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The first rule of road design should be: Make drivers afraid of damaging their cars.
Wedge LIVE!™Public works has reduced the driving space so much that you almost can't do anything but drive the speed limit past this elementary school. This is outrageous. It's like they have no concern for the people who left home 5 minutes late to drive their kids to school two towns over.
“Arizona earned the dubious distinction of ranking No. 1 for the country's most frustrating summer parking destinations... Results showed that 59% of Arizonans said they've skipped a summer destination because parking was simply too stressful, while 22% said they've been involved in a dispute.”
These are the 3 worst parking lots in Arizona, new study showsHave you ever circled a parking lot 10 times before finding a space? So has everyone else in Arizona. Avoid these three parking lots.www.azcentral.com
A century ago, white nationalists were saying the exact same things about Rep. Rulli's Italian ancestors -- they weren't white, they were criminals, they could never assimilate to "our" country
Aaron RuparRep. Michael Rulli on reports that ICE is preparing to mass deport of Haitians from Ohio: "Let's get them out of here. Let's get 'em all out of here, and let's start from the beginning."
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Ada PalmerAboriginal rangers have wiped invasive fire ants off an Australian island. After 22 years, the Tiwi Rangers have eradicated tropical fire ants from Melville Island, hunting and baiting nests one by one. The ants had been eating turtle hatchlings and nesting birds. buff.ly/MYFv9ok #ShareGoodNewsToo
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero citiesActive travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.theconversation.comSOOO close to getting it! @evanramstad.bsky.social for @startribune.com . Can you say "signal preemption"? #CarBrain #Motonormativity "But they are also forced to stop so often at street-level intersections that they don’t offer speed as a convenience." www.startribune.com/ramstad-read...
Ramstad: Readers erupt with many reasons not to extend the Blue Line northMy hot take on light rail prompted a flurry of questions about costs and return on investment. I may be on the losing side of the debate.www.startribune.com
If an area has more demand for car parking than it has spaces, making it easier to travel to & from that area using public & active transport is not only cheaper, more equitable & more sustainable than adding/preserving parking spaces; it's also far more likely to actually fix the parking problem.
Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...
Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.www.cnbc.com
Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
A beautiful illustration of the power of e-bikes.
Megan Ramey"can I give you a hug?" Meet my first e-bike library borrower, a mother of 4, who learned how to ride a bike at 30 years old when her family moved to America. She wants to use the e-bike to get to school as a teacher. I met her to check out the bike and rode with her home. She was overjoyed.
Courting blasphemy, I offer the inclusion of diced dill pickle and yellow mustard in the tuna and mayonnaise suspension, and demand the use of the finest, sharpest sourdough as the foundation upon which this accidental miracle rests.
Tal Lavini wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
i wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #143: Tuna MeltWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...buttondown.com
The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."