I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions.
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I keep thinking about the efficiency of the human body. Each model year comes equipped with space-saving design, lots of leg-room, built-in entertainment features, and is bio-fuel-compatible with generally limited emissions. On foot, we are nimble, responsive, and shaped to maximize the utilization of space. A crowd of people is not a traffic jam, it’s a party!
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A review of MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Photo credit: "Atlanta 75.85" by Atlantacitizen at the English language Wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Cities like to form on water. It follows that there are thousands of cities out there struggling with their own version of North Side, South Side. The phenomenon reminds me of Jane Jacobs on border vacuums.
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How many fender benders equals one life?
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I suggest starting small. Pick up an orange flag and cross a street. That's how revolutions get started.
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When what we've been doing clearly isn't working, counter-intuitive might be our best option. And that option is making our spaces unsafe so we can make them safe.
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“It’s like building a Vikings’ stadium in a single season,” said State Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle. Ouch.To anyone who followed the Minnesota Vikings’ new publicly-financed stadium, this quote should make you cringe.
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When I was in Mississippi last week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune ran this article about a major road reconstruction project in the city of West St. Paul. The headline of the article, and a major thrust of the lament, centered on the lack of trees in the new design of Robert Street. Here's how one city council member was quoted in the article:
“I want trees and I want a lot of them, and I want them all up and down,” said City Council Member Jenny Halverson. “To me, trees are vital to improving the atmosphere on Robert. Right now it’s a sea of concrete and I am afraid that it will remain a sea of concrete if we don’t have these trees.”
Besides engineers, who wouldn't want trees?
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A STROAD is a street/road hybrid. It's dangerous and unproductive.
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I think there are a lot of elements. The design is the first thing that comes to mind, and it’s followed by speed and traffic volume. I was curious to know how the stroad held up against other alternatives. To do this, I turned to my usual test lab: my hometown of Mankato. I examined Minnesota Department of Transportation crash data & AADT (average daily traffic volume) data in an admittedly non-scientific study.
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We took an affordable, efficient and long-lasting mode of transport funded privately by direct value capture and replaced it with an expensive, inefficient and maintenance-intensive system funded by politicians using a blunt tax.
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