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10 months ago
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Hikari
@shogun-hikari.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Seeing a Not just bikes comment in a Herson youtube video is kinda wild
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LG News Roundup Newsfeed
@roundupnewsbot.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Footpaths delivered for a better Ocean Grove Ocean Grove residents are now better connected thanks to the ongoing delivery of new footpaths under the Ocean Grove Principal Pedestrian Network. City of Greater Geelong #LGNewsRoundup #VLGA #VicCouncils #CityOfGreaterGeelong
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Jeff Baker
@jwbee.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Other hilarious outcomes of Berkeley zoning reforms, which have been a mix of good and bad this year, include the person on my block who can't build their home because 1 home on 5400sqft no longer meets the minimum 10 du/ac, and before they get a demo permit they have to prove the dead guy was rich.
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Dr Grace Peng
@gspeng.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
One of the things I can't stand about the "free transit" bros is that they discount the needs and desires of female riders. Enforcing TAP to ride (even when the TAP card provides free fare) is proven to keep the stations + trains cleaner and safer. thesource.metro.net/tap-t….
Some stats that we’ve collected on TAP-to-Exit:

•We surveyed riders at North Hollywood in 2024 and 90 percent felt that the program made the station cleaner, and 86 percent felt safer. The numbers were even higher among women.

•Reports to our Transit Watch app of crime and other issues (fights, drug use and graffiti) dropped by more than 40 percent on the B Line.

•After TAP-to-Exit was launched at Downtown Santa Monica Station and paired with more fare enforcement on the E Line, incidents on the E Line dropped 55 percent.

•In the first month of the program at North Hollywood, 15,000 unpaid rides were identified and paid for upon exit, amounting to an 11 percent increase in fare compliance. Overall, 120,000 fares were collected because of TAP-to-Exit, recovering over $130,000 in fare revenue that we can use to maintain and improve our system.

Tapping to exit is not new – it’s a common feature in other major transit systems across the nation, including BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, MARTA in the Atlanta area, WMATA in the Washington D.C. region, as well as in London and Tokyo — two of the world’s largest transit systems.

Feedback is welcome. TAP-to-Exit is one of many steps that we’re taking to improve safety and cleanliness on our system.
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CrashesInAnnArbor
@crashesinannarbor.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
An excellent explanation of why the presentation to Transportation Commission on Nov. 19 was so alarming. The presentation should be retracted and revised to properly align with #a2Council 's affirmed (and re-affirmed) Vision Zero goal. Read to the end of the thread for the call to action.

The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a... ). But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)

1. City traffic-deaths pitch hits a wall: Ann Arbor promised in 2021 it would eliminate serious injuries and deaths from traffic accidents by the end of 2025, aka next month, and instead the number of incidents so far this year has hit an eleven-year high. On November 19, Transportation Commission members eagerly awaited a year-end report and some promised new ideas, but transportation engineer Cynthia Redinger failed to impress. Her two big “asks” were for the commission’s support in a budget request to council for a driver-education campaign and to push for legal permission to set up red-light cameras and other “automated enforcement” techniques. Crashes In Ann Arbor author and safety advocate Peter Houk was especially dismayed, telling Redinger, “We have been trying unsuccessfully for a very long time to change driver behavior through driver education and messaging, and what we need to do is change our facilities to encourage drivers to interact in them the way we want them to. … We’re not going to get there by asking them nicely.” Council member Dharma Akmon tells a2view she’s also disappointed; she’s been pushing for quick-build traffic-slowing fixes like the recent redesign of Pauline Ave. Persuading Lansing lawmakers to reverse the current ban on automated enforcement — if it were likely to succeed, which she doubts — is not a fast-moving solution, she says. Watch the key part of the meeting here (https://youtu.be/PLdne7vIK9g?si=D9vQnt4ZupWdYkIA&t=7473)
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Xiomara
@xiomara-the-first.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
My vision for the future is beautiful culturally aware, ecologically kind,walkable cities w/ architecture that is good for our bodies. I think it starts with a good home I joined House The Future because some of my vision is shared. Come see what we're working on. Next General Meeting is on 12/19
House the Future Events

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House the Future Events

Join one of our in-person and online events.

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Nilo
@nilo.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
A way to conceptualize this: Lyft is a publicly traded firm. Its investors expect market average if not market beating returns on capital spending. That probably means citibike expansion is conservative, and prices are high to ensure that rate of return.

It's too damn expensive to ride a Citi Bike. buff.ly/cZCvWJq

Graph showing the increase of Citi Bike membership costs.
Graph showing the change in price of a 15 minute e-bike ride for members and single riders of Citi Bike.
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Chris Udy
@espy-by-sea.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
“Fair bet as school children they were the class clowns proud of loud farts. That would fit with the mentality of those with road cars pointlessly tuned to backfire, barking/farting their way to a stop.” michaelwest.com.au/big-no….
Big Noise. Bring on the noise cameras, now! - Michael West

michaelwest.com.au

Big Noise. Bring on the noise cameras, now! - Michael West

Who’s game to take on Big Noise? It’s retail politics but such obvious retail politics it’s a wonder governments haven’t been game to act

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@hehheh.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Halifax should paint the bus lanes blue and call it the harbour hopper

Red carpet for the Red Rocket

Recently painted streetcar tracks in the middle of Bathurst Street
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Penny Patton
@pennypatton.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Settled into my new apartment. The room is somehow worse than I remembered it being. Luckily I'm enrolled in a housing program with a 3-6 month waiting list, and the landlord is renovating rooms so I'll get a new one freshly fixed up as soon as it's ready. Either way I won't be here long.
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Andy Boenau
@urbanismspeakeasy.com
about 2 hours ago
The status quo believes the fantasy that traffic violence is inevitable. That there’s nothing we can do. The truth is, we can prevent severe crashes. www.fastcompany.com/91443….
To change our safety culture, we need storytellers

www.fastcompany.com

To change our safety culture, we need storytellers

Powerful personal narratives are key to reducing traffic deaths. For real change, the average person needs to know the stories of the victims of road accidents.

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Safe Kjipuktuk
@safehrm.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
Victoria, BC, both did this and achieved reductions in cyclist crashes - pub-victoria.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a... Here we blamed bike lanes for congestion, cyclist/micro-mobility crashes jumped 20% from 2022 to 2024

The Best Cycling City No One Talks About with (among many others) @burgundavia.bsky.social and @ryanjabs.bsky.social

youtu.be

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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
@nerd4cities.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
For your Saturday night viewing (dis)pleasure. Yes, I was in that kind of mood nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
CityNerd — Cybertruck Owner As Modern Christ Figure: A Brief Inquiry

nebula.tv

CityNerd — Cybertruck Owner As Modern Christ Figure: A Brief Inquiry

Seriously — who buys these things? Let's investigate

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Traffic calming for your soul
@woofner.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
Springfield, Oregon, recently rebuilt .7 miles of Mill St with curb-level, one-way bike lanes. But for some reason, less than half the length of the street has the protected lanes — most of it is just painted lanes. Garbage infra like this won’t convince anyone to bike instead of driving.
Typical segment of the protected lane — pretty nice!
But the protected segment ends quickly, after which it becomes a parking lane (which a mail carrier is using in this pic)
While speed bumps may help reduce average driving speeds, they didn’t think or care to put them only in the driving lanes, making for an uncomfortable bike ride
No accommodation was made for the fact that this sidewalk from D street is commonly used to connect to the popular river paths
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vivi ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️
@vivwoof.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
Two "new" tram lines have be opened today in my city which I'm really stoked about :333 In a few months, completely new tram trains will be in use, making a huge comfort upgrade. Also in two weeks one of the most important train infrastructure project in my country's history will be finally open!!!
a cat is standing in front of a mirror in a room next to a litter box .

media.tenor.com

a cat is standing in front of a mirror in a room next to a litter box .

ALT: a cat is standing in front of a mirror in a room next to a litter box .

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