Jay Blazek Crossley

@jaycrossley.bsky.social

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Texan husband dad safe streets advocate YIMBY freeway fighter policy wonk punk rocker serial boards & commissions member democracy builder pepper grower hot sauce maker advocate for sustaining human life on this planet executive director of Farm&City

Picture of a rapid bus at a station with the electric charging arm connected overhead to the bus and some people standing around.
Screenshot of the video of the Ezra Klein podcast, which is three men sitting at a table in a glass walled conference room with six clocks high on the wall in the room behind them. All the clocks have the same minute hand position (like they should), except for the third from the right.
Screenshot of text from the interim charge document linked in the post. The text says: “6. Speed Enforcement in Work and School Zones: Evaluate measures to enhance roadside worker and public safety, including limited authorization of speed enforcement mechanisms in high-speed work zones and school zones. Consider measures that would safeguard Texans’ privacy, prohibit automated retention of data, and prevent citations from being issued by third-party entities.”
A tray of 20 4” herb plants and one little hibiscus plant
People in a long line winding to the left along a dirt walkway in the middle of the community garden.
More people in line on the sidewalk looking back from wheee I was waiting.
Diagram showing the layout of peppers inside the tent. It has dotted lines with arrows and stick figures showing the way you walk through and little rectangles along the edges and on an island in the middle of the tent with names of a pepper plant in each rectangle.
Hand written list: 10 Trinidad Perfume 2 Trinidad Scorpion 4 Brasilian Starfish 2 Aji Mango 2 Balik 2 Hong-gochu 2 Elephant Ear 2 Pimiento 2 Corno di Toro
Selfie with a long line of people waiting on a sidewalk next to a fence side of the community garden.
Three 11 year olds standing right in front of a small kei truck in a parking lot.
Cold ground in the yard in front of a house with grass on the yard but a white channel of snow where the sidewalk should be.
The cat bus from My Neighbor Totoro
A pile of books on a dresser next to an old picture of my wife, son, and I. The books from top to bottom are: Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar, Trains, Buses, People by Christof Spieler, Key to the City by Sara Bronin, Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships by Dr. Temple Grandin and Sean Barron, Spark by John Ratey, No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit, Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall, Walkable City by Jeff Speck, Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Urban Transportation Planning in the United States by Edward Weiner.
Flyer for a show with a drawing of a cat wrapped up in a roll of toilet paper and it says “Sat Dec 20th @Knomad, 1213 Carona, 6pm Woozyhelmet, 5pm David Israel, 4pm Colin Swietek and the One Tough Customer. Doors at 3pm” with a note at the bottom “*featuring informative PowerPoint presentations”
On a survey, there is a hand written answer to the question: “30. If there was ONE thing you could share with the City’s leadership (any comment, suggestion, etc.), what would it be?” I wrote “Please relax all limitations on dense development to achieve an expected zoning capacity sufficient to allow for the possibility of at least half of the metro region’s population at our mid-century peak having the option to live in dense, mixed-use, mixed-income walkable urban places connected to other walkable urban places by frequent transit.”
Shot from my seat in a four person booth in the lounge car with my laptop showing the Palm Royale tv show in front and a journal on the side with a pen and a hot tea cup and sparkling water and water bottle and old hot dog basket and some Amtrak napkins.
Selfie on the grounds of the US Capitol with the big Congressional rotunda behind me. I’m wearing my nice new bright blue suit and trying my darnedest to smile properly for photos.
Arty photo looking across three rows of train tracks at a grey concrete wall with grey gravel in between the train tracks and the yellow edge of the platform with its tactile bumps at my feet just at the bottom of the photo.
Video shot from the front of the Newark airport AirTrain looking out the front window while the train I’m on is stopped at a station and another train comes from the other direction before the train I’m on starts moving forward out of the station. You can see the monorail track it is guided along which is neat.
Selfie on a packed bus.
A shot from an airplane window looking down at a river where there seem to be two large and a handful of smaller boats sunk below the surface of the water, so you just see the outline of the old boat.
Shot from an airplane window looking down with agricultural fields of different things making different colors of geometric shapes on the ground. There are little puffy clouds too.
Shot at an airport gate from the boarding line showing a line in front of me at an improvised TSA checkpoint where they’re searching people’s bags.
Crappy shot of a couple airport TVs. There’s a man with a cool hat on the screen and the crawler has pictures of football players and various text about football.
Shot of a guy walking onto a #20 bus as the door opens.
Shot from my seat near the front of the bus with lots of people standing and all the seats filled. There’s a guy holding a suit in dry cleaner plastic wrap.
Picture of three hot sauce bottles. The labels are black text on white and have names for each one and then all the ingredients and say Sky Farm, Industry, TX and the dates they were made. The three sauces are called Abundant Love, Sun Scream, and Oh My Gosh Sauce.
Selfie of George and I sitting in train seats in a somewhat but not too much packed train.
Family selfie with the Astrodome in the background. I’m holding the camera and my son George is next to me and wife Lily next to him. It’s a hot sunny day in a giant parking lot.
Shot of the south front of the Texas state Capitol at night with lots of lights on in the building.
Same scene as the previous post, but this time the guy is looking at the camera and pointing straight at you and standing over to the right this time.
Screenshot of live feed from Texas House floor that shows a guy facing directly at the camera standing just at the edge of the balcony with the house debating behind him. At the bottom it says "Point of Order, HB 3520."
Picture of my desk with a laptop monitor showing a live feed of the Texas house and the second monitor showing someone testifying at Dallas city council on that live feed
Screenshot from video of the hearing room that says “Committee on Transportation on the bottom left and a Texas house seal on the bottom right and just shows an empty Dias with no one in the room.
Picture looking up at the South front of the Texas State Capitol at night with lots of lights on in offices around the building.
Screenshot of a tweet. If you zoom very far into the back of the picture, the goose is there with the train. The text of the tweet by Rep. Caroline Harris Davila says "It’s nearly 1 a.m., and the Transportation Committee is still hard at work. Grateful to serve alongside dedicated colleagues—and to represent constituents who expect and deserve commitment and perseverance. #txlege"
Another screenshot but the video is from the back of the room perspective and shows an 8th grader standing in khakis and a button up shirt turned back to his left side to have a conversation with Rep. Shaheen who is sitting in the chair nearest to where the kid is standing at the clerk's desk.
Another screenshot of Patrick Kennedy speaking with the train on the goose.
Another screenshot with another speaker at the same hearing on the same bill, HB 3187, with the toy train resting on the back of the duck, which is still sitting in the third or fourth aisle.
Another screenshot of the hearing, but its a little more zoomed in, so the top of the goose's head is cut off, but the toy train is now resting on top of the goose.
Another screenshot from the Texas House Committee on Transportation, but this time the toy train that used to be next to the goose (which I didn't notice on the first post) is now gone, but the goose is still there.
screenshot of live feed that says "Committee on Transportation, HB 3187." Behind the speaker you can see a toy duck stuck between two seats about four rows back.
A map of tolling locations within Harris County showing dots on various roadways.
Screenshot of broadcast that says "Committee on Transportation" at the bottom and "HB 1577" to the right and "Transportation" on the top left with the seal of the Texas House of Representative in the bottom right corner and Representatives Caroline Harris Davila and Pat Curry – who is speaking – shown in the picture, sitting on the Dias.
Picture in a Texas House Committee hearing room of four legislators on the Dias and a man testifying at a podium with a pistol on his belt.
Screenshot of google finance page for TSLA stock. It’s showing five years of data in a chart and says the stock is worth $252 today. The line goes up and down, but the dot for now is about the same as the point four years ago.
A pathway between rows of potted plants on both sides with little three foot tall signs. The closest one says “Miracle Fruit - CÂY THÂN KY.”
Chart titled “Total Federal, State, and Local Government Expenditures on Building and Maintaining Roads in Texas,” showing columns for 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, & 2020 with two bars for each year, one blue column titled “Not Covered by User Fees” and one orange column titled “Covered by User Fees.” In 2000, blue is about 4 billion and orange is about 12 billion. Blue grows bigger each five years while orange goes down for 15 years then up then down. In 2020, blue is about 20 billion and orange is about 13 billion.
Picture of a Subura Kei truck by John Pittman from here (shared with Creative Commons license): https://www.flickr.com/photos/doncoyote/3622049991
Chart titled "Federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant funding awarded to Texas so far," with data for 2022, 2023, and 2024 split up between planning and implementation and a total for each year. In 2022, we received 16,718,807 in planning and 58,055,705 in implementation grants for a total of 72,774,512. In 2023, we received 13,593,024 in planning and 31,700,065 in implementation grants for a total of 45,293,089. In 2024, we received 28,399,619 in planning and 45,783,932 in implementation grants for a total of 74,183,551. The total for all three years was 58,711,450 in planning grants and 133,539,702 in implementation grants, for a grand total of 192,251,152.
A Chart titled "How much does it cost to provide our current Texas transportation system?" which has three columns: public spending on roads, economic costs of crashes, and costs of congestion. Public spending on roads is broken up between TxDOT and local governments with $18 billion for TxDOT and $9 billion from local governments, for a total of about $27 billion. Economic costs of crashes is about $34.5 billion and costs of congestion is about $18 billion.
Chart titled "Total Federal, State, and Local Government Expenditures on Building and Maintaining Roads in Texas." It shows the data for 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 split up between "Not Covered by User Fees" in blue bars and "Covered by User Fees" in orange bars. In 2000, "not covered by user fees" is about 4 billion and "covered by user fees" is about 12 billion, but in 2020, "not covered by user fees" is about 19 billion and "covered by user fees" is about 12 billion, with a gradual shift toward not covered by user fees over these years.
Selfie on a bus without any other people or anything going on.
Screenshot from twitter of part of a screen that says “Who to follow” and offers up Texas State Reps Trent Ashby and Charlie Geren.
Screenshot of two lines from a text heavy chart that says “Shifting demand to no peak hour: Convert certain lanes on a freeway to peak only tolled lanes” and a second line with “Implementation of congestion pricing: Construct managed lanes with dynamic pricing.”
Shot from the hospital bed of the little hospital room with a chair for my wife and a little sink and mirror. All the calming, boring hospital tones of beige and white and more beige.
The five members of the Texas Transportation Commission (all male) sitting at the Dias with TxDOT CEO Marc Williams (male) and the clerk (female).
Photo of a bat ray.
Picture of a crosswalk showing four lanes of people driving cars stopped in the correct place behind the stop bar. It’s nighttime in a busy downtown place.