Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸

YIMBY. Leftist. ADHD. InfoSec Leader. Not a work profile. Car Free. eBike Owner. Tear down that highway, yeah that one too.
@garrettinchi.bsky.social

[Flows @FlowsAndolini]

Bears asking to pay less taxes than a Nordstrom and cheesecake factory and I'm supposed to blame the state for saying "hold on man"?

[Landon @landon20s]

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[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@arbitrageAli @cornoisseur NIMBYs, zoning regulation, and the overall zoning / permitting process.

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@JacksonFromTwit @vanillaopinions @DylanDoubly This! I'm extremely pro-urbanism EXCEPT the Uptown Sonic 😂❤️

[Casey Mattox @CaseyMattox_]

This old building once housed the legislative branch of government before it was just folded into the executive branch.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Chicago was immensely important for the history of the global labor movement. Yet a random visitor here would never know it. Any given day you could book 100 Al Capone tours. There’s nothing on Haymarket. The Illinois Labor History Society occasionally puts on events but their office isn’t open to the public and nobody picks up the phone when you call them.

Haymarket is the reason May 1st is an international labor holiday. It’s hardly an accident that it’s not observed where it began. Americans celebrate our Labor Day in September in order to erase our connection to this shared history. The point is to always give the impression that the labor movement is something foreign and not deeply American. Our unions were once militant, today they are mostly bureaucratic arms of the Democratic Party.

Organizations of Americans workers who knew their history would represent a threat to the status quo. That history teaches that there are ways to do politics and exercise power besides just voting every four years.

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@cta 15-20 minute headways on the 74 at rush hour?! Why is this such a regular thing?

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@TraceyRyniec @north0fnorth But Tracey what about my precious street parking?! /s 😉

[emily north @north0fnorth]

maybe an unpopular opinion but i wish we were allowed to build more stuff like this closer to major L stops and not just in a 0.25 mile thick strip along the north side lakefront

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@texasrunnerDFW @GoldRoyalty1 We beat out 29 other offers on our house in Chicago. Insane.

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@cta 20 minute headway on the blue line is genuinely absurd

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Two bald eagle chicks have been spotted in nests on the South Side this spring. They are believed to be the first eaglets born in the city in more than a century.
https://t.co/0M1Ggz32po

[just matt @questionableway]

when are we doing this in chicago PLEASE

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@BohnMonde @cornoisseur Lol no they don't. Roads are heavily subsidized (by everyone).

You'd riot if you had to pay for the damage your vehicle causes.

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

@liverisnick @cornoisseur A painted bike lane is worthless

[Michael McLean @cornoisseur]

Over 4,400 miles of streets in Chicago are dedicated to drivers, but you try to convert a fraction of percent to anything else and the motorheads lose their minds

The entitlement is nauseating

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Two can play that game.

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

I can’t believe we came up with an organically American design language and then just stopped building it. High end Prairie Style condo development where are you we need you

[the hotter kenny omega @SamGreszes]

You don't hear about this bc it is specifically related to adding protected bike lanes and its illegal in the usa to imply that infringing on people's god given right to 8-lane residential roads might be necessary for traffic safety

[Garrett - Roads Were Not Built For Cars 🇵🇸 @GarrettInChi]

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