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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇

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Lefty #YIMBY & board member @AbundantHomesMA. Both enthralled by & disdainful of pop culture. @TransitMatters ED & 🚋 geek. Rooting for (almost) everybody black

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Nik DeCosta-Klipa @nikdecostaklipa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
many people pointing out it would take billions of dollars to dig a fully new, five-mile Orange Line tunnel — but what about the costs of realigning the Green Line's E branch, connecting the Mattapan trolley to South Station and relocating Aquarium to a new Harbor Island?
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Which cities have embraced them in your view?
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I mean not paying the correct tax rate, not being subject to the medallion system, not running background checks, and etc sure would allow you to innovate and underbid the competition. I'm not a Luddite and ofc competition is good, but fair competition is the key.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Land being finite is a silly cop out- we have elevators. Many of these places have high unemployment! Let's get people in the workforce. Plus hotel money and condo/apt money are two different buckets. Sentiment is fine, solutions are better.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
that's fine. But not building hotels hasn't outsmarted visitors to Barcelona was my point. I think tourist fees are fine. They seem to be working well in Venice.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Also, it's a decision about whether to accomodate tourists vs. not. Too many people think they can outsmart markets!
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Ideally, you have a well functioning transit system and a well regulated & fair taxi system that Uber can be a part of, as well as a robust hotel sector, buttressed by short term rentals comprised of excess housing supply and people making some extra cash on their homes.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is just a sponsorship though, right? I'm have a nuanced view on both. Both came into existence by flouting the rules (some good, some bad) & in the case of Uber, are in competition with public services. They also use their considerable $ to lobby against prog causes. I favor the city here.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Yeah. I agree. These days I only do an Airbnb with a group.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It can make that choice, but that's a lot of jobs. And while there are extreme cases like Venice or niche concerns like your fav ☕️ shop being taken over by 💻, most anti-tourism sentiments are down stream of housing shortages (and hotel shortages).
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Right. The list of people who hate Airbnbs and also don't want hotels in neighborhoods is more of an eclipse than a Venn diagram
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I hate the anti-hotel sentiment. Young peopyin big cities either rent a room or only have a studio or 1 bed. It makes it hard for family to visit.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Also, it's not what the riders are asking for...
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Yeah. It's not a policy that gets people out of their cars. That where progressive/moderate pro-transit urbanists have a problem with it. Every dollar spent on fare relief is one NOT spent on service.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I don't think it's quite that simple. None of those places have particularly good bus service. The mode share is pretty low. And I think you mean the suburbs. DC Metro ended their free bus experiment last year.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Well, and I think in a housing crisis, and to maximize open space we need to give up this idea of a step down. This is spitting distance from downtown in a subway. Why aren’t all of the buildings at the FAA limit so that it can open up more space for culture, resiliency, and recreation?
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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Electrification is bearing fruit in California - the electrification of Caltrain service has resulted in 50% increase in weekday ridership and doubling weekend. The report shows the complementary benefits of level boarding which will make service faster and more reliable.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@fortpointer.bsky.social thought you might find this development interesting. 31% housing by m2, 11 acres of park land, iconic bridges and amphitheater, and a flexible cultural venue.
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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
MARTA recently used a parking deck (on a car-sewer road) as its cover photo on Facebook. It's disappointing, but not surprising. Too many people in Atlanta's leadership have a windshield perspective on the city, viewing even transit through a skewed, car-oriented lens. Act like it's a city, y'all.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
But I am, we told you so.
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Andrew Lynch | vanshnookenraggen @vanshnookenraggen.com · 03/04/2025
“I’d like to give the MTA credit for pushing forward on a cleaner, modern map,” Vanmaps designer (and transit map aficionado) Andrew Lynch told The Groove. “The MTA gets a lot of flack for everything they do, so it’s important to credit a win.”
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Some voters” believe literally every possible conspiracy that supports their worldview you cannot act based on the ludicrous beliefs of ‘some voters’
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Kevin Slane @kslane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
1975: Vanity Fair writer making $175k spends 8 weeks with unfettered access to a celebrity for a profile piece 2025: A 10-minute Zoom call with Kenan Thompson contingent on explicit mention of his pharmaceutical sponsor in the first 50 words ew.com/kenan-thomps...
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Waiting for MBTA to start implementing night owl service like…. 24-hour service on the Silver Line 1 (SL1) to Logan Airport when?! 🚌
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a cartoon of a pikachu sitting at a table with a cup of coffee
ALT: a cartoon of a pikachu sitting at a table with a cup of coffee
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Ooh @capmetroatx.bsky.social is proposing to extend their Route 483 night owl service to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in August! 🦉✈️ capmetro.org/servicechange
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Go Cory! Still going after 13 hours! Looking quite tired but he's still going!
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amb @amb.fyi · 28/03/2025
very excited for the communities over highways summit next month
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
On August 15, 1974, Seoul opened South Korea’s first subway line. But its opening was chaotic and funereal, and even briefly canceled. What happened? I explore how events from that day would not only reshape Seoul Metro, but Seoul and South Korea itself forever www.substack-bahn.net/p/one-bullet...
The ribbon-cutting ceremony of Seoul’s Line 1 on August 15,1974. On the far right is Seoul Mayor Yang Taek-sik.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 31/03/2025
The American Planning Association session on “Saying No to NIMBY” is PACKED, with dozens of people sitting on the floor.
An extremely packed conference room.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
American planning in a nutshell. Shove all the housing next to the interstate and taper away from it with low density housing. Is Paris designed like that? New York? London? Tokyo? I thought zoning gave planners the ability to keep housing from noxious noise and pollution?
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Yes, but isn't the claim that his presidency ran into administrative hurdles in the states and even in executive agencies?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 18/03/2025
Here’s a graphic I found that show this, it’s quite interesting www.reddit.com/r/Urbanism/s...
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My God, that's a bad take from her.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Berlin is tiny compared to Toronto. And it's for local trips. It supplements a subway system that's probably too large for the city.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
No! Upzoning raises property values. And the voters abandoning the Democratic party are renter or have lost the lottery (and legacy of racism and) of home value appreciate.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"The next two years for Democrats should be about costs, specifically for housing and health care. Who is raising those costs, and who has plans to lower them?" Some of us have been on this beat for a long time, but it's nice to see it hitting the mainstream... www.nj.com/opinion/2025...
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Hey, Dems, my generation is struggling. ‘It’s unaffordable, stupid!’ | Opinion
For Democrats, the objective is simple: Fight to lower the cost of living
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Unfortunately, that's the one thing both the left and the right agree on: our neighborhoods are already too full as evidence by the lack of parking and traffic jams
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Not new! In The Political Beliefs of Americans (1967) Cantril & Free found that Americans were "ideological conservatives" opposed to abstract "big government", but "operational liberals" for lots of specific spending. It doesn't help that they have no clue re distribution of spending.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The foolish belief there is a single elected/ prominent Republican who is not brainwashed or scared shitless by Trump.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Confusing traditional cultural touchpoints for current median American culture is a great way to lose the zeitgeist. Every medium size town in this country is obsessed with bubble tea, or with thrifting as a fashion practice. These things aren't left-coded; they're burgeoning mass culture. Go there.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Ruben Gallego won by ***checks notes*** bringing breakfast tacos to construction sites. These people have their heads so far up their asses they couldn't possibly know what the median voter thinks.
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Jarred J. 🕳️🚰🟥🌇 @jarjoh.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Limited growth has its consequences.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 01/03/2025
A fundamental problem is the Democrats are utterly committed to the fallacy that public opinion polls are politics. This has destroyed their ability to actually do politics. 1/
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Andrew Cuomo teamed up with RFK Jr. to shut down a safe nuclear plant, which was almost entirely replaced by fossil fuels. his policies are genuinely awful
Graph showing natural gas replacing nuclear in NY
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