Stephen Love

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

The phrase “I’ll let you know” has been used by midwesterners for centuries. Historians believe that they have never let that person know.

[Baltimore Memes @BaltimoreMemes]

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[TODNewsHub @TODNewsHub]

🚨 A BART PARKING LOT IS ABOUT TO BECOME AN ENTIRE DOWNTOWN. 🚨

One of the largest transit-oriented developments in the Bay Area is moving forward at West Oakland Station.

What's replacing the asphalt?

🏙️ 762 homes
🏠 240 affordable units
🏢 300,000 sq ft of offices
🛍️ 53,000 sq ft of retail
🚇 Direct access to BART

This is exactly what should happen next to major transit stations.

Not parking lots.

Neighborhoods. 🔥

#Bart #Oakland #TheBay #SF #California #CA #Housing #Transit

[Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 @Qveen_Potato]

Didn't y'all get mad at Michelle Obama for having a vegetable garden

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Solar officially generated more power than coal last month, a first in US history

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

A car wash next to a light rail line in a dense and walkable neighborhood? I can't think of a better use of land!

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Parking lots are sized based on the busiest day of the year, yet transit, pedestrian, and bike infrastructure are not afforded the same right.

[LakeErie ♀ @LakeErieNorth]

Right lake. 🌊

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.

“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.*

Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.**

Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”***

* in 1937, Guy Callendar published a paper showing that the world had already warmed over the last 50 years due to human emissions what he called “carbonic acid“ – what we now call CO2 – from burning fossil fuels

** If you are wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?”

— it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now.

So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming.

*** For more on the well funded disinformation campaign, read or watch Merchants of Doubt and The Petroleum Papers

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @Car_Free_USA]

Zoning doesn't need to make sense.

It just has to make the right people richer.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

“Nobody rides transit in America!”

Transit in America:

[Chris Ronayne @chrisronayne]

Today’s christening of the Puerto Rico marks the 10th tug built by Great Lakes Towing here in #CLE on the Old River Channel. Great to see this contribution to our NEO maritime economy. The next two tugs to be built will be electrically powered. Congrats to this 127 yr old company

[City of Sandusky @cityofsandusky]

We achieved a big milestone for the Sandusky Bay Pathway yesterday! 🚲
We set the new bridge going over Pipe Creek, which will be an important connection on the pathway between downtown, Cedar Point Dr, & the Landing.
#SanduskyBayPathway #SanduskyOhio #LakeErieLove

[clevelanddotcom @clevelanddotcom]

In case you missed it: Cleveland Metroparks says the first phase of the multi-decade vision, the Early Action Project, will create 6.3 acres of new parkland and wetland habitat along the East Side shoreline. https://t.co/vAagIte8gU

[I'm From Cleveland @ImFromCle]

Cleveland Metroparks announces new restaurant on the Lake 🍽️🌊

[Smarkreilly🚶‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚍🚉🌴 @smarkreilly]

I don't want self driving cars.
I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule. I want bike lanes so accessible it's preferable to Uber. I want a city that's not built around cars-as-default.

[Cuyahoga County @CuyahogaCounty]

Rediscover Veterans Memorial Bridge returns June 27. Explore the rarely seen lower level this summer. Tours fill fast. https://t.co/ezbPNGdz6l #WeAreCuyahoga @canalwaycle @TakeaHikeCLE

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

"If you pick up a textbook and you look up the bit on inflation, inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. There’s no textbook that says, ‘the climate’s cooking and we’re running out of stuff'... [But] now people may be beginning to realize this."

[Chris Ronayne @chrisronayne]

Thanks to the hundreds of community volunteers who came out for RiverSweep today. This event organized to keep our Cuyahoga River clean is a 30+ year tradition @canalwaycle. Thanks water stewards for what you do for our #CuyahogaRiver. Together,
#WeAreCuyahoga @CuyahogaCounty

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Outside Delft Station, the absence of cars reveals a richer urban soundtrack: trams gliding, bells ringing, birds chirping, laughter echoing, and bicycles creaking by.

In place of roaring engines, the human-scale soundscape brings the street to life: so serene, yet full of life.