Jay Watkins

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

People 👏 want 👏 trains

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

>1/3 of all grey whales on the N American west coast died in the last 5 years.

I called it a year ago: they starved.

But NOAA is careful not to imply industrial fishing had anything to do with it, as it would impugn their regulation.

All we get are vague references to climate.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

If the public realm of our low traffic neighborhoods looked like college campuses, we wouldn’t feel as isolated.

[caroline mccarthy 🦝 @caro]

I went to this exact ski resort on two separate days last weekend, including on a powder day, and I did not have to sit in a single minute of traffic because -- as this article does not note, at all -- Amtrak runs a direct train from Denver to the base. https://t.co/h6J4RxSQ8x

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

The same street, one hundred years apart.

The private motor vehicle is an invasive species, which gradually crowds out and suffocates the rich social life of our cities.

When cars don’t dominate the streets, life flourishes.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

The cool thing about "luxury" housing is that, if you just keep building it, it becomes affordable.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

One of the biggest causes of transit cost bloat is the decimation of "state capacity" and the outsourcing of everything from design to procurement to engineering to manufacturing to consultants and other grifters.

BART bringing this in house is a huge win.

[Jay Watkins @Straggler64]

@UzamakiJ Damn! Well, I guess I gotta give witcher another shot cause I have to see the monologues they give him, it could be incredible.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them.

Via @StreetsblogUSA https://t.co/zIV0pnoHvg

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

I think one of the most valuable services journalists could provide right now is helping homeowners in low-risk areas understand just how much money they will be expected to pay to allow sprawl developers to continue to build in flood and fire zones.

Hint: It is a lot of money.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, & most of the energy that does, moves the car, not people.

Sound efficient?

HT @circulareconomy

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

"Plumbers can't use bikes," people say.

"I love using a bike," plumber says.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Anti-bike people will always say “we aren’t Amsterdam”, as if the Netherlands didn’t face the same sentiment decades ago.

[liornogard @DragonRoIlZ]

i accidentally found a website that classifies those clips on bread bags as parasitic creatures and names them based on scientific taxonomy. what the shit.