Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable... to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

“If even one resident/neighborhood/municipality stands to experience disutility from infrastructure projects in their backyard they should not get built, broader benefits be damned.”

- Alleged YIMBYs

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Remember, if you’re interested in what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth & infrastructure politics, it’s pretty much this.

Great drawing via @IanLockwoodPE

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

The Nazi guy in Maine is a good reminder that we should increase military base salaries and hazard pay in order to make it a more appealing career for ambitious people, but reduce military disability and retirement benefits to reduce the appeal for grifters, drifters, and conmen

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@cojobrien Fortunately, we may be moving in that direction…

https://t.co/yu10NUQx98

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@cojobrien Historic preservation should be scrapped entirely. Or at least be “funded” in that governments are forced to purchase properties they want to preserve at market price, as another poster I can’t recall recently suggested. https://t.co/kHbk23rPUc

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

Historical preservation is, in my view, an admission of defeat.

“We can’t do anything better than this; our best days are behind us.”

No, they aren’t. Tear it down. Let something better suited to times rise from the rubble.

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@StatisticUrban At some point we have to ask: Do urbanists actually like cities? Or just particular urban forms?

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@SkepticalBlue @wil_da_beast630 Also - what do you mean by “related to prostitution”?

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@SkepticalBlue @wil_da_beast630 Except in parts of Nevada, yes. But it sounded like you were just concerned about the Johns

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@SkepticalBlue @wil_da_beast630 If you’re endeavoring to reduce the amount of sex sold, it might be helpful to also constrain the supply side, no?

[Lost Nomad @lost_nomad__]

How the Rust Belt looks at you when you actually try to reindustrialize it

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development More specifically, it seems they used their traffic data to find the most popular commutes in an area, then took the difference between the time they would take during rush hour vs free flowing traffic and called that the "time lost" to congestion.

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

“This traffic isn’t normal.”

Correct! It’s even better than one would expect from a city of its size!

[YIMBYman @YIMBYman]

What a complete shithole. And all of these small dick, braindead morons will look you in the eye and tell you trucks are better than trains.

Texas was built on trains, DFW is the size of a fucking state and we can fit 50 million people here, this traffic isn’t normal

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development which were based on U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Revised Departmental Guidance on Valuation of Travel Time for Economic Analysis, 2016. Adjusted for inflation, the rates are... $17.90 per hour in the U.S., £9.33 per hour in the U.K. and 10.88 € per hour in Germany."

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development Ah, I sound like this guy, don't I? https://t.co/84pN4Rv9MS

[Midwest Passenger Rail Association @MidwesternPRA]

If NW Indiana can expand commuter rail, let's give people the option of train travel across the rest of the state:

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development Well, that makes the stretch between them one of the best places to test my other modest proposal...https://t.co/fNaPi6gl5a

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

“These cities don’t have a 200+ mph land transport corridor connecting them.”

Yes, this is something we should fix, but why do it the Europooran way?

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development Could then extend IL-53/I-355 to I-41 where it interchanges with 43 just west of Greenfield (Wisconsin) to support inland development and serve as a better Chicago+Milwaukee bypass

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@Lib_Development Relatedly, there should be more freeways between Milwaukee and Chicago. Would be a good place to try DFW-style polycentrism, starting with a southern extension of 794 (and maybe northern Metra extension) to support the building-up of Racine and Kenosha...

[Alexander Lacherbauer @lacherbauer]

@Lib_Development Anti-car urbanists display a degree of ideological rigidity akin to a religion or cult. The belief that “highways ruin cities” is an ordained truth unimpeachable by reason or argument, and these are their witch trials.

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@YIMBYman https://t.co/ASfxDdQ1vt

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

“This traffic isn’t normal.”

Correct! It’s even better than one would expect from a city of its size!

[Electric Boogaloo ⏩⤴️ @ElectricBoo4888]

@gowanusofficial How much of that effect do you think was attributable to having the brand name on your resume vs a masters degree in [subject] in the first place?

[Swan @AndySwan]

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.