"New" cities are always gonna suck, and have to resort to gimmicks to move people around, as long as we treat universal stress-free motor vehicle access to them as a nonnegotiable need.
"Far from being an outlandish, unpractical idea, gondolas are the future of urban transportation. And the sky’s not the limit, for they hold a unique potential to transform both public transit and the landscape of the city. Boston, let’s rise above and embrace them."
1. I'm gondola-agnostic, but if it's just replicating a road or transit, we're just paying to not do what's right.
2. If we can't keep trains in good repair, you really wanna dangle from an MBTA cable?
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2023/05/blue-sky-boston/?s_campaign=opmbta:newsletter
as far as i can tell, Barcelona's traffic engineers take a layered approach. the first layer is that most of the streets are one-way. this immediately eliminates a particularly dangerous form of traffic (left turns across oncoming traffic). it also means that they can put the crosswalk on the "oncoming traffic side" of intersections, so all turning vehicles are turning **away** from where the pedestrians and cyclists are crossing.
It’s Wacky Woom Clearance Day on Craigslist! Another $100 Woom 3, this time in Portsmouth NH https://nh.craigslist.org/bik/d/portsmouth-kids-woom-bike/7623370721.html
My dreams are modest - finding a cheap Bullitt frameset that I get powdercoated in robin’s egg blue.
WILL YOU TAKE $97.50?: Woom 3 in Vienna Va for an incredible $100 https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/bik/d/vienna-woom-bike-purple/7623312801.html
Fresh out of the policy oven: New FHWA ped and bike policy guidance. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/bicycle_pedestrian/guidance/
Unsolicited Bike Advice on substack is worth a place in your inbox https://open.substack.com/pub/unsolicitedbikeadvice/p/unsolicited-bike-advice-3?utm_source=direct&r=2vg23&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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