Fred Geck
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Fred Geck
@fredgeck
man, husband, father, son, brother, granddad, friend, fixer, engineer, immigrant, taxpayer, Christian, thinker
Se unió Ağustos 2012
353 Siguiendo568 Seguidores

@wahlstedt007 I don’t think about the German political situation at all.
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@fredgeck @HandyGingerGal Doesn't matter. There is no multiplication.
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@unge_brioche @giveashitnature So you just need a permit to break the pedestrian rule?
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@fredgeck @giveashitnature Trucks deliver outside opening hours (they get permits), all shops selling big stuff (like furniture) are bankruped.
For some years, when the Krone was really weak, the city center was crowded by Chinese luxury shoppers.
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Oslo had 41 road deaths in 1975. By 2019, that number was one: a single driver who hit a fence.
Oslo effectively ended road deaths by redesigning its downtown for people instead of cars.
They removed 700 street parking spaces and replaced them with 37 miles of protected bike lanes and pocket parks.
They lowered speed limits inside and outside the city. Many streets to car traffic entirely.
They created "heart zones" around every elementary school where cars can't pick up or drop off kids.
Did it kill the city? Nope.
Retail sales at shops went up. Kids started walking and biking to school unsupervised.
Air quality improved measurably and traffic congestion got better because fewer people wanted to drive through a pedestrianized downtown.
Every piece of Oslo's strategy is available to any American city that wants it. The problem is solved, now we just need to implement it.


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@greendragonhq People are not monolithic party loyalists. Each side would create a liberal/ conservative split. All this party stuff is just to split us and have us tribal.
The real power is the independents not the radicals in the parties.
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@astraiaintel It is not one people. How can you united such a conglomeration of cultures and languages?
Need a common enemy and common language.
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One radical idea: end gerrymandering through at-large U.S. House seats apportioned by partisan voting patterns. Example: 30 percent of a state votes for Democrats? There are 10 seats in that state in total? 3 go to Democrats. The same would apply for my party.
It’s fair, reflects the way people really vote and is more representative than the salamander shaped districts we currently see.
Math is fair, everyone understands it, and if voters want to change the apportionment, they have to register and vote differently.
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@LibertyCappy Where there is no danger of harming people, like maybe the planet Mercury or one of those asteroids heading for us
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@JeremyWingert79 in about 1980 my first job was $3.65 per hour at minimum wage would be about $15 now.
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