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Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Planned by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.
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An estimated 19 pedestrians a day were struck and killed by cars in the US last year—a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. The history of racism in the physical design of our cities is partly to blame. More in my guest essay for @nytimes
nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
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Top 30 known cities (and one country) with no parking mandates.
No. 14 (Richmond, VA) and 15 (Salem, OR) are the most recent additions, and they are both state capitals!
#shoupista #parkingreform
ALT Mexico City DF MX 8918653 1-Jul-17 New Zealand NZ NZ 5122600 23-Jul-20 Toronto ON CA 2731571 15-Dec-21 San Jose CA US 983489 6-Dec-22 Edmonton AB CA 981280 2-Jul-20 San Francisco CA US 881549 11-Dec-18 Portland OR US 654741 1-Aug-21 Raleigh NC US 467665 15-Mar-22 Minneapolis MN US 429606 14-May-21 Lexington KY US 341000 27-Oct-22 St. Paul MN US 304547 18-Aug-21 Anchorage AK US 288000 22-Nov-22 Buffalo NY US 255284 3-Jan-17 Richmond VA US 230436 24-Apr-23 Salem OR US 174365 10-Apr-22 Bridgeport CT US 148654 29-Nov-21 Gainesville FL US 140398 29-Nov-22 Hartford CT US 122105 1-Dec-17 Ann Arbor MI US 120735 15-Aug-22 Cambridge MA US 117090 24-Oct-22 South Bend IN US 102026 13-Jan-21 Bend OR US 100421 19-Jan-23 Roanoke VA US 98865 1-Nov-21 Alameda CA US 78280 16-Dec-21 Jackson TN US 68205 1-Oct-21 West Allis WI US 59861 3-May-22 Corvallis OR US 58028 21-Nov-22 Tigard OR US 55514 13-Dec-22 Dunwoody GA US 49356 1-Jan-19 Burlington VT US 42819 9-Jan-23
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I am writing a book about time taxes and I need your help! Tell me about the insurance snafu ruining your life, the years you spent waiting for benefits, your immigration process, your FAFSA cluster, your healthcare nightmare. I'm [email protected]. theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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this image, of the IRT flushing line in open fields now called sunnyside, has become famous for its symbolism of transit's influence on nyc.
but this isn't the only such image—here's a bit of a journey down the flushing line looking at how much it's shaped queens in 106 years.
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NEW: You know those paper temporary license plates that suddenly seemed to be everywhere during the pandemic? I've spent months looking into the black market for them and found used car dealers exploiting loose regulations to sell real temp tags illegally. streetsblogprojects.org/ghos…
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Here’s another way of showing the same thing:
Beyond age 70, US mortality/survival rates are very similar to other rich countries. But between teenage years and early middle age there is a vast gulf.
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Change in % of workers taking public transportation to work in America's largest cities, 1970-2020:
New York: 61% → 50%
Los Angeles: 9% → 8%
Chicago: 36% → 23%
Houston: 8% → 4%
Phoenix: 2% → 2%
Philadelphia: 37% → 21%
San Antonio: 8% → 2%
San Diego: 5% → 3%
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On average 20% of our major city centers are dedicated solely to car parking. Parking reform is the first step in rebuilding walkable and sustainable communities.
parkingreform.org/resources/…
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In “The Power Broker,” Caro says, “When RM came to power in NYC in 1934, the city’s mass transportation system was probably the best in the world. When he left power in '68 it was quite possibly the worst.” While improved since, the legacy of RM's assault on transit is still felt
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after its closure in 1973, the bronx section of the third avenue el was documented for the library of congress' historic american engineering record. the photos are a great nyc time capsule & tribute to a line whose demise brought an end to the era of legacy elevated rail in nyc.
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Yesterdat @DonaldShoup stopped by my office with the most recent (2019) ITE Parking Generation Manual. You'll recall that this is the bible of parking requirements, and has been lambasted for poor statistical methodology for 20 years now.
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MTA bus wait and travel times shot up in September, becoming by far the biggest issue for bus riders new.mta.info/document/98311
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New: the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is holding up key bus and bike projects at the behest of political allies of @NYCMayor, jeopardizing city policy goals like building 20 miles of bus lanes this year. nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/10/…
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Pickup trucks and SUVs are killers. In the USA:
▪️ Pickup trucks are involved in 5.6% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 12.6% of deaths
▪️ SUVs are involved in 14.7% of pedestrian/cyclist crashes -- and 25.4% of deaths
doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2022.0…
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Oregon just approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in modern US history.
What happens next? @Citizen_Cate & I have 5 answers:
sightline.org/2022/07/22/ore…
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I wrote about child friendly urban design, or as the case most often is, the lack of it.
theatlantic.com/family/archi…
