Joe Cortright
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@dirquez As Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat.
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About that special session: @OregonDOT gearing up again for that same old bait and switch: Plead pothole poverty to get more money, then spend it on billion-dollar-a-mile megaprojects, consultants and debt. cityobservatory.org/the-old-bait-a…
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cityobservatory.org/what-opb-left-…
There’s no requirement ODOT use its $290 million to fix roads, watch for "bait and switch" to divert it to megaprojects & cost overruns.
Accountability measures are meaningless
It repeals a congestion pricing on Portland freeways, a key climate policy
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"2/3 of Seattle’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, with 9/10 of those carbon dioxide molecules coming from cars… The levy’s proposed investments are out of balance for a city that has committed to more than 2x transit ridership by 2030"
thestranger.com/guest-editoria…
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Wendy and Lucy@WendyLucy
FOIA Lady is Ms. Margaret "Marge" Moore. The person who supervises FOIA office "also hates FOIAs". "It's more in the line of a govt secret, but too complicated to explain in an email. But I learned the tricks last year from an old friend, Marg Moore, who heads our FOIA office and also hates FOIAs". [D. Morens, Feb 25, 2021 from the SSCP-Staff-Memo-5.22.pdf]. cybercemetery.unt.edu/oilspill/20130…
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Yes, this is absolutely terrifying! (not)
Traffic engineers think you are idiots. When you treat people like idiots, they act like idiots. This design treats people like humans and, guess what? They act like humans.
(Note: humans try and avoid crashes.)
Mike West@BikeMikeWest
@clmarohn Narrow streets and on-street parking create mayhem! This two-way yield street on 26 feet of asphalt is just madness, drivers need to *gasp* slow down and wait for other drivers to pass... Truthfully, it could still use additional calming elements, but not bad for suburban US!
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"Fire departments are consistently the most vocal opponents of any proposed road diets, including sidewalks, bus lanes, and bike lanes. This is despite the fact that fire departments spend more time responding to car crashes than fires." @bhargreaves
thesisdriven.com/p/on-fire-depa…
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Joe Cortright รีทวีตแล้ว
Joe Cortright รีทวีตแล้ว
"Why did cities spend SO much on half-assed highway caps that did a pretty marginal job stitching back together neighborhoods when Rochester had already demonstrated benefits of ripping out highways instead?" is a question our frustrated descendants will be asking for a long time
Sanika Bhave@sanikabhave
@megankimble new book “City Limits” is fascinating. two things I can’t stop thinking about: 🚊Rochester, NY has successfully de-highwayized … that’s crazy 💸Transit is termed “socialist” but really, highways are the biggest socialist program considering the 💲 taxpayers pay
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Very excited to share that I'm now working at Impact for Equity as Director of Housing. I'm very grateful to get to continue working on housing justice issues in Chicago and beyond!
More info on IFE's housing work here: impactforequity.org/areas-of-focus…
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Joe Cortright รีทวีตแล้ว
Joe Cortright รีทวีตแล้ว
The war has always been on cities. After WWII, US DOTs demolished neighborhoods and hollowed city centers in order to make way for the car. These mid-century highways divide communities, generate noise and air pollution and are vectors of illness, injury and death to this day.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle
Some drivers say San Francisco is at war with cars. They feel under siege in a city becoming less hospitable to vehicles amid efforts to make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. trib.al/pnh4XwF
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This is such an important point: Walking, transit and to a large extent biking, get safer and BETTER the more people using that mode. Driving has exactly the opposite pattern. The more people who drive, the more it destroys a place and the worse it makes it for everyone.
Lian Chikako Chang@LianChikako
When you're in a car, other people in cars are traffic and competition for parking; the more cars there are, the worse driving is. When you're on public transit, other people are community, and the more people there are, the more money and will there is to improve service.
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When contemplating “war” it’s helpful to consider who is doing the killing and who is doing the dying. Cars are inanimate objects used to wage war on PEOPLE. People on foot (and bikes) are dying at the highest rate in 40 years. There is no war on cars. There is only self defense.
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle
Some drivers say San Francisco is at war with cars. They feel under siege in a city becoming less hospitable to vehicles amid efforts to make streets safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. trib.al/zDE469H
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I think people’s brains are fried from 11 years of a majority of CPI prints coming in below 2%.
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We 💯 agree with @nomorefreeways 👉 "It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for climate action, sustainable transportation investment or neighborhood development." bit.ly/3UOb2tt
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Cities that are serious about zero emission technologies install and invest in proven technologies like Trolley Buses, while immature transit agencies and cities still chase after half-assed techno-bandAids like battery buses.
Congrats to Vancouver for being smarter than most
Martin Wright@750V_DC
Great trolleybus news from Vancouver, who have issued a Request for Information. The order could reach 512 trolleybuses -308 standard; 204 articulated - doubling the fleet size. Main contenders will be @newflyer (RH photo in Seattle) or Solaris (demonstrator on left).
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