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Stop working on increasing road safety (reduce road danger)
blogs.lse.ac.uk Stop working on increasing road safety | British Politics and Policy at LSEWhen we talk about "road safety" we already think of roads as existing primarily for transportation and cars in particular. Marco te Brömmelstroet argues that we need to break free of this framework in which safety is something to be accommodated amongst other priorities like efficiency, and start t...
- www.tampabay.com Florida shows how to make passenger rail work
The money is in routes too long to drive, too short to fly.
If you hit a paywall: https://archive.ph/xeJIi
- www.fox13news.com Brightline to offer sing-along train rides to Taylor Swift concerts in Florida
Taylor Swift will play a couple of shows in the Sunshine State this fall, and Brightline is offering special rides for Swifties to get there in style.
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SPARK! Organizing for Revolution: Summer School @ TPF 2024
a six-week hybrid course for organizers, visionaries, and all who are committed to struggle to build a new world. Through bi-weekly classroom sessions, discussion, and developing a practice of revolutionary study, participants will strengthen their methodology to analyze the past and present, build capacity for organized struggle by studying examples of revolutionary processes around the world, and clarify a collective vision for the future. It’s a chance to meet new friends and comrades, exchange, study, discuss, and put theory into practice!
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Strategic planning for degrowth: what, who, how. A teaser by Federico Savini
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- skillissue.bearblog.dev Finding an apartment is needlessly difficult
Finding an apartment is an unforgiving journey unto its own, actually I'd say it's a full-time job in certain areas of the world. So if you already work, stu...
- www.nytimes.com Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16321714
> Alternative link: https://archive.ph/BxMKZ
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The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133154
> Link to original Tweet: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1795048724021862898
- darrellowens.substack.com How Urban Renewal Ruined Everything
The destructive nature of urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build anything at scale ever again.
- bikeportland.org Survey reveals depth of abuse women experience while biking
Only three out of every 10 bicycle riders are women.
- source.wustl.edu 'Modern-day redlining': Research investigates Wall Street-backed rental market - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis
Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters, especially marginalized communities of c...
- usa.streetsblog.org Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA
Cities should treat automated enforcement as a temporary tool as they build out holistically safe places. We can't punish our way to safe streets.
- www.cnu.org Guerilla Urbanism asks forgiveness, not permission
From toilet plungers for bike lanes to community gardens on vacant lots to locally sourced incremental development, citizens are finding creative ways to make urban space while bypassing traditional bureaucratic systems.
- usa.streetsblog.org What Urbanists' Doug Burgum Lovefest Reveals About the 'Why' Behind Our Advocacy — Streetsblog USA
I am far less interested in talking about Gov. Doug Burgum's politics than talking about his values, and how those values shape his urbanism, and thus the actual lives of the people he governs.
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How are the Dutch using trains to create a megacity? | Navigating Urban Transit with George Liu
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New 2024 EU Night train map
High quality: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/
Tweeted here: https://twitter.com/BackOnTrackEU/status/1733895843487326293
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Could this be a Solution to Gentrification?
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Community land trusts!
- www.thelabofthought.co Why is efficiency more important to us than justice? — The Lab of Thought
In the not so very distant past, streets were seen differently than nowadays. Motorized transportation changed our streets, our language and created different type of jobs. All for the benefit to move people and goods fast from A to B, while in the meantime forgetting what we used the streets for in...
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The Power of Land: Georgism 101 - a video about Land Value Tax
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