weekend trips? lol. cars make us like toddlers. we hold onto things for non rational reasons.

as both a person with a commuter bike and bikeshare, different uses.

My commuter is good for when I have a safe place to store it (my office). But if I'm going out on the weekend or evenings, I will almost always use a bikeshare. No worries about theft, plus if it gets late and I need to call a taxi home, I don't have to come back for the bike. Drivers also give bikeshare users more room!

The thing about bikes is that they are so cheap compared to cars. You usually can easily afford a bike and bike rental!

i sometimes wish we'd just pull the trigger and liquidate the car we only use occasionally. it is like a child and their safety blanket.

the car is such a hassle to deal with!

dense cities become quickly unlivable if every worker takes a car in every day. the metro and the bus systems are the lifeblood of every big dynamic city.

took 10 days for me. was like they every year I've filed online. now paper filings....

guessing it is a neighbor whose broke and can't get the city to replace theirs fast enough. there is no black market. there are just bad neighbors

didn't he also just leave the keys in the ignition. one day someone finally drove away with his car.

this is just a few blocks away:

https://twitter.com/frozenchippy/status/1638893107835174915

well were. the developer has gone AWOL. honestly nobody knows what happened to them. potentially bankrupt?

auction sale is probably next

yeah, shooting and murders are up in every part of the county - red and blue; rich and poor; tough and lax on crime; urban and rural. shit is wild out there; lots o guns, lots of anger; lots o shooting; lots of road rage; etc

everyone thinks it is unique to their own little world. it isn't.

we also stole the person who ran your public transit system; big upgrade from the traditional crooks here!

plus you don't need a car to live in many parts of DC.

DC combines local and 'state' taxes. Texas decouples the two; you can't compare the two that way. Look up total tax burden. Heck, DC is lower than MD or VA for a typical family.

agree; but wisconsin is as bad from a transport point of view

i switch every few years. geico > progressive is the latest move

well the ones with them seem to be going out of business quickly these days. i guess the signs are driving away customers.

according to business record databases, there were more businesses in CP in 1940 than in 1990. Where are you getting your numbers from? I'm pretty suspicious of your data.

hahahahha. 'gentrified' - isn't a detached home there on average 3M? I mean you can't gentrify if you are one of the richest neighborhoods around and are super white.

the problem is that a strip mall in the city with 6 lanes of loud traffic is not good for an urban coffee shop. if starbucks can't make it worth it, that is the historic neighborhood's own fault.

the number of red light runners in the last couple years has been off the charts.

yeah, the neighborhood refused to let them redevelop it. so they just razed the store and sold the land.

also they are planning on cutting down a car lane and putting in bike lanes; that'll help things. Honestly it should just be 2.5 car lanes (turn lane when needed), 2 parking lanes, and rest sidewalk/bike lanes.

6 lanes of car sewer. Easiest way to kill retail is too many commuter cars and too few shoppers.

Food desert refers to full service grocery stores. Nearest one is social Safeway on Wisconsin. We didn’t buy in the palisades almost entirely on that basis.

they just opened next to surfside on wisconsin!