Cycling to work has substantial health benefits, study finds bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j194…
Shedding a little light on the ground level of our homelessness strategy:
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Why do bike lanes in LA often seem empty?
The main reason: our bike lanes don't form a network to take people where they need to go. They randomly end, and they're also often unprotected.
It's time to create a true safe, protected bike lane network in LA.
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I recently tweeted that NYC to Chicago via high-speed rail could be done in under five hours, given the Shanghai-Beijing distance. Someone replied that we don’t need better transportation because Spirit sells “$30 tickets”. We no longer have Spirit, nor high-speed rail.
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Sunset Blvd… WOW 😱 Human waste, needles, rats, dead snakes, and people forced to sleep on the sidewalks. This is the reality in parts of our city—and it shouldn’t be normal.
I found this while cleaning last Saturday, and it raises a serious question: how do we change this? Real change starts with awareness and action from all of us.
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Spot on:
The only way this doesn’t end violently is some type of redistribution of wealth from the 1%.
If the power grab from the top continues prepare for torches and pitchforks.
And this is coming from a billionaire!
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When in 2007 the mayor of #Ljubljana proposed to close 12 hectares of its city center to private cars, just 40% of residents approved.
A decade later, no less than 97% were against reopening to motor traffic: “None of us can really imagine cars ever staging a comeback”.
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Los Angeles once had the biggest trolley system in the world -- connecting LA's 400 'Historic Main Streets and Historic Villages' -- and each had a 'main street' of small retail where people could do their errands.
Residents could also catch a Trolley to the rest of the city.
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NYC rearranged tons of street space to make room for people to get around using bikes. What happened next?
🥳 Every mile of protected bike lane added generates about 1,100 daily bike trips. Bike commuting tripled from 2007 to 2024.
🥳 15% to 20% of new bike trips replaced vehicle trips, creating a per-mile reduction of about 140,000 to 190,000 vehicle miles traveled every year.
🥳 Bike share continues to appeal to residents. 13% of all New Yorkers used a @CitiBikeNYC in 2022. In 2014, the first full year of service, 8.6 million rides. In 2024, 44.5 million rides.
🥳 Bike infrastructure creates 47% more jobs per $1 million spent than car projects, boosts local sales by 49%, and generates 3.6 times more expenditure per space converted from cars.
🥳 Protected lanes increase cycling probability by over 9%.
🥳 Every $1,300 invested yields health benefits equivalent to one additional year of life for residents.
🥳 Shifting trips to bikes cuts vehicle miles traveled reduced congestion, lowered carbon emissions, and improved air quality. @CitiBikeNYC alone reduced emissions by 1,800,000 pounds monthly.
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Dear fellow car owners,
Wouldn't it be great to avoid being stuck behind 10 mph bicycles?
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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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4.0 GPA
1600 SAT
35 ACT
Junior IMO gold medalist
And in spite of that? Denied from every single Ivy League school.
It makes no sense. My head is spinning.
And for those of you who love to say “it’s because of the essay”, here’s mine. Tell me how I could have done any better.
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3. They also released another report on pharmacy benefit managers, including that of UnitedHealth Group, showing that these companies inflated prices for specialty pharmaceuticals by more than $7 billion.
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2. The FTC filed a monopolization claim against agricultural machine maker John Deere for generating $6 billion by prohibiting farmers from being able to repair their own equipment, a suit which Wired magazine calls a “tipping point” for the right to repair movement.
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9. The FTC forced health care private equity powerhouse Welsh Carson to stop monopolization of the anesthesia market.
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HPV vaccines offer a rare opportunity to effectively eliminate cervical cancer.
By taking this opportunity, it’s possible to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of women each year.
ALT This chart, titled "Cervical cancer rates declined in England following national HPV vaccination programs," shows cumulative cases of cervical cancer per 100,000 women by age for birth cohorts from 1989 to 1999 in England. Each cohort, offered HPV vaccines at different ages, experienced different rates of cancer incidence by age 30. The unvaccinated 1989–1990 cohort had the highest incidence (blue), while the 1995–1999 cohort, vaccinated at ages 12–14, had the lowest (red). Data source: Milena Farcano et al. (2021), The Lancet. The chart was made by Saloni Dattani of Our World in Data.
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