Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. Nerd4cities.com | http://linktr.ee/CityNerd

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New on Nebula: Given that high speed rail apparently isn’t an option in the U.S., what’s the best way to travel 150 miles? (And no, I’m not driving this nightmare slog of a trip)

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nebula.tvCityNerd — 150 Miles Optimized: Seattle to Portland (and back)I've taken the Amtrak Cascades between Seattle and Portland hundreds of times, but never made the trip by air. Some people swear by it — but does flying 150 miles make sense?
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dc statehood is non-negotiable after trump's actions in his second term. republicans despise the people of the city that hosts them, and there is little reason to think that, now that the seal is broken on treating them as an occupied population, a next republican president will be more restrained

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Happy Jacques Tati's birthday, a true genius as a filmmaker. (1907-1982).
Need an introduction? Try MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953), and then MON ONCLE (1958), both available on Criterion.
His masterpiece, PLAYTIME (1967), is consistently cited as one of the greatest films ever made.
#filmsky #moviesky

A still frame from PLAYTIME (1967) A man in the foreground wearing a hat, a trench coat and carrying an umbrella, is looking down on a large room filled with office cubicles. Jacque Tati as Mr. Hulot films cinema greatest all time genius
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Worked with City of Vancouver on several projects in the last 12 years or so. Amazing staff who are always out just a bit ahead of a council that itself just keeps trending more and more progressive. (I’m here at the same conference too!) Will have to come up and do a video at some point

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they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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this is so fucking sad

Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book? Follow Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone. My wife: But then it won't be in your voic e. Me:| can train a voice model. Parenting hits different when you workin Al. 8:30 AM .07 Oct 26 . 816K Views Q713 t2 594 542 356
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Someone should start studying the use of AI-generated images for NIMBY causes. It’s honestly fascinating. It also shows most of these folks are clueless- the guy in the green shirt has three arms, for example

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Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

@chefjoseandres X.com © Translated from Spanish by Grok Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias @tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing. Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing. And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction. Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it. Spain needs to build. A lot. More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing. But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens. The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem. You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist. Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment. More supply. More construction. More homes.
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@nerd4cities.bsky.social does amazing stuff and I love this episode’s highlighting of all the progress in the PNW as well as the call out early in episode that NONE OF IT IS AI. Increasingly uk unsubscribing and sharing less, or not at all, lazy content creators hastening our planet demise.

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This one’s coming up in a couple days — still spots available (it’s a pretty big venue!), but not many. To this day I’ve made more content in Vegas than any other city, and I can’t wait to talk about all of it

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