ben fryback

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

@ricksteves.bsky.social is a Washington treasure.

The La Salle Hotel?! It had two stairs! It was also 22 stories tall and had 1,172 guest rooms. This is what chairs of important ICC committees (not randos!) think is in the same universe as a small apartment building.

This slide explains a lot about how ICC insiders think. Apartment buildings are for poor people who cannot be trusted.

what happens when a post get a lot of likes on bluesky (positive interactions) is a lot nicer than what used to happen on twitter (slurs)

A vote for Kotek is a vote to ensure that any progressive initiative you care for, virtually anything championed by your favorite local councilors or legislators, isn’t just obliquely vetoed, obstructed or administered out of viability for the next four years.

drazan would probably veto new trimet funding next year

Here’s what’s going on. Baby boomers bought houses for cheap and then spent decades showing up to meetings demanding nothing else could be built in their neighborhoods so that their houses would see exponential increases in value, and now they don’t want that value taxed.

Anti-tax movements are, at their core, simply people that don't understand how society works and are resentful that it imposes any demands on them.

amtrak cascades announces new dive bar car that will include bathroom graffiti, and an exposed patio section with gas heaters and one table you can smoke at

new in @urbanpdx.blog we're doing (transit payroll) tax positivity urbanpdx.blog/oregons-tran...

The 2027 IBC has been officially published, and it allows single-stair apartment buildings up to four stories! See the new section 1006.3.3.2 codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2...

just wondering if anyone knows why we're building a submarine repair facility in a landlocked state www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...

i think if there was a requirement to spell a candidate's name correctly, christina drazAn would lose probably half of her voters

where did everyone park their cars??? how did those businesses survive?

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

"when members of both parties say they want safer roads, they mean they want people to behave better on the roads and maybe that auto manufacturers should build safer cars, when pushed. They do not mean that they would require roads to be designed in ways that produce safer results"

With gas prices hitting an all time high, consumers are feeling the burn at the pump. But some commuters in Idaho are finding a cheaper, healthier way out. From saving money to skipping traffic jams, it seems the bicycle is becoming the ultimate urban escape from rising fuel costs.

"I get to vote for the far right because I'm mad at the incumbent center-left and you can't criticize me for it" is the story of the decade, it seems

they're getting desperate lol

yimby marching band, thank you west Salem

yimby marching band, thank you west Salem

Does this exist in Canada? I have never seen or heard of it. Even when I lived in not especially walkable suburbs and small towns, residential streets were generally fine to trick-or-treat.

Claude estimated this letter to be written at a 10th to 12th grade reading level, which means no one who voted for Trump will be able to understand it.

yep

going to sleep tn thinking about the Amtrak airo trains 😌😌 who's gonna be in eugene tomorrow?

Tens of millions of American motorists believe there's nothing wrong with texting at a stoplight. Or driving 73 in a 60mph zone. Or changing lanes without signaling. Or rolling right on red without coming to a full stop. But somebody has to do something about cyclists who don't follow the rules.

slide from a public commenter at city council

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

Took my partner's bike out for a photoshoot

Without a word of context, The Star covers this story as a triumph. And e-bikes are getting so dangerous. What the actual Fuck www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...

I didn’t attend climate week but: 1—US is falling way behind on electrification 2—even if US electrified, electricity generation isn’t decarbonizing fast enough 3—public incentives & land use policy are still vastly weighted toward inefficient cars & trucks 4—transit ridership remains in crisis

next year is gonna be the year for the Mariners i just know it

This shit made me laugh so hard. And then somehow it got even MORE Bluesky

certainly has some relevancy to today's politics that older generations grew up experiencing cities as profoundly dangerous places, and even if cities are much safer now people would never find out thanks to endless bludgeoning of URBAN CRIME WAVE on Fox News activating the collective lizard brain