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"A complete lack of vision."
Critics of West Hartford's plans to reconstruct its town center say the design is "auto-centric" by favoring parking and cars over pedestrians, bicyclists and amenities like expanded outdoor dining.
ctinsider.com/westhartford/a…
Aaron Frankel retweeted
News organizations just seem constitutionally unable to assign agency when the agent in question uses a car. Imagine a headline reporting "Man Whose Gun Fired Bullets" where the police and witnesses had identified him as the one squeezing the trigger.
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4 key points from BikeWestHartford.org for @TownofWestHrtfd Task Force on Traffic and #PedestrianSafety:
1) Set timetable to achieve goal of zero road fatalities & serious injuries (#VisionZero) and use crash data to prioritize action steps. See #SS4A grant guide & our map
ALT screenshot of Bike West Hartford letter to Town on Task Force for traffic and pedestrian safety
Aaron Frankel retweeted
Shoutout to all my New Englanders who still slept with the windows cracked open last night
Aaron Frankel retweeted
It’s 2022, and 157 House Republicans just voted against marriage equality.
That’s where they come down on this issue.
In 2022.
Aaron Frankel retweeted
A college student was killed this week, on an avenue that has been known by @HartfordDPW and @DDSHartford to be problematic and dangerous for years. How many more deaths before physical design and engineering changes are made?
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Aaron Frankel retweeted
Many business owners believe their livelihood depends on two lanes of free-flowing traffic and two parking spaces outside their front door.
Except cars don’t have wallets, people do; and they’re far more likely to spend their time and money in serene, social, stimulating places. – at Delft, Nederland
Aaron Frankel retweeted
I can’t… get over this.
Bikers- risk our lives everyday, emit no CO2, kill virtually no one: $0 subsidy
Car drivers- Kill 40k of people a year, leading cause of CO2 emissions: $1000s of implicit subsidy + now new $800 subsidy
🤯🤯🤯
Aaron Frankel retweeted
Dear @SenWarren: I am generally a fan of yours. I am a liberal progressive and support many of the same things you do. But you are absolutely wrong on crypto, and specifically wrong about this issue. Please let me explain: (1/)
Cryptocurrencies risk undermining sanctions against Russia, allowing Putin and his cronies to evade economic pain.
U.S. financial regulators need to take this threat seriously and increase their scrutiny of digital assets. nytimes.com/2022/02/23/busin…
Aaron Frankel retweeted
There is a lot of dangerous partisan rhetoric about a crimewave in Connecticut. The anecdotes and fear mongering is being used to attempt to further criminalize communities of color and to discredit the ruling party ahead of statewide elections. Here are some facts:
Aaron Frankel retweeted
I watched this as it happened and it shocked me then as it shocks me now. The comparison of racial injustice to wearing a mask to ensure the safety of you, your children, and your neighbor are beyond disappointing.
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Hugh Bailey: Trying to talk a crime wave into existence ctpost.com/columnist/article… via @ConnPost
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Note to all my but our “local character” friends… “Our state is only growing in municipalities that allow multifamily housing to be built. The vast majority of towns, where suburban development dominates, have plateaued or are shrinking.” ctpost.com/columnist/article… via @ConnPost
Aaron Frankel retweeted
High-speed rail connects people to opportunities, creates union jobs, & helps the planet.
Our infrastructure ask is simple: For every $1 the US puts into car infrastructure, let’s put $1 into rail.
Go to FundHighSpeedRail.org & join me, @sethmoulton,& @Teamsters to get going.
Aaron Frankel retweeted
🧵Seeing a lot of interest in a "Palestine reading list." I wrote this one for an interested colleague last year and thought it might be helpful to some with the huge caveat that this is not comprehensive and no list can ever be (some titles trimmed for space) (1/x):
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Reclaiming city streets for people is never easy, but it will never be easier than it is right now. Last year's global revival of street life was just the start; surrendering it all back to cars would be a historic blunder. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Aaron Frankel retweeted
You should not have to own a car to prosper in this country, no matter what kind of community you're living in.
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Here is a story that I've worked on for a while and that I consider somewhat personal.
It's the story of two suburbs, West Hartford and Bloomfield, and how a long, varied history of housing discrimination shaped (and continues to shape) where we live.
courant.com/news/connecticut…
Aaron Frankel retweeted
He's gone. And now, it is up to us to drive out what he represents. He is lies and bigotry and injustice and tyranny embodied--and the work is only beginning to drive him out of our body politic.
Joy, today.
Resolve, tomorrow.
