DOCTOR: Your kids need to walk more. Walking is healthy.
SCHOOL: Please use carline. Walking is dangerous.
POLITICIAN: Why would I support traffic calming? Nobody walks.
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Climate scientist and urban/transportation policy dilettante. Tweets are my opinion, not my employer's. Seriously, they really do not represent my employer.
Raleigh, NCJoined November 2012
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New Ford F-450 Comes With Shotgun In Case Truck Doesn’t Kill Pedestrian On Impact bit.ly/3aVa6AJ
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In an unusual move, SDOT put comments from residents concerned about a traffic calming project right on the project web page and it’s kind of hilarious?
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Helpful thread on the SCOTUS EPA climate case.
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SCOTUS decision on WV v EPA is out. Im actually breathing a sigh of relief. In what may be best of plausible outcomes, a radical SCOTUS that has been tearing up precedent all term left EPA’s authority to regulate climate-warming gases intact, though more narrowly constrained.
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Newspaper coverage of pedestrian and cyclist deaths really is skewed against victims (and in favor of drivers).
But it might not be for the reasons you think.
A 🧵 about my deep dive today in
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Helluva graphic from a state DOT
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“It’s not that I am trying to do social engineering around people using bikes, walking & transit. I am trying to undo the 60+ years of social engineering around the complete reliance on the automobile.” — well said . #cardependency
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It isn't rural or urban. It is the in between that creates the biggest problems.
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Imagine living here and thinking rural conservatives are the ones who don't care about the environment.
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Car-centric transit is a climate change issue. NIMBYism & single family zoning are climate change issues. The "normal" North American lifestyle is a high emissions lifestyle. We can't "hold corporations accountable" for emissions without changing how we collectively live & move.
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There are A LOT of things wrong with this project, but one that really sticks out is how insanely expensive it is. ~$800M for 44k - 75K vehicles per day. newsobserver.com/news/local/art
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19/ More broadly, project-level impact reviews (while essential!) are a poor substitute for progressive policy mandates like requiring DOTs to reduce GHGs, total VMT, and greenfield land consumption. True reform starts at political/planning level, not the project impact level.
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New: U.S. traffic deaths soar in 2021 -- up 18.4% in first half of 2021 as American drivers continue more unsafe driving that began during the pandemic lockdowns
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If we doubled transit operating funds in the 288 largest urbanized areas by 2050, VMT would drop 6.1% below its current growth trajectory. If we triple our investment, VMT would drop 10.7%.
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Hearing the old claim that building highways creates land value. Just look at all the "value"...
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Taxes that disproportionately fall on the poor—the sales tax, for example—are imposed all the time, and never once do you see on cable news "up next, this janitor explains why the sales tax punishes his success"
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As #COP26 draws closer it is worth reminding that if you are 30 you have been alive for more than 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions!
#dataviz #globalwarming #climatechange
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7/ And yes adding stoplights or increase speed enforcement would be more expensive. It's worth pausing for a minute to consider why DOTs always seem to find the extra money for expansion but not safety.
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6/ The problem from NCDOT's perspective is that both of these safety interventions would reduce vehicle speeds on U.S. 70 and that's a no-no for highway engineers. Always be moving more cars faster is the iron law of planning.
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1/ The highest priority in highway planning is to increase vehicle speed and throughput. As a result, "safety" projects can yield some tortured results. For instance, NCDOT wants to tweak a section of U.S. 70 in Morehead City and turn it into a "superstreet." Let's take a look.
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Fight climate change. Build high-speed rail. Pass it on. #CleanGreenHSR
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Fight climate change. Build high-speed rail. Pass it on. #CleanGreenHSR twitter.com/NCFOSEIU32BJ/s…
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New from the Facebook leaks, by :
Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity.
The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go.
It went full-on QAnon in two days.
Facebook told nobody about this.
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A team of reporters and visual journalists spent much of our summer in the Southeast's salt marshes. These critical ecosystems are threatened by climate change, with coastal development heightening risks.
Our special report on this -- covering NC, SC, GA and MS -- starts Sunday.
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Rising Tides, Shrinking Future: Disappearing wetlands, shrinking islands & #sea levels rising. What's at stake for coastal #communities? Scientists worry about #climatechange's impact and more.
On Sunday, 10/24, we're taking a deeper look. Check back for our special report.
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A concerted effort to hire more NJ Transit train engineers by @GovMurphy has resulted in the lowest level of train cancellations due to operator unavailability in years. The agency has added 127 new engineers, bringing the total to 404... nj.com/news/2021/10/n
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Kym Hunter’s name is one that officials pay attention to in a courtroom. Over the years, she has represented the environmental interests pushing back against some of the state’s largest transportation projects. bizjournals.com/triangle/news/
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Again local elected’s…. This is on you unfortunately. The Feds aren’t going to address climate disaster in a meaningful way.
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$300 billion over a decade for climate change measures is $30 billion per year
The U.S. spends roughly $20 billion a year on fossil fuel subsidies alone brookings.edu/research/refor
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It’s always interesting how traditional traffic engineering states that unless you massively widen roads, there will be complete gridlock. Yet downtown is the densest part of the city (by far), has the tightest street grid, smallest streets, and moves just fine. 🤔🤔
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Bike lanes should be all ages and abilities, all the time. If we want a better transportation future - it starts with building a connected and protected network that provides transportation equity and access. Let's roll, Raleigh!
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We're so bad at this
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U.S. power plants are on track to burn 23% more coal this year, the first increase since 2013, despite Biden’s ambitious plan to eliminate carbon emissions from the power grid. benvgo.com/ofcsAic
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I wonder at what point local progressive politicians will realize the federal government is not going to save us and they will have to actually make the hard decision to make driving less convenient and walking, biking, and transit much much more convenient.
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(Screams into pillow) nytimes.com/2021/10/15/cli
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I'm seeing a lot of tweets about how NC's new energy bill commits to reduce GHGs by 70% by 2030. It doesn't. It commits to reduction from the power sector. Completely overlooked by our State leaders is the fact that the transportation sector is just as (if not more) responsible.
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Show me one person on a bike rolling through a stop sign and I’ll show you 100 drivers speeding in an elementary school zone.
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1/ TxDOT is pushing hard to widen I-35 based, in part, on traffic forecasts that show doom and gloom. Reader, you should be deeply skeptical since TxDOT has missed the mark for decades. Let's take a look.
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This may seem like a flippant Tweet, but this is THE major misunderstanding of Vision Zero and any other traffic safety approach.
Safety starts with the system - in this case and municipal streets. Improve safety systemwide and individuals will largely follow.
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2nd iteration: individual country contributions to global cumulative emissions, sorted by per-capita emissions intensity. Punchline: countries together accounting for only 10% of global population are accountable for 50% of cumulative emissions
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NCGA says they want to reduce carbon emissions by 70% in 9 years
has plans to widen 440, turn several roads into interstates, and complete the 540 outer loop. Just in the Raleigh area.
These are fundamentally incompatible, and I'd bet my house the hwys will get built
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Today, by the numbers:
-70% of NCians over 18 are vaxxed
-70% carbon reduction by 2030 passed by NCGA
-$805 million in funding for child care/early learning announced
NC's on the move!
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After a groundbreaking settlement we negotiated, agreed (for the first time ever) to set up strategies to reduce driving. This is one of the most effective ways of fighting #climatechange. selc.link/3DlrsPX
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