Anyone else get really curious about where each individual car on the road is going? I mean not during peak hour, then you can fit them into the societal narrative of workdays, I mean like 10am on a Friday in a random suburb, 6am on a Sunday, where is everyone going?
Same when I go past a café in a residential area on a weekday that's full of people. What are your stories? What are you all up to?
The world is so complex, and what I know is so limited.
@cd24 @JamesGleick @pluralistic It's been so hard to find a decent answer by searching for this! At least as of a month or two ago.
Here are my slides "The Science of Growing Urban Bicycle Networks" from yesterday's workshop on sustainable mobility [pdf]: http://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2023sgu.pdf
For #Sydney people, this is a quick and fun (reportedly) way to help with some #walkability research
UNSW Study - Perceptions of Walkability in Sydney
@Andbaker Meaning, you are fairly confident that students wouldn't fail to declare/cite just because they were nervous about the consequences (despite you allowing it)?
Certainly very different numbers to Turnitin's own claims.
@Andbaker Really interesting. What is Turnitin providing in terms of analysis, eg does it highlight specific sections as it does for other sources? Does it provide any reasoning attached to the highlights? What did you think from looking at the positives yourself?
I wonder if you could run an anonymous survey asking students if they had used it, and see how the %s line up.
Clover Moore, City of Sydney Lord Mayor is requesting the incoming roads minister John Graham considers:
- Removing the toll on the Cross City Tunnel
- Introducing a CBD congestion charge
https://twitter.com/CloverMoore/status/1645989100439363584
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8154280/fantastic-opportunity-to-fix-sydneys-toll-road-mess/
#clovermoore #cityofsydney #cos #tollroads #tolls #nsw #auspol #congestioncharge #congestionzone #planning #sydney #transurban
oh and in the name of #openscience I'm trying to put more of my scribbles online, this can be found here:
https://github.com/JosephineRoper/Access-visualisations/blob/master/Wimbo%20Park%20LR%20stop.ipynb
@KyleStewart Thank you, that's very worth reading at length.
@static Yeah. It would be cool to split them and run double the frequency... as I understand the length was a compromise to create less delay for cars at intersections, but not sure that it holds up if measured in person-delay.
@SydneyCyclewaysFan Good question... it mostly seems to be driven by residents nearby.
Neither stop serves Crown Street very well which seems like the main attractant for people from elsewhere (I didn't mark it but it's the street basically right down the middle of the two stops in the 'after').
I'm more 'not against it' than for it myself too.
@KyleStewart what was the article?
I just had a look and to be honest, I don't have that much coherent material to share. Mostly textbook chapters, my own notes and tutorial outlines about readings that were often a bit left-field (like about how the Amish choose what new technology to adopt - https://www.wired.com/1999/01/amish/). Maybe that was why it was such a good course, most of the integration happened in our heads.
These close stops here and in the CBD would make more sense if the light rail was faster - long dwell times and slow acceleration seem to be the main causes which could potentially be improved.
But I haven't done an end-to-end access analysis which would help really understand how useful or not the stop is.
Petition for another light rail stop in Surry Hills: https://www.teamclover.com.au/wimbolightrail
I've signed mostly because I don't like the argument that stops would be too close together because of a fixed '400m catchment', which is outdated and not representative of mode choice decisions & experience for shorter trips.
Having registered my opposition to catchment analyses... here's a rough one anyway.
@jakecoppinger I want to make some kind of map or viz about all the holidays you could make with a bike in NSW, not just rail trails... Small towns where the beach or the sites (cliffs for me) are 2-10km from town. Easily bikable distances, but too far for most to want to walk.
But maybe the cycle trail tourism argument is already sufficient.
BicycleNSW has started a petition for allowing roll-on (unboxed) bikes on regional trains: https://www.change.org/p/roll-on-bikes-on-regional-trains-is-years-overdue
This is no ordinary petition; there is a PDF of briefing notes explaining why the changes are minimal and feasible: https://centralwestcycletrail.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Briefing-Note-%E2%80%93-Bicycles-on-NSW-Regional-Trains_v-13Mar23.pdf
If you'd like to cycle from Sydney to the regions (or the other direction) have a look!
#bicyclensw #cycling #railtrails #australia #nsw #auspol #johaylen #bikepacking #biketouring #bicycletouring #cycletouring #sydney #nswtrainlink
@Transportist and who also would not rather just get a cooked dinner delivered for much the same price. (I think that's why people in my complex, who otherwise fit the description, stopped using it).
@KyleStewart Impact on others inside or outside the company? I used to teach a course on ethics in engineering that had a lot of readings about the latter. So while I don't know the blog post I could send something if you are interested in that.
PhD student at UNSW City Futures Research Centre. Committee member of WalkSydney (https://walksydney.org/). Interested in access, walkability, sustainable transport in general, open source urban analytics. Transport cyclist, climber, plant based.