Anyway, hopefully a bullet is being very slowly dodged, and Arlington's Seaport is eventually replaced with Arlington's Kendall Square.
*If fewer Amazonians will be driving to the office every day, perhaps the 4,000 new parking spaces planned were A Bad Idea That Don't Belong in Arlington's New Downtown.
*How many more years will Arlington hold open all the extra arterial roadway capacity for the more peak hour cars that won't and shouldn't come to Pentagon City?
*If the Route 1 boulevard, that no one except the developers actually wants or benefits from, wasn't the primary state investment in local infrastructure, maybe the community would have more other improvements in the pipeline to look forward to.
*If HQ2 stopping stops promised improvements to the neighborhood, that seems like some bad planning, and perhaps more of those improvements should have been initiated under a PPP entity
Can't resist, let's do some told-ya-so:
*If the megablock was broken up into more smaller-footprint parcels, maybe we'd be talking about partial buildout and repurposing. Instead, Helix and useless private lawn.
*If the Sector Plan didn't just copy-paste Amazon's plans, other planned and potential projects wouldn't be essentially frozen in place.
Anyway, the craptacular Amazon-centric Pentagon City Sector Plan is, only a year after enactment, now basically unimplementable and hopefully irrelevant, so that's good https://www.arlingtonva.us/files/sharedassets/public/projects/documents/pentagon-city-planning-study/pentagoncitysectorplan_final_for_print.pdf
500 characters are not enough for all the HQ2 Phase II 'told ya so' bullet points I have in the queue
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We know this street design is deadly, so why do we keep building them like this?
As @seabikeblog notes: "80% of pedestrian deaths in Seattle happen on streets with multiple lanes in the same direction. So why is WSDOT building a brand new street with this dangerous design?"
https://urbanists.video/w/iLvaiPKjyfR9Kast31bGCg
#walking #walkability #WalkableCities #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning @fuck_cars @video
Sure enough, we hit for the vegetarian-solar-passivehaus-electrify cycle, not a word about maybe not driving so much!
“Buy appliances that are Energy Star rated!”
“Thanks, 1998! I’ll haul them home in my GMC Suburban!”
I choose to believe that there are at least a couple of folks at the station who love this irony. It’s like the Sunday morning weather guy and some 20-something news copy writer, but still, the contrast is pretty stark.
if i showed you this statement, followed by this cross-section, would you say this was a place that's planning for more bicycling?
Page 21 of this TCRP synthesis on the interplay between BRT and people walking and bicycling gives you a flavor for #ArlingtonVA transportation planning. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27007/chapter/5#21
Excited to see the new #SomervilleMA Bike Network Plan, which envisions 88.1 miles of connected streets for safe biking –a 58 mile increase, resulting in almost 60% of streets having bike lanes or some other protective infrastructure (painted pavement doesn't count).
I love what's being done, and look forward to happier, safer cycling. I share the stats on current use because we do need to remember how much our culture still needs to change.
https://voice.somervillema.gov/somerville-bicycle-network-plan #biking #safestreets
Small glut of used R&M Load cargobikes on FB marketplace right now:
*a Load 75 with nuvinci for $7k in Fredericksburg VA https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/615580460476711/
*a Load 75 with derailleur for $8500 in Brooklyn https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/690109392882595/
*a Load 60 with Enviolo belt drive for $10k (eep) in DC https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1187982038509157/
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