Kevin Shepherd

@k_shepherd

Prosperity doesnt come from endless new growth, it's cultivated. I help cities put Strong Towns principles into practice. founder/CEO

Dallas, TX
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Joined April 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Oct 2021

    What if cities took their and federal infrastructure funding and INVESTED it into 1000 small projects to improve local neighborhoods vs SPENDING it on a mega project to add lanes or new road that will just be congested again in a year and increase future liabilities?

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  2. 17 hours ago

    You get what you plan for. Folks don't want density or traffic, but then they gripe about roads being to close and certainly don't want to pay what's truly needed to build and maintain roads over time. Just another flaw of sprawl revealing itself.

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  3. Mar 22

    Affordable housing is different than housing affordability. Affordability and quality do not have to be mutually exclusive. Quality of life means different things to different people. And, what's affordable for buyers isn't always affordable for the city to serve. That's all.

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  4. Retweeted
    Mar 20

    The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. HT

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 20

    We judge people too much by the opinions they give and too little by the values they live. You don't have to like their point to admire their courage in making it. Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right.

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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    Bipartisan love for a taxpayer funded program with almost no accountability. Look no further than the emotional freakout from many state DOTs & Senators from FHWA's unenforceable memo suggesting we prioritize repair, safety, climate & equity before building more of the same.

    The Federal Highway Administration is urging states to look to their targets — and says it might add more — before expanding highways. But the suggestion has started a bit of a ruckus
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    Mar 16

    Mayor Funk is spot on, as usual. In my experience, there is plenty of room in police budgets to repurpose dollars from low value to higher value services and strategies. Better policing does not have to cost more money.

    It's past time to add a new dimension to our discussions of police accountability.
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  8. Mar 15

    Back in Morgan City and Berwick, LA with for a 2nd workshop on cultivating fiscal health and local wealth. Really enjoy coaching cities and residents on how to embrace and execute incremental development to improve their downtowns and neighborhoods.

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  9. Mar 11

    These incidents are not "accidents". They are crashes that kill innocent people, and they can be prevented with better design that protects humans. We have to stop the heavy bias toward protecting drivers that are already protected by their steel cocoons.

    Absolutely appalling for a journalist to tweet this.
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  10. Retweeted
    Mar 6

    Study of Edinburgh block types by Chris Ritter, illustrating how a place can be enhanced by greater density. A suite of lovely renderings here:

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    Mar 5

    I'm not one to idolize celebrities in the least bit, but I must say that Keri Russell is a true inspiration to me for emulating a Dutch Cycling life on her Gazelle omafiets. 🇳🇱 😍 1/2

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  12. Mar 5

    Every mayor and council member in every suburb needs to read this thread on housing, written by one of their peers. This is absolutely spot on.

    "What kind of impact will growth/missing middle housing have on current residents?" is a question I get because we always hold change to a different standard than we hold the status quo to.
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    Mar 5

    “It’s incredible what a bike can do for a kid’s independence, and I will tell you first-hand how [my son] has become so much independent and self-reliant since we moved to the Netherlands and a big part of that has been his ability to just ride his bike”

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  14. Mar 5

    👇he's right. The longer we wait to transform cities into places comfortable for people to get around without a car, the more the driving folks will be subjected to higher gas prices, home values, property taxes, etc. Either embrace change or stop bitching about prices going up.

    City leaders: if y’all had listened to bike/ped/transit advocates for the last several years instead of SUV drivers complaining about parking, many more of your constituents would have good alternatives to these high gas prices. Just sayin’
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  15. Retweeted
    Mar 4

    How about that! No one had to require it. MPOs and states that want to do something different with the money they have discretion over can do something different.

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    Mar 4

    The people living here don't give a damn if gas is $10 a gallon.

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  17. Feb 28

    I've met and worked with a lot of cities over the last decade since I first encountered Strong Towns. Few if any of them match what the is doing to embody strong towns principles. They got my vote in round one of the 2022 contest. 👍

    THE TEXAS THROWDOWN. Voters will decide whether Navasota or Taylor will represent Texas in the 7th annual Contest Elite Eight round.
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    Feb 27

    This is a myth that everyone seems to believe, including the press, in spite of very easily quantifiable proof that it is wrong and has been for decades. Was it ever true?

    “But mah gaz tax!” Here’s a useful map for people who think gas taxes cover the cost of roads. (They don’t.)
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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 23

    We should be asking, ‘What is a fully utilized road? How much of the day should it not be fully utilized so that we’re not wasting money?’ It’s too tantalizing to buy more toys before we take care of the toys we have. We can’t seem to fail at this enough to learn the lesson.

    Virginia has 6,359 bridges in need of repair. $536.8 million in new federal funding will help, but how’d it get so bad? 🛣💰🚧 In my latest story, hear from Sen. , & why we can’t seem to fix it first.
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    Feb 23

    Virginia has 6,359 bridges in need of repair. $536.8 million in new federal funding will help, but how’d it get so bad? 🛣💰🚧 In my latest story, hear from Sen. , & why we can’t seem to fix it first.

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