Josh B

Science communications
@4cities_eu urbanist

[Marissa J. Lang @Marissa_Jae]

I spent months following up with a handful of the dozens of people who were displaced after the National Park Service shut down DC’s largest homeless encampment in McPherson Square.

What happened after they scattered? They were evicted again and again.

https://t.co/fwXRNKHWYH

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@tomroussey7news Amazing. Tom, have you heard any explanations for why these (not so effective) additions to the faregates will cost $40m, when replacing all the faregates recently cost less than $70m?

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@GhostburgerDC @FlavortownGov @BarredinDC This didn't answer the question. Do all your service charges go fully to staff?

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@MetBranchTrail @LEM413 @WODTrail I've been installing air quality monitors in Eckington recently, thanks to an @EckingtonCivic grant. It'd be great to get monitors installed at more points along the trail.

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@cartertuttle @JWPascale Did you already have experience working with this kind of stuff? Wondering how hard it is to do.

[Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz]

L.A. Mayor Bass debuted her Inside Safe program in Venice, and Hollywood, with another effort to remove encampments planned in Del Rey. But Angelenos whisked to motels under the first two are asking: Is this different, or will it be more broken promises?
https://t.co/Uz2XVG7Gjr

[Greater Greater Washington @ggwash]

DC’s bike network is like an old blanket: patchy in well-loved spots. Data shows show why bike lanes on Q and R Streets need strengthening: https://t.co/h4UWAUlpWr

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@ZZZZach89 @pieshopdc is a great bakery on H st NE

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@AnniesBrookland This sucks. By my records, I've spent $249.41 at your store over the past 13 months, visiting solely by bike. I guess I'll stop doing that.

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

The loading docks and driveways aren't good enough? @311DCgov @AmazonHelp - 1st NE between K and L. #bikeDC

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@MikeTolhurst @AsheeshKSi @DrSimonTaylor You might enjoy this article about Google's effort to scan and digitize every book, and why it was stopped: https://t.co/OAsgpR9PQY

[Jordan Pascale @JWPascale]

The D.C. region isn't close to its goal of eliminating traffic deaths. I often cover this reality thru stats, vigils, calls for action, policy changes.
But recently I interviewed ppl who survived a crash and live w the effects + those who lost a loved one. https://t.co/nbglbZww4h

[National Academies @theNASEM]

The #transportation sector accounts for over a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas #emissions according to the @EPA.

Read our feature story to learn what's being done to improve transportation #sustainability and address its impacts on #climatechange: https://t.co/7j6Orp6Hem

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@cfgoldberg @gabrielwinant Easily the worst bagel I've ever had. And the cream cheese was somehow gritty?

[Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon]

Yes, this is the busiest train station in Virginia—a state with roughly the same population and economic heft as Austria but far worse infrastructure. The only bus downtown comes once an hour weekdays 6am to 7pm.

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@JWPascale Will they all still be 6 car trains, or some 8?

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@laurenkun Today at the Shaw library they were happy to take a piece of mail with a DC address in lieu of a DC ID

[Josh B @_Josh_Blatt_]

@jenny_schuetz Hey Arnold may have too