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Joe B. Wall<p>Anytime I'm dumb enough to look at the comments on anything on the internet about infrastructure or civic projects, I'm reminded how little people understand about how complicated those projects are and how easy it is to just jump on a comment thread and bitch and moan without actually knowing what one is talking about. We really are a nation of drunk, stupid uncles, forever telling us how THEY would'a done it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicsector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicsector</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationofdrunkuncles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationofdrunkuncles</span></a></p>
30YrdScreamer<p>Used the car today and managed to turn my usual 25 min journey into a 55min journey.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>car</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/driving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>driving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a></p>
Fred<p>The Ontario government certainly has tunnel vision. <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10808702/ontario-401-tunnel-plan-feasibility-study-latest/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globalnews.ca/news/10808702/on</span><span class="invisible">tario-401-tunnel-plan-feasibility-study-latest/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DougFord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DougFord</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hwy401" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hwy401</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DougFordisoverparty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DougFordisoverparty</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The fight for the House and Senate: Where things stand</p><p>Congress may be headed for an Election Day double flip.<br>
With less than four weeks to go, Republicans appear poised to win the Senate, <br>which is currently controlled by the Democrats. </p><p>The Democrats, meanwhile, seem to have a slight edge in the race for the Republican-controlled House.<br>
If the polls and predictions prove right <br>— and that is still a big if <br>— it would be the first such flip, <br>a historic and fitting outcome for a political era marked by slim margins and deep division.<br>
A scenario where voters flip the majorities in both the House and Senate, but in opposite partisan directions, could lead to <a href="https://c.im/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> as a new president attempts to govern next year. </p><p>Congress faces crucial deadlines to fund the government and avoid defaulting on federal debt in coming weeks. </p><p>Narrow, divided majorities in Congress could make meeting them far more difficult.</p><p>
In the final weeks, both parties are trying hard to break through to undecided and independent voters. </p><p>In many swing districts and states, that means moderating messaging on key issues like abortion and immigration, and trying to paint opponents as extreme.</p><p> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/09/senate-house-race-who-wins/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/10/09/senate-house-race-who-wins/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>If the polls &amp; predictions prove right—&amp; that is still a big if—it would be the first such flip, a historic &amp; fitting outcome for a political era marked by slim margins &amp; deep division.<br>
A scenario where voters flip the majorities in both the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a>, but in opposite partisan directions, could lead to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> as a new president attempts to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/govern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>govern</span></a> next year. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> faces crucial deadlines to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fund</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> &amp; avoid defaulting on federal debt in coming weeks.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HarrisWalz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarrisWalz2024</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span> Not many <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> are good at <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a>. International standardized tests bear this out.</p><p>And you don’t need to know anything about <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>political</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> to know that the simple solution to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>partisan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> is to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PrimaryFromTheCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrimaryFromTheCenter</span></a>. It’s not rocket 🚀 surgery, it’s just basic <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a>. 🤷🏻‍♂️</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> experts warn the changes risk creating <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dysfunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dysfunction</span></a> in 2024, w/ Gov <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RoyCooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyCooper</span></a> saying they “could doom our state’s elections to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> &amp; severely limit <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EarlyVoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarlyVoting</span></a>.”<br>
The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legislation</span></a>, he said in his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/veto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>veto</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bill</span></a> last month, “also creates a grave risk that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legislators</span></a> or courts would be empowered to CHANGE THE RESULTS of an ELECTION if they don’t like the winner.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VotingRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a></p>
RememberUsAlways<p>I'm not sure why <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> continue to believe they should be in leadership positions after crashing and burning <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>congress</span></a> </p><p>They conveniently ignore <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HakeemJeffries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HakeemJeffries</span></a> as the obvious answer to building <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/consensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consensus</span></a> after failing to do so themselves.</p><p>It is the clear and bi-partisan option to the rabid <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/partisanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>partisanship</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a>.</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> Put <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Traffic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crashes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crashes</span></a> on Ice</p><p>The Nordic nation’s rate of vehicle fatalities is a fraction of the toll in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, despite a harsh climate and ice-covered streets. Here’s how the Finns do traffic safety.</p><p>by David Zipper</p><p>"The 1960s were a boom time for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Helsinki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Helsinki</span></a>, Finland’s capital and largest city. Rising postwar incomes enabled a growing number of residents to purchase a car; the number of vehicles registered in the city tripled in just seven years. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gridlock</span></a> inevitably followed.</p><p>"To manage traffic and plot its future, the city of Helsinki commissioned a transportation master plan, co-authored by the US company Wilbur Smith &amp; Associates and the Finnish firm Pentti Polvinen ky. In 1968, the consultants delivered their eye-watering proposal: nearly 200 miles of new highways in the Helsinki region, with much of downtown leveled to create space for high-speed motorways. The city’s existent streetcar system would be scrapped.</p><p>"The Finnish response to that vision was an emphatic ei (“no”). According to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the rejected 1968 plan 'has become a kind of dystopia, an extreme example of what car-driven planning can lead to.'</p><p>"Instead of committing its future to the automobile, as so many US cities did in that era, Helsinki kept its streetcars and embarked on a massive transit expansion. The city constructed the world’s northernmost subway, which opened in 1982. As of 2016, roughly a quarter of urban trips in Finland occur on foot, over 9% by transit, and 7.5% by bike. (In the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population about 1.3 million, those numbers are even higher.) One in seven Finns live in rural areas, roughly equivalent to the US share.</p><p>"The Finnish transportation system is as impressive for its safety as it is for its multimodality. Only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents — just one-third the US rate. And Finland’s roadways are growing steadily safer. Fatalities plunged 50% between 2001 and 2019, when Helsinki made international news for going an entire year without a single pedestrian or cyclist fatality. (Last year there were two, down from 22 in 1990.) Like its neighbors <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a>, birthplace of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VisionZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VisionZero</span></a> traffic safety movement, Finland’s roads today are safer than they have been in decades — unlike so many of the US cities that have tried to adopt Vision Zero principles.&nbsp;</p><p>"As I’ve written previously in CityLab, the US is an outlier in global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoadSafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoadSafety</span></a>: Americans are now at least twice as likely to die in a vehicle crash as residents of&nbsp;Canada,&nbsp;France and&nbsp;Japan (among many other countries).</p><p>"But the safety record of Finland, a country associated with empty, rural roads and cold, dark weather, is particularly impressive. Here are a few reasons why so few people die in crashes in this Nordic nation.</p><p>"Set Stricter Limits</p><p>"Soon after dumping Helsinki’s car-centric 1968 plan, Finnish authorities embarked on a decades-long campaign to slow motor vehicles. 'In urban environments, there has been a steady decrease in maximum road speed,' said Heikki Liimatainen, a professor of transport and logistics at Tampere University. 'In the 1970s, it was normally 50 kilometers per hour in cities; then in 2000, it went down to 40 km/h. Now, more than half of our urban streets have a 30 km/h limit.'</p><p>"In Helsinki, city officials leverage street design to reinforce lower speed limits. 'We deliberately have narrow lanes, so the driver doesn’t feel comfortable,' said Reetta Putkonen, the director of Helsinki’s transportation planning division. 'Three and a half meters is a normal lane width, even 3.2. We also use trees and bushes to push people to go slower.' For comparison, in the US many lanes are 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-finland-put-traffic-crashes-on-ice?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">getpocket.com/explore/item/how</span><span class="invisible">-finland-put-traffic-crashes-on-ice?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cycling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safety</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpeedLimits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeedLimits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UrbanRenewal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanRenewal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicTransportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicTransportation</span></a></p>
Stripymoggie<p>Decades of car-centred traffic planning by the NI Department for Infrastructure has resulted in this: Complete gridlock in Belfast. Well done, DfI, well done.<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DepartmentForIncompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentForIncompetence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belfast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Traffic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gridlock</span></a></p>
That Deaf Guy<p>Are your 'little darlngs' completely incapable of walking to and from school?</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/GridLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GridLock</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SchoolRun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SchoolRun</span></a></p>
Kay :heart_bi: :tinoflag:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@billbennett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>billbennett</span></a></span> saw your <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gridlock</span></a> post from an hour ago. Much progress yet?</p>
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Mark Dunk<p>Gridlock: Couple On 15th Round Of Voting Where To Go For Dinner</p><p><a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/gridlock-couple-on-ballot-number-15-of-voting-where-to-go-for-dinner" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">babylonbee.com/news/gridlock-c</span><span class="invisible">ouple-on-ballot-number-15-of-voting-where-to-go-for-dinner</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/babylonbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>babylonbee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/gridlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gridlock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.education/tags/survival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>survival</span></a></p>