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Filled out. No free parking on public land! Free parking is a subsidy to cars and prevents higher and better uses of a shared amenity that we all pay to maintain. Berkeley can do better than free parking. Internalize the true costs of vehicle storage into people's decision making.
Take a survey by March 18 to help shape a variety of proposals for how @berkeleyca.gov would manage on-street parking near transit stations, on its busiest streets, and in business districts! 🅿️
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"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
Mamdani is considering ending free street parking in NYC. This would be another huge boost to NYC residents' quality of life, reducing traffic in ways that would be comparable to congestion pricing. And it would be another step in ending suburban free-riding on NYC.
If you're not shocked by the fraction of city space taken up by car parking, you're not paying attention.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
Tired: bikes aboard
Wired: 10000-space bike parking garage under Townsend Street
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
So many things wrong in one photo.
It's not a difficult needle to thread. If people are walking, cycling or taking transit instead, great! That means less pollution, wear and tear on roads, etc. But why should drivers get free, taxpayer subsidized storage for their personal property when that space could be used for higher purposes?
Looks like an air quality nightmare, except the envelope is so leaky it gets diluted passively.
Even better: The Continuous Sidewalk.
Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.
We have got to find ways to get fewer parents driving their kids to school. The current incentives and disincentives aren't working well enough. And many will fight it tooth and nail every step, even though everyone benefits.
Hmm this almost makes it sound like we have too much car parking and not enough housing.
Bus rapid transit on San Pablo Avenue from Oakland to Richmond (and beyond) would be a game changer.
So many folks would replace car trips with bus trips, and BRT would support the housing and commercial development that's happening up and down San Pablo.
Let's approve, fund it and make it happen!
Give me a petition to sign!
It seems to be detecting me but not telling me it's detecting me?
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Picture of central Pontevedra, Spain from the air
“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
What's Levi's?
A minor thing, but I hope the NIMBYs who typically scream that safe streets and housing advocates are just paid shills or in the pocket of Big Bike or whatever understand that they're a lot closer to Trumpism than they probably care to admit.
🚨Action Alert🚨
Berkeley Council is considering repaving Hopkins without bike and transit improvements! Tell them to make Hopkins safe for all:
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A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words.
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Tierlist of bike rack types: S: Staple, Inverted U/round staple, circle rack; A: Inverted U with a design panel; B: Bollard Racks, Bike Corral, Staple on crossbars; C: bike shaped bike rack, artsy racks (swan shaped); D: Wave Rack; F: coathanger rack; HELL: Wheelbender
I have attempted a tierlist of common styles of bike racks. (Just install staple racks!)
We purposefully dismantled a robust national rail network and replaced it with forced car dependency.
Seeing high-quality European sleeper cabins for €55 highlights the freedom we lost to decades of social engineering and auto industry subsidization.
Yes I told them the giant parking lot stair entrance was pretty much impossible to access with a cargo bike and they said go around to the car sewer Ashby side, go up the ramp and through the creepy hallway. A lovely, welcoming entrance experience.
Yes please!
I noticed the same thing. I just tuned in live for the first time in a long time and found them so credulous and boot licking. Had to turn it off. So disappointed by what it's become.