Planner (City of El Paso, TX). Certified planner (AICP). CNU-A. Geographer. Urbanist. Views my own. RTs not necessarily endorsements. NSFW. 🔞
El Paso, TX
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The irony is not lost on me that the narrative regarding motor vehicles is one claiming the "freedom" they bring people.
This freedom isn't worth the price of admission, and no one can tell me otherwise.
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When it comes to the value of alternative transportation modes, the most underrated narrative is that which pertains to cost savings.
Yes, they address climate change, but more Americans think about money than they do about the climate.
I don't own a car and reap the benefits of extra money in my pocket I can use for fun and savings. Better transit can make it easier for people to be less dependent on cars or not need one at all.
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Getting ready to kick off the 2025 National Planning Conference in the Mile-High City, Denver, Colorado. #NPC25
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It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
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Hear me out: trees, chairs, restaurants, micro-playgrounds. Cities need space for people, and the only space that we're not using efficiently is the street.
What ever happened to going into planning because it was patriotic?
At the 2012 National Planning Conference, @mitchell_silver stated that "planners are guardians of the future".
If we tell kids and young adults that they're the future, then aren't planners guardians of people?
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Being completely *anti-car* is a bad position for urbanists to take
One of the many reasons is - It’s impractical to live car free with kids in most American cities
Hard line, no-car-ever language is alienating to parents who know they need to use a car (at least sometimes)
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“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” — Paris Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo
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When you think about it, can you really say this sounds wrong? On car culture, featuring @adamconover.
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If you widen that highway
you won’t reduce emissions
or congestion.
What you WILL do
is spend a lot of public money
to induce even more cars
emitting even more GHGs & pollution
in the same or worse congestion
with people still telling you to widen the highway.
Period.
I'm proud to announce that the City of El Paso, TX, has hired me as a Planner. I start this job on Tuesday, April 2.
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Thanks to @5thSq I caught a glimpse of the new @BlvdSubway t-shirt, and it's FIRE. 🔥 🔥
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I read this news, and I wonder how the US isn't a third-world country. This is embarrassing.
Investigators detail how an American Airlines jet crossed a runway in front of a Delta plane at JFK apnews.com/article/close-cal…
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FRA conducted 7,500+ focused inspections on routes where high-hazard flammable trains travel. Our work to ensure a safer, more reliable freight rail system will continue. But we still need Congress to pass rail safety legislation.
This is why we can't have nice things! When an elected official has to publicly say "Don't be dumb.", you know society screwed up.
NTSB to investigate 2 deadly Brightline train crashes in Melbourne that killed 3 within a few days fox35orlando.com/news/ntsb-t…
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Blocking ambulances and parents picking up their kids from school isn’t going to win you a lot of new people to your cause. Of course the extremely entitled and privileged ppl doing the “protests” don’t worry about such things
On Thursday afternoon, protestors waving 'let Gaza live' and 'ceasefire now' signs blocked I-76 at Spring Garden Street near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, slowing traffic before rush hour. on.nbc10.com/6tkdcwz