@benpassino.bsky.social
Nashville urbanist studying at UCLA | Missing Middle | Shoupisto
Best of '25: Casablanca | Dinner with Andre | Lunchbox | F1 | Wallis Island | Somewhere
Best of '25: Casablanca | Dinner with Andre | Lunchbox | F1 | Wallis Island | Somewhere
Let's get it done Nashville
LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Let's get it done Nashville
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Something very cool just happened to #Montreal.
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
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Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Something very cool just happened to #Montreal.
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Last week I got to ride on the REM line, now fully open from Brossard to Deux-Montagnes.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
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The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The entire practice of sprinkling two-way stops into a network of four-way stops is based on a traffic engineer myth that drivers experience so-called "stop sign fatigue," and that reducing the number of stop signs increases compliance.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Gas cars have already peaked. Here’s how EVs are unseating them around the world.
Chart: EVs are ascendant — and gas cars are past their prime
Sales of gas-only vehicles are down by 31% from their peak, while electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly worldwide, largely due to China.
www.canarymedia.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Gas cars have already peaked. Here’s how EVs are unseating them around the world.
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Scoring the 15-minute city strategy in urban planning
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A new study by Filipino researchers introduced innovations in indexing the application of the 15-minute city concept in Pasig City
By Carla Mortel Baricaua
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Published Nov 14, 2025
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mb.com.ph/2025/11/14/s...
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A new study by Filipino researchers introduced innovations in indexing the application of the 15-minute city concept in Pasig City
By Carla Mortel Baricaua
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Published Nov 14, 2025
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mb.com.ph/2025/11/14/s...
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Scoring the 15-minute city strategy in urban planning
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A new study by Filipino researchers introduced innovations in indexing the application of the 15-minute city concept in Pasig City
By Carla Mortel Baricaua
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Published Nov 14, 2025
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mb.com.ph/2025/11/14/s...
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A new study by Filipino researchers introduced innovations in indexing the application of the 15-minute city concept in Pasig City
By Carla Mortel Baricaua
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Published Nov 14, 2025
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mb.com.ph/2025/11/14/s...
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WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
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Two easy ways that anyone can help the success of our transit initiative (CHYM):
1. Spend as much of your $ in Davidson county
2. Try to ride the bus a couple of extra times per quarter
Both of these are going to show up as numbers on a paper that will help show early success beyond projections
1. Spend as much of your $ in Davidson county
2. Try to ride the bus a couple of extra times per quarter
Both of these are going to show up as numbers on a paper that will help show early success beyond projections
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Two easy ways that anyone can help the success of our transit initiative (CHYM):
1. Spend as much of your $ in Davidson county
2. Try to ride the bus a couple of extra times per quarter
Both of these are going to show up as numbers on a paper that will help show early success beyond projections
1. Spend as much of your $ in Davidson county
2. Try to ride the bus a couple of extra times per quarter
Both of these are going to show up as numbers on a paper that will help show early success beyond projections
Trump: We and [Mamdani] would like to see housing prices down, ideally by building a lot of additional housing.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump: We and [Mamdani] would like to see housing prices down, ideally by building a lot of additional housing.
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Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
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so at tonight's single stair and code talk, @stephenjacobsmith.com brought the good stuff. people were floored.
'architects don't design buildings, codes do'
'architects don't design buildings, codes do'
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
so at tonight's single stair and code talk, @stephenjacobsmith.com brought the good stuff. people were floored.
'architects don't design buildings, codes do'
'architects don't design buildings, codes do'
El Grande is... fantastic!
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
El Grande is... fantastic!
It doesn't take much.
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
It doesn't take much.
Gave this book away last Christmas looking forward to picking it back up :)
All print books are 50% off at Island Press, including my book Human Transit, the book that welcomes everyone into clear thinking about public transit! Stock up for the holidays! Print edition only (because giving ebooks is no fun)! islandpress.org/books/human-...
Human Transit, Revised Edition
islandpress.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Gave this book away last Christmas looking forward to picking it back up :)
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TENTATIVELY GREAT NEWS: I have a "tentative commitment" from Councilmember Kettle's office to fund the improved McClure School Street from his Levy District Fund. We're meeting with key stakeholders on Friday.
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
TENTATIVELY GREAT NEWS: I have a "tentative commitment" from Councilmember Kettle's office to fund the improved McClure School Street from his Levy District Fund. We're meeting with key stakeholders on Friday.
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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You may have gotten paid today.
Here's a good cause to support ⬇️
Building benches so people can sit down at bus stops
Here's a good cause to support ⬇️
Building benches so people can sit down at bus stops
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
You may have gotten paid today.
Here's a good cause to support ⬇️
Building benches so people can sit down at bus stops
Here's a good cause to support ⬇️
Building benches so people can sit down at bus stops
11.7.25 Magic Pauper Top 4 at Geeky Teas and Games
005 Spy
Mardu synth
Goblins
Blue terror
@fireshoes.bsky.social
005 Spy
Mardu synth
Goblins
Blue terror
@fireshoes.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 AM
11.7.25 Magic Pauper Top 4 at Geeky Teas and Games
005 Spy
Mardu synth
Goblins
Blue terror
@fireshoes.bsky.social
005 Spy
Mardu synth
Goblins
Blue terror
@fireshoes.bsky.social
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Live now: @stephkestelman.bsky.social @arnoldventures.bsky.social discusses her research examining how the Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) Incentive Program in Los Angeles has affected the quantity, type, and timing of new housing since its adoption in 2017.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/tra...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/tra...
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Live now: @stephkestelman.bsky.social @arnoldventures.bsky.social discusses her research examining how the Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) Incentive Program in Los Angeles has affected the quantity, type, and timing of new housing since its adoption in 2017.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/tra...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/tra...
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At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
At Terner Fall Colloquium, Buffy Wicks signals that the next big reform for the state legislature is going to condo liability reform and ownership housing units
Netherlands want to build a mixed use house with local businesses from the Netherlands in one year:
Hospitality houses started in Brazil with the Netherlands- the Heineken house
-keeping the house after the Olympics
Hospitality houses started in Brazil with the Netherlands- the Heineken house
-keeping the house after the Olympics
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Netherlands want to build a mixed use house with local businesses from the Netherlands in one year:
Hospitality houses started in Brazil with the Netherlands- the Heineken house
-keeping the house after the Olympics
Hospitality houses started in Brazil with the Netherlands- the Heineken house
-keeping the house after the Olympics
At the Culver City state of the city.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
At the Culver City state of the city.
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It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.