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ericbunch.bsky.social
City Councilperson in #KCMO. Posts about transit, walkability, housing, and climate. Formerly policy wonk and co-founder @BikeWalkKC. Personal account. (he/him/his)
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It wouldn’t be social media if I didn’t brag about my kids occasionally. Here is one of our 8 year olds crushing this really steep overhang where she can’t even reach the footholds because she’s too short. Didn’t get the send this time but figured out the beta.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Really proud to serve on this council with such thoughtful folks.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

KC friends, is there any kind of YIMBY group or other organizing force working to increase housing here? Or is it all decentralized neighborhoods groups and individuals?

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk is what happens when you create a society that believes technology can achieve anything and collective action can achieve nothing

submitted 46 days ago • 49 comments

kinda funny that all it took to defeat traffic in the most crowded city in the country was only a simple $9 congestion relief zone

submitted 47 days ago • 75 comments

A Tesla thinking a train is maybe just a line of cars is the most Tesla thing I can think of.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

And I think the most salient point to be gleaned is Democrats lose elections, not on the left-right fault lines, rather we lack convictions in our positions and voters lose confidence in us.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Just had to help a mom carry her double stroller through this snowbank so we could go out into the street to catch the bus. Another person had to help her older kid climb over a 3’ tall pile to catch a school bus. We have to do better.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

More evening shenanigans in this house.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of cats… our void has apparently found a new murder perch.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

TBF, I would say this council term followed by the last one are the most pedestrian friendly councils in recent KC history. Snow is tricky in this climate because we get just enough for it to be occasionally debilitating but not enough to have a true winter culture that manages the snow well.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps another approach to this problem would be to add a new section to the code that says if you push snow onto the sidewalk from private property, you will be fined. As opposed to my resolution asking city manager to enforce the existing code that requires prop owners to clear sidewalks.

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

Stopping to say hi to all the cats in windows is part of our kids’ daily routine on the walk to school.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

New paper finds that Bus Rapid Transit improves street safety: "The construction of Albuquerque Rapid Transit correlated with significant reductions in crashes attributed to excessive speed (for all modes) and left turning vehicles (for all modes and pedestrians)." doi.org/10.1016/j.mu...

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

It seems like nitpicking, but when city-owned properties like City Market clear the path to the parking lot and leave the sidewalk connection that so many neighbors use to patronize it every day untouched, it sends a loud message about priorities.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

I’m introducing a resolution today for same day adoption today calling on city manager to begin enforcement of Section 62-646 requiring property owners to clear their sidewalks. Resolution will also call for a plan to address this challenge better in the future.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Folks, please, if you’re gonna clear your parking lot, for the love of god, clear the snow off your sidewalks too.

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

The surface lot on the SW corner of 18th and Oak seems to have purposely piled the snow on the two sidewalk segments on its north side. I promise you there are sidewalks under those mounds of snow. Car storage for comparison

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Shout out to The Hub smoke shop. Literally the only business I passed on 18th that cleared their ADA ramp. Every other street it was climbing over knee-high snow banks. If you vape, give them business - 501 E 18th St

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

And parents: be kind to your co-workers as they are not the ones who ruined your furniture or drove nails into your hardwood floors last week. 🤷‍♂️

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