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"Our streets are now more safe. There has been a 51% decrease in injuries and a 55% decrease in crashes in the congestion relief zone compared to the same period in January 2024."

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🎙️ Need a distraction? New Densely Speaking interview coming this Monday! @jeffrlin.bsky.social and I nerd out with an asphalt authority (my term) who has a new paper quantifying and valuing urban road space in America—an important and IMO neglected topic. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

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Speculating about counterfactuals is risky, but as we enter month two of the new administration I’m getting the sense that the two candidates were not, in fact, the same.

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As I told @henrygrabar.bsky.social , Trump’s attack on congestion pricing is special: “‘Compared to other [Trump Administration actions], this particular action is surprisingly unjustified…. It’s a complete fabrication devoid of any support in the statutes.” slate.com/business/202...

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Not good news, but needs to be said: Hamas claimed that Israel killed the Bibas children and their mother in an airstrike. Forensic examination of the corpses reveals the kids were murdered and that Hamas didn't even send back the mother, but a random body. Depravity piled upon lies.

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“…It’s farcical to put the interminable delays solely at Trump’s feet.’ The latest of those delays, after all, came from Hochul… …hedging against hostile forces in both state and federal government. ‘The city needs to [use] its capacious authority to maximize the welfare of its own people’” 👏

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I'm quoted along with @rickhills.bsky.social and other experts in this deep dive on the attempted revocation of federal approval for congestion pricing, by @henrygrabar.bsky.social. slate.com/business/202...

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Can we agree that the pass-through voting option is driven by fund managers seeking to avoid controversy? "Select from seven different proxy voting policy options" (and if you "lose," aka delete, these instructions, you're out of luck). I do not think the index investor is asking for this.

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And just like that, all of the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act are gone. Don’t know how they are going to avoid this causing massive chaos and unpredictability for anyone seeking a federal permit. ceq.doe.gov/docs/laws-re...

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A lot of faculty allowed their views of an overseas conflict (or the egocentric fantasy that their university makes any difference to it) to blind them to the reality of what was happening on their own campuses.

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It's just been reported that the feds are rescinding approval for the congestion pricing program run by NY State. But the (great) program was incomplete & imperiled from conception. It's never been more important for cities, including NYC, to plan...Beyond Congestion Pricing, publishing this week🤞

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A buddy who works at a different VA tells me that a lot of VA employees fit this general mold (have disabilities, are supporting family). The job is often also key to launching or turning around their civilian lives.

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Charles Tiebout was born in 1924; he wrote his famous "foot voting" paper in 1956 and passed away in 1968—which is to say, he lived entirely during a period of high geographic mobility. I often wonder how his theories might have changed if he'd lived long enough to see the decline of US mobility.

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This is how DOGE is making our government less efficient. Firing the people who conduct the benefit-cost analysis of transportation grants will cause worse decisions. It's penny wise, pound foolish. Their salaries are tiny compared to what they can do to deliver cost savings.

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🚨 New newsletter post critiquing what I call street design essentialism: "the view that dangerous street design, a systemic problem, so profoundly affects unconscious behavior as to overwhelm the role of the individual in road safety.” gregshill.substack.com/p/street-des...

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"(and Hillary Clinton)"

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"Collectively, the [proposed] changes represent a wholesale repudiation of Delaware’s common law approach to lawmaking; instead, they most closely resemble the MBCA’s rule-bound approach." - @annmlipton.bsky.social www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/02/dela...

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Nice writeup of the proposed DGCL changes from Eric Talley, Sarath Sanga, and Gabriel V. Rauterberg clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/02/18/d...

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May their memory be a blessing. I will also remember that on 10/8, many thronged campuses & cities to celebrate the Rwanda-style massacre the day before that included the abduction of these children, taken alive but now confirmed killed along with their mom. Their grandparents were murdered on 10/7.

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“The curious paradox is that a bright-line, centrally engineered code is far more easily replicated by other states than a thick, nuanced, judge-driven system.” Great post. I would only add that the changes are mainly about retaining tech companies, whose structure often presents control questions.

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Me watching my toddler knocking down blocks:

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Maybe the best description of him I’ve seen

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This reminded me of the clearest statement of ECMH of all time.

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I wrote an essay in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the deeper forces behind the huge number of corruption allegations involving members of the Adams administration and what the biggest scandal really is www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/big...

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At some point, moving into a hotel that serves eggs as part of their free breakfast becomes the economical choice.

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Talking car dependence and rail transit’s bimodal distribution with @gregshill.com, Peter Norton, and @cnbc.com. Allowing more people to live near transit would really help. In general, these videos are well done www.youtube.com/watch?v=egD1...

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“NYSE Chicago, founded in 1882 as the Chicago Stock Exchange, is supposed to be renamed NYSE Texas. The fully electronic equities exchange will be headquartered in Dallas, pending regulatory filings.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/12/c...

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The campaign to force scholars of private law to pay mind to public law continues unabated.

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Has anyone asked the President who should have won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? Seems like that could be an interesting conversation.

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🚨 Iowa Law School is hiring laterals! We have searches in Family Law and Business Law. Happy to chat about our wonderful faculty, students, and community with anyone interested (just email me). Details and application here: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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It’s a winter wonderland here in Iowa.

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Greg and I are going to ride that subway in Iowa together

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I am always encouraged when major media outlets address Active Towns adjacent themes. This fantastic @cnbc.com video features the Active Towns Podcast veteran @norton.bsky.social, as well as scholars @gregshill.com and @egoldwyn.bsky.social Give it watch and pass it along youtu.be/egD1ZoRrpVw

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I was honored to be interviewed for the @cnbc.com special "How America Got Hooked on Cars," and in such great company (with historian @norton.bsky.social and urban planner @egoldwyn.bsky.social). www.youtube.com/watch?v=egD1...

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In a rare (and unexpected) move, proxy advisor ISS has issued an early-season voting policy update to say it’s halting consideration of board #diversity for US companies. The times, they are a-changin’. #proxyseason #publiccompanies #corpgov

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