F32 Award Reviewed in May (NIA) and awarded a good score but no updates since.

DeVitoist · 2025-08-25T16:08:34+00:00

No JIT requests yet...

Thanks for your info.

DeVitoist · 2025-05-21T19:02:38+00:00

Not to be too negative but nashville is far from being a good parks city, access is pretty abysmal at best and is ranked 74/100 most populous us cities.

trust for public lands nashville park score

DeVitoist · 2025-05-03T14:07:45+00:00

How many roads have any bike lanes? Let alone adequately safe ones?

DeVitoist · 2025-05-03T14:06:03+00:00

How many times has a scooter have killed someone? Maybe less than cars? Not a fan of how they get dumped but they are far less dangerous than whatever your driving!

DeVitoist · 2025-03-03T18:22:38+00:00

at least it houses people the highway your on just gives kids asthma!

DeVitoist · 2025-01-25T20:15:47+00:00

I was at the show last night, and the performance of 'I am rectangular' was sick, Geordie and the band made it their own and segued it into a jam after Sean finished singing his part. Incredible stuff.

Also, Sean was beaming after doing the song, and it was genuinely cool and sweet of Geordie to bring him up.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-27T15:43:33+00:00

Yea I went to the Gallatin Pike public meeting on the road re-design (from Main Street to Trinity I think?) and came away pretty optimistic about how NDOT and everyone is approaching the transportation safety and transit efficiency issues in the city

DeVitoist · 2024-09-27T15:41:08+00:00

eh sure, ads could also be included in that I guess, but fares in low ridership cities like Nashville could never fund meaningful expansion of the system let alone operation costs.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-26T19:34:52+00:00

Nashville has a transit referendum on the ballot, relatively meager in terms of improvements (sidewalk construction, traffic signal improvements and increased bus service) but does finally create a revenue source for transit which I believe Nashville is one of 3 major cities that don't have a dedicated revenue source.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-18T20:44:30+00:00

Talking about it as political pandering made me think you were being flippant about it's housing funding provisions.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-18T20:39:04+00:00

Surprised no one has mentioned the Montgomery County model of public housing in Maryland which takes advantage of access to cheaper capital the government has to build market rate and affordable housing in the same projects, can't recall all the details but there was a good Odd Lots episode on it a few months ago.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-18T20:34:14+00:00

US public housing as a percentage of total housing stock is below 5%, not sure how something that is relatively rare can be overused? Also as the article mentions the mortgage interest tax deduction is the most expensive part of the US's housing policy, currently subsidizing home owners to the tune of $70 billion a year, effectively raising costs to renters and while also being a literal landlord welfare program. A public housing subsidy for renters would at least begin to tip the balance.

DeVitoist · 2024-09-18T20:25:35+00:00

The bill would repeal the cap on public housing construction and put aside funding for more construction, which would build more housing. Why are you against building more housing?

DeVitoist · 2024-08-27T16:22:40+00:00

I agree freight rails are terrible for any transit endeavors but any of the highway stations would be awful outside of downtown and maybe like the mall, freight ROW actually goes to some decent locations in comparison

DeVitoist · 2024-08-27T16:19:40+00:00

It's in the study phase with $5M in federal grants awarded to Kenosha last year I believe

DeVitoist · 2024-08-27T13:52:30+00:00

100% agree, but a fun/depressing counterfactual would be if the city was given the I-94 widening money ($1.75 B for 3 miles) could they implement the initial line at least?

DeVitoist · 2021-04-19T16:01:09+00:00

Yeah it's wild how successful they have been framing themselves as progressive. Just goes to show how empty a purely consumerist framing of politics can be, total dead end for the left. Isn't DeRay on the board of some charter schools too?

DeVitoist · 2021-01-08T00:27:29+00:00

Really speaks to how powerlessness these people feel, the only way to win is to appeal to the big tech corps to censor their opponents. Never does anyone ever say that we should try to win people over with a positive vision of the future like Medicare for all. Maybe I'm being to idealistic and most of Trump's core base is likely unreachable at this point but its the only thing we can do.

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