Advocating for Cleveland and public transit.
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BrianCLE retweeted
I want every dog owner to hear this: every dog who has violently attacked me, someone I know, or a dog I was walking had an owner that assured me this never happens and their dog is safe. Your assessment of your own dog means nothing to me. I don’t trust you to evaluate your dog’s safety. Just put it on a damn leash, and don’t be a tiny woman with a dog that can easily overpower you. I don’t care how well you “know your dog”. That’s what every owner of a shitty dog says.
I genuinely do think there are a lot of basically good people who have never really thought about the ways in which they are behaving badly as dog owners, because nobody ever really calls them out for it.
If your dog is ever off leash, you are being antisocial and behaving badly. If your dog ever jumps on somebody who didn’t specifically ask for that to happen, then you are behaving antisocially (even if the dog is just being “friendly”). If you have an invisible fence in your yard, but your dog comes running right up to the line at full speed only to stop at the last minute and bark at everybody who walks by, then you are behaving antisocially. Honestly, even behind a fence, this is an aggressive and annoying imposition on anybody walking by.
If somebody has ever respond with fear or annoyance at something your dog has done and you’ve reflexively protested, “oh don’t worry, he won’t hurt you” or “he’s friendly” then that’s antisocial behavior. (You should just simply say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I won’t let it happen again” and then you should work to actually make it not happen again. Telling people not to worry, that you think your dog is just peachy, is bad behavior.)
This is all bad behavior. It’s all antisocial. And I have these experiences with dogs and their owners routinely. This is all extremely common stuff.
BrianCLE retweeted
WSJ front page: American roads becoming deadlier for peds
Austin has long req’d 25’ of clear fire access, the standard fire code requires 20’. Wider streets encourage dangerous speeds
We need to build fire trucks around the city we want, not build our city around fire trucks
BrianCLE retweeted
Remember who and what you're voting for this year could make all these passenger rail routes happen:
BrianCLE retweeted
The fietsvlonder (bike platform) has been reshaping Rotterdam streets for a decade.
It swaps one car parking space for a temporary structure that accommodates a dozen bicycles.
If successful after a few months, the curb is permanently rebuilt, and it moves to the next location.
ALT Dozens of bicycles are parked on two temporary structures along a Rotterdam street.
BrianCLE retweeted
a car lane on a city street moves somewhere between 600 and 1,600 people an hour. a protected bike lane can move 7,500. a bus lane can do 8,000. we keep picking the option with the worst numbers and calling everyone who notices an ideologue
BrianCLE retweeted
Fareless transit doesn't redistribute wealth from the rich to the working class.
It redistributes transit's inherently finite operating budget away from running service.
BrianCLE retweeted
A few horn players of the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra showing Guards spirit prior to their concert outside the Konzerthaus in Vienna! Awesome!Thank you! #StandGuard
BrianCLE retweeted
Construction on the new platform at the Sandusky Amtrak station (SKY) is well underway.
We have a beautiful historic station, but the platform & boarding experience left a lot to be desired. I’m glad it’s finally getting upgraded & will be ADA accessible.
BrianCLE retweeted
That every report from state fire marshal’s offices or similar claiming single stair buildings are a safety risk depends on pretending European countries* don’t 1) exist and 2) have better fire safety kind of gives the game away.
Plus the fact that that they never contain data or statistics, just feelings and false claims on the intent in allowing them. Whereas studies using actual research methods, including fire engineers in their work, keep finding otherwise.
*They also require pretending Seattle and New York City don’t exist.
BrianCLE retweeted
This bears repeating:
Blue-collar workers — the ostensible beneficiaries — have swung from +3 on the Trump tariffs to -22 over the course of the past year.
Check out the full results from @InnovateEconomy’s American Worker Survey below. 👷♂️📝👇
A poll conducted in August 2025 found that blue-collar workers supported the tariffs by a narrow margin. Now, that same segment of the population has turned decisively against Trump's tariffs: 58 % oppose them, compared to just 36 % who support them.
reason.com/2026/10/15/even-b…
BrianCLE retweeted
AMTRAK IS COMING TO MADISON!!!
Amtrak has been awarded a $218m grant to upgrade tracks to establish Amtrak service to Madison for the first time ever. The last train to serve Madison was 1971
BrianCLE retweeted
Am I the only one who thinks it’s insane that we allow two stroke engine leaf blowers to operate in residential areas? Why do so many otherwise sensible people not recognize the extreme externality of that noise? On some of the most beautiful days of the year it’s practically impossible to be outside without exposure to 75-80db of droning noise.
BrianCLE retweeted
The entire point of the certainty provisions in BAAJA is they *DO NOT* rely on a non-binding promise from the admin
Rep Casten's view relies on a popular misconception about how the admin abuses permits: 🧵
– Lots of folks believe the Trump administration is literally ignoring the law to block renewables --> therefore, no change to the law can fix the abuse.
– But this is an exaggeration. The administration is not ignoring courts (or they wouldn't be bothering to ask courts to overturn permits).
– What the admin is doing is using authorities latent in existing law to abuse projects (e.g. refusing to issue permits, using pretexts to revoke permits, etc.).
– The admin's tactics work where the law doesn't provide clear limits on agency behavior and/or doesn't give sponsors & courts the ability to enforce the law effectively.
– This is a big difference because it means a new law (e.g. BAAJA) can fix the problem by tightening existing authorities, banning misuse, and creating new remedies for courts to enforce the law.
And BAAJA does exactly that! The bill establishes:
1. Extremely tight limits on agency behavior (limits revocations, requires timeline permit decisions).
2. Creates bold new remedies for project sponsors and courts to enforce the law.
– If the admin tried their current tactics under BAAJA's protections they'd be under siege by lawsuits; project sponsors would have more incentive to sue, be more likely to win, and courts would have far larger remedies to correct abuse.
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“Asking me as a legislator to vote in favor of something based on a non-binding promise made by Donald Trump. I can’t even process that thought,” @RepCasten told me. “We need to be very careful to not say that we know definitively whether this bill will be good or bad.”
BrianCLE retweeted
I'm in an airport, 1 hr before 🛫, the worst time to do this, but here is a thread on permitting/transmission reform bill:
First, if you don't know me, I worked for Greenpeace for 8 yrs campaigning against fossil fuels (esp coal), & have lead a utility watchdog for past 10...
