Coconuts In My Back Yard

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[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

If you press your ear to these signs, you can still hear a traffic engineer asking EXACTLY how long those kids need to be safe for.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

FYI for cities, MPOs, and other transportation planners purchasing @INRIX data. The company seems to be getting involved in culture wars in an extremely unpalatable manner.

[Bryan Mistele @BryanMi]

This week @INRIX signed a lease which will move us out of Kirkland which has been our home for the past 18 years.

Why? @KirklandGov made a decision to put a homeless hotel right across the street from our current HQ, in the backyard of #EastsidePrep and next door to @Burgermaster. No drug testing required, no treatment required and no real supervision on-site. Where this experiment has happened before in King County, crime rates have risen since according to reliable data, 70%+ of homelessness is the result of drug addiction and/or mental health issues (@choeshow, @DiscoveryInst1).

When I attended the City Council meeting to speak out on this issue, @KirklandGov refused to let anyone speak.

A previous mayor once told me years ago that INRIX was the 5th largest employer in @Kirkland. I have no idea what we are now (we've grown), but bad public policy has consequences. Employers can move. We are. If a local government won't listen to it's citizens and/or employers, they will probably find other places to locate.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@ThomasHochman This is eye-opening. I've liked some of your previous work, but if the goal is to reverse not just regulations blocking critical infrastructure, but protections against the most environmentally destructive industries...

I would like off this ride.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

Logging onto this app is starting to make me nauseous. Catch me under the same name on the 💙☁️ app.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

Peak Hochul brain. Reducing the toll from $15 to $9 makes literally no one happy, and if the review takes longer than two months (it will), this waffling will accomplish absolutely nothing.

[Emma G. Fitzsimmons @emmagf]

I've confirmed Jeff's great scoop that Hochul has talked to federal officials about a $9 toll, instead of $15, and if that would require additional environmental review, according to an M.T.A. board member. There's concern that could lead to higher tolls for commercial trucks.

[Jarrett Walker @humantransit]

San Francisco's oceanfront Great Highway will become the Great Walkway. Car-brained journalists will call this a "closure" but you can just as well call it an opening.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Biden materially helped the working class more than any president in living memory, and the electoral punishment for that will reverberate for decades.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Biden's economic theory was that you can rapidly increase the wages of the poorest workers and the ensuing inflation could be mitigated with a soft landing. This proved correct, and voters hated it so much that no one will ever try it again.

[Chris Meyer 🏳️‍🌈🌲🥑🚲🚊 @chrisjohnmeyer]

I genuinely appreciate Shapiro taunting the Dems on this. Maybe that will push more of them to take badly needed action to build more housing

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@fakegreekgrill Biden's favorability ratings, economic sentiment, and results in other countries all suggest this should have been a blowout, not a 1% nationwide margin.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@PeterColombini @Beganovic2024 The Heritage Foundation has written policy for every Republican president since Reagan. But if you believe that he's uninvolved in the project that his top staff worked on, I have some NFTs to sell you

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@Cincinnatus56 Wouldn't have moved the needle much, and being a failed VP candidate isn't much of a career boost.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@PeterColombini @Beganovic2024 Yes. From the text of Project 2025.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@ryan_hassett Can't believe the needle crossed a picket line.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

if I scroll down the timeline far enough I will surely get to the election results, as a reward for my diligent scrolling,

[Peter Norton @PeterNorton12]

Memphis Street Railway Company, 1924. Assertions to the effect that “people preferred to drive” are guesses in the guise of explanations. In cities, a small minority of motorists degraded streetcar service for the majority.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@kelseyhuse30 The pedestrianization happened with the Mid-America Mall (as it was called then) opening in 1976. The streetcar didn't come along until 1993.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@inverseflorida The rare Clinton 2016/Trump 2020 voter. Claims to be voting for Trump solely because of what Neil Gorsuch did for his people, but really it's been building up after getting caught up in Arlen's MeToo era.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@inverseflorida Actually, I take that back. Enrique's definitely not, the guy played by Chris Rock isn't, and I think Joe Jack has hidden depths, so the lower ranks of Strickland Propane are a hub of the resistance.

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@inverseflorida Point. Are there any other male Arlen residents who aren't Trump voters, aside from Bobby and the hippies?

[Coconuts In My Back Yard @MavrickFitz]

@kelseyhuse30 I don't have that one specifically, but it's a common genre