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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This event was too fun, let’s do it again soon Philly

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t know why that post attracted so many weirdos, but this reply was also Louvre of LinkedIn-worthy. I’d just submit that, if you’re putting the word “civilized” in scare quotes, it’s time to rethink your entire values system

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Integrating Evolving Technologies into Mobility Solu...
People like you too often make the mistake of assuming the US should emulate some other
"civilized" nation. The US is not like other nations, and it is not like Canada. The US needs its own solutions and it won't emulate those of the other
"civilized" nations.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s all relative. When someone posted this screenshot from my Edmonton video on LinkedIn, the CEO of some parking lobbyist organization ‘splained to me that the reason Edmonton has *checks notes* like 40x the ridership of OKC is because Edmonton is actually a dense metropolis, you see

OKLAHOMA CITY
1,497,821
State of Oklahoma
Has oil rig on grounds of state capitol
749,900
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Capital of
Economic
Indicator
2025 Q1 transit ridership (rail + bus)
EDMONTON
1,418,118
Province of Alberta
Has NHL team
named for the act of petroleum extraction
25,820,500
John Dornoff and 54 others
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This ignores the fact that OKC has a footprint almost twice the size of Edmonton and a population density almost 3 times smaller.
Transportation needs, limitations, and solutions nuanced and vary based on the location.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Gonna be in Vegas the weekend of October 3? Come out to UNLV, I’ll be doing an event with very cool Clark County commission candidate Minja Yan. Minja is amazing, her transit and smart growth vision are such a breath of fresh air in Vegas. See you there! friends.voteminja.com/vegas-2046-a...

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finished up tomorrow night’s slide deck on the train up. (Yes, there will be Bellevue content.) Super looking forward to this, I’m hearing 60-70 seats left, ticketing link in reply!

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The number of sponsors on this one might actually exceed the number of people who show up to the event itself

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Coming to Vegas October 3 to do an event with Clark County Commission candidate Minja Yan. I'm a huge fan of her vision for transit and smart growth in the Vegas Valley (and I think the fandom's mutual?). Free event, but limited space. Early tickets available to patrons and paid newsletter subs!

MINJA
For County Commissioner District F
Vegas: 2046 - An Affordable Future for Clark County
Join Ray Delahanty (aka CityNerd) and Minja Yan, candidate for Clark County Commissioner, District F, for a live conversation about building an affordable, connected, and livable future for Clark County.
The event will be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) main campus and is free and open to the public.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm just now realizing how tough it's going to be to condense all of this down to a 30 minute run-through at Town Hall this coming Tuesday. I got ALL OVER the Seattle area and I have so many thoughts. (Gold star to those of you who can name all four locations here…one’s a free spot)

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At this rate I’ll have 400,000 subscribers in like 33 years. Man I don’t know how you newsletter people do it without an algorithm. (Still pleased, though)

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The dreaded “few tickets left” has now been invoked. You don’t want to miss @typewriteralley.bsky.social ‘s spicy Pike Place takes, trust me

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

FYI yall, three more in-person events on deck for 2026, stay tuned for deets

Tentative schedule through end of 2026
October 3: Las Vegas
October 19: Cleveland
Mid-November:
Raleigh (YIMBYtown)
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tickets for Philly September 28 now available to all at the link right here! Already a lot of tickets gone during presale. Probably a coin flip whether this sells out before Seattle does www.5thsqadvocacy.org/citynerd

CITYNERD LIVE IN PHILLY:
THE CITY'S SCORECARD
A deep discussion on what Philly gets right and wrong in terms of walkability, transit, and affordability with Ray Delahanty
Special Guest
Emcee
Dr. Jay Arzu
Roosevelt Bivd Subway
Corinne Lagermasin!
5th Square Advocacy
Monday, September 28 at 7 PM
Resurrection Philadelphia
128 S 17th St - Philadelphia, PA
S"SQUARE
Progress & Poverty
INSTITUTE

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Eventbrite fire emoji alert. Don’t say you weren’t warned

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The Urbanist X CityNerd
Building A Transit-Oriented Puget Sound
September 15th, @ Town Hall Seattle
Speakers:
Ray Delahanty
Ryan Packer
Pre-reception 5:45 - 6:30pm, General Admission 7 - 8:30pm
• GOING FAST
The Urbanist x CityNerd:
Building A Transit-Oriented
Puget Sound

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New on the website: you ask, I answer, and I take absolutely no responsibility for how many of you are about to get Todd Litman-pilled

Figure 1
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Annual Per Capita
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•Mandated parking
•Traffic services
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90%
• Sidewalks and paths
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$0
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Currently only about 1% of total transportation infrastructure spending is devoted to walking facilities.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Content will be on my second channel, “Pugs of Edina”

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Philly, coming your way September 28. Ticket pre-sale now open on Patreon and for paid newsletter subs

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Got some pub in the APTA newsletter today. I have a lot of thoughts on YouTube’s role in the transit advocacy ecosystem, not to mention urbanism advocacy more broadly. There’s a bit of it in here, but there is SO MUCH to say about it aptapassengertransport.com/four-youtube...

Ray Delahanty had "no idea there were so many people interested in urbanism and transit" until he started a YouTube channel called CityNerd.
But 48 million views and 412,000 subscribers later, he's seen transit's connections to "public health, quality of life, affordability, and climate impact-things that people care deeply about and animate their thinking and politics."

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New installment of Ask a City Nerd: the pitfalls of using median income in affordability analysis, the dark magic of compound interest, who’s in charge of ticket pricing at my speaking events, and more. Link in reply

different geographies, it's fine. But I'm always a little uncomfortable enthroning the median as some sort of normal, relatable state of things when we live in an age of such vast income and wealth inequality. I made this point in my recent video on the homelessness crisis, but it's worth repeating here: the variance in household incomes and the variance in housing costs per square foot, within a given geography, are simply not the same animal. In that video, I used Los Angeles as an example:
Los Angeles Household Incomes
(Area Median Income = $82,263)
27%
0-50% AMI
23%
26%
50-100% AMI
100-200% AMI
Los Angeles Rental Market
(Median per square foot = $3.38/mo)
24%
200%+ AMI
50%
48%
0%
2%
0-50%
50-100%
100-200%
200%+
Still from "Understanding the Homelessness Crisis (with data, of course)"

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So gratifying to hear US mayors articulate this kind of stuff

Another ingredient in the World Cup magic was simple: more people. What if more residents mingled with the visitors?
Supporting local businesses, raising families, working downtown, starting businesses and contributing to our culture and civic life? Let's embrace Seattle as a growing city — and build the abundant housing, safe streets and great public transit that are essential to urban vitality.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is still probably my favorite, I don’t know why

bogota1680 6h
It's he planning to destroy the whole freaking city.
Is he insane?

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Also new on the website: I got ratioed on Threads of all places, and it was Good Actually www.nerd4cities.com/nyc-threads-...

I'm not trying to say people on Threads are inherently stupid. Irony can be hard to pick up on, and it can certainly be hard to execute well. If it's too obvious, then it isn't funny; if it's not obvious enough, people will take you literally and be mad about it. I'm not even immune — for example, I've been looking at this next one for hours and I still don't even know if this person is being earnest or not:

arthurahn 12h
You lost credibility when you said Cheesecake Factory is the best restaurant

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Usually my five most viewed videos in the past week are…whatever the last five videos I released were. This is kind of a weird anomaly

Jul 11-17, 2026
THE VEGAS LOOP JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER •
The Newest Vegas Loop Stations W...
STREET DESIGN AMERICAN STYLE
When Safety Is a Distant Afterthou...
Ten Seriously Undervalued U.S. Citi...
MOST UNDERRATED CITIES
2026
STROADS 4
To Improve a STROAD: How One Ci...
Washington: the Least American A...
D.C. IS...DIFFERENT
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

News! My site/newsletter is now up, already populated with content you didn’t know you needed. First up, installment one of “Ask a City Nerd,” wherein we address the question, “Should I move from Hickory, NC to Rogers Park, Chicago?” www.nerd4cities.com/ask-a-city-n...

Label
Hickory city, North Carolina
Total

Estimate
V Workers 16 years and over
20,242
V MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION TO WORK

> Car, truck, or van
85.4%
Public transportation
0.1%
Walked
0.9%
Bicycle
0.2%
Taxi or ride-hailing services, motorcycle, or other means
0.5%
Worked from home
12.9%
Source: 2024 American Community Survey 5-Year
Subject Table S0801
Chat, is it good if only a tenth of one percent of a city's population takes transit? Anyway,

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So…how often does this happen, Seattle people

! Service Alert
1 Line service is suspended from Northgate Station to Stadium Station until further notice due to power issues. 2 Line trains are suspended between Judkins Park Station and Northgate Station. Updates to follow when available.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Coming soon: the website/newsletter you didn't know you needed (and probably don't)

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This is absolutely shocking to me. My city visit videos are fun to make, but they necessarily have a pretty niche audience. Something about this one is striking a nerve, I’ll have to contemplate why

WHY?
D.C. IS..DIFFERENT
Washington: the Least American Am...
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Great news! This video is appealing to a wider audience than usual.
Ranking by views
Views
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7h ago • Ray, would you consider doing a video on the coolest posters & presentations you run into at TRB...

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Patreon pre-sale now live for September 3 in Austin. Super excited for this one, there is SO much to talk about. www.patreon.com/c/CityNerd

AURA.
an Austin for Everyone
A CONVERSATION WITH CITYNERD AUSTIN CENTRAL LIBRARY
SEP 3 7:00PM
Ray Delahanty is the creator behind CityNerd, a weekly video series that explores urbanism, transportation, and all the things that make cities unique.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For the good of civilization, we need to take all the energy we put into mocking (mostly) harmless dreadlocked Coachella-y white women and pour that energy into dragging this mf instead

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“I feel like” = I’ve applied a grand total of zero critical thinking

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@YIMBYLA..•26m
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I feel like there are unique advantages to having state/local governments of competing political persuasions. Like how Austin (D) is in Texas (R).
But which combo would be better?
Rep State Gov / Dem Local
Dem State Gov / Rep Local
33 votes • 23 hours 33 minutes left
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173
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ill 1.4K
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Threads post promoting this week’s video has like 500 replies now, and most of them are like this. Just so good. Could be time for a response video

chazubell 1d
Only someone who is either unbelievably wealthy and can have someone else chauffeur them in and out of the city or is in the pocket of the automobile industry or has not lived in NYC would say something that amazingly uninformed.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

You guys, Threads is absolutely undefeated. What is anyone even doing on bsky

nerd4cities 4h
The New York City subway is dirty, dangerous relic that's waaayyy past its sell-by date. It's time to shut it down and give New Yorkers a REAL transportation system, with enough roadway capacity so they can drive everywhere
- just like real Americans. An exploration of this alternate reality, coming to YouTube today
NYC WITHOUT SUBWAYS
O102
Q 60
G2
→ 2
massmaker_5.0 2h
As someone claiming to be a city nerd, this is possibly the most uninformed comment about how transportation evolves in cities. This approach was tried under Robert Moses and destroyed the fabric of NY.
If you want Hong Kong transport in NYC, you fix in place, you don't start over.

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Inadvertent argument for why the Dodgers should never have left

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Pretty good start to the day when you wake up to your new video being in the #1 slot (especially when you have to beat out a new Man Carrying Thing)

NYC without subway video number one on Nebula this morning

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Tickets still available for Friday, April 24 at Assembly Hall in NYC. Last year’s event at the same venue sold out at 1,300, and we’re not far away from that last I checked, so you might wanna jump on it if you haven’t yet bit.ly/HC-4-24