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Ray Delahanty

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Plangineer (AICP) when I’m at work, alter ego CityNerd when I’m not. New videos on cities and transportation every Wednesday. linktr.ee/CityNerd 🐘 @nerd4cities


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OK Durham, you’re up. Available on Nebula, right…now. nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Now at the usual place! youtu.be/K3hmLl6GMUU

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New video alert (for the Nebulized)

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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New on Nebula! Winston-Salem NC: walk score 22. Downtown Winston-Salem? 87, and even that might be understating it.

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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New on Nebula (which is ALSO undervalued)
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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So good

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Phoenix people! I’m in town later this month and doing an event Thursday June 27. RSVP here if you’re coming out — it’s gonna be a fun one! www.urbanphoenixproject.org/an-evening-w...

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Well said

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It’s Wednesday! So this is now available on the usual platform

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New on Nebula! Suburbanites will come from hours away to live in this weird, woodsy 15 minute city…and then go back to driving everywhere when they get back home
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Seems like a good time to reup this one youtu.be/26pl4ce9vTA?...

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Got me wondering…what are the five boroughs of the Bay Area?

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Prepping for a quick episode on the latest congestion pricing news and this bit from Governor Hochul's announcement is enraging. 99% of the people Hochul is talking about here — "teachers, first responders, small business workers, bodega owners — DO NOT DRIVE INTO MANHATTAN.

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"Congestion pricing represents a new attempt to modernize the city and adapt it to the variety of ways that New Yorkers get around. Scrapping it is a step — or rather a screeching U-turn — into the distant past."

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New on Nebula: I went in search of the most egregiously NIMBY, housing-averse cities I could find. It ends up being an absurd and possibly horrific quest. The things I do to entertain you all
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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New video! Cities these days are on wildly different growth trajectories, but sports teams are often still distributed like it’s 1950. So today I do some reallocating. (Not the Cubs though, honest.) Already up on Nebula for those who partake! nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Up on Nebula today! Leveraging BRT to transform a stroad, tackling a housing shortage along said corridor, and the million dollar question: why Albuquerque is cool actually
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Hey, if you’ve watched this week’s video, you know how important local advocacy groups are. @ourstreetsmn does amazingly effective work, and groups like this can’t sustain what they’re doing without support from everyday folks. Please consider donating! www.ourstreetsmn.org/get-involved...

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Yeah I got about 2 seconds of Atlanta into this one

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New video for the Nebulized: if there’s any region in the U.S. doing livable streets advocacy better than the Twin Cities, I don’t know what it is. Also: urban freeways are stupid.
nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Upcoming events/meetups, details forthcoming: May 22 — Albuquerque NM June 10 — Durham NC June 27 — Phoenix AZ

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New for those of you who are Nebulized: it’s been asserted that owning and operating a car consumes 25% of your waking hours. I went in search of the truth, including the cities where it’s not remotely close to that, and cities where it’s much worse. Watch at your peril

nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Huge thanks to Cam at TransitMaps for use of this modern version of the 1915 electric railway map for Portland, OR in today’s video. He does such amazing stuff! You can buy prints of this one (and tons of other great maps) on his site. Check it out! transitmap.net/project-stre...

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Dang I don’t think Nebula has a Bluesky account. But if you tag them some they can see it that would be good! This is way out of my expertise

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I had no idea how many opinions I was gonna have about Long Beach CA until I started working on this video. Just a wild place. (The video has been up on Nebula for a week, but it’s available on the usual video-sharing platform today!) youtu.be/uXffDuVG2tQ

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Clearly you haven’t been to Twin Peaks

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If your interior decor doesn’t reflect at least 12 different architectural epochs, what are you even doing

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Addison, Texas claims to be the restaurant capital of the United States — yet it doesn’t contain an outlet of the world’s finest restaurant. Curious! More at noon eastern

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New on Nebula! Suburbs that have jobs & housing balance are good. Suburbs that are employment powerhouses might be even better. Why “reverse commuting” can be a plus, and the 10 super interesting city/suburb pairs where it’s most prevalent — all in today’s upload! nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

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Programming note: due to travel and other commitments, new video will be up on Nebula late today/early tomorrow, and available at the usual place/time on Wed April 3. No video the following week because of PDX/MSP travel, but lots of content once I return! go.nebula.tv/citynerd

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I’m way less intimidating than a bowler

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Twin Cities folks! I’ll be in town Friday April 12 doing a very cool event at Venture Bikes on the Midtown Greenway. Q&A, food, and slow rolling through the streets of Minneapolis! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/citynerd-b...

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An excellent thing to share along with this piece in the post about parking lots being bad (can confirm, used to live in Winnipeg, MB)

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All that revenue gets eaten up by menu printing costs though

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Happy Wednesday! Ever wanted a full accounting of all the harms car dependency inflicts on society? Of course you did, and of course today’s upload is custom made to share with your urbanism-curious friends and family. youtu.be/4kSTJnT0tUE?...

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The video coming today — part 3 in my ongoing dialogue with Pickup Truck Guy — includes some genuinely surprising comments I got on the last video

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