Legalize apartments in every neighborhood

These reforms change the nature of the property tax. Rather than being, as “Tieboutians" argue, a tool for property owners to burden themselves to provide wanted services, property taxes are becoming a redistributive tax, sending money from commercial property owners to homeowners.

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There is no excuse for buying an illegal emoto off the internet if you live in or near Redondo Beach. Upway in Redondo Beach sells used and manufacturer closeout ebikes. For the price of schlock, you can get a safe bike with Bosch battery & middrive motor. upway.co/products/gaz...

Foldable shopping cart = $60 Being able to walk to Aldi, load up on groceries, and walk home without carrying heavy bags = priceless.

Wow, I'm impressed. Bloomberg has the best article on the Sepulveda Line I've seen. No errors, very detailed, pushed back on nimby talking points, centered voices like Matute, Schneider, and Raman, and even mentions an EIFD! Full marks.

Bicycles are hugely space efficient, which is why they make a lot of sense in congested cities. This video demonstrates why there aren’t traffic jams in bike lanes. Just imagine the traffic queues if every bicycle here was a car.

@nickandert.bsky.social would you consider adding your bsky to reddit/youtube? I didn't know you had a bsky account until now!

"feed the hungry or you have done an affront to god and you will burn in hell forever" - jesus christ, matthew 25

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Don't say "Parking Requirements" Instead use "Costly Parking Mandates" The language we use evokes emotion and mental shortcuts; we like to create coherent stories. Framing the story of parking reform in a compelling way will help us succeed. 🧵/7

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

You can do cool things with A.I. but you can do even cooler things with reality, like what Brussels did with Boulevard Anspach (not A.I.)

Twice as many children die in car crashes than from all pediatric cancers combined. This does not count the long term health effects of breathing exhaust, brake and tire particles or the loss of physical activity and independence from living in a world hostile to traveling outside of a car.

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

What being a pedestrian feels like when you’ve surrendered too much space to cars, leaving too little for everyone and everything else. Powerful llustration by Karl Jilg for the Swedish Road Administration.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Until 3 years ago 4 lanes of traffic

Erm, where am I supposed to park my car? Check mate, Seville.

Urban math (geometry) Bogotá, TransMilenio BRT