The fact that #Columbus, OH, a city with a very similar population size to Amsterdam, still doesn't have any passenger #rail while Amsterdam has trams, subways, commuter trains, intercity trains, and international trains, says a lot about the staggering difference in the design and priorities of these cities.
Years ago, @vmbrasseur gave a talk at OSCON/osbridge about the importance of failure, as a way to learn, as a key to innovation, about how failure needs to happen or you become averse to change. I haven't really thought about how using that wisdom in my software experience has shaped my opinion about how cities should do public works & planning, #transportation, #zoning, #tacticalUrbanism, etc until this #StrongTowns video. Prototype, test, measure, don't guess. #JFDI
"if you're a place that has been there 100, 150 years and you've got a bunch of mansions and estates and people are maintaining it and they're paying high levels of taxes and you're making things work, chuck at strongtowns dot org, send me an email, I would like to study your place, because quite frankly, never seen it." 😂 is he calling Portland out? #StrongTowns
#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.
#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.
#StrongTowns posted this over on the ex-birdsite and I was wondering how everyone felt about these giant orange flappy boys as opposed to the prim and proper white plastic straws that have been going in around the city? #Denver
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.
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!
Maybe this article is worth reading (even if discussing it with the author on space karen's right-wing social media site isn't) Like sure we need more leftist progressivism in #StrongTowns discourse, but it seems like it might be more "rah-rah let's spend on #transit first" leftist #urbanism that isn't getting us anywhere (except diverted into boondoggles) and fails to acknowledge that the govt has been captured by billionaires and used to impose cars on everyone.
This was a wonderful article. So insightful. Thank you for sharing. it really helped me put all the pieces together. Why I was hearing so many libertarians and conservatives surprisingly supporting similar ideals
@enobacon this article offers some useful context. While I regularly agree with #StrongTowns, I find myself scratching my head at times thinking: “What would prompt Marohn to promote such an idea?”
I won’t throw the good out with the bad, but as a recovering #libertarian I often fail to recognize the sometimes subtle anti-government and anti-poor ideas of #libertarianism.
#StrongTowns podcast at 35min, "there's nothing that prevents us from taking cones and barrels and ... doing this overnight and utterly transforming our streets tomorrow on a shoestring budget"