so its abit of a grim thing t drop during #pridemonth but my trans friend was kicked out by her family in #saltlakecity . for now shes in a womans shelter but is in desperate need for a home. does anyone from #utah know someone who could take in a roommate whos willing to contribute to rent to get back on her legs?
My collaborative map of things to see / do / drink / eat around #SaltLakeCity is ready for action and help visitors for the #OpenStreetMap@sotmus conference discover our city!
I'm still pissy that UTA was one of the first transit agencies to have open-loop contactless payments and they killed it right when contactless cards were getting popular. At least they're bringing it back now, but that will take a while. #SaltLakeCity
Lane tagging in #OpenStreetMap is once again breaking my brain. In this #SaltLakeCity example, would this indicate 2 total lanes in the fwd direction, one of which is a PSV lane?
Granted, this would be one of the more challenging lane tagging situations. The new street design depicted in the screenshot below. From left to right: a parking lane, bike lane, PSV lane, traffic lane, center turn lane, traffic lane, PSV lane, bike lane and parking lane. HELP.
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Year of the Knife Have First Practice Since Accident
No jokes this time, we're just happy to see the band back to doing what they love.
“New train routes are coming…Just don’t count on the railroad that’s tied to Washington to lead the way.
“That would be Amtrak…A few weeks ago, it released a new map of some proposed routes. Two of these — a Seattle to Denver and a Denver to Los Angeles route — would include major stops in Salt Lake City…because of regulatory hurdles, the construction of these lines would take an estimated 15 years.” https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2024/03/28/passenger-railroads-are-coming-to-utah/#GreaterNW#PassengerRail#SaltLakeCity
The press is in a tizzy because the city council decided to limit the public comment time at meetings to an hour. They'd freak out when they find out other cities get along just fine with the time for public comment being at the discretion of the chair. #SaltLakeCity
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The 3rd West project in #SaltLakeCity made People for Bikes' list of best new bike lanes of the last year. I'm very glad for the project because 3rd West badly needed improvements. The businesses along it are a major draw for car-free people since they're the most transit accessible big box stores in the city, but the experience of crossing 3rd West was terrible. And the project added lots of trees, which is great because there was no shade whatsoever which is a damnable sin in the high desert.
Police would have a much harder time getting away with what they do if they weren't supported by many "journalists". We took a look into our local flagship paper, The Salt Lake Tribune, so see what motivations might be the same for them and for SLCPD.
Spoiler: It's the interests of developers and gentrifiers, aka capital!
Rechts schließt sich der Fachwerkbogen ganz ohne Fenster an, der die Offenheit des Entwurfs durch den Hof fortsetzt, und bei dem man, je nach Position des Betrachters, die Rocky Mountains (Wasatch-Kette) sehen kann, wie fast überall in SLC.
Das Gebäude enthält große, lichtdurchflutete Lesebereiche, grandios!
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, looking back to look forward.
August 21, 2023 - by Terry Tempest Williams
As a child, I watched the men I loved in my family lift their high-powered rifles and shoot one #PrairieDog after another and another for fun, and then walk away. They called them “pop-guts.” On the way back to our camp, I stepped over their small blood-soaked,
At that time only 3,300 #Utah prairie dogs remained in 37 isolated colonies. Due to political pressure from ranchers and developers, they were not listed on the original endangered species list. Prairie dogs were seen as vermin.
In 1977, I lobbied the Utah legislature as a graduate student in education from the University of Utah. I had created a Utah Prairie Dog curriculum for the #SaltLakeCity school district.