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todays-xkcd · 7 months

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If they're going to make people ride bikes and scooters in traffic, then it should at LEAST be legal to do the Snow Crash thing where you use a hook-shot-style harpoon to catch free rides from cars.

Urban Planning Opinion Progression [Explained]

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Typical urban planning opinion progression [Each panel is connected to a point on a timeline]

Cueball: I wish there wasn't so much traffic to get into the city. They should put in more lanes. Megan: And more parking. Megan: Parking is so bad here.

Knit Cap: I have to go to Amsterdam for work next week. I hear they all ride bikes there. Ponytail: Bikes are fine but people shouldn't ride them in the street! I worry I'm going to hit someone!

Cueball: It would be nice if we had better transit options! Cueball: I tried a scooter. It was fun but I wish there were more bike paths.

Megan: It's funny how widening roads to speed up traffic makes them more dangerous to walk near, making driving more necessary and creating more traffic. Megan: Really makes you think.

Knit Cap: Visiting the Netherlands was cool! Knit Cap: Amsterdam is really neat.

Cueball: We've ceded so much of our land to storing and moving cars, with the rest of us tiptoeing around the edges and making drivers mad for trespassing on "their" space. Cueball: Even though we're the ones in danger from them!

Megan: Those giant trucks with front blind spots that keep hitting kids should be illegal.

Knit Cap: We should be more like the Netherlands. Knit Cap: They design their street to prioritize...

Cueball: The problem is car culture. It's systemic. Cueball: I don't know if we can fix it.

Megan: People approach road planning decisions from the point of view of drivers because that's how we're used to interacting with the city, so we make choices that make it more car-friendly. Megan: It's a vicious cycle.

Knit Cap: Netherlands! Netherlands! Netherlands! Netherlands!

Cueball: Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive in makes it a better place to live, short of scattering random tire spikes on the road.

Megan: Honestly, I think the city council should consider the tire spikes thing.

#xkcd #xkcd 2832 #urban planning opinion progression #webcomics #urban planning #transport #car transport #walkable cities #bikeable cities #cars

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the-eccentric-eclectic · 9 months

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The future isn't electric cars, it's public transportation. As dr. Gupta says, lithium batteries are still very polluting, and don't exist in a large enough quantity to supply the world with enough electric cars to get everybody driving one.

The path forward that I see has well arranged public transportation in a spiderweb form rather than a wordweb. All areas connected to each other rather than all transport going to the city center. It is publicly funded through taxes so you don't have to pay every time you use the train or take a bus.

For the elderly and the disabled there are special taxis upon request. You can rent a car or a van when you really need one, electric ofc. But you have to specify the reason and if it's something dumb like 'going to the gym by car' it can get denied.

If you need a car for your job because you work in emergency services such as GP, cop, etc. you drive one from your work, which you park at your workplace at the end of your workday, after which you take public transport home. You need a special dispensation to drive a car. Your workplace needs a special dispensation to own and let you drive a car.

And imagine all the things we can do with the space that is freed up. First of all, cars actively discourage community, so neighbourhoods become a lot more social. All the extra lanes on highways that are suddenly no longer needed can be turned into strips of forests which work noise reducing. If all cars are electric and the amount driven falls by like 85% (I am pulling this statistic out of my ass, this is by no means based on any actual data) there will be significantly less noise anyway.

We can take parking spaces and turn them into pollinator gardens, community gardens, sensory gardens for children.

We can get on roads again without fear of being hit by some loser with a god complex and a tin can murder machine. We can walk, bike, convene, live.

#fuck cars #climate crisis #climate change #anolish cars #climate solutions #sustainability #walkable cities #bikeable cities #community #greencore #green future #anti car #mental health #no cars #sensory garden #greenhouse gas reduction #abolish cars

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mdshamimahmed78 · 2 months

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cnu-newurbanism · 6 months

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Great Idea 7: Tactical urbanism

The latest trend in urban design and planning gets them off of the paper and out of a big room, testing ideas in the real world. It is fun and hands-on, and making many converts. Read more.

#great ideas #new urbanism #urban design #urbanism #cities #walkability #bikeable #tactical urbanism #urban planning

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running-throughthedarkness · 8 months

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i am almost 25 and am absolutely losing my shit

#i am so lost in this world #deep in it on this sunday evening #2023 #september 2023 #my job is no fun and very bad #but all the other jobs are either farther away than my current 1-hour commute #or they dont pay well or they seem like no fun or im not qualified #im totally stuck in a city and have long since realized that i really just want to live in a small bikeable town #ugh #if anyone has advice on how to survive your 20s i would gladly take it

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garbage-empress · 2 years

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you want your city to be walkable and bikeable? what's next? suckable? fuckable?

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nononookytv · 1 year

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i have been riding a bike w a fully torn open tire since the summer & didnt realize until i used my roommates bike to get to work & was like DAMN THIS IS EASY & PLEASURABLE

#i should get my bike fixed & ride more #i live in a shockingly bikeable part of the city #especially during the winter its sooooo nice #maybe ill get it fixed for christmas

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amtrak-official · 3 months

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If you live in a small city, run for local office, nobody is going to make your city more walkable or bikeable till you put work into it. It's an election year, so if your city, town or suburb has an election this year, why not try running for office if the cut off to register hasn't happened yet

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headspace-hotel · 2 years

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while we're talking about public transit and walkable/bikeable cities, I think that you should be able to ride a horse where you want to go. I think there should be horse drawn coaches

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atlurbanist · 14 days

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Pedestrian & transit conditions should shine where affordable homes are funded

Darin Givens | April 13, 2024

According to WSB news, Senator Jon Ossoff recently announced that $2 million in federal funds will create 20 new affordable housing units in Atlanta. In general, I think that's a really good use of public money.

But I do have concerns about the location...

The homes will be inside the Browns Mill Village development in south Atlanta; pictured is the entrance to it on Browns Mill Road.

Per Google Maps, it takes 1.5 hrs to get from here to Midtown on MARTA, versus an 18 minute drive. Or it's a mile walk to the stop for the 78 bus to East Point (46 minutes total, or more if you don't walk fast), but only a 15 minute drive.

And as you can see, pedestrian conditions are awful.

I don't mean to dismiss this project. There are definitely good things about it. But at the same time, I want us to cast a critical eye on initiatives that fund new affordable homes in car-centric places with streets that are hostile pedestrians and that lack high frequency transit.

Meanwhile, the most walkable and bikeable places in the city have become less affordable. This is a toxic trend.

We have got to find a way to match these major investments in affordable housing with great access to alternative transportation, particularly with transit services that are often a lifeline for lower income residents. Maybe it's a case of ensuring that pedestrian and transit improvements are made in a place like this to coincide with the investment.

Whatever the fix is, we need to accept this as a problem and aim higher.

If this incident was a one-off, I wouldn't be so worked up. But this is a definite trend of failing to match affordable housing investments with great pedestrian infrastructure and high frequency transit. It needs to be called out and addressed.

#atlanta #urbanism #affordable housing

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teamfreewill2pointo · 7 months

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Visiting the Supernatural shooting locations Part 2

Please find part 1 here.

On our final day, we did Deer Lake and Riverview as the main viewing points.

The thing y'all gotta keep in mind is that there are so many locations, that we drove by countless of them just driving around, so I'm not showing you most of what I saw because I didn't get pictures of it all and also because tumblr wouldn't allow me to post so many photos.

That spot that's highlighted in Riverview? They shot 1x05, 1x10, 1x13, 1x18, 2x01, 2x19, 3x15, 4x06, 4x09, 4x13, 4x16, 5x04, 5x11, 6x10, 6x21, 7x02, 7x03, 7x10, 7x17, 7x21, and 10x09 there.

And that's just one building in Riverview.

It's a beautiful park and we got really lucky with the weather and it only poured rain for half of one day. Even with the bright light, it felt very creepy and I can only imagine how it would look and feel with fog or on a cloudy day. There were a lot of signs warning people not to enter the building or stay on the premises after dark.

A lot of the finale was filmed around Deer Lake. Unfortunately, the Burnaby Village Museum was closed because apparently it's only open to the public in the summer. We weren't able to visit there, but we were able to visit several other filming sites.

One of the things I noticed is that often episodes are filmed in clumps. For example, Regarding Dean was filmed in a few locations, but they grouped together the filming at the various locations to make it easier to film. The restaurant they went to was the Denny's near the motel they went to.

At this Deer Lake location, they filmed multiple scenes from the finale Sam playing catch with son, Dean's funeral pyre, the tree scene, the house the vamps broke into, Sam going for a run, and the pie scene, plus scenes from other episodes.

We found the tree where Baby was parked

which was in a slightly different location than the map said, but close enough that we found it easily. This place looked so different

But we're at a different time of the year and we're visiting 14 years later, so it's probably due to that.

One thing that I forgot to mention on the earlier post is that while Bobby's house is gone, the junkyard is still standing and an active business.

We had read online that the owner is very friendly, but it felt kinda awkward going in there and taking photos while people are hard at work. There's a giant dog that barks at you when you walk in.

One place I wanted to visit, but didn't get to was the Spur 4 Bridge where the finale ended.

There's a few shooting locations up there including the spot where Sam and Dean split up in 5.02 and the purgatory scenes in s15, but the Spur 4 Bridge is a hike since it's on a private road. Most people access it through the Fisherman's Trail

Although it's rated as easy here, someone who hiked it recently said that due to a rockslide, bring boots. You can also bike around it.

Since it was such a long hike, I decided to save it for next visit, when I'll plan a whole day around it. I also want to visit the place where they defeat Chuck, which is up in Minaty Bay and visit the area south of Richmond where they filmed Mystery Spot and several BM scenes.

As for getting around in general, the city of Vancouver is very bikeable and there's different bike rental options available. I don't know about transporting them between locations, but you can do this section by bike easy

We had a car, which enabled us to travel to a wide variety of sites and visit locations such as the Lulu Trestle (1x07, 3x07, 4x03, 4x13, 9x14, 12x22, 15x18).

Now you can get to the Trestle by public transportation, but it'll take you an hour from Burnaby Village Museum by bus versus a 16 minute drive. If you don't have access to a car, I'd focus my visit on the cities. At one point, we split up and I took the Sky Train from Burnaby to Westminster and it was very safe and easy. I also took a few buses to get to and from various locations. Vancouver was, in my experience, a very clean, safe city, with lots of public restrooms. Just don't continue going east of Gastown. There may be other parts that are unsafe, so if you are unsure, send me a PM and I can tell you exactly where we went.

I also recommend Salmon n'Bannock, which is an Indigenous restaurant that had some of the best food I've ever had.

Hope this helps! It was an amazing experience and I highly recommend that you visit. I'd pick out your favorite places before you arrive because there's so many places and it can get overwhelming looking at the map!

#supernatural #spn #spnfamily #sam winchester #jared padalecki #dean winchester #jensen ackles #spn family #castiel #misha collins #vancouver #spn locations #locations

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cnu-newurbanism · 1 year

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Feds release plan for compact communities to counter climate change

Read the official CNU media release here.

The US government on Tuesday released a groundbreaking Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization that fully recognizes the critical role of compact, complete communities in reducing carbon emissions and addressing the nation’s climate issues. No federal plan has made that connection, to this extent, before—opening the door for a national strategy that effectively involves states and cities, dealing with how communities are physically planned, to move the needle on climate change.

The Blueprint has far-reaching implications for street design, zoning, transit-oriented development, and the planning of compact, connected communities.

Although the report does not say so directly, it’s goals and language tend to support policies that will enable suburban retrofit and more interconnected street networks. The nation needs to “Increase convenience by supporting community design and land-use planning at the local and regional levels that ensure that job centers, shopping, schools, entertainment, and essential services are strategically located near where people live to reduce commute burdens, improve walkability and bikeability, and improve quality of life,” the Blueprint states. In order to meet that goal, America’s spread-out, disconnected, single-use suburbs (and cities), need to be redesigned to allow for more connections, access, and diversity.