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rohan aras

@rohanaras.bsky.social

Senior Transportation Policy Analyst @niskanencenter.bsky.social

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Jake Berman@lostsubways.com · 3d ago

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · last wk.

Canadian Cities can be understood as having the same building blocks as American cities, but in different proportions. One of them is a much dramatically lower proportion of this sort of acreage sprawl.

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · last wk.

Day Two of the AASHTO meeting of the Council on Active Transportation and Committee on Planning Starts with a session about data needs and collection methods Speaker from StreetLight Data discusses changes in data collection and data availability due to privacy law changes

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awjustus.bsky.social@awjustus.bsky.social · last wk.

Housing lock-in may feel like a post-covid development, but tax law and inheritance rules have discouraged long-tenured homeowners from selling for over a generation.

The Niskanen Center@niskanencenter.bsky.social · last wk.

We talk about the housing shortage like it's just a construction problem, but some of the supply already exists. It's just held by owners who, if they ever wanted to sell, would take a major tax hit for doing so. www.niskanencenter.org/to-help-grow...

Patrick Siegman@siegman.biz · last mo.

Building wide roads in every subdivision requires more asphalt, more base rock, and more land. That's more expensive & less sustainable. It also worsens traffic safety. I don't know the right building material choice for every situation, but I know we need to think about city building holistically.

A birds eye view photograph of a single-family house subdivision in Carson City Nevada. In the left foreground can be seen a wide, slightly meandering street. The street is approximately 36 feet wide from curb to curb, including enough room for two 8-foot parking lanes and 20 feet of width in between them. While the parking lanes exist, no cars are parked in them. The street has narrow sidewalks on both sides, but no street trees. The resulting street look like a Speedway. Motorists can easily and comfortably navigate it at speeds far in excess of the 25 mile-per-hour posted speed limit, and it is likely that many of them do just that. Photo by Dan Burden.
Patrick Siegman@siegman.biz · 4mo ago

Why does this debate over street widths matter? Because an increasingly large body of evidence shows that wide streets increase traffic fatalities and injuries. That really matters, because traffic fatalities and injuries are MUCH more common than fire fatalities and injuries.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · last mo.

The actionable upside of all this is that, with the privilege of having mostly solved zoning and streamlining, we should be focusing almost entirely on building code, reducing quality materials costs, expanding the supply of skilled construction labor, expanding alternative forms of tenure, etc...

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · last mo.

All housing is beautiful, and most aesthetically-motivated V-over-I hate is vapid nonsense. But the way we build and manage modern midrise multifamily actually does totally suck. In my new building, there was basically zero sound insulation from outside or neighbors; the elevators broke down...

California YIMBY@cayimby.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, California ends decades-long bans on apartments near our most frequent train and bus stops, thanks to SB 79. Some cities will move fast. Others will take more time. Change won't happen everywhere at once. But it has begun, and it will not stop here.

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