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Credible speed camera program: 1. Focuses on ticketing the truly deviant - if large % of drivers are speeding, that's a design problem. 2. Is paired with an ethic of iterative engineering to reduce violations & improve safety. 3. Uses revenue near source for safety changes.

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I've not lambasted things for not being perfect. I reject the simplistic reaction of many who, in their war on cars, want to have a war on drivers of cars. If this is about human prosperity, we're losing the plot thread.

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Thank you, federal infrastructure bill. I'm sure one of the cities in this corridor can get a few million in a reconnecting communities grant someday.

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St. Louis Public Radio

@stlpublicradio

May 4

Missouri's operating budget now includes a $2.8 billion plan to widen Interstate 70, instead of the originally proposed $860 million. Here's what else the proposed budget does and doesn't include: news.stlpublicradio.org/government-pol

A city that allows bulk storage to be built on a lot where public utilities (sewer/water) are available is being led by unserious people. If bond rating agencies were serious people (they are not), such a scenario would result in an automatic downgrade.

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Chad Ludeman

@chadludeman

May 4

Any town in South Jersey that allows storage to be built in rare sewer connected roads is doing it wrong IMO. Anyone disagree? It’s almost impossible to build missing middle MF housing in non-sewered areas…

Mike Bostock

@mbostock

May 2

Updated my plot of bank failures. 😬 observablehq.com/@mbostock/bank

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Local leaders need to create street design teams. Appoint a non technical person to run it. Make the engineers work for them, not be the person in charge (whose values and priorities dominate). You'll get their expertise where it's helpful, opposing views where it's not.

This is why we have to redirect traffic engineers, not expect them to evolve a new understanding on their own. They are overly sensitive to auto mobility by experience. Asking them to correct that is asking them to go against decades of experience.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

@nntaleb

Apr 29

ChatGPT is said to be statistical with, say, a ~95% accuracy. That's NOT how experts function, only academics, or, worse, students. An expert who DOES things, (#SkinInTheGame) & that's definition of expertise, KNOWS where to limit his or her error rate or have an ASYMMETRY by… Show more

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Breaking out of the Housing Trap: Presentation with Chuck Marohn,...

Ethan Demme

@EthanDemme

Apr 27

Worth your time to watch - Breaking out of the Housing Trap: Presentation with Chuck Marohn, Strong Towns hosted by the

@HourglassF

in Lancaster, PA

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Following his Hourglass community forum presentation on April 12, Chuck Marohn, founder & president of Strong Towns, joined Hourglass, the Coalition for Sust...

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Engineer opposed to bollards along the sidewalks because automobiles might get damaged. The only surprise is that this honestly and widely held belief among professional engineers was spoken publicly. It's usually just subtext.

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M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

Nov 17, 2022

The modus operandi of zoning in the US is that poor people are a nuisance on par with heavy industry and should thus be segregated by law.

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Hourglass Foundation

@HourglassF

Apr 26

The videos are now live from our forums with

, founder & president of

Stronger Lancaster: A Bottom Up Revolution to Rebuild Prosperity with...

! Here Chuck highlights stories from his book, “Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity,” and gives actionable steps for #LancasterPA

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On April 12, 2023, Hourglass hosted Chuck Marohn, president & founder of Strong Towns, for a community forum. In this presentation Chuck highlights some of t...

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It would be nearly impossible for

@cityofwinnipeg

to find someone more competent or accomplished than

@hborys

. What a win for them!

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Mayor Scott Gillingham

@ScottGillingham

Apr 26

Congratulations to @hborys on her appointment as the new Director of Planning, Property & Development for the @cityofwinnipeg. Hazel has an incredible reputation as an innovator, placemaker and community builder and I look forward to working with her in this new role.

Chris Arnade

@Chris_arnade

Apr 23

This is one of those things that is obvious to 98% of the world, but somehow it’s a third rail on Twitter.

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I strongly urge everyone on earth read Strong Towns. Can change your entire worldview

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zach

@_zachblatter

Apr 19

Today I finally finished “Strong Towns” by

. I was introduced to the work of

and Charles Marohn through the

@notjustbikes

YouTube Channel. This book transformed my outlook on post-WW2 development and ignited a newfound passion for practical urbanism.

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Can a 'Strong Towns' approach fix Lancaster County's affordable housing crisis? - One United...

While

was here last week we did a special presentation on #LancasterPA housing: oneunitedlancaster.com/community/can-

@tenfoldorg

@EDCLancasterPA

@oneunitedlanc

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Charles Marohn's recipe for making housing affordable is essentially the same as his Strong Towns prescription in general: Think incrementally, think bottom-up, and lower the barriers to entry.

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Local reporting is tough. This reporter went the extra mile to not only grasp the message but convey it in a compelling way. Great summation of

concepts.

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Hourglass Foundation

@HourglassF

Apr 17

Thanks to everyone who joined our forums last week with @StrongTowns founder & president @clmarohn. Video recordings coming soon! #lancasterpa oneunitedlancaster.com/community/stro

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

Apr 16

"Stop California Zoning"

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Nathan Allebach

@nathanallebach

I hung out with this guy who wants to make towns stronger, he’s pretty cool

Vaccines Reduce Auto Crashes...?

Properly identifying the "reckless" and then explaining their deviances in self-affirming ways is an elite fetish. I find it intellectually lazy, hypocritical, and just plain disgusting.

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The Reckless Driver™ narrative reaches a whole new level of absurdity, associating reckless driving with failure to vaccinate against COVID-19.

I'm signed up for this! The Original Green by

@stevemouzon

is one of my essential reads for understanding

. Brilliant work.

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Steve Mouzon

@stevemouzon

I'm so looking forward to this! I've spoken many times on Original Green things across the country and abroad, but it's almost always a presentation with a bit of Q&A. This one will be an actual conversation with colleagues. Please join us! classicist.org/calendar/event

Give me a credible strategy for ridding the transportation system of the so-called "reckless". Won't we always have the "reckless" so long as we have humans? And, if so, don't we need to take that into account as we design streets?

Dude looks really fit. Probably got home faster and certainly saved $$. The question we should be asking: How do we make this trip easier? Answer that and we start to shift everything.

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

"Please, tell me again why you need a car..."

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@MilesGrant

"On this 'hallmark Green-Complete Streets project,' the designers ensured they checked all the boxes required for a Complete Street, but put in none of the effort needed to understand the real struggles of someone outside of an automobile." strongtowns.org/journal/2023/4

Award-Winning Complete Street Just Another Deadly Stroad

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Agar Road in Hyattsville, MD, has been lauded as a successful "Complete Street." But this so-called Complete Street is, in reality, completely dangerous—and a woman has lost her life because of it.

Having us all pointing fingers at each other is a feature of transportation safety policy, not a flaw. Identify your adversary, blame them, and don't look behind the curtain (it's too hard to change the system anyway). We don't need to be so feeble.

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kelsey huse

@kelseyhuse30

Apr 8

Something I’m thinking about today: is it possible to effectively advocate for pedestrian and cyclist safety in a loving way? It doesn’t feel like it. twitter.com/kelseyhuse30/s…

I've been watching this over and over, looking at how everyone around Ant reacted to this, recalling my reaction (stunned amazement). Wow, he is really special.

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Alan Horton

@WolvesRadio

Apr 9

What a sequence. From looking like the game would be tied to going up 5 with under a minute left...

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Montavius Jones

@MkeMontavius

Apr 8

And y'all got the nerve to be mad at me when I say our parks are just large patches of grass. THIS is a park

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Isaac Rowlett

@IsaacRowlett

Apr 7

Postmarked 85 years ago today

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Postcard showing the sunken garden and conservatory in Mitchell Park in Milwaukee Wisconsin

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Wrong again! Any city can start making their streets safer now -- to HUGE effect -- and they can do it on a shoestring budget. Start with launching your own Crash Analysis Studio and refocus your city's public works energy on what you can do right now. actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/categ

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Kyle Vogt

@kvogt

Apr 5

Replying to @actfortransit and @Cruise

Respectfully disagree with NTSB on this one. We can try to design roads and cities to be safer, but this will take decades, which is an insufficient solution to the problem we face today. In a world without AVs, I’d take that incremental gain, but we can do better now.

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This IS awful. Believe the myth of human error --> America of speed cameras and automated vehicles Recognize the role of design --> America of stronger, more prosperous cities PS - It costs less and builds more local wealth when we fix our streets.

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Kyle Vogt

@kvogt

Apr 4

This is awful. “Nearly 43,000 people died in U.S. traffic crashes in 2021, the highest number in 16 years” Almost all due to human error. This is what motivates us to work with urgency at @cruise. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/d

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My colleague

is being generous when she writes that this complete street "fell short." strongtowns.org/journal/2023/4

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This street won multiple Complete Streets awards. It's a horrible & deadly stroad that separates a residential neighborhood from a DC Metro transit stop. Check out these before and after photos (I double checked -- we don't have this backward).

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Tim

@timbihl_tim

Apr 4

At the risk of being a weekly

podcast announcer, this week's episode, E581, was excellent, and taken as a sequel to E487, it's the most intuitive explanation I've seen of how crazy fiscal policy/artificially low interest makes the whole world crazy.

Apr 4

Just put up a speed camera -- a proven technology -- and this will be safer. After all, all drivers need to do to avoid a ticket is drive the speed limit LIKE A DECENT HUMAN! (All you speed camera advocates, is this what you truly believe? It seems like it. I find it absurd.)

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Andy Boenau

@Boenau

Feb 17

When you don't understand that design influences behavior, you think a new sign will make the racetrack safer.

Apr 3

Great thread on our most recent Crash Analysis Studio. We make these sessions available to everyone with the hope that others will copy this approach. These crashes are tragedies. We owe it to society to learn the hard lessons. Don't be afraid of this kind of self-reflection.

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Erik Bootsma

@ErikBootsma

Apr 3

Last week @StrongTowns held the 3rd Crash Analysis Studio for a crash that tragically killed VCU student Mahrokh Khan. Based on that analysis and comments I have taken a bit to illustrate the problems and propose how this intersection could be fixed. Thread:

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I thought this was an April Fool's joke, but no. Try to find a Catholicism-based argument here. Even one. There is none. So, more accurate headline: Catholic makes the Libertarian case for cars.

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Carlton Reid

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Because, famously, Jesus drove everywhere. catholicherald.co.uk/the-catholic-a

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I'll speak through my own (Catholic) faith for a moment: The very human reaction to want to punish those we are angry with, to see them get theirs, is a path that leads to many dark things. We need to struggle against this reaction, especially in local public policy debates.

Without these things, speed cameras are performative, predatory, and not going to result in any added safety, in most instances. However, they do seem to tickle the sanctimonious bone of those engaged in a war on car-drivers. Also unhelpful.

And this thinking suggests that, if you listen to the radio, or read a sign other than a traffic sign, or even talk to a passenger, you're being reckless because you're not "single-mindedly focused on driving." That's fanatically absurd. And unhelpful.

We can pretend this is true. Heck, we can even pretend this is humanly possible (it's not). Or, we can recognize that we must design streets for the humans we have, not the ones we wish we had. Engineer for slow speeds and you'll get slow speeds. Everything else is posturing.

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sam

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