Community Development Director at the City of Essex Junction, VT Former Transit Planner at Jarrett Walker + Associates Opinions are my own.
Portland, OR
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Some inaction on road safety in USA can be attributed to Fed. Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, w/ standards on everything from lane striping to traffic signals. It's getting an update for better bike/ ped protections, and for AVs. Website still looks like year 2000
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These charts really highlights how inconsequential congestion is as a contributor to climate emissions. 1st chart shows changes in CO2 are totally uncorrelated with changes in congestion (using TTI index). 2nd and 3rd show near-perfect correlation with hours and miles of travel.
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Transportation professionals, do you have a good example of a metric used in alternatives analysis to capture pedestrian inconvenience / delay at big intersections with many lanes where you press the button wait forever? @dongho_chang @schmangee @nickfalbo
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Wales Cancels Major Road Building Projects - h/t BBC dlvr.it/SjSJ5M
“Each additional need that is met by the network strengthens it, and allows it to grow, meet more needs. “ @denisagar piece on what can be achieved w abundant network of intercity transit designed to serve a diversity of users, traveling for diff reasons: capitaldaily.ca/news/opinion…
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The Onion is not playing today.
ALT The front page of The Onion satirical website where every article has the headline: "No Way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens." Locations for each article are locations of mass shootings in the past year.
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Good @nytimes article on the freeway debates in my home town, Portland. Our city and state have done great things, and often it did them first, but it's so nice not to be viewed as "Perfect Portland" anymore. nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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Fine words from the @VP, but the problem of poor bus frequency isn't about infrastructure funding. It's about operations funding.
We all know what it means to miss a bus by just one minute—being at least an hour late to work, school, or visiting family during the holidays.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will invest in our public transit systems to ensure folks can get where they’re going.
ALT An image of Vice President Kamala Harris and the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in an electric bus, both wearing masks.
Multi-story distribution centre on a small parcel in a relatively central industrial area is welcome innovation. Logistics jobs shouldn't *always* have to be inside single story rectangles in a sea of parking in some far-away place far from decent transit dailyhive.com/vancouver/amaz…
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Sometimes I wonder how city planners and engineers can put up signs like this and declare victory with a straight face . This is Edith blvd in Albuquerque, a designated bike route.
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broke: a regular boring roof
woke: a solar roof
bespoke: a roof deck so awesome it convinces people to stay in the city rather than moving to the suburbs thereby reducing their carbon footprint by over 50%
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How many more flood videos will go viral before we stop spending 80% of federal transportation funding on highways?
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Like its cousin “jaywalking,” “loitering” is a fake word. There is no such thing as “loitering.”
But if we’re going to insist that loitering is a thing, we should do everything we can to encourage it. Cities need much, much more loitering.
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Homes can either be an appreciating asset or something we make enough of for everyone to live in, but not both.
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Our network map for AC Transit in Oakland was just released! Thread from our lead designer…
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If you wouldn't build your house like this,
why would you build your city this way?
From Regan to Obama, there's been bipartisan support for return-free tax filing, where using data from W2's and 1099's they already have, the gov would send you pre-filled tax forms that you just check & file. Tax prep companies incl Turbotax / H&R Block lobbied to prevent that
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, @Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Special interests are literally wasting your time. If you pay for @turbotax or any other company in the
@FreeFileTaxes alliance, they are using your money to lobby the gov to keep tax prep complicated so you keep spending hours every April being dependent on their software.