Every single 'issue' with increased density, mixed zoning, and more middle housing is due to cars. Traffic congestion, parking, noise. It's almost like #carsruincities.
“For years, advocates have been sounding the alarm on the worsening epidemic of traffic violence in our community and proposing solutions which have been ignored by the City Council,” Sarah Iannarone, executive director of nonprofit The Street Trust, said in a press release. “Of course the problem continues to worsen.”
"...I want to note we’ve been here before,” Lauritzen continued. “We’ve been at somber events, we’ve been at memorials where we say the work is important…that loss of life is terrible. And yet, here we are again.” #CarSupremacy#CarsRuinCities
This decade of status quo prolongment brought to you by failed mayor ted wheeler, sitting on his hands exactly like his owners elected him to do.
interview with "Megan Kimble, an Austin-based journalist and the author of the new book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. In the book, she follows the story of three major freeway fights playing out in the state of Texas over the period of about four years while channeling the movement of freeway removals and #reparations nationwide." #InducedDemand#NoMoreFreeways#CarsRuinCities
"If you ask people what streets are for, they say cars. That's opposite of what they said one hundred years ago...Streets—venues of myriad public activities as late as 1920—were redefined as exclusive transport ways."
"75% [of drivers yield to people in a crosswalk] at 20mph — a speed at which traffic rarely moves on auto-centric U.S. streets... 30mph, just one in eight of them yielded" #VisionZero#CarsRuinCities#trafficEngineering
"Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, New Jersey, when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities."
"Normalized but Marginalized" is also the impression I get from Copenhagen infrastructure: Yes we want you to ride bikes but never forget you're less important than cars when it comes to convenience or safety, you're rubbing elbows with pedestrians while cars spread their crotches across four mostly empty lanes. If cars want to turn, you share, etc. #BikeInfrastructure#ClimateAction#FuckCars#CarsRuinCities, Germany edition