The city of Austin now says three story buildings on I-35 caps are "unlikely to be feasible" because they would require additional engineering and cost. So now, they're working on the assumption that buildings would be two stories max. Here's a new rendering.

The folks claiming capping I-676 in Philadelphia's Chinatown will allow development on the reclaimed land are delusional. Or in fact know better but are betting they can fool the public. We're going to spend so much money on these highway projects for some pretty mediocre parks.

It's cool how we can't cut interest rates until inflation goes down, and we can't build as much housing until interest rates get cut

For every ⬆️ of 1,000 lbs, a vehicle is 40-50% more likely to kill the occupants of another vehicle in a crash *whether they are wearing a seatbelt or not.* In the case of a pedestrian, this car would just vaporize them. What an absolutely tone deaf we-are-the-problem Xeet.

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

I think people’s brains are fried from 11 years of a majority of CPI prints coming in below 2%.

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.

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.

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Cheat sheet whenever you need to defend congestion pricing in the next month:

Renault is putting its Level 4 autonomous busses into production. If you don't see the clear opportunity for autonomous vehicles to be used in public transit, you should really try to step out of your echo chamber. This will be a game-changer.

"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

"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." Brad Hargreaves thesisdriven.com/p/on-fire-depa…

How many times does a person have to prove that urban highways perpetuate racism before the increasingly cynical nonprofit industrial complex acknowledges it? Pretty highways still pollute. EVs forever pump out plastics. Will we ever stop solving highways with more highways?

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.)

"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…

Alex Ruoff x.com/WendyLucy/stat…

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