darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
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I wanted a more chilled-out way to be on Mastodon (and access the urbanists.social local timeline) so I've created:
Just screenshots of streets based on a randomly suggested dutch address. For me, a good way to catalogue what IMO is a good approach to street/road design.
First one - 3 hoog, 4491 EG, Renkum, Drenthe, Netherlands
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Holy cow, I grew up hearing of Jimmy Carter’s 1979 “Malaise Speech” used as a punchline & representative of why he was a one-term president, but folks, the transcript of this is like reading the alternate timeline of exactly what we should have done in the 1980s instead of Reagan & that whole trickle down economics boondoggle. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-crisis/
Mt Rainier, MD, an inner-ring streetcar suburb of DC with 77% renters, passes a rent stabilization measure https://www-fox5dc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.fox5dc.com/news/mount-rainier-city-leaders-vote-to-put-a-cap-on-rent-increases.amp
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Felt snarky, might delete later
I’m the only one still beating this drum, and I moved away a year ago.
But this six-lane arterial that people are rightfully demanding to reduce is exactly what VDOT and JBGSmith will spend over $300M to install next to Crystal City Metro Station in #ArlingtonVA.
From: @kcivey
https://mastodon.social/@kcivey/109903533659321399
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I just launched a new #PeerTube channel about #urbanism in the #Midwest! The first video is about the largest city in the nation without #rail #transportation, my home town #Columbus #Ohio, and how that might be about to change.
#Amtrak #LinkUsColumbus #BRT #ConnectsUS #Transit
https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/374af261-51b1-4cd8-b493-61dab9fd0b96
CBaaS?
Yep, #cargobike as a service is a thing now. An outfit in Poland will customize, manage, and maintain these sharp-looking machines for your logistics fleet for a monthly fee. https://urvis.bike/en/
Anyway, it's all about liability, not safety.
Be sure to click through, tho, for the first ever sensible take on driving and safety by a local TV newsperson, at the end of this coverage. https://youtu.be/frmQvWx2qJ8
People get killed by drivers: _____
Walmart's parking lot stop sign gets hit repeatedly by drivers: ⬇️ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/23/metro/pole-walmart-parking-lot-maine-has-become-an-internet-sensation-why-because-drivers-keep-running-into-it/
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@bikepedantic @rcars Car loans are the new mortgages, seeing as people can't afford mortgages anymore.
“Collusion” is perhaps too strong a word, but the skyrocketing cost of new cars is no longer about chip shortages.
Developing usable sustainable transportation modes shifts the demand curve.
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This is not The Onion. "Cahill said the proposal to build 70 apartments above the garage does not meet the city’s zoning regulations because it does not provide any parking."
https://www.salemnews.com/cahill-says-city-opposes-apartments-above-mbta-garage/article_baac66aa-b2bd-11ed-976a-472434eb2664.html
Current bid is $11,500 for the fire truck that you wish your city designed its streets around. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-honda-acty-5/
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Please help us make sure this body of knowledge doesn't get lost as we try to put this pandemic in our rear view. If you & your community have a story to tell us about how the pandemic changed your approach to #transport, #mobility, or public space, we want to hear it.
You can message me here or email us at shiftingstreets-at-unc-dot-edu
See/download the data at pedbikeinfo.org/shiftingstreets
h/t @pedbikeinfo (3)
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#CambridgeMA offering universal pre-k for the youths is pretty good. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/16/cambridge-universal-prek/
Morning #accumoose: less than 2 compacted inches in North Cambridge. Can’t believe that my kid’s camp was cancelled for this. @universalhub
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Mount Rainier Expected to Let Out Little Fart in Celebration of Ash Wednesday: https://bit.ly/3Y2nnu0
complaining about dull content you see on mastodon but you only follow 117 people
Bikes and stuff. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.
So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.
Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22
Joined Feb 2023
