Someone please explain to me why police officers get to drive $60k blacked out Tahoes while the mail guy has to drive around in a 30 year old truck that gets 9mpg and has no airbags or air conditioning

When AI is asked to visualize Los Angeles as a walkable city. (via u/human_buy7932 on r/midjourney)

New plan for Fifth Avenue unveiled: given there are already far more pedestrians than cars, the space is being ‘right-sized.’ Wide sidewalks! A safe, separated cycle track! Dedicated bus lanes! And then a little leftover space for cars. Putting cars in their place, finally.

In 2010, Lancaster, CA transformed Lancaster Blvd. from a 5 lane road into a tree lined, 2 lane street. The positive impact was immediate with 50+ new businesses opening and $273mm in new economic activity and w/ reduced speeds, traffic related injuries plummeted.

Andres Duany says that the lessons of urbanism are broader and more numerous in New Orleans than anywhere else. What follows are a few of them.

build. the. map.

A truly developed country would spend this $1.24 billion on building a train to LaGuardia instead of building 2,000 parking spaces at JFK Also I love how they highlight the “eco conscious timber facade” as if that suddenly makes a massive parking lot environmentally friendly lol

Millions of Americans don’t drive due to cost, age, or disability. They need options to get around. But building infrastructure for walking, biking, and transit also benefits people who DO drive, by relieving congestion and saving tax dollars on road maintenance and expansions.

I like cities where you can hear other things, not just cars.

Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need

Madrid is getting serious about the impact of heat by creating a huge Greenbelt of millions of trees with new parks and leisure areas, to cool the city. Cleaning the air while beating the heat.

42,939 American car crash fatalities in 2021 - just about 6,000 shy of the 48,830 American gun deaths in 2021 - highlight absurdity of America’s journalistic and political focus.

If someone owns a building and wants to open a hair salon or bakery on the first floor, they should be legally allowed to, by right, in every North American neighborhood.

Stormwater swale separated bicycle lane

For young and old alike, cycling is more than transportation, it's a means of participation in society. With two-thirds of trips made by bike, teens are the demographic that rides the most in the Netherlands. The 65 to 75 age group rides the second-most. geo.tv/latest/498357-…

Oklahoma City and Dallas have the same distance and combined metro populations as Madrid and Zarazoga, where the former sees a daily train that takes 4 hours a day and the latter sees 19 each day that takes 1 hour and 21 mins. We don't need perfection, we need better.

Well good thing we didn’t build 90% of our country around this product.

Atlanta and Madrid’s rail networks overlaid on top of one another, to scale. Each city has a metro populations around 6-7 million.

If Houston and Berlin swapped public rail networks, to scale. Houston metro population: 6.7 million Berlin metro population: 3.6 million Idea credit: push the needle

high speed rail built up to international standards (180+ mph) could get you from Manhattan to Boston in ~90 minutes that’s quicker than a taxi ride from Manhattan to JFK at rush hour