Josephine Roper @jroper@transportation.social

@mario_angst_sci That's cool! Embarrassingly I'm flying to Europe this year but not for just one conference - 2 months of work and family stuff, which I'm not sure how to deal with in the long run (my partner is an expat).

Anyway, during the pandemic we effectively had a satellite for one conference, with ~6 people from my faculty. Took over a couple of classrooms (as it was all at night our time), presented and followed different sessions, had dinner together etc. It was fun and worthwhile.

@MacropodCare@theblower.au yep, and I like all the hoppers too

@tom_andraszek Nice! I'm mostly staying away from google maps routing for research because it becomes too expensive, and because (mostly theoretically, in the future) I want to be able to measure the effect of network changes. So I'm using Pandana & UrbanAccess packages with OSM & GTFS data for these kind of queries. But the Google approach is so much simpler, very easy to read.

It's so friendly here I sometimes feel awkward following people - like I should introduce myself - so a general #introduction. Also, hashtags.

I research #transport #access in #Sydney, Australia, using a lot of GIS, #python, #rstats, #OSM.

I probably followed you because I liked your thoughts about Australian #urbanism, #bikepacking, #ebikes, #choralmusic or #rockclimbing, or you work at #UNSW too and seem cool.

Je suis aussi capable de toot un peu de l'#urbanisme, #vélo et j'aime suivre ça.

@tom_andraszek I have no words. Which decade do they live in up there again? Oh wait we're doing it in every state.

Aaaand they even have the nerve to slap the 'Better active transport' tag on the project page.

@philipthalis so jealous of cross-ventilation this week! My single-frontage apartment just doesn't let the cool changes in. It works for people who use aircon, but we don't...

Though another note about those buildings is they typically have poor sound insulation and that contributes to why they remain affordable. But that could be easily fixed within the same general design.

@ajsadauskas @SydneyCyclewaysFan oh yeah I’m against mandatory helmet laws. That’s why I liked the idea that maybe someone else is too, and is quietly sneaking in images that normalise cyclists in normal clothes and no helmets in their vision of the future.

@SydneyCyclewaysFan and if it’s not (more likely) but you’ve rendered it that way to look more attractive, more likely to appeal to the people etc, maybe you should consider building projects that actually do appeal to the people… even when rendered accurately.

@SydneyCyclewaysFan yeah… I know the people choosing the images aren’t making the laws but as two arms of the same government it’s kinda hilarious.

I think I’m sensitised to this because one of the comments (that may not have made the final version) in a recent walksydney submission on the F6 was about how their renders showed 15 people wandering around the footpaths of President Ave, and maybe 6 cars on the road. If that’s really the expected proportion, why the 6 lanes?

@SydneyCyclewaysFan @betterstreetsnsw Will do, thanks. Lol at all the renders of cyclists without helmets. I'd like to think it's a sneaky statement... but probably just overlooked.

Thoughtful interview with one of UNSW's academic integrity experts on Chat-GPT and student assessment
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https://youtu.be/FpevM_kdhjg

@TRECpdx Interesting, there is a similar problem in Sydney where we want longer green pedestrian times, preferably for the whole parallel car phase, but we can't/shouldn't have red turning arrows for that whole time, but some people want them at least for some of the phase to protect pedestrians. It could potentially be a technological solution... but seems difficult to bring everywhere.

@vespasianvs Allez! Ta salle de bloc a l'air bien, ce n'est pas trop exageré avec le 'setting' moderne. Mais avec les trucs positifs comme les volumes et les tracés colourées.

@FuckCarsReddit is there an article with the text & pictures? Would like to share to someone off Mastodon. It's really cool. I like how they use the void/bridge so there's still some separation and privacy to the rooms looking onto the corridor.

minor leagues #carryshitolympics - my partner is recovering from knee surgery with the aid of his new e-bike conversion. He brings the crutch to work because he still has trouble with stairs and getting up from seats.

@jedsetter @walk_sydney +1 Hurstville to Strathfield, or even Hurstville-Bankstown-Parramatta.

And yeah I'd agree that in general we have a reasonable network, just needs frequency and speed improvements.

@walk_sydney the missing station entrances (low hanging fruit and already one of your topics I know)

Parramatta to Epping

Some kind of fancy bus line Rockdale-Brighton, down the coast, Taren Point to Caringbah (& then Cronulla). From Caringbah, buses to Rockdale are already often faster than trains because, no surprise, they don't have to go west to Sutherland. But current lines are infrequent and little known.

@Transportist what a lovely idea for a route. The eastern suburbs is really holding itself back...

Nicely presented for those of us who like floorplans.

The 'inside' studios of the large floor plate conversion look pretty grim to me, but at some point in my life they would have been acceptable as a way to eg. live cheaply near uni and hardly ever be home.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office-conversions.html