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Katılım Eylül 2025
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@Penalosa_G You should add a roof and windows so people with non-ideal health could travel at any weather. Also additional seats you can put children or elderly in. And larger trunk for baby carriage, wheelchair or just heavy things. And you have the ultimate vehicle for all ages - a car.
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Gil Penalosa@Penalosa_G·
We need to stop building communities as if everyone was 30 years old and athletic. We must create AAA cities: for All Ages & Abilities. E-tricycles are a great mobility option for many who don't feel safe on a bicycle. Enjoyed seeing these when working in PEI. Olders having fun.
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Jeffrey Dean Hochderffer@JHochderffer·
@CompletedStreet So that bus is going to stop at 70 homes to drop people off? A 30 minute trip is now 5 hours. But that makes sense to you.
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@BrentToderian @scienceworldca They are not even hiding it. 120 people squeezed into one bus with no place is what they call "comfortable". They hate people and they want cities built for buses, not people.
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Brent Toderian@BrentToderian·
120 people travelling individually in 120 cars could instead ride in 1 #Vancouver articulated bus. When they do, it helps EVERYONE move easier. The math of urban mobility, explained to Vancouverites by @scienceworldca. Better mobility in cities is about space. #CityMakingMath
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@_the_train_guy In USSR they have built infrastructure around buses and trams. It doesn't work, buses and trams are inherently slow.
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Saaluvesh@_the_train_guy·
Buses are slow and inconvenient because you jokers have built an infrastructure around cars. Build the transport infra around buses, trams, and trains. Watch them become faster than cars, not get stuck in traffic, and people enjoy more people-space.
Richard Wellings@RichardWellings

Buses are hideously slow and inconvenient. You have to walk to the stops, wait around, and can't carry much either. By forcing people to use buses instead of cars they're severely restricting mobility and access to job, retail and leisure opportunities. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

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@melspepsi @cityaestheticss It's walkabe for people who are singe and have nothing to do. If you have a family then 15-minute walk to a grocery store is not walkable because you need to carry too much weight back.
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City Aesthetics ⛩
City Aesthetics ⛩@cityaestheticss·
The closest grocery store is a 1 hour walk from here.
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@cormacDublin @humantransit The difference is private cars extend city space, the more cars the more available space, a phenomenon aka city sprawl. Bikes shrink city space.
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Cormac McKay
Cormac McKay@cormacDublin·
@humantransit Private Cars are parked 90%+ of their lifetime hoarding precious limited carbon intensive to produce resources Steel Aluminum Copper Glass Plastic Dysprosium Praseodymium Neodymium and lithium resources we don't have spare to hoard.
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
This critique of bike sharing is the same nonsense that we hear about “empty seats on buses”. There is not much marginal cost to the surplus capacity, and the capacity means we can handle surges. The low cost of surplus capacity is what makes these modes resilient.
Sam E. Antar@SamAntar

On average Citibikes are idle 98% of the time and even when used they can only transport one person at the time. This is what the cult calls “mass transportation.”

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@humantransit Adult conversation is not possible here. Public transit is inherently unsafe. It's a huge concentration of random people locked in a moving metal box.
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
An emotional topic I know. But I'm watching transit agencies cutting service so that they can do more about security. And that leads us to other bad places. Like everything, security is a trade-off and we need to encourage adult conversations about it. 10/10
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Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
If you're not a transit manager, it sounds so easy to fix the problem of crime and bad behavior on public transit. Even worse, it's easy to accuse transit managers of not caring if they don't solve it. That's not fair. They do care. 1/🧵
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade

Every transit nerd — the urbanist who tell us over and over how much they love public transportation— has to realize until you stop this sort of crap, and make stopping it your number one goal, you and all your train love are doing nothing but annoying everyone else.

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@CoopTory If you distribute those occupied bus seats over the length of a dedicated lane till the next bus the picture will become much, much worse than in case of cars. Cars are efficient, public transit is not.
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Co-op Tory 🍁@CoopTory·
People will count the empty seats on public transportation as an excuse to not fund it. If we counted the empty seats in cars too, then we would see a fair picture. Transit is simply more space-efficient at moving people.
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@humantransit Terrible set of principles which looks more like a publication from corrupt organizations. "Well funded" principal speaks for itself. As well as "Good service" which is maximally non-specific in order to provide cheap service and steal the difference.
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Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
It’s easy to make a list of the principles that define good public transport. The hard part is making trade-offs between them. For example, is “zero emission” more important than “good service”? Many decision makers in many countries seem to think so.
ITDP@ITDP_HQ

New research from ITDP outlines 5 principles that define strong public transport systems: good service; zero emissions; well funded; well managed; for everyone. Investing in high quality public transport is essential for equitable and resilient cities. Read more: 👉️ itdp.org/2026/03/04/wha…

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@humantransit Self-driving cars use much less road space than buses on dedicated lanes. They also are much faster and give much larger potential city area.
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Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
Self driving taxis will further reduce parking, allowing more infill. Nice. What will the infill do? Increase travel demand in a fixed amount of street space. So we’ll end up with self-driving gridlock, and regret having disinvested in space-efficient buses and trains.
Harrison Finberg@harrisonfinberg

Infill may trend this direction over the next 20 years as self driving cars take over. No valuable real estate on parking, you send your car to go park somewhere ugly and out of sight or use cheap robot taxis.

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@kaseyklimes Transit dependency is slavery. With everyday punishments.
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kasey@kaseyklimes·
car dependency is not freedom
Heather Long@byHeatherLong

The cost of buying and owning a car has soared since the pandemic. Navy Federal's Cost of Car Ownership Index is +41% since January 2020 CPI is +26% since January 2020 Wages are +31% Almost every aspect of buying, owning, insuring and repairing a car has jumped. And now we are in the midst of another gas price shock. ‘It’s Just Crazy’: High Car Payments Make Ownership Feel Impossible by @onlykailyn nytimes.com/2026/03/16/bus…

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MC Squared@mcsquared34·
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Chris Freiman@cafreiman·
A lot of anti-YIMBYs suffer from what could be called “housing exceptionalism”—they offer explanations for why increasing the supply of housing will not deliver lower real prices over time that imply that increasing the supply of other goods will not deliver lower real prices over time (even though it’s uncontroversial that they do).
Kate Willett@katewillett

A major new study has confirmed what many of us know from reading all previous research. Socialists in NYC should care about this, bc Mayor Mamdani has filled his administration with developer hawks in hopes of delivering the Affordability Agenda. It won’t.

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@theofficialjeff @cafreiman Because real estate is an investment instrument. You can't outsupply demand of investors. During the last 25 years supply of gold has increased 1,5 times. Those additional 50% were eaten immidiately and price has increased, not decreased.
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jeff@theofficialjeff·
@cafreiman I’m really struggling to understand how housing prices could possibly not drop if there was suddenly a massive increase in supply. Is the argument that the ultra-rich would start buying it all up just… because?
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@cafreiman From 2000 to 2025 supply of gold increased 1.5 times. That should have given a price drop according to your logic. But gold became much less affordable instead. Because the logic that is applied to ordinary goods does not apply to investment instruments.
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
Subway mezzanines will always inspire praise from connoisseurs of liminality, but subways would be a lot cheaper if we didn’t always insist on them. Can we find cheaper liminality somewhere else?
summer🔜vibecamp@transgendererer

i really like the mezzanines on subway platforms. the whole system is liminal obviously, it transit, but mezzanines are DOUBLE liminal. transitional zones between transitional zones! no one waiting for anything, not even an entrance to the surface, just a weird tunnel to nowhere

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MR. OBVIOUS
MR. OBVIOUS@ObviousRises·
Imagine not getting a job because some Foid HR manager thinks you're an "incel" who isn't qualified because you lack "dating experience" unreal.
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@kmcnam1 Everybody would have used windows 7 if newer versions were not forced upon the users. It's a classic case of enshittification.
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@neilblock @AspiringWigger @the_transit_guy All proposals one way or another involve punishments for leaving 15-minute area. Otherwise people will never stay in 15-munute area. People who want to stay in 15-minute area from their home don't live in cities, they buy houses in villages for a much cheaper price.
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Hayden@the_transit_guy·
Not to pile on, but the urban planning principle of building a community within a 15 minute walk of a park is literally thought of as a conspiracy theory.
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84

Me too.

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