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Daniel Comeaux

@danielcomeaux.bsky.social
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Chicago’s home. Interested in where we’re going and how we get there, in the very literal sense. All opinions mine, he/him.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh yeah, that's the good stuff, well done Philly
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 10/09/2026
Who needs a folding phone when we’ve got bending buses
MTA articulated bus
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The status quo is always a choice! Bike the drive 2026, excellent as always. Thanks to @activetransportation.org for a wonderful morning.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
Congrats to the Chicago region for today's launch of NITA, the Northern Illinois Transit Authority, which will coordinate operations by CTA, Metra, and Pace... and hopefully result in better service for riders nita.illinois.gov
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026
New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles
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Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Moon!
A partial lunar eclipse over Chicago
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
SHAME has a nice ring to it.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
HAMES
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
you know what, maybe the cicadas are right. endless screaming is the way forward
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Crass Jerkneck @crassjerkneck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Me: Hey what time is it? CDOT:
Betwixt traffic in the foreground and buildings in the background, a transportation notification sign on Wacker Drive reads “TIME TO DAN RYAN”
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A driver ran over a child. That’s the north center story and if our alderpeople are too afraid to say this they don’t deserve the office the sit in.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Going to start reporting fatal pedestrian crashes as "deaths tied to shoes."
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This IMO is the best ongoing study of NYC congestion pricing. An update w/data thru 6/26 is encouraging: "The toll raised cordon-area speeds by 11%, with little effect on air quality, consumer spending, or foot traffic. Speeds also rose outside the cordon." shoshanavasserman.com/papers/the_n...
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The parking is an issue that will be hotly contested, but the real problem is the aesthetics. These dumpsters —it is important to use this word, because that is what they will be in practice—will drastically alter the visual streetscape of the city.
The main problem is that these dumpsters will be on the street 24/7.
Currently, trash bags are typically on the street two mornings each week, with only a handful of weekend routes. Yes, these bags smell and attract rats, but there is no guarantee that the dumpsters will fully alleviate either problem. Instead, they will introduce worse problems.
The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more
"sanitized" each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history.
The West Harlem pilot was launched with 1,100 dumpsters in an area with no historic district designation, a set of protocols designed to protect the visual character of the streetscape. While they reduced reports of rats, they are limited as a case study. Once enacted, the Empire Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters.The initial images of the pilot show pristine dumpsters on a nondescript street with scaffolding. This is not an accurate depiction of New York, nor what the dumpsters will look like on a typical street, even though the plan is to power wash them regularly.
New York's streets are entropic. Nothing here can exist without promptly getting bashed in, graffiti-ed, or splattered with swill. Trash cans in busy areas all over the city overflow regularly, with adjacent heaps of garbage piling up beside them. These dumpsters, which will be only accessible to building staff using an access card that will definitely never break, undoubtedly will face the same fate. If the bins malfunction, they stand to welcome the very rats they are meant to stave off into a Whole Foods smorgasbord of fresh, artisanal garbage.
The dumpster pilot has launched in Brooklyn's Community District 2— home to the desirable Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and Boerum Hill neighborhoods—-and as expected, is overwhelming streets with the large bins. Next up will be Manhattan's Community District 2, which includes the Greenwich Village Historic District, one of the most beloved places in the city, and the topic of much debate about preservation.As it stands now, DSNY and DOT will determine locations of the bins, not owners or residents. Will wealthy residents on Billionaire's Row in Midtown pay to get preferential treatment or be exempted completely?
Will having the old school pile of bags overnight become a luxury amenity? And will the green spaces in NYCHA blocks become sprawling trash zones?
These dumpsters will take a toll on our psyches. It attacks the human aspects of our cities. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make a qualitative argument about the character of a place; the beauty of a street has been lost in a sea of data and flooded by optimizing arguments about unit counts or parking spots. Technocratic solutions often unintentionally make the city worse. To believe in the city is to believe that aesthetics and humanity still mean something.
Can the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) help? Established in the wake of losing the original Penn Station, LPC is meant to protect the visual character and soul of the city's streets. According to the NYC Street Design Manual, LPC will be able to stop them in historic districts unless they are deemed "artworks." Unfortunately as it stands now, the dumpsters are not artworks or even artful. Perhaps Mayor Mamdani could organize a design competition to rethink the dumpsters, just like he did with modular public restrooms?
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
'the explicit purpose of corridor zoning is to concentrate both air pollution and the perceived social pollution of apartment dwellers in quarantine zones that single-family homeowners can avoid.' yup
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Thomas Bamonte @thomasbamonte.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
CTA will soon equip 46 additional buses (up from 6 today) with technology aimed at enforcing and deterring illegal parking in dedicated bus/bike lanes and bus stops. www.transitchicago.com/chicago-tran...
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Chicago Transit Board Approves Expansion of Automated Bus Lane Enforcement Program
The Chicago Transit Board today approved an expansion of its Automated Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) program. By scaling the program from six to 52 camera-equipped buses, the CTA in partnership with the...
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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
save a life, toll a car
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New NBER paper finds that the congestion zone in NYC sped up emergency responses by over a minute - about 5-6%. Great stuff! www.nber.org/papers/w35414
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Congestion Pricing and EMS Response Time: Evidence From New York City
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Children love trains and bikes because their hearts are pure and uncorrupted by the auto industry.
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William Skudlarek @willskud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
IDOT has awarded the NITA consultant contract to Boston Consulting Group
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence
NYT: "The Court's Hypocrisy" June 29NYT: "The Supreme Court Remembers Its Principles" June 30
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This shit is awful and unacceptable. What a malevolent, truly evil act. This month most of all, be unapologetically proud of who you are. Fuck the haters. open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth, may we all be liberated
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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 09/06/2026
We were out last night and took some photos at the jam and vigil ride for Riley O'Neil (hosted by @bikegridnow.org), a CDOT employee who spent his life working to make biking safer in Chicago, and was killed in a crash in Bridgeport on Friday June, 5th. Rest in Peace, Riley.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It is so fun! Join us! It’s you and hundreds of your closest friends and colleagues who all love talking about the same stuff.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
As a reminder, Pulte is the guy who goes through the mortgages of Trump’s enemies, looking for mistakes, which he then uses as a basis to refer them for criminal prosecution. See, e.g.: Letitia James
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy NITA day!
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The winters are in fact worth it.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Maya Polsky's huge co-op apartment at 199 East Lake Shore Drive is up for sale, and it is without exaggeration one of the wildest homes I've ever seen: www.trulia.com/home/199-e-l...
A photo looking down from a balcony at the top of a set of stairs. The stairway railing is an elaborate contemporary take on Art Nouveau cues, as is an elaborate tile mosaic floor with flowing branch-like tendrils rendered in tile. Every wall trim detail, light fixture, and piece of door hardware appears custom made for the space in Art Nouveau revival.Inside a dining room, an arched ceiling contains panels of colorful streaked glass in a gold metal lattice. Display cabinets, light fixtures, and a passageway leading to an adjoining room all feature custom Art Nouveau style metalwork.A set of windows under a cove ceiling is accented by sculptural metal elements between each window, and radiators under each windowsill feature elaborate carved contemporary metalwork, as well. Various sculptural objects sit on the windowsills.At the top of a large vaulted space, another arched lattice ceiling sits over top of an installation of three white sculptural figures in dresses on a white wall. A wide, narrow tableau is mounted along an adjacent balcony, with an Art Nouveau revival doorway at one end, light shining through its stained glass.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Cult of personality watch
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is when I started to feel my spirit leave my body.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Get outside! Ride a bike! Glorious day to be a Chicagoan.
The Obama Presidential Center visible from Osaka Garden with a bridge arch in the foreground.
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
What in the actual fuck
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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"GRADE SEPARATION: Berwyn to Downs Grove," the 1948 continuous grade separation program, never built
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m really stating to think that this guy did not deserve the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 03/04/2026
you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:
actual nytimes headline 

FEMA Official Says He Teleported to Waffle House. Experts Are Dubious.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Overheard next to the Chicago water tower from a very earnest ~7 year old: “But did the cow survive!?”
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19/03/2026
Transit ridership in the Paris region is now 5% higher than it was in the pre-Covid period, as car traffic along the Paris ring highway & within the center city is 15 to 20% lower than pre-Covid. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...
Trend in transit ridership, Paris region, 2019–2026Trend in car traffic on the Paris ring highway (in blue) and within the center city (in red), 2020–2026
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Good government" is a limited frame in electoral politics, often used to obscure untidy politicking beneath a technocratic sheen, but Kaegi and his team are close to the platonic ideal of a good government team. They truly want their office to reflect best practices, and they believe in that work.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is insane.
By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Shameless plug - if you want something to do in Chicago this weekend, come hear me sing! Chicago Chorale will be singing “A Peaceable Kingdom” and other masterworks Saturday night in Lincoln Park and Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park. No green beer involved. DM me for a discount code!
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Upcoming Events — Chicago Chorale
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 02/03/2026
new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The cherry on top of this story is “please press uno” - you gotta listen to it
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/02/2026
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
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Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Lovely side effect of taking transit - sometimes you run into friends and get a chance to catch up!
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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Everyone loves a good false spring. Beautiful day to be outside in Chicago!
Lake Michigan horizon photo near sunset Lake Michigan with floating ice in the foreground.
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