Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last week

My first book is out in paperback! I shared some thoughts on ROAD TO NOWHERE now that it’s been out for a few years, and despite what I might have worried when I was writing it, it remains as relevant as ever.

Grab a copy for yourself!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/my-first-book-is-out-in-paperback

#books #tech #transport #transportation #selfdriving #uber #tesla #elonmusk
Paris Marx
@parismarx@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp last week

My first book is out in paperback! I shared some thoughts on ROAD TO NOWHERE now that it’s been out for a few years, and despite what I might have worried when I was writing it, it remains as relevant as ever.

Grab a copy for yourself!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/my-first-book-is-out-in-paperback

#books #tech #transport #transportation #selfdriving #uber #tesla #elonmusk

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@enobacon@urbanists.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

“Anything we do that is not optimizing getting people out of cars and getting them to a bus stop, or allowing them to walk from their neighborhood to a school with their kids, or do a #bikeBus, or ride, walk & roll around [#Portland] — If we are not prioritizing that —then every other little piddly, marginal thing we do for the climate is much less important, because most of our emissions come from automobiles… and I think it’ll save us money in the long run.” 🎯 💯 #ClimateAction #transportation
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@enobacon@urbanists.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

“Anything we do that is not optimizing getting people out of cars and getting them to a bus stop, or allowing them to walk from their neighborhood to a school with their kids, or do a #bikeBus, or ride, walk & roll around [#Portland] — If we are not prioritizing that —then every other little piddly, marginal thing we do for the climate is much less important, because most of our emissions come from automobiles… and I think it’ll save us money in the long run.” 🎯 💯 #ClimateAction #transportation
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@enobacon@urbanists.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Is it possible to "fund safety" in #transportation if you can't first move the default away from the idea that "austerity" means maintaining five car lanes with no bike lanes or sidewalks? Those car lanes aren't free to maintain, let alone with $3M in stop light hardware at every intersection, but an agency with ~$4B annual budget can't change it without more money? The gas tax is bringing less per-mile revenue than it costs to keep all of this as-is, that's the whole problem. #defundDOTs