masontransport.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Urban Planner @ITDP_HQ . Petworth DC. Pro-🚶🚲🚌. Tax the rich. Opinions my own. He/him.
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Sorry, I don't think I understand. It sounds like they want Dems to support popular positions in order to win more elections. Why would that make you angry?
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I wonder if stuff like this makes it expensive and difficult to open and operate a restaurant...
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What data did you base your decision on?
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Why no mention of these costs?
land give-away: ~$600 million
Waived property tax: ~$429 million
Redirected sales taxes: ~$300 million
Bond interest: $623 million
Opportunity cost of not building a neighborhood: ~$3.3 billion
We need to talk about ALL the costs
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Thanks! It's kind of like a spur then, since the rest of the trail goes through Takoma to piney Branch and then silver spring. Cool.
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oh wow. So no money budgeted for it until 2030! I see what you mean. Thanks!
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Thanks. But how can you tell the money was moved from near term to long term?
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How can you tell this is what's happening? Is there a document where such moves are more obvious?
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That's sneaky and disappointing
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Wait, I see the NoMa entrance in the Mayor's budget. Am I not reading this right?
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Go along to get along?
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Yeah, I think someone else posted that. The elevator requirements are a different regulation. My point was that there are plenty of shorter walk-ups that people regularly move in and out of. Yes, movers may not prefer them, but it's a way to build affordable housing which we desperately need.
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Agree. Not trying to say the bus is better. Just trying to think through what is most helpful to get people from A to B.
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In my opinion, the level of priority is more important than the wheels. Mixed traffic buses and streetcars both get stuck in traffic. Trains have the added misfortune of not being able to deviate from a fixed line. See chart from the great @humantransit.bsky.social
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Does no one move in these places?
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Indeed. And apartment buildings can have accessible units on the first floor.
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Most 2-story houses don't have elevators and even one-story houses typically have some stairs in the front.
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Amazing! Is there a link to this?
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NYC actually has a pretty effective AM bus lane allowing buses to bypass traffic going through the Lincoln tunnel to the port authority bus terminal.
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Trains work well because we made a policy decision to give them their own right of way and create a grade separation between them and car traffic. In places we didn't do that (e.g. mixed-traffic streetcars) the trains are slow. We could do the same for buses, but we choose not to.
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It was just painted white last night. I was wondering what was happening.
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While Broadway in NYC breaks the grid, the city used to try to funnel cars down it. They then diverted those cars and the street is thriving.
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I don't disagree, but I think it's a function of those streets not being traffic sewers because they naturally divert traffic to other corridors. You can divert through-traffic around commercial centers on the grid to create the same effect. We just choose not to.
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90% of people going to the Manhattan CBD don't drive there. And that was *before* congestion pricing. And most people driving there *like* congestion pricing, including Republicans. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow... pfnyc.org/news/new-pol...
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Amazing!
I'm excited for the 11th St protected #bikedc lane to finally arrive. Also, we desperately need a link between Columbia Rd and Kenyon St
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Seems like you've found a platform that repels both NIMBYs and YIMBYs
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Another one
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And the new capital crescent trail will also help with connections to the North & West!
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Politicians are already citing the $6B number. If WaPo doesn't think it right, let's have that debate. Ignoring it, though, seems misleading at best
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Yet they somehow failed to mention of the @ggwash.org cost estimate of $6 billion. Seems quite relevant. ggwash.org/view/99327/a...
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FYI, I keep getting this warning when I click on the 51st.news
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To do curb-protected, it has to be in the median. Luckily, more and more places in the US are doing this. But also, there are more options, including the busway concept in NYC (14th St). I would argue, that most US cities, however, should focus first on higher frequencies & better stop spacing.
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WaPo polled on the $850M number, not the GGW $6B number, which they failed to even mention. The 55% support is way lower than the 75% support found earlier when the question did not have an actual cost. I can only imagine the true multi-billion dollar figure will elicit much lower support.
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Why not use some of the tax revenue from a whole lot of new housing to improve the existing park(s)?
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Is Kingman Island not a large park?
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Why do you think that would that be the best use of public funds? It seems like that area already has a good amount of small and large parks close by (Kingman Island, Fields at RFK, Anacostia Park), and the law mandates 30% open space plus a riparian buffer regardless.
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Apparently bills were even co-introduced in VA, MD and DC to do this. marylandmatters.org/2018/02/04/i...
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Yeah, looks like an idea that's been proposed but never gone anywhere.
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