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Can anyone point me to some good essays on the consequences of replacing public spaces with corporate-owned spaces, such as the replacement of main street shops with shopping malls and supermarkets?
#urbanism #freespeech #publicgood
Can anyone point me to some good essays on the consequences of replacing public spaces with corporate-owned spaces, such as the replacement of main street shops with shopping malls and supermarkets?
#urbanism #freespeech #publicgood
“But if we block the street to cars, it will kill local businesses!”
“But if we block the street to cars, it will kill local businesses!”
And with that bus lane, tha bus is avoiding the traffic jam and getting people to their destinations faster and more reliably than the cars. Without it, we induce traffic. When we don't invest in active transportation, that bus gets stuck in the resulting induced traffic, which makes people think it's not a viable mode of transport for them, thus inducing more and more traffic, causing worse congestion for all.
Remember when you're stuck in construction in Edmonton, that the entire reason roads are being shut down all a once is because we are DECADES behind on sustainable infrasteucture for a growing city. We can only induce so much automobile traffic before our streets shut down, and we reached that point decades ago... but continued on despite because our freedom of transportation and the safety of those who use it, was politicized. If not for the wedge politics against active transportation lanes, this could have been spreadnot over decades, and did not need to be disruptive.
If you are railing against transportation alternatives, then you have no right to complain about traffic congestion. Traffic isnnot caused by construction. Construction is caused by traffic.
And with that bus lane, tha bus is avoiding the traffic jam and getting people to their destinations faster and more reliably than the cars. Without it, we induce traffic. When we don't invest in active transportation, that bus gets stuck in the resulting induced traffic, which makes people think it's not a viable mode of transport for them, thus inducing more and more traffic, causing worse congestion for all.
Remember when you're stuck in construction in Edmonton, that the entire reason roads are being shut down all a once is because we are DECADES behind on sustainable infrasteucture for a growing city. We can only induce so much automobile traffic before our streets shut down, and we reached that point decades ago... but continued on despite because our freedom of transportation and the safety of those who use it, was politicized. If not for the wedge politics against active transportation lanes, this could have been spreadnot over decades, and did not need to be disruptive.
If you are railing against transportation alternatives, then you have no right to complain about traffic congestion. Traffic isnnot caused by construction. Construction is caused by traffic.
Disappointed in my Assemblymember Damon Connolly for voting NO on #SB79, but thrilled it nonetheless passed 41-17.
GREAT NEWS for housing, transit, and environment in California! https://cayimby.org/legislation/sb-79/
I love this chart. The simple truth is that road wear isn't caused equally by all road users, and it isn't even a linear relationship to vehicle mass.
It's GEOMETRIC.
Estimates of road wear use the FOURTH power of axle load.
https://roaddamagecalculator.com/how-it-works
Me + my bike, fully loaded: 200Kg
Toyota RAV4, dry mass: 1500Kg, 2 axles
2 * (7504) / 2004 ≈ 395
Nearly FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more road damage. Be serious.
Chart credit: Ben Durham https://youtube.com/watch?v=JVD32ZC-784
I love this chart. The simple truth is that road wear isn't caused equally by all road users, and it isn't even a linear relationship to vehicle mass.
It's GEOMETRIC.
Estimates of road wear use the FOURTH power of axle load.
https://roaddamagecalculator.com/how-it-works
Me + my bike, fully loaded: 200Kg
Toyota RAV4, dry mass: 1500Kg, 2 axles
2 * (7504) / 2004 ≈ 395
Nearly FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more road damage. Be serious.
Chart credit: Ben Durham https://youtube.com/watch?v=JVD32ZC-784
A billboard in Vancouver (not my pic, though I cleaned it up)!
This is the best example of sustainable urban #SolarPunk living in the world? (Vauban District in Freiburg)
#Urbanism#OurWonderfulGreenFuture
via: https://www.goinggreenmedia.com/
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