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Chicago, IL
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I’ve missed interacting with everyone in the Livable City community. Wanted to let you know that I’m still alive and contemplating what to do next with LC. It’s been a rough, emotional year but there’s so much needed work to be done.
What are everyone’s thoughts?
#livablecity
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Let's make it happen! Would be transformational for getting more people in Chicago to walk, bike, and ride transit to get where they need to go. 🚶🚲🚍🚉🌎❤️
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A bittersweet day. I no longer have the energy or time to put into Livable City. Instead of just shutting it down I'd like to see if anyone is interested in owning it? I am offering this Twitter account as well as the website/domain. DM if interested.
#livablecity #opportunity
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“Streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of a city, are its most vital organs. Think of a city and what comes to mind? Its streets. If a city’s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull.” - Jane Jacobs – Death & Life
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Way to go @ILBicycleLaw! It’s unbelievable that pedestrians and cyclists are routinely held responsible for being injured when the system of transportation is fundamentally designed against our human safety - it prioritizes car/truck speed/throughput. Completely backwards.
Keating Law attorney Catelyn Viggiano with her $212,976.85 verdict at the scene of the dooring on the Washington Street protected bike lane.
In her first trial as first chair, Catelyn got a result for 400% of the insurance company’s “best offer.”#bikeCHI #womeninlaw
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Raised bike lane with parking on Commonwealth Avenue near Boston University — very nice. Let’s do this on Clark Street in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. H/T @StreetsblogMASS
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Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 & replaced it with a restored stream & 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.
The traffic got BETTER.
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@chicagosmayor @gia_biagi @ChicagoDOT I know it's not easy to change a system overnight, but we must redesign all Chicago streets and greatly enhance non-car transportation. Otherwise, more of this is inevitable:
blockclubchicago.org/2021/11…
CC @BlockClubCHI
#livablecity #cars
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A century of male-dominated planning has resulted in streets shaped for one purpose: the commute to paid work.
Only when cities start taking into account the other unpaid “care trips” taken by residents do they become more inclusive and gender equitable.
anchor.fm/storktalks/episode…
Pretty remarkable change. The tall buildings are nice to look at, but I’m not sure they’ve made Chicago anymore livable.
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Livable City retweeted
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Terrible. This evening, at 7:32pm, #MiamiBeach Commission voted to bring cars back to #OceanDrive.
How it is How they voted
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We are looking for new topics for our next episode. What local #climate issue would you like to see covered?
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Building this community? More like building the cycling city. We talked with @modacitylife to find out how better transportation systems and prioritizing people can impact a city. – at Louisville, KY
S2:E3 Building The Cycling City with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett of Modacity is out now! Co-founders of @Modacity and “Building the Cycling City" join BTC. They discuss their book, transportation hierarchy, and the need to build cities for people.
open.spotify.com/episode/0fL…
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Cities are quite good at measuring and accommodating the journeys people make on a given day.
But what if they started quantifying and enabling the trips people DON’T take; places they would visit were it not for their unsafe, uncomfortable, inconvenient (or inexistent) options? – at Delft, Nederland
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Jaywalking decriminalization is coming! Only an unjust system would not provide people with the infrastructure they need to safely move through their environment and then police them for not doing so. #arrestedmobility virginiamercury.com/2020/12/…
Really lovely work in downtown #Vancouver, love the human scale of of this street made even better by the new bike lane.
#livablecity
It’s amazing how integrated this can be in a way that car infrastructure cannot without an extreme degradation in how enjoyable a place is.
#livablecity #bikes
Glad to see the wise words of @ReiterG still helping many people out there…
Thanks for the feedback Jim ✊
Coincidentally I'm relistening to your @livable_city podcast episode with @ReiterG right now!
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