dusil13.bsky.social
Mobility, safety, and dignity for people walking and rolling. 🚲🚶🛴👩‍🦽‍➡️
Transportation planning ➡️ traffic safety research. Currently in Iowa.
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*roadway space that is
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…land use, they make up for in ease of travel on two wheels. Lots of other factors at play but they’ve made the most of their space.
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Fort Collins, CO has is an interesting example. They originally laid out 100-140ft right-of-ways for ease of horse-drawn carriage u-turns and transformed that into a platinum-level bike friendly community. Wide residential streets made a perfect canvas for the low-stress network. What they lack in..
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Plus Mayor Johnson in Chicago. Illinois is standing on business right now. I hope it’s contagious.
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I second streetmix. Also, don’t underestimate PowerPoint. It’s pretty easy to draw on top of a Google Maps screen grab. This has been a helpful way to start a conversation and get people thinking about possibilities.
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So close, yet so far!
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Got mine! Iowa City is excited to chat with you next week.
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The Oak Park Regional Housing Center does this to an extent I think: oprhc.org
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Our longtail e-bike has been a joy so far.
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Agreed, I don’t see any upside. There are 2-3 specific routes that serve both a high school and middle school and they go thru some of the cities lowest income neighborhoods.
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I was wondering the same. I honestly don’t know. It seems like a real enforcement headache.
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Cedar Rapids (Iowa) transit is free for all students with school ID. Elementary and middle school kids are exempt from the ID requirement. Down the road in Iowa City transit is fare free for all.
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I’m with you. I learned from @wesmars.bsky.social that a an avg adult male on an e-bike would need to go 100mph to equal the kinetic energy of a sedan at 30mph. These e-bikes are just out of control.
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Not to mention Florida metro areas hold 8 of the 20 worst ped fatality rates among large metros, according to Dangerous by Design 2024 by @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social
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Don’t underestimate the power of the flag vehicle escort lobby!
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This was a fun listen! Excited to tune back in Friday to hear more from the MTA chief.
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Another way to phrase it is this: How come the time of people inside of motor vehicles is a precious commodity that must be conserved, while the time of everyone outside of motor vehicles is freely expendable?
#WindshieldBias
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I just read that chapter last night!
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I thought these were coasters at first glance. Possible next item for the store?
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🎯 I would love to see more agencies go all in with press releases and campaigns to this effect very early in the process. Control the narrative!
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Onion rings for all! It’s wild that we have normalized such an inefficient use of land AND turning away customers based on how they arrived.
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If they even bother to staff the registers. I count something like 85 cars in line. The vehicle occupants would hardly fill the indoor/outdoor seating.
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Our society puts on a facade of doing more with the less, while actually doing less with more. We need a $50k truck to drive on a $1M highway to get a case of bottled water.
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This is so cool! Choice paralysis is very real when all you’ve got is online specs
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It’s simple and it appeals to our shared humanity. With all that is asked of the modern human, we deserve a little convenience.
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Once you’ve seen someone spit in the soup, it’s hard to unsee it.
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If the bakfiets has a front camera display in the cockpit because you can’t actually see what’s directly in front of you, then yes.
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đź“Ś
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Potential silver lining: Could this entice cities with aggressive climate goals to take a serious look at e-bike vouchers? More bang for your buck transforming car trip to e-bike trips wherever possible.
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Love to see this. Instead of “new report reveals,” could the title be “new report reaffirms”?
Since previous research has found similar impacts, there may be more power in a headline sating that experts keep studying this around the globe and keep finding similar trends.
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Yes! I see a PR campaign taking shape. Big opportunity for Mucinex.
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I was four months into my transportation career and was fortunate to hear this talk at the Bicycle Colorado event. It changed how I saw our agency’s project scoring process and eventually we made some changes after conversations about how certain CMAQ projects actually induced more driving.
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..And there's a very non-zero chance that bridge replacement gets delayed to 2029 or 2030, which provides plenty of time for a major rise in VMT along the local corridor, providing justification that we can't remove those lanes after all.
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Ha, I was scrolling the comments to see if I was the only one