Jeff Wegerson

Jane Jacobs urbanist. Long trail section hiker. Hippie. Mon Française est horrible. He/She:) Jarrett Walker. MMT. Ian Welsh. Ray Jardine. Naturalistic gardener.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

Peanut butter. A good crunchy peanut butter is hard to find.

Here is Aldi’s creamy organic after I crunched and added my own local fruit market’s peanuts.

It is so densely peanutted that I call this variety “cobblestone crunchy peanut butter.”

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@cuntyandsavory @9thGenTexian @UrbanCourtyard @benduchek @Caffeindated @seanmdav AC has been standard and adequate for decades on busses and trains. Yes some agencies in recalcitrant backwaters provide inadequate AC. One is able to think relaxedly when someone else drives. Many find health benefits even with the short walks a quality network provides.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@9thGenTexian @UrbanCourtyard @benduchek @Caffeindated @seanmdav Real cities aren’t for everyone. Problem for us is having cars jammed down our streets. Cars are for places with plenty of space for them. They are a bad fit for real cities.

Good real cities are in short supply. There are plenty of sub-urbs for those who want to live that way.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@UrbanCourtyard @9thGenTexian @benduchek @Caffeindated @seanmdav Your picture reminds me that they almost never pedestrianize Clark in Andersonville but Clark in Wrigleyville gets pedestrianized every home game. :)

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@9thGenTexian @nzanetti44 @UrbanCourtyard @Caffeindated @seanmdav Pedestrian infra is also buses and no cul-de-sacs. Five-seven minutes max to grocery and yeah tree covered side walks. Whats your “walk score.” Many “big cities” are really just dense suburbs.

Dry dusty heat is often more walkable than humid clear heat.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@9thGenTexian @benduchek @UrbanCourtyard @Caffeindated @seanmdav I live in one. Now expensive, short time on market, demographics higher income couples sometimes families, low turnover.

How to make more is the hot topic politically.

Ability to live without car moves the affordability parameter down.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@TAndersen_nSCIr @spd98 @humantransit You ever see that movie where an important person going point to point with their chauffer driven car is so stuck in traffic that they get out and run to their helicopter?

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@FartonFink Cities are expensive because of demand. The best part (most in demand) of cities have the fewest cars and most pedestrians because open space is scarce therefore valuable.

Cars & car streets take up way too much valuable space.

Bikes & bike lanes squeeze out excess cars.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@imetatronink @chigrl 75ish. Hooked up with Huerfano Valley Red Rockers at a Denver house. Wanted to see Woody Allen but theater was full. Decided to see unknown film RHPS.

Mostly astounded by it but on whole glad we saw it. So new no audience participation.

[Mah🍒 ⋆˚ @mahcherrys]

Guia prático de posicionamento político.

"Sou de esquerda" = é de esquerda.

"Sou de direita" = é de direita

"Sou de centro" = é de direita

"Não sou nem de esquerda, nem de direita" = é de direita

"Não tenho preferência" = é de direita

"Não gosto de política" = é de direita

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@iwelsh @rosegoldthakur @trainguy89 Proper frequency of trains adresses a lot of those platform issues. Biggest expense of frequency is labor. Labor is cheaper with universal healthcare etc.

The need for station door electronics is driverless trains at 2 minute frequencies.

All reasons for worker run nations.

[NHL Insider Max Pacioretty @NHLlnsider67]

I think Canada should steal this design and build it right at the US border

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@UrbanCourtyard Picture this: on a SFH block replace backyard & garage with 3-6 story apartment. Alley becomes narrow ped street. Street/front yard becomes shared court yard. Space between SFHs becomes access to courtyard for apt dwellers.

Or have you already better planned this approach out?

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@AndyM1928 At least an electric mower doesnt have the gasoline smell which expands storage options. Including vertical on a wall as no fluids to spill. Plus the added torque allows for some branch and twig chipping and mulching.

But yeah front public planting steals from back private use.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@iwelsh @EmilyFarina5 @StephenWickens1 @JakeLandauTO Buses are ok. Unregulated car mass production/use/sprawl is entirely to blame. Streetcars (really “streetbuses”) in mixed lane usage are worse than buses. Cities needed to regulate cars out of dedicated transit lanes in city streets from the get go.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

Chicago could have done this by spending a half billion on a far south BRT network and the rest of the extension money on a driverless Red Line. (Right, if the feds allowed it.) @streetsblogchi

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

Remember, Americans: This frequent driverless rail system that has transformed its region is not in Europe or Japan. It’s 150 miles from Seattle.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@iamnopilot We have eaten Dues for years. My father was born here (Chicago) 1909 and I still live here as does one daughter. Had my first Unos in the 1960s.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@iwelsh @EmilyFarina5 @StephenWickens1 In Colorado and New Mexico I was still able to hitchhike a few years back.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@jackspling @No_strin American world wide hegemony is headed for disaster in my view too. Because of loss of military power which will effect loss of money power.

We may be on similar pages. While I do not share some of your views on money I likely share some other views.

[Jeff Wegerson @JWegerson]

@jackspling @No_strin Successful monies tend to be created by govts that have a military that can enforce people to use the money to pay taxes.

Theories sometimes become “facts,” yes? Earth around sun was once a theory, yes?

Lets start there, ok?