The Urbane Planner

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The Urbane Planner

The Urbane Planner

@nullum_tempus

Nullum tempus occurrit regi!

Katılım Haziran 2011
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Jared Blank
Jared Blank@jaredsblank·
The solution is to significantly increase the frequency of every transit route currently paralleling I-77. You won’t get most cars off the road but you can take a lot of them off.
Joe Bruno@JoeBrunoWSOC9

The view from NCDOT. Ultimately NCDOT does whatever CRTPO tells them to. You want the project dead? It’s dead. But, the region is rejecting $700 million and starting over. Any new project has to go through the whole process again. It may be 10 years before a new project is even considered. The $700 million will go to other communities and projects. All while traffic on I-77 gets worse. 160,000 vehicles use 77 a day and this part of 77 has a crash rate 2.5x higher than the statewide average, per DOT

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The Urbane Planner@nullum_tempus·
@pathfindermiket @JoeBrunoWSOC9 This was programmed as a toll project due to the corridor cap (NCGS 136-189.11), which limits the amount of statewide mobility funds that can go to a project or contiguous projects on any highway corridor over a 5 year period. No tolls, no project, which is fine, but that’s why.
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Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor@pathfindermiket·
@JoeBrunoWSOC9 Why is it that North Carolina operated for most of its history without toll lanes, but now the state which can boast the city with the most growth in the USA can’t afford to build roads without them?
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Joe Bruno
Joe Bruno@JoeBrunoWSOC9·
From what I’ve been told through this process, one of the biggest mistakes NCDOT made was releasing these designs showing potential widespread neighborhood impacts AFTER the RFQ had already been issued. Yes the design was scaled back and it was early in the process But the outrage was never tampered and any trust was eroded. Damage was done
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Cat's best reaction ever to a magic trick
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Paul Bronks
Paul Bronks@SlenderSherbet·
Trying to explain to your wife how you went out for a beer with your friends on Saturday night and came home on Sunday afternoon.
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Grant Gregory
Grant Gregory@GrantrGregory·
@conorsen Gonna be hilarious when every single Republican eventually moves to FL and Republicans have to reckon with the consequences of packing too many Republican voters into a single state (much like Dems have over the last several decades).
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Conor Sen
Conor Sen@conorsen·
Feels like you’re going to see more Dem migration into Georgia and GOP migration out of Georgia into neighboring red states over the next 3-5 years, will be an interesting experiment.
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Congressman Pat Harrigan
Congressman Pat Harrigan@RepPatHarrigan·
For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves. So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades. That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.
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𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN·
If God wanted us to use renewable energy, He would’ve put a giant fusion reactor in the sky that bathes the Earth in photons, creates flowing rivers, and causes planetwide wind currents. Checkmate, libs.
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Jerry T
Jerry T@JerryTurin·
@memeticsisyphus Aside from the tremendous back story of the fluent one, the real interesting point is how it sheds light on the vast scale of interactions before formal permanent settlements. Lots of fishing, furs, maybe even timber economic voyages well before the dates hammered in in school.
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Joe Bruno
Joe Bruno@JoeBrunoWSOC9·
Charlotte Democratic primary mayor runner up Brendan Maginnis says he is interested in being interim mayor. Maginnis moved to Denmark after his loss.
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Ramp Capital
Ramp Capital@RampCapitalLLC·
Deep down every guy has a fantasy that if he just had enough money, he’d put his entire net worth into U.S. government bonds and comfortably live off the interest payments forever
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Two hours, especially when half of it is eaten up by translation, is a very short meeting for a summit. I know there are other interactions planned between Trump and Xi. But in the big formal bilateral meeting, it doesn’t look like anything was discussed in detail.
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Rob
Rob@wikimapper·
@EconWithNick Explain how BankOne, NationsBank, and Bank of America were able to operate across state lines? I’m pretty sure they, along with Norwest Bank, operated across various states.
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The Knowledge Archivist
The Knowledge Archivist@KnowledgeArchiv·
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” — Henry Ford
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Simon Kuestenmacher
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600·
This map shows the mood European TV detectives are in. An astute observation by @MisterABK.
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Grande
Grande@Sixrande·
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star 💫@stxrinsky·
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The Urbane Planner@nullum_tempus·
@mattmxhn Or just repeal the Uniform Congressional District Act and mandate a single multi-member district for each state and open party list elections with post election assigned geographic districts for constituent services.
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matt mohn
matt mohn@mattmxhn·
one (hacky) way that congress could try to douse the gerrymandering flames without interfering in state redistricting - add some seats to the House (100?) and then mandate that they be awarded at-large by state as leveling seats
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Vincent Alexander
Vincent Alexander@NonsenseIsland·
Gary Larson talking about the time THE FAR SIDE and DENNIS THE MENACE switched captions.
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