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New York, USA
Joined August 2017
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Eric Martz retweeted
La cultura del automóvil (la supuesta ‘libertad’), vs. la cultura de la ciudad. La ciudad como un bien común que solo tiene sentido cuando es disfrutado colectivamente.
30 people getting a coffee 🇺🇸
vs.
30 people getting a coffee 🇫🇷
Where would you like to spend your holiday?
(via @pushtheneedle)
Eric Martz retweeted
Gov. Kathy Hochul spurred controversy when she nixed the real estate-backed congestion pricing program in Manhattan weeks before it was set to take effect. It's a reversal that Two Trees Management's Jed Walentas calls "horrifying" — watch to learn why: youtu.be/1XbQNZylO1w
Eric Martz retweeted
If you’re trying to think about how to drastically increase the number of street trees on a residential street w/ narrow sidewalks - consider planting the trees in the parking lane! Absorbs storm water too
📸 Sycamore St in Providence, RI
Eric Martz retweeted
One of the most enduring myths is that “American cities were built for cars.” No.
Our cities were *destroyed* for the car. We had dense, walkable cities as beautiful as Europe. DOTs razed entire neighborhoods to make way for freeways and demolished downtowns for parking lots.
Eric Martz retweeted
Look at what once was Philly's Delaware waterfront!
Civic leaders of the mid 20th century forsook the city's past and condemned the waterfront to serve as a highway.
That mistake is still unquestionably perpetuated today, at incredible expense.
Eric Martz retweeted
I've stayed out of the 5-over-1 discourse, but worth saying a few things.
Yes, we desperately need new housing.
Yes, our cities are better when housing is more beautiful, and worse when it's more austere or even ugly.
These things are not mutually exclusive
Let's begin!🧵
Eric Martz retweeted
The future I want: xitter.cf/grescoe/status/1773053…
Eric Martz retweeted
This parking lot in Jersey City, a block away from a light rail station and a 10-minute transit ride to Manhattan, paid $110,000 in taxes per acre last year. The residential tower behind it? $2,689,000 per acre. Surface parking is highly subsidized in this country.
ALT Red outlined parking lot
Eric Martz retweeted
It’s a fact that some folks wouldn’t be able to pull a cart of food a block from the Costco to our apartment. That’s a truth that all of our planning & urban design must never forget.
But many of us can, if the urban design allows it.
In fact, it’s our 7 year old that pulls it.
Eric Martz retweeted
A quick transformation for a Patreon subscriber to show how protected bike panes could be added to Lido Boulevard in NY.
Eric Martz retweeted
'The lesson here is that traffic is not an inalterable and irreducible quantity dictated by nature; it’s actually very dynamic and elastic'
usa.streetsblog.org/2023/06/…
Eric Martz retweeted
If your city couldn’t avoid making a huge city-damaging mistake, do the next best thing – remove the mistake, & repair your city. Like #Utrecht NL did.
(via @BicycleDutch)
Eric Martz retweeted
E-bikes are as close to a silver bullet for achieving net zero as you can get.
'3 studies indicated a reduction in car use of 20% - 30%'
We should be moving heaven and earth to enable their uptake
Summary of 107 academic studies about e-bikes:
🔷 Use of e-bikes "is associated with lower energy and emissions."
🔷 E-bike riding "is a form of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity."
🔷 E-bikes "can cause a significant modal shift."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.20…
