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driving-is-a-sin.bsky.social
Car free Chicagoan. Political economy hobbyist. Currently fascinated by Wolfgang Streeck.
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We must stop consuming. Eschewing car culture is a radical act. Our economy is all kinds of wrong.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The GOP and the judiciary seems like a reasonable analog for what democrats have done with housing. They both just found a technical, boring, wonkish issue, dominated it in plain site for decades, and now use it to wield incredible power. And, I hate them both for it.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Idea for an article: interviews with Boomers who let their kids take out student loans and 20 years later gifted them house down payments.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I’m staring out of a hotel window in downtown Austin Texas. I’m looking down at a 3 story parking garage, completely devoid of cars. On the roof is a person in a sleeping bag. It reminds me of this book I read to my son.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

So, I don’t like this at all. That being said, I think the penalties for drunk driving, especially when it includes killing someone, are ridiculously light. I understand Canada won’t even let you into the country if you have a DUI on record. But I find something unjust about deportation as a penalty

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Some interesting thoughts from an urbanist discussion group last night: The last nationally unifying concept in America was segregation We’ve over corrected for community feedback since Robert Moses Kam Buckner campaigned on growing Chicago’s population Chicago is calcified with fiefdoms

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

A thought about driver’s struck me this week in how much they also hate driving. True, the occasional person tells you they love it. But how many comments have you read saying “I want my system to be efficient. I just want to get from A to B. Stop slowing me down.” They dislike for the journey

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

During the Polar Vortex, here's a little "Chicken Soup for the Winter Bike Rider's Soul," plus tips for others who have been thinking about giving all-season cycling a spin. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/b... @chicritmass.bsky.social @curtisblackwell.com @karlynjane.bsky.social @stevevance.net

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

CDOT’s new department of policy wants to hear from you!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Sidewalk pavers vs concrete? I’m watching a crew tear up this very recently laid concrete on Lawrence Ave. I’m not sure what the project is but it got me thinking of the many countries I’ve visited where sidewalks are, as a rule, made of pavers. Does that allow for easier maintenance?

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

I just saw a Christmas children’s play where the villain tried to design planned obsolescence into the toy workshop. He failed when the naughty-nice list became illegible to his eyes due to them being clouded with greed. Let’s radicalize the youth!

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

How will biagi go as IDOT head?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

How many homes are legally zoned in Chicago? That is if there was one house for every legal dwelling what would Chicago’s population be?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

The article is good but the title continues to miss the point. The shit we’ve been dealing with as a society we’re the alarm bells we missed. Assassinating the leader of an unethical company in an unethical industry is something quite a bit more more.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

So I’m reading this article that my alder @andrefor40th.bsky.social shared today. It’s great. But it really got me thinking of Wolfgang Streeck and his callout that adherence to debt service undermines democratic will. See how fear of interest rates alters our policies? news.wttw.com/2024/12/02/h...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

The instructional video at jury duty today is delightfully whimsical. Not pleased that example cases though include car “accidents” 🤦

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a wild world when left leaning NYT salivates over global financial markets constraining our domestic, democratically elected government. Anyone still wondering how the Democrats keep losing?

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments