Benjamin Ross

Transit advocate. Author of Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism. More active at

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@motorisms Your spelling of Queensboro shoes you're not a New Yorker ( even like me who left 50 yrs ago)

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@MatthewSadler_ I'm not home now so can't give you the very simple thing to do. If you can't find it on search email me since I'm rarely here.

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@MatthewSadler_ Please activate bridgy so we can follow from Mastodon.

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New #TalkingHeadways podcast @StreetsblogUSA

Joe Cortright @CityObs and Ben Ross @BenRossTransit join the podcast to talk about their recent article in Dissent magazine pushing back on highway modeling. https://t.co/EAwIL3J1Iz

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@beyonddc Part of it is the gradual building over decades. Gives you a mix of uses rather than the one in market demand at one time.

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@RabbiSamStern Because Bibi and many of his political allies put their own political interests ahead of Israel's security.

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@nicoleamurray https://t.co/obvTc74v8e

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@nicoleamurray Prime movers of zoning in 1920s & 30s were real estate industry & Hoover. Liberals & left cheered them on equally. Since 1960s & especially since 2015 liberals have become more & more critical of it while far left has defended it in alliance with rich cetrist homeowners.

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@hxhassan Please use bridgy so we can follow you from Mastodon. You simply follow @ap.brid.gy

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@AlecMacGillis @CaitlinPacific I wrote about this phenomenon in 2003. My example then was Kathleen Townsend's MD gov campaign
Pro-corporate Dems can't run on economics, so they wind up falling back on identity issues. https://t.co/AfZPpNrX17

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@UrbanLandRent Marx thought that the working class had to mature and organize and educate itself before it could effectively wield power. He fiercely opposed utopianism.

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@UnionElections Are you bridged via https://t.co/LVqPh89JXh so we can follow you from Mastodon?

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@MarketUrbanism Please sign up on bridgy so I can follow you from the extinct mammal site.

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@NickyFrank30 Bill Clinton 1992 combined populism and centrism. He had political genius, but the task gets easier as the culture automatically assumes leftism is cultural.
Bernie 2016 took off because he talked populist economics & Hillary attacked him from the identity left.

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@nextdoorsv Okay, a reall person, but one posting talking points from somewheere elsr and not his own takes.

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@nextdoorsv A dead giveaway this is a fake account. A voter named Cohen, R or D, would not name "christians" as the discriminated-against category.

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@NickyFrank30 This has been fenied on the record by the father.

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@karpmj @mkazin Consequence of New Deal more than cause. When FDR took office, Vito Marcantonio & George Norris were Republicans.

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@Aarondklein The one constant in WaPo endorsement editorials is that the reason for the endorsement that they give to readers is never the real reason.

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@karpmj Because the people who care a lot about Elon are mostly his fans.