@cityplanning
Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Arizona State University I study transport, land use, local governance. Cityplanning.01 on signal. Four freedoms. Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFu5Z2YAAAAJ&hl=en
With rising gas above $5/gallon (and counting), we already see calls to suspend the gas tax. Next up, more calls to allow re-expanded work from home as a source of relief from high prices.
I’m not expecting call for reducing dependence on oil because the administration wants more oil dependency.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
On schedule.
Ha. I didn’t expect him, but I knew it.
The amount of errors I see in just describing sampling strategy and response rates is a big bummer. Few seem to know what random means (of things I review. I am not randomly selected as a reviewer, after all.)
Such accounts are worthy of a quick block for everyone’s interests.
Hello historian of #bicycling here; if anyone wants to hear about what happened in WWII and also during the 1970s energy crisis (when Americans turned to bicycles as alternative transportation solutions) I'm certainly available. I've written about both in _Bike Battles_.
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When you get back to PHX check out the streetcar museum! There was a good system until the shed caught fire and the cars were destroyed in 1948.
Single stair is being proposed in Minnesota. In a surprising turn of events, the Fire Departments are opposed.
Gift link.
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Congrats @culdesac.bsky.social
(ps, walkable cities can have cars)
This surveillance equipment is also all over southern Arizona:
With the price of gas on the way up, perhaps a lot and do a while, I expect efforts to reduce the gas tax to start any day.
The Make-a-Wish administration continues apace.
This is sort of my concern, too. A lit review is used to explain your argument and identify the gaps your work contributes to filling. It's not just an annotated list of things. That's not interesting or even sets up the balance of the research.
Really anything is possible these days. We used to say that as a sign of optimism. Now we say it because we just don’t have any idea where any of this is going.
My own experience is it’s mixed to unusual to have that connection. My guess is airports are usually located in places long distance transit doesn’t make a lot of sense. Tokyo airports are not served by Shinkansen, Paris is served by HSR, as two modest examples.
This would also cause harm to federal spending on transit, but we’re already shifting toward more local taxes for transport investment and operations. Generally this would lead to better transport policies all around, though (mostly as cheaper options make for better cities).
This is a universal experience.
Sources of data affect our understanding of traffic harms.
I’m such a tiresome contrarian… I opposed the VMT fee transition for years, bc gas tax so elegantly put costs to So Many problems created by cars.
But contrary to what we hear, EV and AV transitions are happening. We gotta tax that, and curtail deadhead robotaxi miles. It’s time for VMT charging.
The solution to worries about AVs increasing VMT is to have a VMT tax. It's a direct solution to the issue people are worried about.
I (still) want a history of how the oil crisis affected the trajectory of different nation’s transport priorities. The US carried forward with auto-oriented policies at all levels. Other countries did not.
He’s also the most transparent about why he thinks what he does, in my view. He explains what he’s reading, what he’s learning, and how that affects his thinking.
I like these because, despite the purpose staying the same, the building is meant to grow and adapt. All buildings should be viewed as in motion across time and not fixed. Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn is a good resource on this idea, though not the same as buildings that are never finished.
