One of those women, Adorno said, is “paralyzed and using a wheelchair.”
Reminder that ICE’s excuse for their behavior is that they are keeping the “dangerous criminals” off our streets by, apparently, replacing women in wheelchairs with armed thugs who are whisked out of state to avoid legal consequences if they murder you in broad daylight
I maintain that the correlation between those two factors is not nearly as strong as people make it out to be when trying to explain away the violence that American sunbelt cities impose on their residents. -20 vs 80 is an extreme example (Minneapolis probably has as many of those days as Memphis has days above 100, which surely has its own negative impacts on the appeal of active transportation), but yes I suspect that you could find more people walking about in below freezing temperatures in a city that is built with pedestrians and their safety in mind than you will find out and about in balmy temperature in a city that is built to put the car above all other forms of transportation. I don’t even think it’s particularly counterintuitive if you think about it for a bit. Think about a snowy Christmas market, and then think about a 4’ wide, unevenly paved sidewalk flanked by a steep ditch on the side of a 6 lane highway in the most beautiful weather you can imagine. Which of those scenes would you be more surprised to see someone walking through?
Trusting trillion dollar companies because they are within your jurisdiction is how the US became the US. A trillion dollar company cannot be legally controlled because it will buy out any controls you attempt to place on it. The only solution is to break the company up into entities of a size that is capable of existing within the law without becoming the law
Well, that and the fact that this website is largely dominated by US, Anglo sphere, and Western countries, which generally have a higher degree of direct complicity in the Palestinian genocide than in the Sahel
In 2019, Minneapolis reported 16% of all trips into or out of the city were made on foot. In the same year, the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization reported 1.02% of commutes were done either walking or biking in Shelby County (the county containing Memphis). Commutes vs. all trips and 150 km2 city vs 2000km2 county, so it’s not a perfect comparison by any means, but I don’t think that data is indicative of a massive bias towards pedestrian activity in Memphis vs Minneapolis. Weather is not a strong indicator for pedestrian activity, infrastructure is. But infrastructure has a correlation with safety, so we don’t see high pedestrian modal share cities like New York, Chicago, or Boston on this list, but it has nothing to do with how cold their winters are
It’s hard to call the design intent a risk
Wow, the Vikings really lost their touch after going Christian, huh?
Let he who hasn’t partied with Jeffrey Epstein throw the first stone
After 16 times specifically in a school zone in a 12 month period? Surely this is so watered down it affects nobod-
Streetsblog reported that Staten Island cop James Giovansanti notched 547 speed-camera and red-light violations since 2022
Insanity
The gas tax also only covers about half of road expenditures generally. The myth that the gas tax funds roads is a convenient lie to get people to believe they are acting independently when every commute they take in their lifted Ford F8500 Eagle edition is in fact reliant on state welfare
Me 5 years ago: the mad max aesthetic is cool and all, but the relentless need for practicality in war equipment would prevent any group from evolving all these extraneous metal cages and spikes onto everything they use, so it’s a tad unrealistic
Reality:
It was in his recent interview with Pod Save America
All three state supported VA rail routes are on this map, along with the Cardinal, the Crescent, and the I-95 Amtrak routes. The S-Line isn’t, but it also doesn’t exist yet. Same with the Commonwealth Corridor. VRE shares tracks with Amtrak, so it is there, but does not have any visible effect on this map.
It’s not just Amtrak, you can see Metra, LIRR, Metro North, and MBTA routes on the map around their respective cities. And I’m not convinced there are hundreds of regional rail services in America, maybe if you count heritage railroads, but even then I think you won’t be getting too far above 100 and those don’t actually take people from point A to point B generally, so it’s arguable that they count as passenger rail service
Not that old. Between when Katrina wiped out the New Orleans-Jacksonville route in 2005 and when they partially restored the route in 2025. The only missing line I see is the Atlantic City line, which was out of service for about a week after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and about 8 months for signal modernization work in 2018-2019, so it is probably an accurate map of the available services in late 2018. It’s worth noting that most of the lines on the map have one train per day per direction or fewer also, so if anything this map undersells the difference between US rail service and European rail service
Looks kind of like one of the slices of meat that comes in the Aldi brand Gyro sandwich kit, but less appealing 
Is this data in the room with us?
Lebanese German Bosnian Turkish Qatari
A lot less on a per capita served basis than it would take to drive all those people that are served by the truck to the place where the food comes from and back again
They’ve been caught before, which would make getting caught a second time even more embarrassing