Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

I know I’ve seen a Portland bike network map timelapse somewhere. Transit is easier, I imagine just Wikipedia has the max system buildout info

Oh they’re quite aware

The number one thing that keeps me making videos instead of writing is the paralyzing fear of ending up being a topic on this podcast

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

The thing missing from most city paid parking plans is VALUE. No one wants to pay for parking! It’s true. No one wants to pay for anything!

If you pay for a meter or parking space that you had to circle the block forever to get, what was the value?

Go big or go home on this.

But I need to get to fashion valley efficiently

It was very satisfying to watch Ray delete the freeways in this video.

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way

Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧵

I Visited Culdesac Tempe and I Have Thoughts Nebula image by CityNerd

I will watch it later tonight…but I already have my own thoughts of course:

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I don’t know if I can watch this lol

You have to hold a fuzzy lavalier in front of your face to be legit

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I’ve had a few questions on this! General sale opens the morning of Wed March 11 for whatever tickets are left. Related, Hunter just added 200 more tickets to the presale batch in the last hour because they’re getting gobbled up fast

I looked at a more modest proposal like this (for the video) but then decided, eh, screw it. But you could pair something like this with a congestion pricing zone. The region has invested billions in transit, let’s get our moneys worth

There’s no shortage of professionally licensed traffic engineers who will tell you that decommissioning I-5 is impossible, but also can’t explain how Vancouver BC functions (almost too well, given housing demand) with no freeway running through the center of the city

Broke: I-5
Woke: Lid I-5
Woke 2: Depave I-5 and fill with a linear park and tens of thousands of housing units

Oh no this might actually be viable

He just wanted to level up his shoe pic game

Unfortunately all those streets date from a time when it wasn’t illegal to build this kind of smart, walkable mixed-use urbanism in etc etc

These are like the Nextdoor of Reddit

Oh boy

I think I looked at what people said about me on Reddit like three years ago and made an executive decision to never do that again. But man I’m tempted today

When it happens I’m coming in deep undercover with no warning

I need to get there and ground truth this menace

Well said

Extremely legit

Might have to poll the audience to see who traveled the furthest

North Loop mentioned!

CityNerd — Putting 12 Urban Freeways Out to Pasture Freeways and cities don't mix. Especially these twelve.

New for the Nebulized! Cities and freeways don’t mix. Here are 12 top offenders we should be doing something about

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