Holy hell, it actually happened: California just eliminated minimum parking requirements for new housing projects within a half mile of public transit stops *statewide*! A truly incredible day for housing and climate policy in the world's 5th largest economy!

Urban transport: sometimes a matter of simple mathematics. (Via @dloisga)

Picking up groceries with an F-150 is like... Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer or Making toast with a flamethrower. 6 out of 10 trips are under 5 miles. Love this ad from the UK.

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. news.mit.edu/2023/roman-con…

Wild what's possible when you redevelop surface parking. (Boston,📷Gale)

New IIHS study finds that trucks & SUVs with hoods > 40 inches tall are 45% more likely to kill pedestrians than cars with low hoods. Vertical/blunt hoods make vehicles even more deadly. Reminder: @NHTSA_gov continues to ignore these risks. iihs.org/news/detail/ve…

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

Cars and trucks have gotten bigger and taller, with deadly consequences for pedestrians. A bill being introduced today in Congress would create federal standards for hood height and visibility.  npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-…

Legalize it.

“People dramatically underestimate the risks of driving and overestimate the risks of crime.” the study’s author, Alan Thein Durning, study author, to LA Times.

How can $2T in cuts be “probably mathematically necessary to make the budget work” when the budget increases the annual deficit by $2.8T? Shouldn’t it be the $4.8T of tax cuts and increased spending that require justification? nytimes.com/interactive/20… Margot Sanger-Katz Alicia Parlapiano

This should absolutely be the norm bristol247.com/news-and-featu…

Donald Trump says he will send the DOJ after the press if they say things he doesn’t like.

A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-t… via Talking Points Memo

Baseball.

Out of nowhere, my Alexa just announced: “Hello! I have some spellbinding news!” followed by a Harry Potter audiobook ad 🪄 As if I needed any more of a push to leave the Amazon ecosystem.

We’re super rich and we are spending our money on all the wrong things.