City Boy

Planner, city lover, climate anxiety-haver. Disdain for the status quo. Boston to Seattle transplant.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@theneedledrop Talk about Kneecap, there's practically a media blackout on their new album

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@isabelleboemeke While I'm generally supportive of nuclear, if it's sufficiently regulated and better invested in, how are we dealing with the aquatic species and habitat impacts of the intakes? Asking in good faith, I swear!

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@the_transit_guy Not very urbanist of you to use AI for cheap likes. The water consumption, the energy consumption - just unsustainable

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@ageewriter @the_transit_guy Garbage take, man. You're not solving the parking problem with a new type of single occupancy vehicle.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@the_transit_guy We like change, but it's just infill that was planned for years around the new streetcar. Barely any new green space. Urbanists need a more aggressive take than development=good; JD Vance was literally at NLC this week preaching development; it's become a hollow take.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@WallStreetApes "Rent is out of control."

It's almost like there's a straightforward policy solution here that would control rent. What would they call it?

You all hate the easiest solution to these problems, trying to find a capitalist solution to the problem of capitalism.

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

If you vote for 1B, you're actually such a dweeb. Like, nice intiaitive where did you get it? Your mayor's corporate overlords?

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

Trump admin going to speed run turning JB Pritzker into a household name and early 2028 frontrunner. The Big Guy won't tolerate this long.

[Tina Sfondeles @TinaSfon]

“Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Trump border czar Tom Homan says to start his speech at a Northwest Side GOP fundraiser tonight.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@HutchinsMatt SDCI's map isn't for legal reference (and thank God because it's wrong a lot). So, is the higher density under HB1110 not allowed by-right after proving there's no environmentally critical areas on the property?

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

An absolute corporate hack. West Seattle should be ashamed for electing Rob Saka.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

@MayorofSeattle Booooo, this is nothing. Make it easier to build big.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

With SCOTUS gutting Chevron, it's more important than ever that Biden DO SOMETHING, instead of just promising to defend democracy. Agencies can't hold up this admin, he needs to promise big things, more legislation, more money, more projects. Otherwise he's dead in the water.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

How's your drinking water? The EPA has set limits on PFAs in drinking water, with PFAs posing significant health risks and being difficult to remove from water. But this rule may not stick for some expected and unexpected reasons. 🧵 https://t.co/6kJABhe0g9

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

So, what do we need? We need to invest now to avoid the same failures we've seen in other infrastructure that the US built but can't afford to maintain (see highways). Our own water suppliers are fighting clean water because they don't have the resources to clean it!

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

How's your drinking water? The EPA has set limits on PFAs in drinking water, with PFAs posing significant health risks and being difficult to remove from water. But this rule may not stick for some expected and unexpected reasons. 🧵 https://t.co/6kJABhe0g9

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the biggest federal investment in infrastructure in the 21st century, only invested $55 billion in water supply improvements and that's not all going to the needed fixes. After inflation we'll still have tens of billions in repair needs

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

But many water utilities are still public, the largest utilities in the US are mainly public entities. So why do they oppose a rule that is good for the public? It's still about money. Federal and state governments have left water utilities to rot for decades.

[City Boy @highspeedfrail]

As expected manufacturers who use PFAs are fighting the rule. PFAs pose major health risks, which the attorneys for the industry don't argue, but they say the EPA is going beyond its authority by regulating them. https://t.co/dTmYsYCop8