#policy

LA Times: What about the bike lanes? Transit advocates say Metro project ignores city’s mobility plans

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-03/what-about-the-bike-lanes-transit-advocates-say-metro-project-ignores-citys-mobility-plans

#BikeTooter #bicycling #policy #government #bikelanes

My latest in Bloomberg CityLab: Applying "abundance" to transportation requires considering the kind of infrastructure that gets built, not just the quantity.

More trains and bike lanes would be great -- more highways and robotaxis not so much.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/when-the-abundance-movement-talks-about-transportation

#cars #abundance #policy

https://www.europesays.com/1964793/ Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins #Antarctica #DonaldTrump #News #policy #Politics #StockMarket #stocks #tariffs #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics

Religious gathering cancelled in N.S. because of fears of U.S. border policies
A gathering of religious groups that was supposed to be held this year in Nova Scotia has been postponed indefinitely because of worries over U.S. border policies.
#religion #politics #border #policy #NS #NovaScotia
https://globalnews.ca/news/11111783/nova-scotia-religious-gathering-cancelled-us-border-policies/

Religious gathering cancelled in N.S. because of fears of U.S. border policies
A gathering of religious groups that was supposed to be held this year in Nova Scotia has been postponed indefinitely because of worries over U.S. border policies.
#religion #politics #border #policy #NS #NovaScotia
https://globalnews.ca/news/11111783/nova-scotia-religious-gathering-cancelled-us-border-policies/

If you're at #KubeCon today (or the rest of the week?) do go say hi to the #CUE folks I help write their open-source docs (https://cuelang.org/docs) 'cos I *really* want the awesome tech to succeed!

If you're a #SysAdmin or #DevOps in #YAML config hell go and have a chat with them - next to the CNCF corner store at stall S761

#PlatformEngineering #SRE #platform #kubernetes #cuelang #json #toml #structureddata #policy #schema

#Trump has White House studying cost of #Greenland takeover

The WH is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal govt to control Greenland as a territory, acc/to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump’s [#delusional, unsolicited & unwelcome] desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable #policy.

#geopolitics #Denmark #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/trump-greenland-us-territory-cost/

Thousands of federal health workers are losing their jobs in the US https://www.theverge.com/news/640988/trump-rfk-health-human-services-cdc-fda-reductions #Science #Health #Policy #News

Important new tool: the Impact Map—a new interactive platform developed under the Impact Project to help visualize how #federal #employment, #funding, and #policy #decisions affect [US] communities.” https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/

#UytaeLee with #Urbanarium weigh in on, “Why It's So Hard to Mass-Produce Housing”
Factory-built housing is a promising idea in theory, but it turns out to be a very complicated endeavor in practice—here’s why.
#Culture #Politics #Law #Policy #Regulation #Housing #Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26iVJfiDgP0

https://www.europesays.com/1960818/ Elon Musk’s $1 million handout winners are connected to Republican causes #ElonMusk #Musk #policy #Politics #tech