A St. Louis expat-turned-pat blogger.
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@STLAbuBadu Also, not trying to troll you; just letting you know not all urbanists hate buses, avoid North City, and care only about bikes.
@STLAbuBadu @stltoday Fatalities decline exponentially with vehicle speed. We dont need roads w 45 mph avg traffic. We have plenty of hiwys.
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis if I had kids in the city I'd want them to have a safe street to cross.
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis if some extremely minor congestion is the price of utopia and safety is a payoff, then I'd make that deal
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis It can infect even 'gentrifiers' themselves. Check out Tower Grove South Facebook page for anti-bikelane rhetoric
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis Least-civic and most self-centered thinking comes from residents guarding their commute and car entitlement.
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis With better (or just sane) roadway planning STL could reclaim some status as walking/transit city.
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis Yes, and that's an extreme problem. Unlike, say, lightly-trafficked Union Blvd. losing a lane.
@STLAbuBadu @mpowerstlouis #STL Traffic planning has focused on turning a walking city into a driving suburb. Hasn't bettered lives for any1
@STLAbuBadu Partly true. And dystopian populist designs too often focus only on redistribution of power over status quo, not a change of it.
@STLAbuBadu I agree bike culture isn't inclusive. That shouldn't mean working against a form of transpo that could better lives of poor ppl
@STLAbuBadu Used to be quite often back when @mpowerstlouis worked up there. NB is unconscionably wide and has literally led to deaths.
@STLAbuBadu This argument = true due to traffic planners, not any inherent dislike 4 biking. Bikes=efficient,no pollution,cheaper than cars
@STLAbuBadu Also, I believe the city has had at least 4 pedestrian fatalities in the past month (2 on Nat Bridge alone--way, way too wide).
@STLAbuBadu Our road capacity is 10x what is needed. Bike lanes are a good, cheap substitute for unneeded road space.
@STLAbuBadu Transpo costs>housing for working poor fams. Forcing car ownership and building only for cars =/= a populist economic argument.