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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 03/08/2026

had to wake up and bear witness to the carnage wrought by our collective dependency

A Chevy Malibu lodged in the side of a two story home after crashing into it.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 05/07/2026

Mary Waters didn't make the ballot

Screenshot of Michigan 13th District showing a head-to-head matchup between Donavan McKinney and Shri Thanedar.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 21/06/2026

Detroit, as viewed by Journey

a map of metro detroit, but rotated from the traditional orientation with north at the top of the map, such that downriver is at the bottom of the map.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 12/06/2026

Finally bought a front loader. Not sure why I waited so long

A drivers view of a front loader bike with two pizzas inside.

Front view of a front loader bike with various tools inside the basket.

Side view of a front loader bike carrying a bunch of clipped branches.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 07/06/2026

Love to see what infrastructure local drivers have destroyed on a beautiful Sunday morning

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 05/05/2026

either you live in the Ten Thousand Acre Tract or you don't. its that simple

1836 map depicting Detroit and the "10000 Acre Tract" located in the middle of the city

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 18/04/2026

So terrifying! A 3 minute ride from my safe low crime neighborhood! This man walking wished me a good day, I almost had to pull out my vast collection of knives. That’s just EDC life though

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 27/02/2026

there are some morning Greyhound bus options that will take you to Detroit, so you can sort of make your own connection. But it’s a bit inconvenient compared to the previous option, and not sure what it looks like for other bus destinations that aren’t Detroit (AA, EL)

Greyhound search for buses from Toledo to Detroit showing buses leaving at 7:55a, 8:45a, and 9:45a.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 27/02/2026

Amtrak now only sells the return with a Wolverine connection in Chicago, taking 12 hours you didn’t have spend heading all the way west previously. There’s also a bonkers 37 hour option with a 22 hour!! layover in Toledo, to the 6:30a connecting bus you used to be able to take before.

Amtrak booking screen for a typical trip from Washington DC to Detroit, showing two trips taking 26 and 37 hours respectively.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 26/01/2026

Loving these LED tactile crosswalk pads in Melbourne

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 12/01/2026

update: we're about to "look good" in (a fork of) Rack Finder

screenshot of Rack Finder, showing downtown Detroit and Windsor on a map. bike parking locations are shown as clusters with summed capacity numbers as labels.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 11/01/2026

detroit also "looks bad" in Rack Finder because windsor mappers are creating a node for each individual rack, whereas we're using the `capacity` tag, and Rack Finder is clustering the individual points without considering the `capacity` of each OSM node

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 29/12/2025

Spotted a Waymo putting in the “inclement weather” work

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 13/12/2025

nice overhead shot of someone parking in the bike lane

an overhead shot of Grand River Avenue on the west side of Detroit, showing someone who's too lazy to park correctly and decided to store their car in the bike lane.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 03/11/2025

nice -- looks like you can now pay for DDOT/SMART bus tickets directly in @transit.app instead of having to bounce over to the token transit app

screenshot of Transit App showing the "Buy ticket" option where you can purchase a DDOT or SMART bus pass.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 15/10/2025

putting the #1 ranked transit-accessible block in Metro Detroit on the IR list. get well soon

a view of the west side of the Woodward Avenue sidewalk in Grand Circus Park, looking south, standing just in front of the Hazen Pingree statue. The sidewalk has been removed up to the edge of the park grass, leaving dirt, lightpoles and power boxes behind.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 12/09/2025

my main problem with the "looks cool" criteria is that it's led us to installing "racks" like these.

bike "racks" that can only accomodate one bicycle.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 09/09/2025

the bizarrely nonstandard bike racks will continue to be installed until morale improves?

a weird loopy red bike rack that really should have just been a few normal U/staple racks

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 09/09/2025

the article links to the source of the fatality rate data. Detroit at 20.69 per 100K behind Tucson and Memphis.

Table of total and cyclist fatalities for cities with >500K population

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 07/08/2025

2025 crossings of passenger vehicles in Detroit were outpacing 2024 crossings, but then took a permanent-seeming hit in January/February.

graph of passenger vehicle arrivals at the Detroit port of entry, showing 2025 arrivals running about 10% below 2024 arrivals since February.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 23/07/2025

DTE bill this month (first full billing cycle w/ solar) went slightly negative on electricity.. consumed $48.47 of electricity (w/ fees etc) but sold back $49.99 leaving me with a small future credit. then $10.37 of gas fees + insight bridge fee leaves me at $11.06 for the month.

screenshot of my DTE bill, showing $10.37 in gas charges, $48.47 in electric charges, and -$49.99 in electric credits.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 11/06/2025

Yesterday's stats. I love the sun.

my solar install's stats for June 10, 2025, showing that our house produced 218% of what we consumed and that we exported more back to the grid than what we consumed

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 09/06/2025

solar install is finally fully operational and today is the first day we are a net exporter of energy

Screenshot of Enphase solar power system app, showing that my house has exported more power to DTE than we have imported

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 21/05/2025

basically. there was an alley laid out there, but it was vacated... i assume this happened long ago

linen map showing the first block of Boston Blvd west of Woodward with vacated alley

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 11/05/2025

amtrak posted this service advisory, a week after it went into effect 🙃 -- better late than never, i guess

Amtrak service advisory for the Wolverine; train 350/353 are suspended Mondays thru Thursdays, from May 5-June 26 and Aug 4-Oct 30. Exceptions to this are on holidays: Memorial Day, Juneteenth, and Labor Day, when they will run.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 22/04/2025

tfw i start perusing the "Michigan Healthy Climate Conference" agenda, and looking at some of the presenters' backgrounds and organizations

meme of the newscaster looking down at the desk like.. what the actual fuck is happening here

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/04/2025

sadly, it's not easily purchasable -- someone is squatting on it and would presumably want a bunch of money. but that was certainly my first thought lol

domain search for "dugganforgovernor.com" showing that it's taken

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 19/04/2025

watching the carol cain breakfast club with mike duggan and he tells people to go to "dugganforgovernor.com"...

screenshot of dugganforgovernor.com, which is being domain-squatted and is for sale.

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 15/04/2025

if the @cityofdetroit.bsky.social police department is going to harass cyclists who are not riding in the bike lane, perhaps they could avoid parking there. just a thought!

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Jimmy McBroom @jmcbroom.det.city · 04/04/2025