trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 15/10/2026Mechanics are an under explored front in the war on cars (The meeple from car park capital (good game!) is only there for alt text reasons) 020 2
Reposted by trinket ✶Dean W. Armstrong @dwarmstr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"downtown is too expensive to park." 152 5
Reposted by trinket ✶Lakeshore Drive Slut @shredded-teat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the median american driver, moments after downloading the beloved Tik Tok app: 0353 35
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 08/10/2026Credit because it's a lot easier to get the bank to investigate fraud when it's their money and not my money. I use cash at the one corner store near me that gives a discount for using cash. 000 0
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 07/10/2026"we have to listen to community concerns" The concerns: 151 5
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 06/10/2026Honestly surprised to learn it has a population that high, it felt like a town a tenth that size 020 2
Reposted by trinket ✶Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you can get doored in it, it's not a protected bike lane. 2212 21
Reposted by trinket ✶lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026THE SECRET IS THAT THE PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CRAVE CAR-FREE SPACES TO SPEND EVEN AN HOUR OF THEIR OTHERWISE COMPLETELY CAR-DOMINATED LIVES 513523 135
Reposted by trinket ✶are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Kam showing his tech lobby’d ass twice with a slop image on a stupid proposal 3195 19
Reposted by trinket ✶kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 04/10/2026Waymo is not a last-mile solution, nor a transit solution. And most certainly should not benefit from any of the transit funding we won in fighting for NITA. It is a car-centric proposal that offers no real systems change, shares all the same geometry, capacity, and environmental ills of cars. 1723748 237
Reposted by trinket ✶are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Divvy should have portable deployable racks for events, the periphery of Apple Fest looks like a bike graveyard 1173 17
Reposted by trinket ✶🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I hate brandon johnson so fucking much, man 1201 20
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026Correction to the alt text: driver proceeded to idle in the parking space for 20 minutes. Gas needs to be more expensive. 010 1
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026Behind me was a surface parking lot with 10+ empty spaces. 130 3
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026I took this photo across the street, while standing in a completely empty parking space 130 3
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026@ilstaterepbuckner.bsky.social however much Google is paying you, it's too little. Chicago already has a last-mile solution in Divvy, and NITA is supposed to build TOD in the burbs. We don't need Waymo. 090 9
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026Buses are difficult because of the heating system & range. 100 1
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026US freight rail carries the most in the world by tonnage because it's unprofitable to truck gravel. US freight rail carries very little when normalized to the value of the freight. 020 2
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026What an ahistorical take. The interstate highway system was a massive public subsidy of the trucking industry that the freight railroads couldn't match, so a lot of goods moved to trucking. If the public subsidy stops, everything goes back to rail. 140 4
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026Or you could opt out of all of that by building housing with no parking, removing street parking, and expanding and improving the transit system, cycling infrastructure, and pedestrian space. 021 2
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 03/10/2026Yep, EVs don't have tailpipe emissions. Now you just have the embodied emissions of car-centric infrastructure, increased wear and tear on roads due to increased weight, the emissions of the electricity generation (including the expansion of green energy), and the unchanged pedestrian fatality rate. 110 1
Reposted by trinket ✶SideStreets @sidestreets.bsky.social · 24/08/2026You love to see it: A courtyard building with a coffee shop on the ground level. 0322 32
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026The second best time, now that we've almost decimated the oil infrastructure required to build car infrastructure (EVs and ICE cars!), is today. 000 0
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026The car ownership rate is a response to the political climate of subsidies for cars, a political climate that is crumbling. The best time to have built transit, cycling and pedestrian oriented housing and infrastructure was not tearing it all down for "urban renewal" 50-100 years ago. 100 1
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Far cheaper to zone and build housing with the requisite amenities close by, and not include the parking or charging infrastructure. Transit & cycling can fill most of the demand for cars, with delivery services filling the demand for items that require a car to transport. 130 3
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Building housing with the assumption that the residents will drive necessitates building parking, which drives up the cost of housing. EVs perpetuate this assumption, and adds the cost of the charging infrastructure, which can be substantial in urban areas where grid upgrades are expensive. 140 4
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Try 63% www.nar.realtor/newsroom/new...nar.realtorNew NAR Survey Finds Americans Value Neighborhood WalkabilityA new survey by the National Association of REALTORS® shows that Americans value walkability, mixed-used neighborhoods and a broad range of housing choices. 030 3
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026@ilsecofstate.bsky.social be like "I'll hire 1,500 more settlement generators and balance the budget and fix the pensions with no property tax increase :)" 121 2
Reposted by trinket ✶lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My broader point with my opposition to Waymos is that even if they are individually "safer than a human driver," they will entrench all negatives of car-prioritized society to a degree that is harder to deal with and causes more harm in the long run vs non-Waymo urbanism. 093 9
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026"Can I get on the subway with this instead of an OMNY card?" Sliwa asked, holding up his 'I got my flu shot' button. "Come on, Mr. Mayor!" The CTA should do this for flu & COVID vaccines, a daily or even weekly pass is a small price to pay for vaccine uptake. 040 4
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Looks like you got a good deal, probably a replica coin: www.etsy.com/listing/1875...etsy.comVintage Spanish Galleon Coin Watch Fob - Replica Atocha Coin Pocket Watch Fob - Vintage Coin Pendant - Vintage Silver Atocha Coin Charm - EtsyThis Pendant Necklaces item by ATaleOfTwoTrinkets has 12 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Pembina, ND. Listed on Jun 28, 2026 110 1
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026If the larger society imposes costs on me as a Chicago taxpayer, I am well within my right to recoup those costs, negative externalities included. Drivers from out of town impose costs and externalities in excess of how much they pay to the city, so an increase in price is natural. 030 3
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026It feels like entitlement to you because I am actually entitled to the land because I live here. 000 0
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Nah, the entitlement is expecting me (as a resident of the place you're driving to) to set aside a portion of the roadway (that I pay for with my taxes) for your private use at whatever rate you think is "fair". Roadways that then cannot be used for better transit infrastructure, bike lanes, etc. 250 5
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 02/10/2026Almost like it's valuable and should be priced higher so supply can reliably meet demand, even at peak utilization. 150 5
Reposted by trinket ✶Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the fact that the civilian who had just been stabbed in the neck by a stranger had more presence of mind about the use of force than the responding police officers is the most shocking of indictment of CPD that I can imagine 1378 37
Reposted by trinket ✶are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Make? No, Small Plans! 0449 44
Reposted by trinket ✶tlc @whinke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026it's so dumb they can build it this fast and we don't have more of them. 2122 12
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 29/09/2026This was my main argument at the community meeting for Redefine the Drive, and I emphatically pushed back on the idea that people driving through Chicago have the right decide the infrastructure of the city. Cities should belong to the people that live there. 010 1
trinket ✶ @wrennifer.on.bike · 29/09/2026Cities rolled over for the introduction of the automobile, enclosing the commons of the street for the exclusive use by cars, even as the roads became the domain of those who live outside the city. So too is housing, and it's nice to see NYC fighting back. 100 1
