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Urban designer doing some math and visualizing data.
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Straight out of the old advertising messaging strategy: "the more you spend, the more you save!"
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Don't ask if you need a vehicle over 6,000 lbs. Just buy it because you'll get a tax break. Amazing.
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@Boenau Google “range rover tax break” and check out the law that supports it. There’s a policy reason why there are more of these 6k lb vehicles around. Dothemath!
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Accountability and culture change is needed.
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PLEASE READ AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE.
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PLEASE read this post!
Many people who want to change things for the better in their place want an example of another ...
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Today we are recording an episode featuring and the property tax equity analysis his company has pioneered. Tune in at 3:30 pm ET for our Facebook Live broadcast (link below).
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E tu Asheville with I26
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We’ve reached peak self-delusion when the construction of massive highways is trumpeted as a fuel- and climate-saving act.
No highway expansion has ever done anything but the opposite. twitter.com/the_transit_gu…
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Be sure to share the good news and encourage other experts to chime in to support!
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IF YOU READ ONE THING TODAY.
This is the most important article I’ve written.
If you won’t read it, please unfollow me. I am no use to you.
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Meanwhile NCDOT is preparing mostly 8 lanes in Asheville (pop 90k) while Milwaukee (pop 569k) pushes to do no more than 6 lanes. #sad
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Documents here: bit.ly/3VidNm2
"A resolution calling upon the WisDOT to reconstruct Interstate 94 (I-94) between 70th Street and 16th Street within its current footprint with six lanes, or "Fix at Six," and opposing the eight-lane alternative..."
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The curb design saved most of the signs.
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My e-bike is speed limited from the factory. twitter.com/DeadlyAsphaIt/…
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Construction of I95 in Miami required the forcible relocation of over 12,000 residents—nearly 100% of them black. Using eminent domain, the gov't seized buildings across the heart of Miami's black community in Overtown, offering owners well below market rate—and renters nothing.
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This system need to change, and shame on Buncombe for dragging their feet.
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Chk out 's prez for re: how we can use simple math to calculate development impact costs on communities. He also speaks to the many ways municipalities lose needed tax revenues from single family developments.
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Transpo Dept:
- We designed this at 10mph above the speed limit.
- Everybody's driving 10mph above the speed limit.
- We recommend raising the speed limit.
- We now recommend re-designing the road to be 10mph above the new speed limit.
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Not much has changed.
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These illustrations from Kenneth Schneider's 1971 classic Autokind v. Mankind
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It is unconscionable that a city of 900,000 people has a downtown that's essentially a parking lot. (Columbus, OH)
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Where’s urban renewal, when you need it? Mansion Blight: How the Most Expensive Homes Drain Community Wealth
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Learn why we failed to learn.
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This aired in 1988 and yet I have to have the same conversation with NIMBYs in the year of our lord 2022 as if they never heard of this concept.
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2 of my favorite people = great discussion!
Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns Discuss Public Transit in North America youtu.be/UXCl3_Xq21I via
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Those who know me & my channel know that I love to produce long-form video podcasts, but I also enjoy watching them, especially when they feat. some of my urbanism friends, like in this fab episode w/ & of
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.@JoeUrbanThree talks about disparities in the data on the assessment process which he presented to the North Carolina Ad Hoc Appraisals Committee, & about the historical practice of redlining which has contributed to our broken property tax system.
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Oh how Americans have changed...
I'm watching the original Twilight Zone and this quick conversation mentioning 1.5 miles as walking distance caught my attention.
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Today’s EPA ruling on carbon emissions will help bring us closer to the Founder's vision for America: one without a Florida.
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Hey @notjustbikes -- Congratulations, the @USDOT will now help you learn American best practices so your country can tap into our transportation expertise.
Our hubris is only exceeded by our imprudence. In transportation, we should be asking for guidance, not offering it. twitter.com/USDOT/status/1…
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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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75 million children and 900,000 sworn law enforcement.
2020 about 4300 children died by gunfire. 0.00005%
2020 had 44 officers killed by gunfire. 0.00004%.
It's less dangerous to be a cop than a child in America.
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When institutions circle the wagons this way, they make themselves irrelevant. It amazes me how they fear the warranted criticism.
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To protect the advocacy work that we do at @StrongTowns against future harassment from the Minnesota engineering licensing board, I've officially retired as a professional engineer. FWIW, I'm 48 years old.
Here's the letter I wrote the board.
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I'm in Winnipeg now, ready to go on a short tour with some local leaders. Tomorrow, I'll be sharing stuff from the new book and having a great conversation with friends.
Snow may postpone an event, but we won't let it cancel one. I'm glad we're making this happen.
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“When we pick a design speed for street, we are selecting among different, competing priorities. Is it more important that peak traffic move quickly, or is it important to maximize the development potential and safety of the #street?” @clmarohn @StrongTowns
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Last week, published a lazy article that attacked me and for being "anti-highway." It was a bad take.
Why are highway expansions such a libertarian blind spot?
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A timely report by and examines the intersection between land use planning and #finances to Boost the #revenue productivity of the #tax base in #localgovs.
Click here: gfoaorg.cdn.prismic.io/gfoaorg/eef80f
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Succinct. And correct.
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As @StrongTowns, @clmarohn, & @JoeUrbanThree note, the existence of ugly & unsustainable absurdities like this isn’t random or due to market forces. It’s a perfectly rational outcome of failed 20th century zoning, transportation, and tax policy that’s nearly ubiquitous in the US. twitter.com/urbanthoughts1…
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More living space, less parking space.
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Probably not a fair comparison, as Voodoo may actually have had more scientific study than most TDMs.
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Traffic modeling is voodoo science--yet it's still the basis for pretty much every infrastructure decision for every city in America.
@clmarohn's reveal on the issue is so good here that I had to write up a transcript from this podcast (apologies for any errors): twitter.com/NewAmericanPla…
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Well @charlesincitiesm if you remove the 25% of Americans imbeciles that believe that the sun revolves around the earth from this sample, you're down to 50%. So look on the bright side! One can't win over nincompoops. tinyurl.com/y4amf4cv
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75% of Americans believe that sprawl is actually good for the environment. We’ve got our work cut out for us. twitter.com/YouGovAmerica/…
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As a society, we've decided that private companies are allowed to design, produce, and sell vehicles capable of speed and power that enables this type of violence on our streets.
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Denying how highway expansions induce people to drive more should be considered professional malpractice. A member sent me this memo put together by .
The 1950's called and want their traffic analysis back.
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What, you don't wanna go back to risking your life crossing 6 lanes of traffic and a drainage ditch to get to lunch at the Pickle Barrel?
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