Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 26/05/2026Costco makes up for its super low margins on products by selling memberships. With stagnant population and housing growth, membership growth also flattened. The seeds of the midtown Costco’s demise were sewn when elected officials downzoned midtown. 3103
Reposted by Josh BoehmSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer. 157192464123
Reposted by Josh BoehmStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/03/2026In addition to building up, we also need to build down. Thru-running regional rail could transform all of northeastern Illinois, especially on Chicago’s South Side and working-class communities throughout Cook County. It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel. 🔗 buildthetunnelchicago.org 3307
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 10/03/2026I never knew the signage was oriented to stuff I could actually see 060
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 09/03/2026@staubio.com I’ve never seen any of the old foundations on the riverfront until the overgrowth clearing project made it possible. Amazing work! 1121
Reposted by Josh BoehmPeter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025If Rochester can do it, your city can too. 1128855
Reposted by Josh BoehmNorth Loop Neighbors @northloopneighbors.com · 02/03/2026North Loop mentioned! 1634
Reposted by Josh BoehmKansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · 20/02/2026We support #KCMO Ordinance 260219, an effort to remove parking minimums in some of the denser parts of the city. Check out our letter of support and submit testimony to the city clerk before the Neighborhood Planning and Development committee meeting on Tuesday, 2/24! 0102
Reposted by Josh BoehmEric Goldwyn @egoldwyn.bsky.social · 30/01/202641 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...nytimes.comFree Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead? 1216342
Reposted by Josh Boehmjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025she's just doing what she was hired to do 715940830
Reposted by Josh BoehmMichael Kelley says Vote NO on Amendment 3 @mckelleykc.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Hey Kansas City friends: if you've used bike share this year, please take a few minutes to complete (and share) their annual survey: #bikeshare #KC #bikethere bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...bikesharekc.comBig news for bike share! (+ don't forget to take the survey)New name, new hubs, new app en español, new survey, and hibernation season 056
Reposted by Josh Boehmjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/11/2025this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics 2088593917
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 19/11/2025It’s really not that simple yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/do-a...yaleclimateconnections.orgDo Americans really want urban sprawl? » Yale Climate ConnectionsAlthough car-dependent suburbs continue to spread across the nation, they’re not as popular as you might assume. 050
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 19/11/2025It’s hard to look at the vast scheme of subsidy and regulation that produced suburbia over the past 100 years and conclude that it’s all just revealed preference. 010
Reposted by Josh BoehmSan Diego Bikeist @sdbikeist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Highways/Freeways are good for connecting far flung places to each other. Running them through cities/neighborhoods was one of the worst ideas of the 20th century - 0254
Reposted by Josh BoehmYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 31/10/2025Good morning! Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources. The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies. 649499
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 29/10/2025We tried! Business concerns won over the needs of transit users. The exclusive lanes were also a last minute addition. 061
Reposted by Josh BoehmHunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 16/10/2025There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.) 8356121664
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025Nonconforming residential lot sizes are also shown in teal (this has been remedied somewhat through an infill ordinance, but is a good indication of areas that have been downzoned over time) 000
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025Kind of wild how much of the expanded streetcar transportation development district (taxing district for KC’s new streetcar) doesn’t allow for apartments, or in some cases, even duplexes. 180
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025I’m pretty sure they will have striping to indicate bike vs pedestrian traffic! 110
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 13/10/2025Girders for the new Grand Boulevard pedestrian bridge are nearly all set! 2160
Reposted by Josh Boehmjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...apnews.comStarving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across MyanmarU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. 277142425126
Reposted by Josh BoehmNRDC @nrdc.org · 04/10/2025More than a third of Americans don’t have reliable car access to get to work, school, or the grocery store. Our new transportation map can help policymakers better understand their communities and build a system that will benefit everyone. nrdc.orgWho Doesn’t Have a Car?A new NRDC map shows car-free living and the factors affecting car usage in United States. 33917
Reposted by Josh BoehmKCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 02/10/2025Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance Vice Chair Michael Kelley says the poll shows that people across the metro will support public transit if their local governments invest in it, especially at a time when the state and federal governments are pulling back transit funding.kcur.orgVoters across the Kansas City metro support a sales tax for better bus service, new poll findsA new poll from the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance found that voters in four counties across the metro would support a regional sales tax dedicated to bus service, even as soon as next year. 0115
Reposted by Josh BoehmKansas City Regional Transit Alliance @kcrta.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4: 188
Reposted by Josh BoehmSam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions 948379
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 29/09/2025We proposed something like this for the Reimagine Rainbow plan publicinput.com/Customer/Fil... 120
Reposted by Josh BoehmNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein 12078671408
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 21/09/2025The KC Riverfront is (finally) getting some promising urbanism! 060
Reposted by Josh BoehmWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/09/2025It took, what, eight days? For the pretense that MAGA cares about Charlie Kirk to totally collapse, and for Trump’s megalomania to take center stage again. No matter what they say or do they only ever care about one thing: making us worship Great Leader alongside them 1230235
Reposted by Josh BoehmSam @samd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won! 59487431535
Reposted by Josh BoehmMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Remarkable how centrist pundits like Noah Smith are still prattling on about "cancel culture" and "Bluesky-ization" while people are getting fired for insufficient mourning of a bigoted liar who constantly directed hatred towards the majority of Americans. 432241519
Reposted by Josh BoehmElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comCharlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No MourningThe white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division 37681822345
Reposted by Josh BoehmLiberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13/09/2025“Kirk was not an example of healthy political discourse, and we should not pretend otherwise just because he was the victim of what appears to be more senseless political violence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-vict...liberalcurrents.comNot All Victims Should Be MartyrsCharlie Kirk believed in advancing right-wing political goals and attacking left-wing opponents by any and all means necessary—including political violence. 925752
Reposted by Josh BoehmDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal 551286318
Reposted by Josh Boehmjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2025ah yes, politics, that realm of human affairs where drama and emotional catharsis are to be avoided 773446377
Reposted by Josh BoehmWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news? 292053615
Reposted by Josh BoehmDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/09/2025A simple way to improve American downtowns: Make one-way arterials bidirectional. Doing so will improve safety, boost retail sales, and attract pedestrians. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵bloomberg.comOne-Way Streets Are the Wrong Way to Tame Downtown TrafficIn the 1950s, US traffic planners thought unidirectional arterials were better for moving cars through urban areas. Now many cities are having second thoughts. 1315641
Reposted by Josh BoehmSpreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 01/09/2025“Blueskyism” Rent free lmao 4774139335
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 25/08/2025Glad the city is considering additional standards for parking lot owners in certain districts. IMO they should also amend downtown zoning district use tables to prohibit non-accessory surface parking. 030
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 25/08/2025The owners of The Grand continue to blame crime on the presence of bus stop, including in their latest appeal to the PIEA last week. More obvious to me is the unsecured surface parking, concentration of 3AM bars, and c-store selling single serving liquor. 170
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 20/08/2025One day I hope I’m lucky enough to have a home with zero pools and a baby that can grow up in a world free from the threats of chiropractors and DJT 050
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 19/08/2025These digital advertising kiosks have been a huge eyesore downtown for the last 10 years. IMO digital should be kept out of the public realm. It falls apart too easily and won’t be lucrative or well maintained in low pedestrian footfall markets like KC. 280
Josh Boehm @joshboehm.xyz · 15/08/2025These are the owners of the new downtown drive thru coffee shop approved the the Kansas City Board of Zoning Adjustment 020