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Interestingly, transportation engineers know exactly how many people must die, or risk death, in a given timeframe, before adding crosswalks, signals, etc. when there is obviously something desirable across the street (e.g., bus stop, store, school, park... or maybe even a pond)
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Western VA Route 50 should be the precedent for VA Route 15 & countless other old rural routes in Virginia & across the US if we wish to curb VMT, sprawl, & several other unsustainable outcomes.
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Replying to @stevemouzon
Local regs keep widening this, b/c functional class is tied to land use categories.
US Route 50 in northern VA is excellent eg of extreme traffic calming. VDOT had grade sep hwy planned & locals stopped it. (an @IanLockwoodPE specialty)
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“The [signs, signals and markings in the] MUTCD aren't there to make our streets safer. They’re there to make them faster… At slower speeds, we don’t need all that stuff."
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If you’re attending the @TRB meeting in DC, I invite you to two sessions at the convention center where we will discuss slowing design speeds on dangerously fast arterials. 1) Workshop 1054, Jan 8, 1:30 pm, Rm 207B. 2) Lecturn Session 2221, Jan 9, 6:00 pm, Rm 101. See you soon!
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One by one, these wrongheaded highways will be removed from cities. Each time, the city will improve & society will be better off. Go Savannah!!
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The terminus of I-16 cuts into the historic core of Savannah, and removal of a flyover would help to heal the wounds of 1960s destruction on a minority and immigrant neighborhood. #HighwaystoBoulevards #FreewayFighters cnu.org/publicsquare/2
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Motordom. After 10,000 years/400 generations of trial & error, associated with city-making, the planning & design metric changed from the human to the car (just 75 years ago). Fundamentals were overturned & related problems resulted. Undoubtedly, the reckoning has just begun.
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What’s the biggest problem our cities are facing in just ONE word?
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Candidate #10 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:
'When the solution is right in front of you'
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After decades of community activism, work by cities & help from pro-city groups, the 710 Freeway thru S. Pasadena is truly dead! This week, Caltrans returned the 710 Stub land to Pasadena. This precedent should help accelerate your city's/DOT's next Highway-to-City/Place project.
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🇫🇷 Paris is removing half its street parking to free up space for people.
🚗 Cars in Paris take up 50% of public space.
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"It starts with a discussion about values. What's important to people?"
Hear Toole Design's on the podcast breaking down the different types of highway removal, including spur removal, section removal, relocation, and prevention.
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Those choosing (and for many/most, it IS a specific choice) to live in the suburbs are NOT entitled to free-flow car traffic capacity (aka an “easy commute”) into the city at the expense of the taxes, health, safety & quality of life of city-dwellers.
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It was a mistake 70-80 years ago to let highway engineers become the principal urban planners of the form and function of entire urban economies and remains a mistake to this day.
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On an average US day, about 321 people are shot. In the last 12 days, 17 mass shootings occurred:
Today: TX
Yesterday: SC
Saturday: IN & WA
Friday: FL, CA, & LA
Thursday: IL
Wednesday: PA
Tuesday: CA
Sunday: CA, NCx2, TXx2
Saturday: NY
Friday: WI
What's the solution?
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*NEW DATE* - Join us Monday, March 28 to share your ideas and dreams for the parkways and hear the plans for 2022.
Register: gatineaupark.eventbrite.ca
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On Mar 29, join us to hear the @NCC_CCNs plans for Gatineau Park for 2022. At this session, we'll open the floor to you to hear your dreams and ideas for the Park.
Register: gatineaupark.eventbrite.ca
#ottbike #gatineau #gatvelo
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It's a choice. We can fill our public spaces with cars or fill them with life.
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“I was super excited when I got to work with an engineer who looked like me! She helped me believe that if she could do it then I could do it, too.” Learn how our engineers reimagine the possible—and how engineering became possible for them. #EWeek2022 tooledesign.com/insights/2022/
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Highways across the country have been separating Black and white neighborhoods at all costs since the 1950’s… even if it meant making zig zag lines like a racist Mario Kart.
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Great discussion tonight on the canal parkways. 150 people came out - lots of fantastic ideas!
Thanks to our amazing moderator + special guests .
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They’re discriminatory because, in cities, the highways were routinely routed through communities of color, who now suffer far higher negative impacts, compared to white communities: I-4 Eatonvile, I-45 Houston, I-10 New Orleans, Durham Freeway, I-95 Overtown, I-980 Oakland…
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slams the "woke-ification of federal policy" in the bipartisan infrastructure bill:
"There's trees they're putting in, they're saying that highways are racially discriminatory, I don't know how a road can be that."
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Example of positive incremental change is the removal of I-81 with a community street grid enabled by the leadership of and the new transportation bill! Go Syracuse!
and can help you with highway removal work!
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Hastings Street, Pic1, Motown’s Black cultural & business center, Pic2, was destroyed by I-375, Pic3. Its blast zone then damaged the rest of the neighborhood, Pic4. On let's start listing all the racist highways that need Triple-R (repent, remove & reparations) projects.
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The 413 highway boosters say it is about jobs but the Sustainable Plan that the City of Brampton developed will result in double the jobs, plus better health outcomes, less car-dependency, less sprawl… The pro-highway rhetoric just isn’t credible.
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It's quite weird that Doug Ford has chosen a $10 billion highway project as a flashpoint for an election. All the municipalities along Highway 413's path oppose it, because they're hearing from residents against it. This whole thing is *entirely* to appease his friends. #onpoli
The South Bend model shows good things happen when cities follow community visions that emphasize slow speeds, 2-way streets, integrated land use, place, & active transport; while bad things happen to other cities led by traffic models that emphasize speed, space, & LOS for cars.
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South Bend is Indiana's top growth city, per U-Haul data analysis
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Yes, that solution has existed since before cars were invented. In fact, all the solutions, that we need, already exist. It’s a matter of altering priorities, reforming policy, & realigning the money. Collectively, changing these things would mean the world. Best wishes for 2022!
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Candidate #10 for 2021's election of most #PowerfulMobilityMeme:
'When the solution is right in front of you'
—@IanLockwoodPE
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Median trees add to both the beauty and pedestrian safety of the Eddy Street-Howard Street intersection.
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Highway teardowns coming
"Conventionalists will scare people w/simplistic questions such as “How will people get to work?” Rest assured people get to work in good cities too. London doesn’t have any inner-city highways. People get to work" - dmagazine.com/publications/d
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Asif! It’s “Enrich””,” not “appease”. As in “this whole thing is to enrich his friends”
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It's quite weird that Doug Ford has chosen a $10 billion highway project as a flashpoint for an election. All the municipalities along Highway 413's path oppose it, because they're hearing from residents against it. This whole thing is *entirely* to appease his friends. #onpoli
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Are you sure that is a highway or is it an infestation of giant concrete squids consuming the city and sucking the life out of the streets? twitter.com/the_transit_gu
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The loss of value -- in terms of housing units, neighborhood-scale commercial buildings, and engaging places -- caused by the construction of the Inner Belt/Cooper Bridge and its cloverleaf ramps is evident when comparing these 1957 and 2021 aerial photographs.
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Please keep in mind that conventional traffic forecasts, models & metrics aren’t about accuracy or helping society. Their primary purpose is PR; to plausibly rationalize #Motordom & steady streams of billions in public funds for highway builders & subsidies to sprawl developers.
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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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No traffic signals, pavement markings, crosswalks, parking garages, stop signs…Lots of people, social exchange, buildings addressing the streets, activity… You can actually hear people talking! Prior to #Motordom /cars, streets in cities were like public spaces or something.
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Ever wonder what cities of North America were like before the coming of cars?
Rather wonderful, judging by restored film clips.
Take a ride on a streetcar down Hastings St. in #Vancouver 1907.
Pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages...and daring cyclists.
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These people were not actors. Our cities were vibrant, balanced, places where people moved on foot, bike, carriage, horse, & transit to access what they wanted. Then the metrics changed away from access, proximity & people to cars, speed & limiting access.
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Ever wonder what cities of North America were like before the coming of cars?
Rather wonderful, judging by restored film clips.
Take a ride on a streetcar down Hastings St. in #Vancouver 1907.
Pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages...and daring cyclists.
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WOW! THIS IS HUGE. This is an enormous inequity that occurs in most states where they only pay for motorist infrastructure and unfairly force local agencies to pay for sidewalks. Thanks for sharing
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