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Memphis, TN
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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.
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.
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.
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Logging onto this app is starting to make me nauseous. Catch me under the same name on the 💙☁️ app.
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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.
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.
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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.
Just in: Prop K has passed, the Great Highway will permanently close. — @lihanlihan sfstandard.com/2024/10/31/sf…
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Biden materially helped the working class more than any president in living memory, and the electoral punishment for that will reverberate for decades.
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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.
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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
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if I scroll down the timeline far enough I will surely get to the election results, as a reward for my diligent scrolling,
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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.
Memphians take note. MATA has the same dynamic, where a lack of dedicated transit funding means there are whole classes of federal $$ left on table.
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next time you feel sad or defeated, think about the billions of gallons of safe clean water this year that used to be actual very literal sewage
ALT a gloved hand holds a jar of cloudy brown sewage.
ALT the same gloved hand holds the same style jar but it’s filled with clear cleaned water.
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For nearly a decade, Nashville has directed growth into marginalized neighborhoods, major corridors, and downtown—while marking privileged neighborhoods off-limits.
Despite protests from citizens and its own urban planners, Metro maintains this policy.
What are its impacts?
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Honestly Miami is getting off easy. The last time someone made someone from Cal truly angry, it ended much worse for them.
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Vandy I don't think there are enough fireworks in the world for this one
