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matt439miller.bsky.social
Personal tweets on transit, urbanism, and (increasingly) housing.
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"The new law will restore the rights of property owners—not arbitrary, predetermined local quotas—to decide how many parking spaces they need for the homes or businesses they hope to build"

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"The vast majority of apartments built anywhere in Washington will have full parking flexibility." Neighborhood retail, too. I am so proud of my work bestie @citizen-cate.bsky.social for designing the country's strongest law to reduce costly parking mandates. www.sightline.org/2025/05/16/h...

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Jared Polis will withhold state grants to Colorado cities, counties that don’t comply with new housing laws

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"We don't have to choose this future for our kids. There are scenarios where we agressively decrease our fossil fuel consumption so that we don't have to live with an "unprecedented" hellscape"

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We're aware of the problem and we know the solution! "Dwelling in the twin-island Republic of ‘Traffic-dad’ and Tobago, a country of merely 5,128 km² in size, is a gluttonous ‘monster’ ravaging approximately 1,200,000 million productive hours cumulatively daily." blogs.iadb.org/caribbean-de...

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30m headways. On light rail. Is that a joke? Because that is a savage waste of money.

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Cycleway through a forest - Amsterdam Bos

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With a maximum of three independent passengers per vehicle, this is hardly a threat to public transit.

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Dance of the Macabre: Car culture edition.

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I mean, this is the Pacific Northwest, so—whether it's an old elementary school, shuttered prison, or mothballed nuclear power plant—the default redevelopment idea is a McMenamins.

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This is a fun story about one of my favorite pockets in Seattle. Little did I know that the apartments above Doe Bay Wine, Lioness, and Ben's Bread were built by a group of friends who wanted to live near each other.

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Newly-released population estimates from the US Census Bureau reveal a course-correction for many of America's largest cities. While NYC, Los Angeles, and Chicago lost population post-pandemic, the Census estimates notable absolute growth in these cities between 2023 and 2024.

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I appreciate the Bike to Work Day gift, but it didn’t come with its own dedicated right-of-way. 🤔

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(Whispering to the President meme) A second bike rotary has hit the Massachusetts. (Bruce Freeman and Mass Central Rail Trail. I need to go ride this)

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An endless source of frustration visible every time DOT re-lays concrete and fails to build actual bulb-outs, as they just did with Underhill Ave.

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Single-stair in the nation’s capital? Hell yeah. Let’s do it.

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It's easier to write than it is to let a Large Language Model barf something out and then spend the same amount of time editing as you would have simply writing it in the first place, and still have it be worse than what you would have done on your own

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Everyone jaywalks. Therefore, the law exists only to allow for selective prosecution

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