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Jeff Speck

@jeffspeckfaicp

City planner, walkability advocate, writer, husband, father. Partner, Speck Dempsey. Author: Walkable City & Walkable City Rules.

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Today's housing hero among us is Angus McQuilken of Marblehead. Angus was willing to speak up in support of housing at last nights Select Board meeting despite heckling from opponents in the room and, according to the Marblehead Current, being called a "weasel."

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Three women who served in Donald Trump's White House say their former boss must never get anywhere near the Oval Office again. (December 2023)

Andy Boenau (@boenau) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The odds of your child getting kidnapped are about 1 in a million. The odds of a person born in 2021 dying in a traffic crash are about 1 in 93. American parents act like these stats are reversed. They're paranoid about the rare kidnapping but naive about the common drive.

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I appreciate the sentiment. Point of fact, drivers coasting carefully through stop signs, looking for conflicts, are much less of a danger than drivers turning at green lights. The moral: stop signs are safer than signals, even if people break the rules.

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Hope to see you all next Weds PM in Bridgewater. The website says "sales ended" but it's free and open to all. eventbrite.com/e/pathways-to-ā€¦

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Boars Head Listeria contamination, brought to you by Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett who gutted the FDA's ability to regulate meat processing plants thanks to the GOP's Big Donors.

Jeff Speck (@jeffspeckfaicp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another eye-opening article by David Zipper. Glad to see my congressman Rep. Jake Auchincloss šŸŸ§ helping to lead the fight against Big Highway. Can you believe TXDOT wants to spend $3/4 TRILLION on MOAR LANEZ!!!??? Yes I can.

Another eye-opening article by <a href="/DavidZipper/">David Zipper</a>. Glad to see my congressman <a href="/RepAuchincloss/">Rep. Jake Auchincloss šŸŸ§</a> helping to lead the fight against Big Highway. 

Can you believe TXDOT wants to spend $3/4 TRILLION on MOAR LANEZ!!!???

Yes I can.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett (@modacitylife) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ā€œIf women designed cities, they would be planned for proximity instead of motorised mobility. This supports a transition from car-centric cities to ones where traffic has evaporated, and people work with nature to create places that function at a speed conducive to living well.ā€

ā€œIf women designed cities, they would be planned for proximity instead of motorised mobility.

This supports a transition from car-centric cities to ones where traffic has evaporated, and people work with nature to create places that function at a speed conducive to living well.ā€
Jeff Speck (@jeffspeckfaicp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Replacing statistics with anecdote is a key disinformation tactic of authoritarian campaigns. Urban San Franciscoā€™s murder rate of 6.7/100K is below the national average of 7.5/100K. Here are the most dangerous cities. Hmm, anything missing?

Replacing statistics with anecdote is a key disinformation tactic of authoritarian campaigns.  

Urban San Franciscoā€™s murder rate of 6.7/100K is below the national average of 7.5/100K. 

Here are the most dangerous cities. Hmm, anything missing?
Jeff Speck (@jeffspeckfaicp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

After all this time, I still have the capacity to be shocked that a sizable portion of the American population is in thrall to someone who daily shows himself to be a living, breathing piece of šŸ’©

Jarrett Walker (@humantransit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People in different fields have different dates for when Elon Musk became ridiculous, depending on when he first showed up in their field and claimed to know all about it. For public transit planners like me it was 2017 as I recall.

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The City of Worcester will be hosting walk audits along some of its most dangerous roadways in an effort to address what city leaders call "traffic violence." specne.ws/Sg274H

Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iā€™m not sure that framing activist goals in these kind of maximalist terms is helpful to securing the concrete interests of anyone in the Middle East.

Iā€™m not sure that framing activist goals in these kind of maximalist terms is helpful to securing the concrete interests of anyone in the Middle East.