Charlie Schwartz

I mostly retweet about international education, urbanism, Cincinnati and sports.

[Matt Butler @Matt_C_Butler]

When mayor & 2 council members attempt to discredit your movement, the mayor's son labels you as "out of your minds" and suggests that you engage with private developers & press refers to you as agitators. It's evident that you're making progress.
Join us https://t.co/jojIuSDBPn

[Charlie Schwartz @Charlie1197]

Let's make climate-friendly transport affordable for everyone. Join me in taking action with @REI Co-op's #CooperativeAction Network to pass the E-BIKE Act and establish a 30% rebate on e-bike purchases. https://t.co/PRssO5D87F

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

Prioritizing cars in street design means de-prioritizing the mobility of everyone who doesn’t drive, including the elderly, children, pregnant, disabled, and people who have lost their licenses or can’t afford a vehicle.

Building places around the vulnerable benefits everyone.

[Matt Butler @Matt_C_Butler]

Vice Mayor Beth Fennell asked about the possibility of light rail on the bridge.
“Light rail is something that we’re not looking at at this time because it doesn’t connect to anything,” (KYTC) Bezold said.
Why is @KYTCDistrict6 not looking at light rail? It's in the @OKIRCOG plan

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Adults: “Why don’t kids play outside anymore, like we used to do?”

The outside we have created for them:

[Mark Jeffreys @jeffreysms]

This is $8,796/year + gas + insurance + maintenance = >12k/year. Forcing people to have to buy a car vs choosing to is why we need good public transit & active transit infrastructure. Lack of it is a significant contributor to poverty.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling’s graphic

[Brad Thomas @bradleywthomas]

Traffic on the bridge is down -13.5% compared to a decade ago and all of the traffic projections have been wildly incorrect.

Spending $3.6+ billion on this project is the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of our region.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

The (electric) golf cart, bicycle and scooter industries should band together to reclaim urban transportation. They meet the criteria of minimum necessary and are ideal for cities. They are inexpensive, quiet, slow (speed limited ~20MPH), light and unlikely to kill in a crash.

[Coby @Cobylefko]

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard.

For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

[cars.destroyed.our.cities @CarsRuinedCity]

American cities weren’t built for cars. They were destroyed for them.

Little Rock, Arkansas - 1943 vs 1998

[Strong Towns @StrongTowns]

The only way kids can get around is by walking, biking, or having a guardian drive them. The majority have nowhere to go because they live far from any destination, and the ones who CAN walk or bike places have to travel through speeding vehicles. We've stunted their mobility.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

After men in Kentucky - a permitless carry state - threatened people at a Pride event with loaded guns, police let them keep their weapons and no arrests were made. But because the Pride supporters didn't have a permit, they were asked to leave the area. https://t.co/iD4mth1XCi

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The Twin Cities and Chicago are nearly the same distance as Berlin and Munich, two metros that see 17 trains per day in each direction. Pointing out the thing you have designed to fail as a reason to not make it better is not good governance, Congressman.

[Coby @Cobylefko]

We need more housing desperately, but can it please be a bit better than stuff like this?

[Mark Jeffreys @jeffreysms]

The economic development choice is clear. Current location of Kroger store/apartments now vs surface parking lot before. $0/year before vs $200K+/year now (not including sales tax, "multiplier taxes" of having more people living downtown). This is the city we need to build.

[Ohio Capital Journal. bsky @ohiocapitaljournal.com @OhioCapJournal]

Every single time Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose has been asked if Issue 1 was related to an abortion vote, he has denied it. But that's not what he told a group of Republicans recently.

By @MorganTrau

https://t.co/QQOAI6b5cx

[Charlie Schwartz @Charlie1197]

No More Concrete Wastelands: Support the Ban on New Surface Parking in Cincinnati https://t.co/Wdic7ChAnL

[Matt Butler @Matt_C_Butler]

Do you want a city or a parking lot?

Make your voice heard. Sign the petition and tell council not to bow to wealthy parking developers:
https://t.co/gQpanuWkDA

[James S Murphy @James_S_Murphy]

What if we spent more time talking about and supporting the colleges where most students are enrolled, rather than the ones that reject the most students? 🧵