Critical Urbanism
Critical observations on the urbanist movement from someone who's lived in a city, with and without a car, before it became a fad. Philly.
- What doesn't make sense about induced demand is that the demand is for the destinations served by a road, not for the road itself. If capacity doesn't match demand, people won't go to desired destinations, limiting growth, snarling traffic, and perhaps causing more sprawl. @jeffspeck.bsky.social
- The biggest thing that undercuts the legacy of planning surrounding the Schulkyll RiverTrail, the Schulkyll Banks Park, and Grays Ferry is the railroad that cuts off the city from the park and Grays Ferry from the rest of the city. Get rid of the railroad and viaduct. @ingasaffron.bsky.social
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- 25 years ago there were 3 department stores, a Kmart, and a popular shopping mall on East Market, but @civicgrit.bsky.social thinks parking minimums are the reasons these businesses aren't there any more. Developers will make any opportunistic argument to externalize their parking costs on others.
- Somehow, @americanfietser.bsky.social thinks people aren't cycling for transportation because they don't know they can, rather than because they already rejected the idea.
- Americans have unprecedented mobility, driving 10 billion miles a day, so we can go more places, do more, and see more people, all of which is impossible without parking. Complaining about traffic is like complaining there's too much selection in the grocery store. @victorfloresbart.bsky.social
- If you call undocumented immigrants criminals, you're a bigot. It's not complicated. They're people who have come to the United States to work and are no more prone to criminality than the people who are born here, like our felon president.
- That is a misleading post, @momentummag.bsky.social , to imply those cities are relying on cycling. Those are cities with extensive mass transit systems.
- Here's @davidzipper.bsky.social looking for support for his predetermined position that people don't like driving. The only people who research these questions are people who already know the answer they want. Do people want to cycle in cold rainy weather, the study says yes. Bullshit.
- I don't know @davidzipper.bsky.social, for decades I've lived in beautiful walkable urban neighborhoods close to highways, and those highways are invaluable when I need to travel to places around the region beyond walking distance. I don't get why you're trying to cripple people's mobility.
- Between trucks being able to stop to deliver the billions of consumer goods on which we all depend and bike lanes, I prefer the trucks. I'll look carefully behind me, and I will then cycle around the trunk. Problem solved. @kemcdonell.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
- Well, drtaragoddard.com, may want to make your commute suck, but she gets pissed off when something goes wrong with her commute.
- Good riddance. This asshole is as responsible as anyone for getting Roe overturned and putting a cabal of conservative judges in the courts to attack all civil and consumer rights in favor of corporations.
- In other words, @typewriteralley.bsky.social, developers got free parking. When developers don't have to build parking, they'll externalize their parking needs on the public to the detriment of the community. I say no free parking for developers.
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- Got that right. www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09...
