J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski@transportation.social
- https://twitter.com/swiderskiji
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/erskiji/
active & public transportation advocate and planner; lifelong walker and somewhat-more-than-occasional bike rider.
fan of maps, transit, & cities; baseball, hockey, and football; puns; oxford commas; semicolons; and, above all, bus stuff.
"The program fee is $2,000 for private sector participants" 😹
"Applicants are welcome from any location; however, we are unable to subsidize travel or lodging for participants." 🤣
https://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/2023/11/emerging-leaders-transportation-2024-applications-open
i make pretty good money as an early-career professional at a private firm, but there's no way i could afford to take time off, pay more than an entire paycheck (more than twice the cost of TRB!) for a half-week-long program, and pay for a hotel in NYC besides (on <6 weeks' notice!).
The Transportation Research Board magazine TR News becomes freely available 4 months after publication, so this summer’s accessibility-focused edition, “Addressing Transportation and Accessibility for All” (TRN 346, Jul-Aug 2023), is now unlocked....
PDF: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews346.pdf
Per https://twitter.com/ZachBIsrael/status/1714083443334602974, DC has reached 40 traffic fatalities for the year, matching 2021 for the worst total since 2007—with two and a half months left to go.
16 pedestrian fatalities trails only 2021 & 22 for the most on record—and, given we're only one behind 2021, we'll likely top that.
What is a mncppc, anyway?
How do you work with ANCs?
Who owns that road?
APBP-DC + @ggwash present
DMV Local Gov't 101,
sponsored by Toole Design and RK&K,
Oct 4 at Metrobar
Lightning presentations by & for planners + advocates on local govt, how it works & how to work it.
6.7 yrs of DC traffic deaths, by ward and mode.
a couple things stick out:
- W6 & esp. W7 have actually gotten better the last few years. W8 *had* been, until 2023.
- W2 had dropped quite a bit, until the pandemic.
- With a third of the year still to come, W2 and W8 are already well above recent yearly totals.
- W5 is shockingly consistently deadly. The particulars change year to year, but the same number of people are killed, year after year.
- "Vision Zero isn't a cycling program."
not sure if it's a this-instance thing or if it's a setting I unwittingly set, but this thing where as I scroll the little link preview card thing (as seen at left) flips into a giant link preview that takes up half my screen (right) is getting a little old.
if this is something I accidentally chose, how do I turn it off?
if this is a server choice, for the love of god, (a) why (b) make it stop.
Oh, hey, Metro's July 4th train is still around... #LibertyAndTransportationForAll
The American Planning Assoc. member survey asks if you're interested in pursuing AICP certification -- and, if not, what or who influenced you not to....
👏👏👏
It shouldn't be a surprise to find a municipal Vision Zero Action Plan explicitly calling out "the 94% myth" and the difference in where other parts of the world put the fault and responsibility for road safety....
...but, here we are.
TBH I don't know how anyone sees this image—or most of the pictures in this article https://www.vox.com/23462548/allison-hart-pedestrian-deaths-suvs-deadliest-roads—without breaking....
- https://twitter.com/swiderskiji
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/erskiji/
active & public transportation advocate and planner; lifelong walker and somewhat-more-than-occasional bike rider.
fan of maps, transit, & cities; baseball, hockey, and football; puns; oxford commas; semicolons; and, above all, bus stuff.
