Rob McIntosh @rob_telraam@transportation.social

This box of oyster crackers warns me that the crackers may be smaller than pictured, but has nothing to say about the tiny people boating and sunbathing in the tomato soup except to imply that they are a “serving suggestion.”

@rob_telraam @slowlakestreet COVID saw the rise of these all over the world, with so many names! Slow Streets, Shared Streets, Active Streets, Healthy Streets, Neighborhood Streets, Neighborhood Greenways, Neighborways, People Streets, Bike Boulevards, Low Traffic Streets, Low Stress Streets, and LTNs. Many names, but all trying to achieve similar goals.
You can see examples at http://pedbikeinfo.org/shiftingstreets

This would be pretty amazing if it happens: NYC's Mayor is looking to turn Fifth Avenue into a pedestrian priority area, with bus lanes and cycle tracks https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/917-22/mayor-adams-moves-reimagine-fifth-avenue-bryant-park-central-park

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#Telraam #CitizenScience #OpenData #TrafficCounting

We are just waiting on our Utility to turn on our #SolarPanels... They are suggesting we sell our energy credits through Knollwood, we'd receive 92% the first two years and 95% the rest.

Is this good? Should we be looking at someone else? Help me #energy #sustainability Mastodon.

Since I didn’t have many followers when I first introduced myself, I thought I should do another.

I am a professor of #urbanstudies at Georgia State University in #Atlanta. I do work on #affordablehousing, #housing, #housingpolicy, #gentrification, #segregation, #realestate #finance, #urban, #urbanpolicy

I advocate for policy change.

My most recent book is #RedHotCity from UC Press (2022) more at https://www.danimmergluck.com

Please boost if you’re so inclined! Thanks!

“residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period.”

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/11/22/torontos-curbside-patios-made-49-times-more-money-than-the-parking-they-replaced
#parking #urbanism #economicdevelopment #zoning #urbanplanning #publicfinance #cities #toronto #tor #urbandesign c @TheWarOnCars

Fun fact: the MP3 file format is as old today as 8-track tapes were when MP3 was invented

Over at the Fully Charged Show, whenever we talk about an electrified world with more heat pumps, EVs, and electric micromobility, we often get the same pushback: “but can the grid cope? “. We’ve just visited our third National Grid site - their transmission control room - to investigate that question. Our episode on the UK grid, how it works, how it’s changing, and what the future looks like, will be out in a couple of weeks.

It occurs to me that a "hashtag synonym" feature might be usefully added somewhere. #BuiltEnvironment #UrbanPlanning #UrbanDesign #CityPlanning #CityDesign

Design streets for pedestrians, not just for the convenience of drivers. (via Transport for London) #urbanism #london #urbanplanning #walkability #publichealth #desirelines

Handy Mastodon feature I noticed today, other newbies might find useful: you can go to someone's profile and "hide boosts" from them (click on the three dots right of Follow).

Ie, if you want to keep following someone's own toots but think they boost too much random stuff.

Let's talk about turning right-on-red (ROR), a manouver that should have been banned from our roads decades ago.

TL;DR:

In most of the US and Canada, drivers are ALLOWED to turn right at a red light. However:

"Permitting rights on red increases pedestrian crashes by 60 percent and bike crashes by 100 percent."

"[In 2019], 700 pedestrians and cyclists were hit on ROR intersections. This means that approximately two people a day are hit by a car turning ROR"

1/3

#urbanplanning

This modified version of the famous ‘turn #chatGPT into a pretend Linux system’ prompt is also my prototype for a product that will sell millions.