Colorado man dies in crash at intersection where he petitioned for traffic light after wife died there in 2024 A Colorado husband and wife died in crashes at the same Arapahoe County intersection two years apart, prompting renewed concerns for safety.

How many deaths does @ColoradoDOT have to study to put up some kind of control at this intersection? A study. You have *got* to be kidding me.

Colorado man dies in crash at intersection where he petitioned for traffic light after wife died there in 2024
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It is not good for transit.You are correct. But it is time to stop holding transit hostage to the highway program.

A transportation two-fer: Save the highway trust fund and reduce emissions 22% - Transportation For America With only three real possible options to stave off the looming bankruptcy* of the nation’s transportation trust fund, a Senator has proposed choosing one of them: scale the nation’s transportation pro...

Sen. Mike Lee's Balance the Highway Trust Fund Act would prohibit USDOT’s spending for federal-aid highway programs from ever exceeding gas tax receipts to the highway account in any given year. This is the most ambitious climate bill in this Congress.
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Analysis: New CBO projection accounting for Trump administration policies shows Americans will pay billions more in fuel taxes  - Transportation For America According to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office, Americans are set to pay over $80 billion more in gas taxes thanks to new transportation policies implemented under the Trump ...

Analysis: New CBO projection accounting for Trump administration policies shows Americans will pay billions more in fuel taxes
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Adding Up What Urban Highways Really Cost A new report maps the economic toll that downtown freeways exact on 142 US cities — and tallies up what that land could be worth if it was developed for other uses.

Looking at a 3-mile radius from 142 US city downtowns, roughly 66k acres are consumed by highways — land representing development potential of more than $500b. That fallow land equates to about $5.2 billion in foregone property tax revenue every year.
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Pas De Deux: Transit, Highways, and a Century of Contested Ground — Transit-Oriented Discoveries “"In the race for space, the early bird doesn't just get the worm. It gets to define the landscape for everyone who comes after." — Anonymous

“How transit ended up alongside the interstate system...happened four different ways — through inheritance, through intention, through negotiation, and through a kind of defeat. Each mechanism left a different mark on the stations and communities.” www.transitorienteddiscoveries.com/blog/highways

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Is your position that the only way to service people with mobility issues is to have the bus stop so often that the bus becomes a poor way to get around? I believe it is possible to serve the mobility impaired AND have good transit service—like most of the world does (with fewer stops).

Freedom means actual choices: You won’t get cheaper transportation if there’s a monopoly on mobility. - Transportation For America Building on a year of efforts to deregulate fuel-efficiency standards and cancel grants to build out transportation options, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed a critical finding that helped...

We couldn't agree more.
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Freedom means actual choices: You won’t get cheaper transportation if there’s a monopoly on mobility. - Transportation For America Building on a year of efforts to deregulate fuel-efficiency standards and cancel grants to build out transportation options, the Environmental Protection Agency repealed a critical finding that helped...

Freedom means actual choices: You won’t get cheaper transportation if there’s a monopoly on mobility.

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Right! That is what I am expecting. The clutch on the Mazda GLC I learned to drive lasted as long as yours, including a cross country move. Maybe the trouble with mine is just a transmission fluid leak.

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Can you talk to my daughter about why it is great to learn to drive a standard???

Our clutch just started to stick, though the car has only 70k miles on it and no one learned to drive a stick on it. Seems way too soon to replace, considering the minimal use. Taking it to the shop tomorrow. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

I have a 14 year old Mazda 3. It is super zippy. Love it.

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I love how they lean on consumer preference so much. This "preference" was curated for decades. And there are around 100 million of us that still own cars, they just aren't domestic because the big 3 gave us the finger. Now they think they can get back into that market? I wouldn't bet on it.

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100% right

This is what came to my mind when reading this article.

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1) I really appreciate someone catching the fewer v less.

2) You are so right that, as a nation, we view fatalities as a cover charge. It is obvious every time an agency points to fatalities per VMT. That is a confession.

Building Cities from Scratch

"Since 1960, there have been several dozen attempts to create new town communities, most of which have failed to attract more than a few thousand residents."

So let's try again rather than improve on existing communities.
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"A preliminary analysis of Vision Zero policies showed that the 17 early adopter cities experienced a smaller increase in fatalities per 100,000 population (+15%) than the other 83 cities (+40%) (Figure 2)."

Fewer deaths are always better than more.
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Lol, DC is offering the same opportunity!

I will look at that. Whoever says they will use new subscriptions to grab WaPo local beat reporters will get me!

I subscribe to @washingtonpost.com for many things, including local news. I have @nytimes.com for coverage of international, art, and national news. But what about local news? Will @citycastdc.bsky.social @washingtoncitypaper.com.web.brid.gy hire these reporters if we move our subscription to them?

@davidzipper.bsky.social for those of us that might actually want local news, where should we go? Who might hire these talented reporters?