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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sorry man, that’s terrible. Best wishes for a quick recovery and no lasting trouble.

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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

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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

Also 5 years of time to conclude we should try a pilot.

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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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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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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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🕸️c r e e p🕷️chokeneck😵 @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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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Don't worry, I'm sure he'll abide by the judge's stern warning not to drink "too much". what a farce

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Agreed. This is one of my concerns with the office to residential conversions downtown (especially when subsidized) - I would rather those be cheap offices that attract job re-centralization than target huge public investments to make them into subpar housing.

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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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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ow! Tubing is fun but more so when you are in a smaller tube lol

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Budget season is going to be…something.

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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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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Every paragraph is yet more a parody of itself. Insane.

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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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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

save a life, toll a car

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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 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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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Chicago: Pedestrianize the diagonals

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19/06/2026

Happy Juneteenth, may we all be liberated

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

D. My current building has actually never lost power to my recollection.

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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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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The winters are in fact worth it.

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

(If said coworker is indicative of the trip lol)

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

And should you bring more legislators to experience the glory of the VERKEHRSVERBUND

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The recent Hyde Park hotels are a great addition to the neighborhood

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

And thus it forever shall be, amen.

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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...