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Samuel Maskell retweeted
the online leftist impulse to blame everything on “evil corporations” is honestly beyond parody
your boomer neighbors that show up at community meetings to complain shadows and parking are the reason we have a housing crisis, not some evil corporation
Samuel Maskell retweeted
Victoria City Council approved an innovative car-free building tonight! 633 Belton is a car-free 6-plex that will replace a single home. This is exactly the type of sustainable & affordable density we need. This is the model, let’s do more. #yyj urbanthrive.ca/633belton
Samuel Maskell retweeted
10 things I wish I knew about nuclear power when I was a Green Party member/anti-nuclear advocate.
1. Nuclear power has reduced global emissions by 60 gigatons of CO2 until 2019 (equivalent to 2 years of global energy-related emissions).
Source: iea.org/reports/nuclear-powe…
Samuel Maskell retweeted
When asked to draw their trip to school, children who walk to school drew a more vibrant picture than those driven in a car. Every student should have the option to walk or bike to school in a safe manner, full stop. (via Margrit Stamm)
ALT Children's drawing of their trip to school by walking and by driving.
all these tweets about blue sky sure doing a great job convincing me that people are totally not on twitter anymore
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary – at Boston, MA
#ObligatoryConcertPic 🍀 – at Boston, MA
ALT The dropkick murphys on stage at MGM fenway
there are good arguments you can make in favor of remote work but it's just so sad that so many people immediately fall to back to "traffic" as if that's some sort of immovable force and not a deliberate decision in how we design cities that has repeatedly been shown not to work – at Boston, MA
This really is a great perk. Even just when I was interning there during grad school I stopped in at several different offices to grab a snack, use the bathroom, etc. Got free parking blocks from Venice beach at the office when I was in LA.
West Coast Express missing here entirely? Also wonder how many of the bus trips are just the 99 B
Another way to look at the data is to normalize it by metro area population. This draws out the high performers. Size helps, but there’s a level the playing field for purposes of comparison. Two tiers emerge: NY and the three big Canadian cities, and the other US transit cities.
ALT Bar graph. Ten metro areas have over 50 annual riders per capita. New York-New Jersey, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, SF Bay Area, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia. NY is over 200, the Canadian cities are over 100, the others are between 50 and about 75.
Samuel Maskell retweeted
It is just insane that we have invented what is essentially a medical cure for obesity and yet refuse to pay for it because of moralizing stigma about weight loss – at San Francisco, CA
pretty damning indictment of the @MBTA that I live <10min walk from a subway line that goes to the airport and I, a devout transit nerd, still take Uber/Lyft when I'm in a rush because it's almost always faster
still a little skeptical that mastodon will work out but it’s getting a lot harder to keep supporting twitter. Find me here - macaw.social/@sam
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.