Steven Lucy @slucy Twitter profile

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

My partner is sending me slides from orientation at her new job and it's all like - No more than 80 hours per week! - 4 days guaranteed off per month! - Shifts are capped at 28 hours!

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6 months

My partner yesterday: “Do we have to drive to the eclipse? What if it’s cloudy? We’ll see a 90% eclipse here in Chicago!” My partner 30 seconds after totality ended: “Let’s go to all of them.”

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3 months

(Those are real examples, btw, not exaggerated.)

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@slucy

3 months

To everyone asking: she's a doctor.

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@slucy

3 years

The high speed railway between Madrid and Barcelona was built from scratch in for $11b and offers hourly service which takes 2h30m. The one between SF and LA in California -- same distance -- is currently at $105b and counting.

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@slucy

6 months

My new quick criterion for "real city" is "you don't even think twice about someone wearing a suit waiting at a bus stop".

Mike Dizzll

@MikeDizzll

6 months

Just saw a man wearing a whole suit. Nice watch, hair, shoes, looked sharp. I would guess he’s an executive or a business owner. Except he was standing at a bus stop. I realized he’s prob got a job interview. So I stopped and asked him if he wanted a ride. He said “Nope, my

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

29 days

Look at that acceleration! A whole train disappears in like 12s.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

People forget that plane tickets used to be like this till the Feds regulated it, so now the price you see on the search screen is the price that hits your card.

Brooke Bikes MKE

@brookebikesmke

8 months

Just tell me the ticket price upfront, FFS, this is insane.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

6 months

This is the traffic policeman at most American intersections. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.

Ingrid Jacques

@Ingrid_Jacques

6 months

This is the McDonald’s at the Minneapolis airport. This is what happens when the min wage is too high. Liberals think they are helping people, but they’re not.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

Midwestern guys will be like “I know a lake” and then take you to a lake the size of Austria with 200 foot cliffs.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

Writing tickets is probably fine, but an easy way to get everyone to stop smoking on the train would be an extremely loud and very sensitive smoke alarm.

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

8 months

CTA smoking tickets have spiked as police crack down on puffing passengers.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

Like a true American, I just assumed tornadoes didn't happen in other countries.

Scott Duncan

@ScottDuncanWX

1 year

Tornado causing damage this morning just east of Milan city centre in Northern Italy 🇮🇹 Day turned into night as this storm rolled through, the streetlights even came on.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@bast1240 A lot of fire houses.

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@slucy

7 months

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

Every road death is tragic. But it makes you think that in a city of 9million, London, there are 7 cycling fatalities compared to the Netherlands, a country of 18m where there were 291 cycling fatalities in 2022! And they want us to Go Dutch!

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

6 months

In America we are still fighting for the "before" in this "before and after"

Emmanuel

@EmmanuelSPV

6 months

Avant / Après la rue aux écoles Rue de la Parcheminerie dans le 5ème arrondissement de Paris

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 month

Cars stole your sidewalks, yards, and trees

Penrod Sent

@posts_cards

1 month

the widening of ashland really fucked shit up

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@slucy

1 year

@BudrykZack @Union_Tpke "dog died after struck by bullet in officer involved incident"

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

5 months

Good morning! Heading from Merida to the Cancun airport today on the brand new Tren Maya. 🧵>>

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

Ok, so apparently Berlin wants to demolish its world-famous night club district to build a 6-lane freeway into the city center??? Why???? I don't even go clubbing and I really hope this doesn't happen.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

It really is wild we plowed an 8-lane freeway through our best park.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 years

Just when you're getting super cynical about city government, it all comes together in less than 90 minutes. A story in 4 parts:

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

7 months

Turns out drivers *do* know how to go slowly, if they are worried about their paint job.

David Ho

@_david_ho_

1 year

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

29 days

Half the comments are like “Wow! Fast!” and the other half are like “Is it your first time seeing a train, you idiotic American??”

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

The layers of urban transport in the German capital, Berlin 🧵 We'll start with the S-Bahn, a kind of hybrid suburban/city train. The network forms a ring around the most urbanized area, and then a "plus sign" right through the heart. 1/13

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

10 months

$242 to park an SUV in central Paris for 6 hours.

Harry

@toutinverse

10 months

225€ les 6 heures 😦😦 Ils sont complètement ravagés

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

Things I saw in Morocco (GDP per capita $3,800) that are apparently beyond our capacity in the US (GDP per capita $70,000): 1. Tower cranes (lower construction costs) and point access block (better apts) low rises with elevators (more accessible)

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

Head of DC Metro is personally out on the platform dispatching trains every two minutes on this 4th of July evening while CTA is running 20-40 minute headways and Dorval Carter won’t respond to journalists’s questions.

Randy Clarke

@wmataGM

3 months

America’s Transit System giving it 100% on America’s Birthday. Joined my colleagues on platforms to deliver ~2min 🚇 frequency for 90mins to clear thousands of people post 🎆. Just ❤️ this TEAM! Thanks for riding! #wmata

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 months

Your timely reminder that the 1968 DNC is the reason the parks close at 11pm. It was passed as an emergency measure so they could arrest the protesters. Before that, parks were just always open the public -- as they should be.

Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 months

The Chicago Park District locks people out of the park for no reason, #2349234 @ChicagoParks

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@slucy

3 months

@tolaughortolove You know, great question

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@slucy

7 months

I try not to comment on parenting, as a non parent, but not letting your 5yo walk 4 blocks with a trusted adult is ... something I wish to comment on.

Laura Mitchell

@LauraGMitchell

7 months

The parent said even if I felt safe walking, their 5yo hasn’t had any practice walking on the sidewalk and couldn’t be trusted to stay out of the street, wait at intersections, etc. Everything in life comes with risks. We evaluate the risks & decide what feels comfortable. 3/6

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

Looking forward to the emergency ban on cars and SUVs.

WPLG Local 10 News

@WPLGLocal10

8 months

E-BIKE BAN - After a fatal head-on collision between a 12-year-old boy on an e-bike and a 66-year-old bicyclist, Key Biscayne officials passed an emergency ban on e-bikes and scooters this morning. Here's how long it will last:

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

5 months

I've always wondered why Amtrak, etc. can't coordinate this. Especially after they cut real kitchens from most of their "short" (~18-24 hour) routes. Why not contract with restaurants along the way to deliver hot meals trainside?

James Hutcheon

@hutcho66

5 months

So something very unique about the long distance trains in China - you can order food from restaurants in the stations along the way and they'll deliver it to the platform, when the train stops the attendants will take it and bring it to your seat.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@brandenflasch lol no nurses do not generally work 28-hour shifts

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@slucy

8 months

No better picture to illustrate how curb/lane design, not driver attitude, results in unblocked bike lanes.

Cars In Bike lanes

@carsNbikelane

8 months

Entitled drivers

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@slucy

5 months

"Superbowl tickets are getting kind of expensive so we're giving everyone who buys one $400 toward the price." What do you think this policy does to the price of Superbowl tickets?

President Biden

@POTUS

5 months

My housing plan would provide a tax credit that would give Americans $400 a month to put toward their mortgage when they buy their first home or trade up for a little more space. That’s breathing room.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

9 months

So many Americans think Europe inherited places like this. In many cases, the pedestrianization happened quite recently! We can do this here, too!

De Filmende Fietser

@FilmendeFietser

9 months

A few years ago, the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, in consultation with residents and entrepreneurs, made part of the city center car-free, transforming it from a 'place to buy' to a 'place to be'. Guess what, without cars the center is lively too, even on a rainy day!

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

My wife ordered a hot dog near the Shedd and this happened. We ask that you respect our family’s privacy at this time.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

The picture on the left is a 6-lane road in the Netherlands. The picture on the right is a 6-lane "stroad" in Dallas, Texas. But what makes a stroad a stroad? Why is the one on the left WAY safer and better for drivers, despite being the same # of lanes? 1/7

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

28 days

See how few cars are parked on the bike path if you make it not look like part of the roadway that someone bolted a curb to? Put vegetation, street furniture, posts between the bike lane and the roadway.

Andy Boenau

@Boenau

29 days

I love that so many people are sharing pics & videos of top shelf bicycle infrastructure from Montreal.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 years

At first glance, these two trains in Chicago and Berlin look similar, both are 16 miles and take about 45 minutes. But once you start to dig, you see that @Metra is living in the 1950s and badly needs to modernize. A thread:

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 years

I'm surprised heated sidewalks don't pop up in the twitter urbanism discourse more often. Yes they use electricity, but only when needed. They save labor and salt. And they mode shift car trips to walking/bus because the sidewalk is actually usable. What's not to love?

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

Trying to get lunch in River North and the options are Chick-fil-A, The Original Hooters, or a $300 steak house.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 years

It's not "there's a small premium for building in America" -- it's "we could have built TEN high speed lines all over the country". I'm not sure how to fix it but we need to start admitting it's a huge problem.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@QueenMab87 There is a lot of daylight between "should be disincentivized from staying" vs "should be forcibly removed". If it's really important to someone, they can of course prioritize staying put. If it's not, they should be given some cash for downsizing.

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@slucy

1 year

There's a CTA board member who rode the system 0 times in an entire year.

Streetsblog Chicago

@streetsblogchi

1 year

John felt the need to point out the irony that the CTA didn’t provide a FOIA response about board members' transit use for months, and then finally did so on the day when he was knocked unconscious in a bike crash and unable to read it.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 months

Grocery stores make like 1.5% profit margin so if you force them to sell $4.99 eggs for $4.91, every grocery store will go bankrupt and close.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

I love how in the UK you can send the police a video of a somewhat close pass and the driver has to take a class, and in the U.S. you are the victim of a fatal hit and run captured on tape with license plate visible and the police are like “can’t do anything!”

Warwickshire Cyclist

@WarksCyclist

8 months

Legally Two Abreast. 30mph Speed Limit...We're climbing at 24mph & avoiding the drains Entitled 🤡 flashes lights....move to single file, didn't have to...🤡 steams through... The Police thought the driving so good they awarded them a 4hr Course costing £100 or £100 and 3 Points

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@FFEJyourself Some combination of "we've always done it this way", "residents are cheap labor", "you need the hours for your training", and "someone has to be here at night and we didn't think too hard about it".

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Steven Lucy

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3 years

Here's two 2.4 mile (3.8 km) bus journeys at 5:30pm. Left is in Chicago and takes 20 minutes. Right is in Amsterdam and takes 14 minutes. The Chicago one takes 43% longer. Here's the four reasons why 🧵

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

9 months

Thessaloniki is very close to opening its brand new metro/subway system, 20 miles for $2.5b, $125m/mi. Driverless with up to 40 trains per hour, platform screen doors. The Red Line Extension in Chicago, which is entirely above ground, is expected to cost $3.6b for 5 miles.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

What I hate about cities is there just isn’t any greenery!

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

10 months

Just making a thread of atrocious U.S. sidewalks for the next person who posts “we have the ADA here, unlike in Europe.”

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

5 months

The University @UChicago should immediately fire -- today -- any UCPD officers that covered their badge numbers.

Writers Against the War on Gaza

@wawog_now

5 months

Before raiding the UChicago encampment, multiple cops—in this case, a lieutenant—covered their badge numbers.

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7 months

More than anything, this is what is missing in America.

Adam James Pollock

@aIIegoricaI

7 months

Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything

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1 year

The layered types of train service in Germany: a thread. Here's a typical Intercity (IC) train in Germany. It runs every hour or every other hour, makes 11 stops on its 6-hour journey between major cities, with only 1 stop per city or maybe 2 in a very large city. 1/7

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I honestly think the whole housing discourse has been set back 20 years by half the participants using "affordable housing" to mean "housing that is reasonably affordable" and the other half meaning a technical program where you have to navigate a byzantine bureaucracy to qualify

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

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Politicians like jenbo’s boss Dean Preston, an SF city supervisor, exploit people’s ignorance of this term’s technical meaning to make bad faith arguments like this👇 Note how she supports “100% affordable housing ONLY,” to the exclusion of other housing.

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Group of 5 French tourists on @Metra Conductor comes through, they all pull out their Ventra cards. “Nope” They don’t have enough cash. Now they’re trying to download the app. It’s not going well. Metra should comply with the spirit of the law and accept Ventra.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

9 months

This looks like a normal apartment. I'd raise my family in this apartment.

Bobby Fijan

@bobbyfijan

9 months

One reason home prices continue to increase: New 3BR apartments aren’t designed for families Here's a 1600SF 3BR unit. But the floorplan gives each bedroom having a private bathroom and a walk-in closet So a unit that in size could work for families, is only good for roommates

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

Convert 1 lane of a 4-lane road to a protected bike lane: - 9% *increase* in car throughput - 17-second increase in car travel time - 42% increase in cyclists - 40% *reduction* in crashes

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@trihawkfalcon

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Incredible news. Oak needs protection

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8 months

The runner in this video setting a new world record in Chicago, and his coach he is hugging, are both dead now -- killed in a car crash. Kiptum had a real shot of beating the magical 2 hour mark.

Joe Pompliano

@JoePompliano

1 year

Kelvin Kiptum set a new world record marathon time today at 2:00:35. That’s a 4:36/mile pace…for 26.2 miles — and he beat Eliud Kipchoge’s previous record by 34 seconds. He is only 23 years old! That’s one of the greatest athletic achievements ever.

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@slucy

9 months

This is how you get people to never take transit again. (Last train of the night left 20 minutes early on NYE, leaving riders stranded with $400 Ubers)

Star:Line Chicago

@StarLineChicago

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…oh

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@slucy

10 months

***LOS ANGELES*** has surpassed Chicago in transit ridership.

APTA

@APTA_info

10 months

It's #SpotifyWrapped time! In our version of #TransitWrapped , see the U.S. public transportation agencies with the highest ridership between Sept. '23 and Oct. '22. 1. @MTA 2.8 Billion 2. @metrolosangeles 280 Million 3. @cta 270 Million 4. @wmata 243 Million 5. @MBTA 239 Million

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5 months

Doubled in 5 years, and tripled in some areas. Imagine what would happen if we actually built some decent bike lanes and kept them clear.

Block Club Chicago

@BlockClubCHI

5 months

Chicagoans took more than twice as many bike trips last year as they did in 2019, with increases of nearly 200% in some parts of the South Side.

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Steven Lucy

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2 years

If you were an Illinois resident between 2015 and 2022 and think maybe someone took your photo and saved it to the cloud, don't forget to register to get your sweet BIPA money from Google. Deadline is in 2 days.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@questionableway It's a view into what a New Yorker thinks Chicago is like.

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@slucy

8 months

In this a parody? New bill would allow more freedom and less government control over what you can build on your own property.

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10 months

(This is a good thing)

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@slucy

4 months

I'm confused about whether cyclists are poor low-lifes who can't afford a car or rich entitled elites who don't understand the plight of the working man.

BowTiedTurismo

@BowTiedTurismo

4 months

@slucy @ChristoSilvia He probably makes more money in a month than you do in 10 years. He is not getting on a bike 😂

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Steven Lucy

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4 months

Electrifying the yellow schoolbus fleet is like the lowest possibly priority. They only operate a few hours a day, half the days of the year. Electrifying city buses, which run ~18 hours per day, is much higher priority and still very questionable.

Senator Dick Durbin

@SenatorDurbin

4 months

That iconic yellow school bus? In Illinois, we are committed to making them electric. Today, schools across the state will receive more than $48 million in rebates from @EPA ’s clean school bus program. Green energy is the future, and I am glad to say that IL is leading the way.

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Steven Lucy

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1 year

Unfortunately these streets through the Loop are not heavily used by cars even on weekday afternoons, and so should probably be removed.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

"Only rich white people bike to work"

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

7 months

9 car train and only 5 of the cars carry passengers. Very serious railroad.

QuadMet 🏳️‍⚧️ Orange line to Milwaukie 🟠

@QuadMet

7 months

coast starlight spotted

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@slucy

6 months

@tylernewcomb_ Frustrating. Looks like you can file theft reports for under $1000 online but that should obviously be raised. Speaking from experience, if you’ve given up on recovery and just want a report, call 911 when you’re going to be at home for a while and give them your home address.

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@slucy

11 months

A train crash with zero deaths gets a national investigation and the mayor and governor show up to tour the site. A car crash that kills a few people gets 30 minutes from the Fire Dept and an error-filled "crash report" from the Police.

Stephen Miller

@ssmiller

11 months

@cta President Dorval Carter says Yellow Line train driver injured in crash yesterday is out of surgery and doing better. Carter and NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, along with Mayor Johnson and Gov Pritzer, are touring the crash site. @WBBMNewsradio

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1 year

Great example of why having right-turning vehicles merge across the bike lane is engineering malpractice. Easy to the blame the pickup driver (and they should pay more attention!) but the road design is setting everyone up for failure here.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

11 months

Chicagoan isn't a blood-line. The people in tents outside of police stations are Chicagoans.

Heather Cherone

@HeatherCherone

11 months

Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would not “sacrifice the needs of Chicagoans in support of those who wish to become Chicagoans.” @wttw

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

6 months

Suburban posters don't confuse your shitty subdivision HOA that tells you want color to paint your house and fines you if you don't mow your lawn with a condo HOA that pays for tuckpointing, roof replacement, and heating challenge.

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@slucy

1 year

It’s wild that PATH is the 5th most used subway in the US.

Northeast Urbanist 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇵🇷

@skytopjf

1 year

The most used U.S. Heavy Rail metro systems, Q1 2023, in millions of trips. 1. New York - 478,164 2. Washington, D.C. - 28,207 3. Chicago - 25,317 4. Boston - 19,991 5. Jersey City (PATH) - 12,382 6. San Francisco - 10,551 7. Philadelphia - 10,498

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@slucy

5 months

@bigmoodenergy The illegal part may have been allowing (presumably illegal) images to be shown in public in Ireland. Like the portal operator maybe in violation of Irish law.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@Playstation_2 6-day weeks are tiring. 5-day weeks are better.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 month

@curious_founder @TheEconomist So, can I just connect a giant resistor to the grid and then offer to disconnect it during peak times and make a ton of money?

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

What if you could get to a swimming lake + huge hiking woods on an electric train every 10 minutes from 5am to 1am

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

The Clarence Darrow bridge in Jackson Park has been closed for over a decade.

Justin George

@justingeorge

1 year

Stunning news- Collapsed stretch of I-95 to reopen within 2 weeks, Pennsylvania governor says. Initial projection was months, even up to 6 months.

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@slucy

3 months

@heatherpedia ding ding ding

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

4 months

@myrrlyn What if instead of "NOT FOR CLIMBING" it said "INTENDED TO ATTACH YOUR WATER BOTTLE TO YOUR BACKPACK"

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@slucy

1 year

So glad we're lighting money on fire by building an elevated railroad through a farm field.

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨

@CaHSRA

1 year

284 pre-cast girders have been placed at the Hanford Viaduct. Ironworkers have also been tying rebar for the deck and walls. Over the last few months, concrete has been placed for the diaphragms, which provide bracing for girders set between each span of columns. #BuildHSR

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@slucy

1 month

Why do New Yorkers think they live in the only city on earth? People do this kind of thing in every city. It’s a cool feature of humans, not a cool feature of NYC.

kasey

@kaseyklimes

1 month

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

My partner noticed the table was smoking and turns out we almost burned down our apartment with a glass ball acting as a lens!

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

The heat wave in Chicago last week did this to the candle on my porch.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

@dfwfoodiegeek Technically, no. However, no one is independently tracking hours so there is often pressure to stay longer even if it breaks the cap.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

6 months

One weird trick

lettuce

@the_lettuce_cat

6 months

THERE'S A CAR ON THE RIVERWALK WHATTTTT

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

2 years

Ok that’s it. Look, Morocco isn’t perfect (in many ways!), but when a low income country can routinely do these things that a ~17x richer country can’t, that’s a big wake up call.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

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@jaketropolis Light Rail

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@slucy

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@QueenMab87

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

3 months

Best urban park in the world.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

The CTA has completely destroyed my bus line over the last two decades. They used to run 250 buses a day with 10min service w/ 5m at peak, now they run 150 with 15m svc, and end 30m earlier. This is the *scheduled* runs, not even accounting for all the ghost buses. A 40% cut.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

1 year

Currently like 12-15 cars just parked / driving at Promontory Point. This is becoming a crisis. @AldermanLaSpata @DanielLaSpata @ChicagoParks @yancyforthe5th @HydeParkHerald @streetsblogchi

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

9 months

Student housing built by a 150-year old public university on land they already own is not one of the biggest tools of gentrification.

vin; androgyne

@hologramvin

9 months

i actually dont support "we should build student housing" when "student housing" is one of the biggest tools of gentrification (actual meaning!) in recent years in any university city. i support building affordable rent controlled housing for ppl from an area !!

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

8 months

This is unironically what happens when your transit system goes in the shitter for a few years. People buy cars, move, change habits.

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@chicagoguy89

8 months

@slucy We all got cars now man. Ain’t going back to sitting outside for 30 minutes waiting for the damn blue line.

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Steven Lucy

@slucy

28 days

Red and Green would be setting off alarm bells at any functioning agency. Blue, Brown, and Yellow being like this for almost half a decade means our public transit system is DYING dying.

Commuters Take Action

@ctaaction

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Yesterday, the CTA L lines ran: 99% Pink 97% Orange 93% Green 88% Red 79% Purple 75% Blue 68% Brown 58% Yellow ... of scheduled trains. Since 2020, CTA L Service has been cut by 18%. Riders deserve frequent and reliable transit, with return to at least pre-2020 levels.

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