Really can't overstate the impact of the Adam Walsh case. Huge news, horrifying outcome, TV movie, and of course John Walsh ended up hosting "America's Most Wanted". Beginning of the concept that kids must be under adult supervision 24/7.
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Planner/writer. Sustainable Transportation/traffic safety. Team #openschools. Author RIGHT OF WAY . Bylines: , others
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“Because so many cities have outsourced their bikeshare system operations to the private sector, [Lyft] now exerts near-total control over them."
Lyft, unlike transit agencies, can make major modifications to critical bikeshare services without input.
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😬😬😬 that Marcy Kaptur’s congressional district went for Trump
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I can’t understand Cleveland City Council taking this stance against repairing the beloved West Side Market (a huge tourist destination and source of healthy, transit accessible food) while we’re dumping $100 million into the Rock Hall
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There's a lot of stories out there today about people leaving Multnomah County because of crime. The problem with these stories, is it fails to adequately tell another, perhaps more key reason people are leaving - because they cannot afford to live here!
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The graph that best represents the state of severe #Covid in the US is this one: the death-to-infection ratio.
We're ~15-20x lower than 2020, ~8-12x lower than 2021, and even ~4-5x lower than early Omicron.
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New research has found that cyclists hit by SUVs sustained injuries that were 55 percent worse than those struck by smaller vehicles.
And SUVs were the only vehicles in the sample that actually ran cyclists over.
Story: Kea Wilson for
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It’s interesting in his book High and Mighty Keith Bradher says fear of crime is why everyone wanted SUVs too. He said Americans are very fearful of crime because they watch a lot of violent media and that impacts their worldview (more so than like actual crime stats apparently)
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Indianapolis may not be able to pursue a no-turn-on-red ordinance. Sen. Aaron Freeman successfully passed an amendment to HB 1050 to prevent a consolidated city from adopting such an ordinance.
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Literally you found out where your friends were hanging out by getting on your bike and going past all their houses until you saw a bunch of bikes on the front lawn!
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I've started biking to school with my kids and one cool thing about it is you see something cool and you just stop and play. You would never do that driving somewhere in a car (very businesslike and hurried!)
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I wonder if stranger danger was a big part of it too. Kids aren't allowed the same kind of independence anymore in general. And bikes were a critical tool of independence for kids.
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And I themed my afterschool club and youth centered demonstration project on 80s bike culture.
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Hate to say it but a big blow to this was helmets and all the heavy handed moralizing about helmets (even tho I agree helmet wearing is a good idea and I got a bad head injury on a bike as a kid)
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Streets and cars are more dangerous now.
Also video games are way better 😂
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When I rant about this, it's less about "kids these days" and more about "parents these days." It's like we're terrified that our kids will have the same fun (& boring) adventures we had.
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Even as most of daily life has returned to normal, one realm has not: many state and local governments are still restricting access to public buildings and limiting in-person interaction, resulting in a diminishment of public services and the public realm.
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It's sort of annoying that Twitter is ready to admit wealthy white liberals might be hypocritical about one thing (housing) but not many other things.
Such as putting their kids in fancy "pods"/private schools while advocating to keep schools closed for the riff raff.
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Every kid was getting their start biking in a big plastic big wheel with their favorite cartoon on the side (myself included) and we will never beat this in 1 million years I don’t care what anyone says
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Kids biking everywhere was legitimately better than this SUV nonsense we evolved into.
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I’m biased maybe but I feel like the 1980s was a golden era for kids bike culture. It’s just not the same anymore with kids and biking. It was like breathing.
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It goes right from my kids school to my office. Build a statue to Tim Donovan. It’s unbelievable
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I know I’ve said this before but Cleveland’s new trail system is TOO GOOD. (I feel undeserving)
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Like millions of weirdly similar track houses in the same few patterns in suburbia sprang organically from perfect individual freedom and not rigid conformity to strict set of government mandated rules and regulations?
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When conservative people get really conspiratorial about “social engineering” and “master planning.” It’s like have you ever heard of the normal way we do zoning where we literally outlaw every building type but one? You don’t have any issues with that?
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If you are caught driving a car with an intentionally obstructed, damaged, or defaced license plate, your car should be impounded. Period. The end. I'm working on a bill that would do this.
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“If we continued to add new capacity at the rate that we have added solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear over the past few decades, the world would be able to completely power itself on zero-emission electricity by around 2037.”
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I was recently zapped by a police speed gun, doing 26mph in a new 20mph stretch of a 30mph road.
On the speed awareness course, I learned something: driving at 20 in many urban areas gets you from A to B in roughly the same time as 30.
AND it's safer.
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About 4% of U.S. households have #rooftopsolar today, and without intervention, estimates that this is currently on track to growing to 13% by 2030. Compare this with Australia which has already achieved 30% solar on residential homes. pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/10/28/nea.
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Mandatory bar parking is on track to be eliminated from all Oregon metros in the next year, thanks to state parking reforms
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The fact that some places have parking minimums for bars is continually mystifying to me. austin.towers.net/raise-a-glass-
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Another gorgeous school pedestrianization project in Paris. Rue Saint-Luc. Perhaps Mayor Hidalgo's most lasting, meaningful legacy.
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Urban cyclists and pedestrians really getting walloped here.
Pedestrian fatalities up a staggering 75% in urban areas over the last decade. Cycling deaths not far behind ⬆️ 62%
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. just today is releasing traffic fatality estimates from 2021 and the news is not good.
42,939 people died in US roads, they estimate. That's the highest number since 2005 and a 10 percent year over year increase. crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Vie
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"It's time to shift our covid policies to match those of other endemic respiratory viruses: Stay at home when sick and, whether it takes a week or a few days, come back when you are feeling better."
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Opinion by Shira Doron, Elissa Perkins and Westyn Branch-Elliman: It’s time to end the five-day isolation guidance for covid wapo.st/3zRF6KP
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In DC schools almost half of students now are chronically absent. Rising rates of fighting and bullying named as a cause related to regression in social development from school closures
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We spent 2020/2021 saying “kids are resilient” but the truth is that many of them were extremely vulnerable.
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