PE. Civil Dengineer, Transportation and Housing Policy. Comments my own. Not speaking for any employer/board. Public sources only
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“Our goal was to create a safe and connected bike network.”
Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013 pursued a planned bicycle network, rather than simply installing bicycle lanes wherever streets happened to be scheduled for paving.
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Janette Sadik-Khan, New York City's transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013. She pursued a planned bicycle network, rather than simply installing bicycle lanes wherever streets happened to be scheduled for paving.
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Ian McKellen reciting Shakespeare's writing on racist anti-immigration riots in London during his time.
It is excellent.
They have been banging the same drum for 400 years.
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30 years ago, urbanists and policy types ridiculed arguments that zoning was fundamentally bad and Euclid should be overturned.
Today, it’s nearly a mainstream view among the same crowd, and 30 years from now, Euclid will be either neutered by the states or overturned by SCOTUS.
Exclusionary zoning is bad.
But "inclusionary zoning," rather than being the opposite of bad exclusionary zoning, is just the same old exclusionary barriers to multifamily housing given a new name.
Just say no!
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“Most cities have been competing for jobs and they need to be competing for young people. But they are largely doing the opposite—making their cities more accommodating to the elderly than the young.” – @AlainBerta66157
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Great discussion. We don’t have a crime problem, we have a violence problem where arguments end much more often in a gun death because we have so many here. youtu.be/927xZzAstfk?is=qErV…
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Walking distance for bike parking in Amsterdam.
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It would bring compact mixed use density which is the basic building block for all of it because public opinion would naturally to support it. We want lower cost market housing not lucky ducky lotteries.
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Who will write the book that tells the history of how zoning has killed hundreds of thousands and taken billions from Americans pockets for inflated scarcity driven housing costs since the 70s.
How much American death, household expense, and lost opportunity can be traced to the decisions about what we are allowed to build and where, and choosing to zone low exposure arterials into high exposure death traps?
Planning actually created the corporate commercial sameness we see on arterial roads across America that now requires billions upon billions in retrofits passed to the taxpayer.
It’s popular to blame “car brained” civil and traffic engineers responding to 100 years of planning board questions that rarely mentioned people walking and biking. The blame is pretty misguided when you understand where most of the deaths happen and why. #ericdumbaugh @Boenau @JessieSingerNYC #angieschmidt @waroncars
It would bring compact mixed use density which is the basic building block for all of it because public opinion would naturally to support it. We want lower cost market housing not lucky ducky lotteries.
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Interesting observation that I hadn’t really thought about:
The pace of improvement in street design is greater than in land use policy.
Who will write the book that tells the history of how zoning has killed hundreds of thousands and taken billions from Americans pockets for inflated scarcity driven housing costs since the 70s.
How much American death, household expense, and lost opportunity can be traced to the decisions about what we are allowed to build and where, and choosing to zone low exposure arterials into high exposure death traps?
Planning actually created the corporate commercial sameness we see on arterial roads across America that now requires billions upon billions in retrofits passed to the taxpayer.
It’s popular to blame “car brained” civil and traffic engineers responding to 100 years of planning board questions that rarely mentioned people walking and biking. The blame is pretty misguided when you understand where most of the deaths happen and why. #ericdumbaugh @Boenau @JessieSingerNYC #angieschmidt @waroncars
