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My family lived in NYC for 20 years. The purchase of stylish coats, boots, umbrellas and scarves means pleasant year round walking. It is not necessary to use a 3-ton vehicle as a rain coat.
My family lived in NYC for 20 years. The purchase of stylish coats, boots, umbrellas and scarves means pleasant year round walking. It is not necessary to use a 3-ton vehicle as a rain coat.
The downtowns of small cities like Sioux Falls should not be dominated by parking lots, especially when the majority of trips are no more than 5 miles away in either direction. Our cities need to prioritize transit, biking, and congestion management.
it’s honestly hilarious that drivers will hate on bicyclists for the crime of… taking up the same amount of space as a car
Look at your own engineering choices on urban roads owned by PennDOT. Philadelphians are six times more likely to be killed or severely injured on a PennDOT-owned road than on a city-owned road inquirer.com/opinion/commen…
Look at your own engineering choices on urban roads owned by PennDOT. Philadelphians are six times more likely to be killed or severely injured on a PennDOT-owned road than on a city-owned road inquirer.com/opinion/commen… https://t.co/Il6y2HEBq6
Reasonably-sized cars did exist in the US at one point and you can still find their elders from time to time. Crazy to think how much more space we'd have and how much safer and well-maintained our streets would be if more people drove these instead of monster trucks.
The section of I-95 from Center City to South Philly was meant to bolster Philadelphia's docks and industry. That did not succeed. Returning this land to Philly would save 100s of millions of $ in maintenance and would generate similar amounts in prop. tax on the reclaimed land.
When designing cycling infrastructure and amenities, the Dutch consider various cyclist profiles, ranging from 'practical' to 'recreational'. Each cyclist type has distinct needs and preferences. LEARN MORE: dutchcycling.nl/wp-content/upl…
@RM_Transit the fatal flaw of many “environmental impact” laws like NEPA and CEQA is that they completely fail to account for the adverse environmental impacts of the status quo (in this case, tons of driving and flying from SF to LA)
Both @MayorofLondon and @Anne_Hidalgo keep winning elections because they work to make their cities wonderful places to live in and go to, not places to drive through or out of as quickly as possible (the US approach).
Both @MayorofLondon and @Anne_Hidalgo keep winning elections because they work to make their cities wonderful places to live in and go to, not places to drive through or out of as quickly as possible (the US approach).
13. Postjournalism: The press lost its monopoly on news when the internet democratized info. To save its business model, it pivoted from journalism into tribalism. The new role of the press is not to inform its readers but to confirm what they already believe.
State DOTs: It is absolutely imperative that we spend $100M and demolish a downtown to save drivers 1 minute of travel time! Absolutely imperative I tell you. Also State DOTs: We cannot afford $10M to save bus riders 10 minutes of travel time. Do you think money grows on trees?
Schrödinger's Cyclist: - Riding a child's toy - Riding something so dangerous it needs a license, insurance, registration, training, PPE, tax, a roadworthiness test, and the same road rules that HGV drivers must abide by.
This guy is amazing. He admits to breaking the law (speeding) when there aren’t cameras, and also refused to acknowledge that his increased speeds add danger to the road. He’s not unique though, just honest. We need better road design now!
This guy is amazing. He admits to breaking the law (speeding) when there aren’t cameras, and also refused to acknowledge that his increased speeds add danger to the road. He’s not unique though, just honest. We need better road design now! https://t.co/cKCUzBf95z
Why do drivers ignore speed limits, park on sidewalks or in bike lanes, run red lights or stop signs, don't yield to pedestrians, use illegally tinted windows, obscure their plates, drive while intoxicated etc? Which group is killing 42k and injuring 3 million each year?
Why do drivers ignore speed limits, park on sidewalks or in bike lanes, run red lights or stop signs, don't yield to pedestrians, use illegally tinted windows, obscure their plates, drive while intoxicated etc? Which group is killing 42k and injuring 3 million each year?
this is why we must convert slip lanes across new york city into car-free pedestrian space
this is why we must convert slip lanes across new york city into car-free pedestrian space https://t.co/abTsbGhLFD
Retvrn. Cities, where people are concentrated, and the countryside, where people are sparse, manage to be all at once peaceful, beautiful and teeming with life. Cities and country optimized for cars makes them both loud, polluted, hostile, barren, dangerous, ugly and boring.
Most activists I know don’t want to be activists. They just people who see something that’s wrong and feel compelled to do something about it.
Most activists I know don’t want to be activists. They just people who see something that’s wrong and feel compelled to do something about it.
The other reason IZ persists is that elected democrats in wealthy enclaves know that imposing high affordability requirements on new multifamily housing kills most development, which allows them to indulge parochial NIMBYism while posing as friends of the poor.
There's something reassuring about reading a book written centuries ago and seeing your own feelings put into words. In the words of James Baldwin, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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@TheStalwart love to walk in LA where most intersections look like this
My family lived in NYC for 20 years. The purchase of stylish coats, boots, umbrellas and scarves means pleasant year round walking. It is not necessary to use a 3-ton vehicle as a rain coat.
Close. But in LA you can walk the whole year, whereas here it’s cold and unpleasant half the time.
The downtowns of small cities like Sioux Falls should not be dominated by parking lots, especially when the majority of trips are no more than 5 miles away in either direction. Our cities need to prioritize transit, biking, and congestion management.
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There was a MAC store in the Garden of Eden?
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Santa Cruz has really jaded me to the selfishness of these rich coastal communities. They're all white towns full of retirees with a hidden underclass of Latino workers holding up every sector of their economy. Yet their NIMBY housing policies keeps them segregated far away.
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@jasoncoxnc Which is Fn lazy. “I would like someone else to execute my values at their expense. No, I am not willing to make any sacrifice, personally.”
So we get counterproductive things like inclusive zoning, affordable housing proffers that makes regular housing more expensive & barely moves the needle on new affordable units while avoiding the real issue of broad-based subsidy borne by all for a large-scale societal problem.
Many people repeat platitudes about affordable housing and building more because that's the easy part, but they're unwilling to pay for sufficient, consistent subsidy because that's the hard part. The position ends up being, "Someone else should pay for it."
Many people repeat platitudes about labor rights and paying workers more because that's the easy part, but they're unwilling to pay more for quality, ethically-made goods because that's the hard part. The position ends up being, "I should own more stuff."