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@JHof

Perpetual transient from #pureMichigan. Mostly tweets about bikes, busses, trains and housing.

 ATX/NYC
Joined March 2008
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A reminder that the subway lines (4/5/6) under Lexington Ave in Manhattan move 1.3 million people daily.
Rani Molla@ranimolla9 Sep 2025
Took a Tesla ride through the Boring Company tunnels in Vegas. Only two cars were running. Got stuck in traffic behind the other car.
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Growth or growths? 🤔
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This book is like a manual for functional transit and good urbanism.
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what expanding interstates best accomplishes: turning farms into sprawl
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It’s insane that TxDOT can preemptively spend $1B of fake money to create the worst places in existence while Austin has to scrape together funding to no be destroyed.
Rethink35 - Stop I-35 expansion & demand better!@rethink356 Oct 2023
TxDOT to Austin: "The side-effects of our highway is your problem." @TxDOT's indifference toward the community is on full show here in this dialogue between @VanessaForATX & a TxDOT rep about funding for even as mild a measure as highway caps. Our leaders are pushing back! 😆
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Hindenburg about to explode in this photo, but look at that incredible mixed-use building with ground level retail. Hydrogen airships and nice places now both prohibited.
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Once a two lane road. @txdot traffic “projections” are just production forecasts.
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This is what status quo town planning looks like in the US.
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Texans: Why do y’all hate the countryside so much?
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Expanded I-35 at 6th Street with and without caps
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This is Manhattan at its highest population density. Over 2 Million ppl living on the island. Its fertility rate was ~4 “Urbanization is the biggest engine of demographic collapse” is ridiculous.
More Births
@MoreBirths3 May 2025
Urbanization is perhaps the biggest engine of demographic collapse. YIMBY does not solve fertility. Societies with endless vertical building in cities doom themselves to decline. Jiamusi city (in NE China) recorded a TFR of 0.41 in 2000, the lowest fertility ever recorded.
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If this row of townhomes from the 1800s still existed today it would be a beloved part of the City with extensive historic designations placed on it to protect it. However, based on heavily restrictive modern zoning, nothing like it could ever be built here today. 📍Newton, MA
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Lots of new @TxDOT @TravisCountyTX subsidized sprawl around Cameron Rd north of Austin = lots more wasted time zooming around non-places in giant metal boxes. #Atxcouncil much prefers this to legalizing housing, though.
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Two coffee shops.
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How does this opinion still exist? $80k NIMBY bike lane removal versus TxDOT’s $104B boondoggle ten year road widening budget of pure waste.
Audit Austin City Council@saveaustintx18 Apr 2025
Austin spending $80k to remove bike lanes put in 6 months ago after complaints. What an incredible waste of time and taxpayer money. The city facing budget deficits should stop shoving bikes lanes nobody wants down residents throats kxan.com/news/why-austin-wil…

Why Austin will spend $80k to remove newly installed bike lanes

The City of Austin is about to spend $80,000 to remove bike lanes installed six months ago because of the volume of complaints from Southwest Austin neighbors.

kxan.com
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This is what I think of when a politician says “hard working Americans just trying to put food on their table and gas in their car”.
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It’s weird how we say that transit is expensive even though that expense is dwarfed by the cost of the mega sprawl its lack enables.
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How we could be growing instead
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@the_transit_guy11 Apr 2025
This is what the growth of Princeton, TX—the third fastest-growing city in the country—looks like. We are a nation that measures growth in endless cul-de-sacs.
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Living right next to a LIRR stop in the protected enclave of Forest Hills and proposing a 1+ hour drive to avoid paying $9, instead of taking the $5 17 minute train trip is quite car brain.
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