#StrongTowns
The way the people can help the phase out along the way?
Lobby your city for car free and 15 minute cities.
#strongtowns has a program to connect people and organize for this purpose.
change your city, change the world.
Chuck keeps saying interesting things. A window into rural v urban reality and how monstrosity of stroads and car centric design is carried by city /state / fed cooperation.
This is a window into what needs changing.
4 min video
5 min video
Why changing your town is climate action. Bad city policy is financial and climate ruin for this simple reason, it’s wasted carbon release. The resources that go into sewers, roads, cost energy, release carbon in ways that yield no economic benefit to a town. Multiply that across cities all over the US and Canada, it adds up.
car cities waste time, lives, money and energy and bring financial ruin. such a deal.
The city of #Denver is updating its bike 🚲 plan and looking for public input!
#Cyclists and #urbanists in #Colorado are encouraged to provide feedback through an online survey, available thru Dec. 15: https://denvergazette.com/news/denver-seeks-public-input-on-citys-expansion-plans-for-bike-lane-network/article_d14d8f88-8274-11ee-a570-c315892c386e.html
@fuck_cars #CO #AutofreiCO #DenverCO #ColoradoSprings #Pueblo #Durango #Walsenburg #Boulder #Aspen #Aurora #FortCollins #Broncos #Texans #FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis
12 min video
repurposing existing buildings saves on co2 emitted from construction. As #strongtowns discusses, cities used to be more organic and changing to adapt to rising needs. They have worked to restore that adaptive nature, which as a species we will need in a changing climate regime. It’s time to untangle the massive economic titanic dragging the world in a single direction.
Spend any time at an intersection, and you will quickly see that people, more often than not, do not stop at stop signs, unless they are yielding to another person
We must ask ourselves, why are our cities still being built with stop signs as the main form of traffic calming? They do not prevent speeding, and nobody stops at them anyway, because they understand that once they have determined the intersection to be clear, they can proceed carefully
A word from chuck about the power of local action.
#Cyclists in #Colorado are encouraged to complete an online survey for the #Denver Moves plan, an initiative to modernize bike paths in the city.
Deadline Dec. 15: https://kdvr.com/news/local/denver-asking-for-public-input-on-bike-plan/
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #NFL #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #Broncos #CO #AutofreiCO #DenverBroncos #DenverCO #PuebloCO #ColoradoSprings #Durango #DurangoCO #BoulderCO #FortCollins
This Experiment Undid Our Cities. How Do We Fix It?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G_bda3o1o&si=fOGg-DZdHHhOHmX4
#StrongTowns #UrbanDesign #urbanism #LivableCities #CityZoning
#PublicTransit 🚎 is on the ballot in the #Houston #Texas mayoral runoff election on Dec. 9! #Urbanists make sure to vote!
@fuck_cars #FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #ClimateCrisis #HoustonTexans #Texans #AFCSouth #TX #AutofreiTX #Lubbock #Dallas #Austin #AustinTX #SanAntonio #CorpusChristi #DFW #FtWorth #Abilene #Amarillo #ElPaso
#AmarilloTX #ElPasoTX #LubbockTX #DallasTX #HoustonTX #AustinTX #SanAntonioTX
#PublicTransit advocates, #cyclists and #Urbanists in #California needed to provide online public comment for the #SanLuisObispo Short-Range Transit 🚎 Plan, which will guide critical infrastructure projects for the next 5 years.
Survey live thru Dec. 12: https://pasoroblesdailynews.com/slo-transit-and-regional-transit-authority-seeking-community-feedback/184715/
@fuck_cars #CA #AutofreiCA #Berkeley #SanFrancisco #Sacramento #Oakland #Fresno #SantaBarbara #SanDiego #LosAngeles #LA #FuckCars #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #GoldenBears #UCLA #Bruins #UCLABruins #NCAA
#Urbanists in #Lexington #Kentucky are invited to provide online public comment for a proposed Campus to Commons Trail, which aims to develop walking infrastructure around #UKY.
Info and survey: https://campustocommons.com
#Appalachia #AutofreiKY #KY #Louisville #Frankfort #Paducah #Wildcats #CollegeFootball #MayfieldKY #LouisvilleKY #FrankfortKY #PaducahKY #LivingstonKY #LexingtonKY #FuckCars #autofrei #Urbanism #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis @fuck_cars
Mount Vernon Road in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is neither downtown nor suburban, but a sort of liminal space that is becoming less human-scaled the more it's turned into a highway. https://brucefnesmith.blogspot.com/2023/11/black-friday-parking-2023-mount-vernon.html #StrongTowns #urbanism #CedarRapids #cities #BlackFridayParking #parking #ParkingReform
#PublicTransit advocates, #cyclists and #Urbanists in #Indiana needed to provide public comment for the ProPEL Indy study, which will inform the next 20 years of #transportation investment in #IN.
More info & survey link: https://dailyjournal.net/2023/11/15/public-invited-to-fill-out-propel-indy-survey/
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #AutofreiIN #Indianapolis #WestLafayette #TerreHaute #FortWayne #SouthBend #Muncie #Hoosiers #Colts
15 min video
The cheapest way to fight and adapt to climate change. Of course the US will reject it like the plague.
#FuckCars folks in #Texas needed to provide online public comment on plans to double the number of lanes on US 54 between Stratford and the Oklahoma state line.
Deadline Dec. 4: https://www.newschannel10.com/2023/11/13/txdot-hosting-public-meetings-stratford-texhoma-talk-about-us-54-project/
@fuck_cars
#WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #TX #AutofreiTX #Lubbock #Dallas #NFL #Houston #Austin #AustinTX #SanAntonio #CorpusChristi #Abilene #Amarillo #ElPaso #LubbockTX #DallasTX #HoustonTX #Cowboys
One of my favorite days of the year is coming up fast! #BlackFridayParking #Urbanism #StrongTowns #cities https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/11/20/black-friday-parking-2024-help-us-turn-bad-land-use-into-better-policy
Hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLMvbZYBqgY
As described, the Accessory Dwelling Unit program is a high-touch, low-volume pilot:
- Subsidy of up to 30% of construction cost
- "Affordability covenant" limited to 120% AMI for 15 years
- Only on owner-occupied land
- 20 to 25 units total
- Only in Hilltop, South Side, and Linden
- Applications open in spring 2024
I don't think this is going to meaningfully fix anything, unless they open it up later.
#PublicTransit advocates and #cyclists in #Delaware needed to complete a survey for the DOT Long Range Transportation Plan, which will guide transit infrastructure investment for the next 20 years: https://publicinput.com/DelDOT_LRTP
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #DE #DoverDE #AutofreiDE
#PublicTransit advocates and #cyclists in #NY needed to complete a survey on relieving congestion in the #Albany area.
Deadline Nov. 28. More info: https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/transportation-council-survey-shape-traffic-18475902.php
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #NYC #NewYorkCity #AutofreiNY #Nyjets #jets
#PublicTransit advocates, #cyclists and #Urbanists in #Tennessee needed to provide online public comment on the Connect Downtown plan, which intends to diversify the ways people move in and around #Nashville.
More info and survey: https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/ndot-looking-for-public-feedback-on-new-connect-downtown-plan/
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #AutofreiTN #Memphis #MemphisTN #NashvilleTN
Why are so many pedestrians dying from car crashes?
#Urbanism #BikeTooter #TheWarOnCars #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #CarBrain
PublicTransit advocates and #cyclists in #Missouri needed to provide public input for #JeffersonCity’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan, which will inform long-term transit infrastructure development.
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #Mizzou #PublicTransportation #AutofreiMO #MO #KansasCity #Joplin #Columbia #StLouis #JoplinMO #ColumbiaMO #StLouisMO
Circa 1920, my hometown had two passenger train lines (one of which terminated there) and multiple interurban routes which connected all of the region's larger cities. Everywhere was in walking distance. All in a town of only 5,000 people. Today, the population is almost double, but all of it is gone. There isn't even a bus to provide intercity #transit. Most people probably don't even know what was once there anymore.
#history #PublicTransport #StrongTowns #transport #transportation #urbanism
#PublicTransit advocates and #cyclists in #Ohio needed to complete a survey on local mobility needs for the #Miamisburg #Transportation Plan, an initiative to build future infrastructure that “meets the needs of all transit users.”
https://news.yahoo.com/miamisburg-seeks-public-input-long-151400687.html?
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #ClimateCrisis #Cincinnati #Bengals #CincinnatiBengals #NFL #OH #AutofreiOH #Toledo #Columbus #Cincinnati #Akron #Cleveland
"A 10-foot lane, at the widest, should be the “default setting” for any sort of urban street: a place lined with homes and businesses, where traffic should flow slower than 35 mph. This should be understood as the risk-averse approach. If the engineer wants to make the lanes wider, they should have to justify the choice."
#StrongTowns
#WindsorON
#YQG
#VisionZero
#CarsKillCities
#TheWarOnCars
#OrangePilled
#JustStopOil
#PublicTransit advocates and #cyclists in #Louisiana needed to complete a survey on local mobility needs for the DOTD’s Statewide Transportation Plan, a long-term initiative to establish a multimodal transit system in #LA.
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CFB #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #CollegeFootball #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #LSU #LA #AutofreiLA #NOLA #NewOrleans #Lafayette #LakeCharles #Tigers #LSUTigers #LouisianaState #LAState
Strong Towns on r/science. You love to see it (on a non-urbanist or biking or fucking cars sub)!
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/17stxyz/public_health_experts_narrow_lanes_should_be_the/
Hey #Mastodon #Urbanists
Who has more images like this, they would like to share? And/Or know where I can find more...
And please RT to help. 🙏
#Urbanism #walkablecities #15MinuteCity #SolarPunk #ClimateAction #StrongTowns
We #urbanists should really start including #privacy and personal data security in our #PublicTransit and #cycling sales pitches.
via @dangillmor
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/111377172283747682
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #ev
The #Maryland Transit Administration is seeking public input, through an online survey, on potential extensions of the MARC Train system to #Delaware, #Virginia, and #WestVirginia.
More info: https://www.mymcmedia.org/maryland-transit-administration-seeking-input-on-commuter-rail-growth/
Residents can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MARCGrowthPlan
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransit #PublicTransportation #WashingtonDC #AutofreiMD #Baltimore #BaltimoreMD #WV #VA
#PublicTransit advocates and bus riders in Harrisonburg, #Va needed to provide public input on how the city’s DOT can strengthen services as it creates its 10-year #transportation strategic plan.
More info & survey: https://augustafreepress.com/news/harrisonburg-seeks-community-input-on-transit-service-in-city/
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #AutofreiVA #Richmond #Charlottesville #Fredericksburg #Norfolk #Chesapeake #Roanoke #Arlington #Lynchburg #Virginia
The #Kansas DOT is looking at providing #rail 🚅service between #OklahomaCity and Newton, where it would connect with #Amtrak’s Southwest, and is hosting a virtual meeting Nov. 8 where the public can comment and ask questions. #PublicTransit advocates and #Urbanists please show up!
https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/heartland-flyer-subject-of-virtual-public-meeting/
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #KS #AutofreiKS #Topeka #LawrenceKS #AutofreiOK #okc #Oklahoma
#PublicTransit advocates around Bowling Green #Ohio needed to complete a survey on local transit needs. Input will inform development of Moving Forward 2055, the TMACOG Regional Transportation Plan.
Submit responses by Nov. 30.
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransit #ClevelandBrowns #NFL #OH #AutofreiOH #Toledo #Columbus #Cincinnati #Akron #Clevelandoh
#Cyclists and #Urbanists in #Oklahoma needed to comment on the OKDOT’s 2023 Strategic Highway 🚙 Safety Plan, a statewide initiative to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on public roads.
Submit comments online before Nov. 6: https://www.news9.com/story/6537fc6f6cfd100665ee5e4e/oklahoma-department-of-transportation-asking-for-public-input
#OK #AutofreiOK #Tulsa #NormanOK #OklahomaCity #OKC #Muskogee #Muskogeeok #TulsaOK #FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransit
@mimsical
Have you heard of #StrongTowns or read any thing by #ChuckMarohn?
I heard him speak in San Diego a couple years ago on his second book tour, “Confessions of a Recovering Engineer”…mind blowing.
Does anyone know of any municipalities that have any *local* #solar incentives, with a particular concentration on businesses? Preferably in #massachusetts but I'll take anything. My local development and industrial council is looking at a solar parking lot canopy incentive but has no idea where to start.
#GreenEnergy #MunicipalSolar #StrongTowns
(please boost and up my hashtag game if you have any hashtags I should've used)
#Urbanism, #cycling & #PublicTransit advocates in #Texas needed to comment on the TxDOT’s first Statewide #ActiveTransportation Plan, an effort to advance walking & #biking as viable #transportation options.
Comments may be submitted by email to bikeped@txdot.gov. Deadline: Nov. 30, 2023
#FuckCars #autofrei #CarBrain #BikeTooter #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #TX #AutofreiTX #Lubbock #Dallas #Houston #Austin #SanAntonio #NFL #Texans #saints
🛑 STOP PETRO PETE 🛑
As Secretary of Transportation,
Pete Buttegieg could be doing the most to drop US emissions. Reducing car dependency. Building critical supply chains for food, medicine, and essential goods. Re-localizing and regionalizing the country, and setting an example for other core economic countries to follow. Policy for accessory business units and dwelling units, to transform the existing space and infrastructure we have into walkable communities where we can get everything we need and work with local purpose and agency.
Instead, Pete is signing oil terminals and creating sacrifice zones across the country. Stop PETRO PETE.
And stop the Seaport Oil Terminal and Gulflink projects — the equivalent of building 80 new coal plants right now, f*cking us all, and creating vast sacrifice zones of petrochemical pollution in the land, air, water across Texas and the Gulf Coast.
Boost the post on Twitter, to help more people see as well: https://twitter.com/ClimateDefiance/status/1711880523956600947
#ClimateCrisis #DirectAction #Disruption #Nonviolence #Politics #Democrats #Biden #Climate #ClimateAction #Protest #FreeSpeech #Emissions #EnvironmentalJustice #EnvironmentalRacism #Mobility #Transportation #Walkable #StrongTowns #Transit #infrastructure #ClimateEmergency #Housing #Urbanism #Zoning #Gulflink #Policy #Reform #Legislation #WhiteHouse #USA #Pollution #Capitalism #Corruption #Resistance #Accountability #Journalism #Story #Media #Documentary #Action #Environment #Earth #Nature
I like this framing of (overdue) zoning change in Edmonton by the EFCL's executive director: "the 'beginning of a new bylaw,' rather than the end of the discussion."
#yeg #yegPlan #StrongTowns #Urbanism
https://edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2023/10/11/efcl-supports-zoning-bylaw-renewal-with-climate-caveats
Just learned that in Arlington, Virginia, bus fare (on the ART busses) is FREE in peak directions during commute hours.
"starting Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, and going through Dec. 25, 2023"
Public transit should be FREE. We let drivers drive on roads for free, paid for by taxes. Why shouldn't public transit be funded similarly? This is an excellent initiative and test in Arlington!
https://www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arlington/Newsroom/Articles/2023/ART-Features-Free-Fares-for-Fall
Please boost for reach
#PublicTransit #Arlington #ArlingtonVirginia #StrongTowns
#PublicTransit advocates in #Texas needed to serve on a new volunteer Keep #SanAntonio Moving Council, which will connect with the public and gather feedback about #publictransportation in the city.
Applications due Oct. 27.
More info: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/10/04/via-seeking-transit-advocates-for-new-volunteer-council/
#FuckCars #autofrei #CarBrain #BikeTooter #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #TX #AutofreiTX #Lubbock #Dallas #Houston #Austin #AustinTX #CorpusChristi #DFW #Abilene #Amarillo #ElPaso #DallasTX #HoustonTX #AbileneTX #LubbockTX
In response to news about UAW (United Auto Workers) securing battery production under the UAW master contract:
Now let's get those batteries into bikes, minerals under the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples, and production into the hands of @UAW unions workers. ✅✅✅
(Post on twitter if you want to boost: https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1710413981788070088)
#CarFree #Indigenous #JustTransition #Bicycle #Bikes #Transit #Walkable #StrongTowns #FuckCars #Lithium #Mining #Extraction #Unions #HotLaborSummer #SupportTheStrikes #Strike #Labor #Workers #AutoWorkers #Batteries #EV #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse #RareEarth #Sovereignty #Treaty #Decolonize #Solidarity
I don't know why "you can zone out on your phone all you want" isn't a bigger selling point for #publictransit.
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns
#PublicTransit advocates in #Michigan needed to complete a survey on the Rapid bus system’s 20-year #transportation vision. It “seeks to identify what the public needs from The Rapid in both the short and long term.”
Survey and more info: https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/09/the-rapid-bus-system-seeks-community-input-on-20-year-public-transportation-vision.html
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransportation #MI #AutofreiMI #Detroit #Lansing #Kalamazoo #GrandRapids #Mackinaw #BayCity #AnnArbor
#PublicTransit, #Urbanism and #Biking advocates in #Oklahoma needed to comment on the ODOT’s Carbon Reduction Strategy, a $106M effort to deliver a more reliable and cleaner #transportation network to #OK.
The online form is available until Oct. 16: https://oklahoma.gov/odot/citizen/newsroom/2023/odot-seeks-public-input-on-carbon-reduction-strategy.html
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanists #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransportation #Tulsa #OKC #OklahomaCity #TulsaOK #AutofreiOk
Kinda curious, what is your opinion on #rental #micromobility options such as rental #scooters and rental #bikes in #cities.
(sorry for the lack of options)
#bicycling #bike #BikeTooter #city #ebike #escooter #PublicTransport #scooter #StrongTowns #transport #urban #urbanism
#Publictransit advocates in Lee County #Florida needed to fill out a (super easy) survey for #CapeCoral’s #transportation Master Plan.
The survey doesn’t close until Feb., so let’s try to get a lot of responses!
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis #PublicTransportation #AutofreiFL #Orlando #Miami #Tallahassee #Gainesville #Pensacola #PanamaCity #Jacksonville #fl #Desantis
xkcd has been watching @notjustbikes it seems 😃
#UrbanPlanning #stroads #StrongTowns #cycling #biking #Amsterdam #TheNetherlands
@ajkandy @notjustbikes
Thanks for sharing. And here is a book that may interest you...
(Discussed on #StrongTowns podcast)
Watching this vid on property #taxes by #StrongTowns makes me wonder: what does America do right, society-wise? What does America do better than other developed nations?
We don't have #UniversalHealthcare, and #healthcare expenses are outrageous.
Our progressive tax system has been defanged by moneyed interests.
Our time off policies are pathetic, with paid childcare leave being rare to non-existent.
Our minimum wage is ridiculously low.
We've turned local law enforcement into military nuts, with LEO rarely facing true repercussions for committing crimes thanks to their ~~unions~~ gangs.
Voting is not compulsory, nor is easy everywhere, with plenty of hurdles depending on location/ethnicity.
The list goes on & on.
What does America do right 🤔
OMG Vancouver finally looks at corner stores as one of the improvements to current zoning. It could be a game changer for boring suburban areas of the city!
More info and a SURVEY: https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/corner-stores
#Vancouver #urbanism #CornerStore #UrbanPlanning #MixedUse #walkable #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #15MinuteCity
#Tempe #az looking for public input to make the city friendlier for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Public meetings will be held on Sept. 20
#Arizona #tucson #flagstaff #phoenix #AutofreiAZ #FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #15minuteCities #CarBrain #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns
I finally got around to listening to this episode of Strong Towns podcast from last June about dollar store chains as an invasive species, and of how big-box stores act like slash-and-burn agriculture in communities, and it has given me my daily dose of anger. Stacey Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance is the guest, and brings a lot of data and perspective.
#StrongTowns #DollarStore
https://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/dollar-stores-are-leeching-the-economic-vitality-of-communities-across-the-us/
💨 When you sell a car (even for an EV), your gas car gets re-sold and keeps on polluting and emitting.
🛞 Tires are the worst form of car pollution. They shed microplastics and toxins every day — which kill everything.
The only way to end the problems of cars, is to end cars.
Boost on Twitter too, so people know:
https://twitter.com/sambutlerUS/status/1696560829586461143
#Depave #WarOnCars #CarFree #TacticalUrbanism #Urbanism #Bikes #Transit #Housing #Plastic #Microplastics #Pollution #FuckCars #StrongTowns #Planning #UrbanDesign #Policy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Climate
I really liked this #StrongTowns article about bringing back a "rail culture" in the #usa.
"Anyone who has seen Union Station knows that we do, in fact, have a history and knowledge as to how to build grand transportation of the sort that once connected a nation."
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/7/envisioning-a-rail-culture-for-the-us
#train #rail #railroad #publictransport #transportation #culture #society #urbanism
From now on, I will hashtag actionable news items (meetings, elections, etc.) with #Autofrei + state code; for example, a story from Colorado would be tagged #AutofreiCO. So, if you support #15MinuteCities and other #urbanism causes, follow or set a notification for #Autofrei + your state, and you’ll know when I post something somewhat close to you.
Boosts appreciated, and I promise I won’t abuse the tags! 2/2
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns
Gwinnett County #Georgia to hold public workshops on local #PublicTransit expansions, including microtransit 🙄, on Aug. 19 and 23. A good opportunity to come out in support of real #PublicTransportation solutions.
https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/web/gwinnett/home/stories/viewstory/-/story/microtransitlaunch
#FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #15minuteCities #CarBrain #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #Klimaschutz #GA #FultonCounty #Atlanta #macon #LaGrange #Waynesboro #Statesboro #Gainesville #PeachtreeCity #FortValley
@adarsh have you looked at #strongtowns ?
So I've been listening to 8 hours of AMATS meetings today and I learned that the AMATS saftey plan that I helped drum up a bunch of responses to is what is used to help formulate the MTP which just so happened to select a complete streets development reducing lanes adding bike lanes right in my neighborhood. I don't know if it was mainly because of me but my neighborhood jumped from 7% to 36% of responses after my post and it fucking made a real DIFFERENCE I'm so ecstatic. #StrongTowns
Tom Scott's new #video shows a really cool example of what a
#CarFree #city could be like. It even shows how car free cities can still have "cars" where necessary, but can limit their use and impacts. His discussion on #NoisePollution is also quite interesting.
https://youtu.be/R2oD1ZHNMFE
#urbanism #walkability #LowCar #StrongTowns #WalkableCities #Zermatt #Switzerland
@futurebird https://www.sambutler.us/costs-of-car-economy-bike-transit
According to a 2019 study by Harvard [1], the public cost of the car economy is $5,645 per person per year. (The private cost is $6,000/year per car.)
Together, the cost of maintaining the U.S. car economy is $3.5 trillion per year.
In the communities with significant bike infrastructure, the public cost is $150 per person per year. (The private cost is $500/year per bike.)
In the communities significant public transit, the operating costs are $1,230 per person per year. (The private cost of transit is $720/year per rider).
Together, the cost of a bike and transit economy in the U.S. is $0.862 trillion per year.
#fuckcars #transit #bikes #carfree #publictransit #walking #publicspace #infrastructure #pedestrians #degrowth #postgrowth #economy #government #civic #trillion #parking #parkinglot #highway #road #bicycle #sidewalk #urbanism #community #neighborhood #subsidies #policy #road #street #StrongTowns
So excited for todays #anchorage #CriticalMass ride I couldn't wait. Had to try on my over the top gettup and get even more stickers on my #radpowerbikes gotta get the drivers attention ya know
https://www.bikeanchorage.org/critical_mass_ride_for_anchorage
@hotdogsladies don't know if your egging me on or not but just in case prepare to be #stairpilled
"In a recent article in The New York Times, Anna Kodé lamented the blandness of multifamily architecture in the U.S. and posited several theories for this disappointment.
The root cause of the banality is quite simple. The answer is something that, once seen, cannot be unseen: stairs."
Podcast
http://upzoned.strongtowns.org/e/one-reason-american-architecture-is-considered-boring-stairs/
Some hashtags I follow or enjoy:
Plant-based timeline cleansing:
#bloomscrolling
#lichensubscribe
#Mosstodon
#silentsunday
Kitty chaos:
#catsofmastodon
#catstodon
#caturday
Global Communities:
#BikeTooter
#carfree
#climatechange
#ClimateResilience
#solarpunk
#strongtowns
#union
#urbanism
#walkablecities
Design:
#graphicdesign
#typography
#ux
I had a hunch the new sixers arena was probably a bad investment so I searched strong towns and it seems like my hunch was right.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/4/11/can-stadium-save-philadelphia-dead-zone
their coverage is pretty good, Philly is gonna tear out parts of China Town and the greyhound station to replace our arena in south Philly to make the economic dead zone that is The "fashion district" shitty mall even worse. This is just bad economics run by shit libs.
I feel like the money spent on the arena could be used to build out the broad street extension or even just bolster some of the cities other programs
Wide roads + parking lots = fractured communities
Narrow streets + compact housing = connected communities
Opplegget kan også minne om det #StrongTowns kaller #GrowthPonziScheme eller vekst-pyramidespillet. Veien der jeg vokste opp virket også som om den fikk lagt asfalt da den var ny, og så … ja … det var det, egentlig?
Det kan føles som om det var en slags bruk-og-kast-tilnærming hvor man bare ikke så på byutviklinga i et langsiktig, bærekraftig perspektiv, men var mer enn fornøyd med å selge folk hele tettbygde strøk som ikke kunne vare.
“a city’s financial sustainability depends on having most people traveling on foot.
And walkability depends on increasing the number, and the diversity, of destinations that are close together.
The smaller they are, the more of them there can be, the more walkable the place.
Small is walkable.”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/1/30/parking-pizza-apartments-mall
Love that #Cincinnati has a “tactical pedestrian team” working to programmatically change the city’s #transportation infrastructure. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/1/26/pedestrian-safety-boost-new-cincinnati-initiative #strongtowns
@notjustbikes This was the first video of yours I ever watched, and I'd like to thank you for making it because otherwise I never would have been introduced to #StrongTowns; which I now follow like a religious cultist.