Birmingham upping it's Bike Lane game...
30.04.2025 01:23
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Birmingham upping it's Bike Lane game...
Some rare sense when it comes to discussing the hiding crisis - more housing = more affordable housing
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Bicycles aren't inconvenient; they have been inconvenienced.
Cars aren't convenient; they have been convenienced.
It turns out when you type "City" a lot, semantic satiation gets interesting...
Chart showing that the average American family spends 1/2 of their budget on housing and transportation
them: why do you care so much about building abundant housing and wanting everyone to have affordable options for transportation?
us:
We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow and safe travels.
To celebrate our communities, we put together a survey to collect thoughts on what they're thankful for and a small change you would like to make in your community.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Funny how the "but what about emergency services" argument never gets brought up here.
Direct route of Yonge Street bike lanes highlighted in green. Zig zagging side street route in red.
Ah yes, "cyclists should just take the roads that run parallel to the main arteries"
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Zoning is the most perfect form of segregation: a technocratic, class-based form of apartheid that somehow manages to position itself as merely an extended form of property rights.
Parking costs a lot of money, and it always has. If your apartment has “free” parking, that just means that everyone who lives in the building is paying for it whether they have a car or not. It can be shocking to pay the actual cost b/c we’re so used to non-drivers subsidizing other people’s cars.
Very important line here from Transport Secretary Louise Haigh on road safety:
"We treat road safety in a way as if it is somehow a natural accident. If the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads, were being killed in any other way, we'd be treating it as a pandemic."
Going onto trauma surgery rotation, I expected to see lots of gun violence injuries.
However I did not prepare myself for the number of traffic violence injuries: pt after pt arriving to the ED from car crashes, ped vs auto, auto vs auto.
The injuries are devastating and life-altering.
kid stopped in bike lane pulled up to the sidewalk text: courage should come from our councillors not our children.
Courage.
The expanding brain meme with four levels: Level 1: sidewalks should be free of obstacles Level 2: sidewalks should be flat Level 3: curb cuts are car infrastructure Level 4: sidewalks are car infrastructure
Once you see it, you can't unsee it
Fortunately someone has already done a deep dive on the impact of the I-20/I-59/I-65 interchange in Birmingham that @nerd4cities.bsky.social mentioned (appropriately dishonorably), so we don't have to: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/af13...
One house turns into two houses in Los Angeles. (2014➡️2019) Each home has five bedrooms and five bathrooms, so effectively 10 SRO units.
We can prevent road violence.
Source footage: Dr. Jeffrey Lawson
Homeowner-installed car charger in the utility strip.
I do wonder if EVs are simply going to cement homeowners’ perceived dominion over the curb zone outside their house.
Histogram showing that Halloween is the deadliest day in terms of kids killed by drivers (more than twice the number of other days)
Happy Halloween! Your yearly reminder that today is the day with the highest number of children killed by drivers. If you really have to drive tonight, always assume that kids will jump out in front of your car at any moment. Keep them safe
As Japan celebrates 60 years of high-speed rail, Alabama forges ahead with the $5 billion "Northern Beltline"highway to nowhere - we will have only plowing through natural wonders, an asphalt ribbon for nearly noone, and enriching landowners and contractors at the expense of the future to show
Boom! Jefferson County Commission bid to (temporarily) block apartments and this drive up the cost of living was withdrawn. Stay frosty.
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With City of Birmingham in the process of rezoning the city, our book of the month is @mnolangray.bsky.social's "Arbitrary Lines" - a reflection on zoning, its impact, and how to fix the problems it has caused.
Jefferson County, Alabama, just attacking low income residents.
"The problem is that the supply of housing has been artificially restricted—by zoning codes, by deliberately sabotaged fire codes, by malfunctioning environmental laws—to the point where we simply do not build enough housing in the most desirable areas."
Another devastating effect of zoning is reduced access to food, especially fresh and affordable food. Forcing grocers and other retail away from homes makes neighbors go without and concentrates power with large national chains. Keep your neighbors fed and support local by zoning for mixed-use.
