles (a bike-able distance) and just about everyone already has a bike in their garage as well as feet and/or a mobility device. We don't have to fix "everywhere", but we can focus our efforts on nodes of density in suburbia.

A cargo bike with a climate stripes flag on a bridge over Interstate 5 in Portland. The freeway is choked with hundreds of cars that aren't moving.

EVs are here to save the car companies, not our liveable planet. A freeway packed full with single occupancy electric cars is still a freeway packed full of cars. Fund the bus. Build more trains. Ride your bike. Cars are the least efficient way to move people in a city.