Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸

I subscribe to the radical idea that streets should be safe enough for children to use. Sweeten the Streets is my blog. @[email protected]

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

I subscribe to the radical idea that streets should be safe enough for children to use them.

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

Excellent piece on the unjust handling of Gary White’s death.

[rokosz most @rokoszmost]

“I would like for Latoya’s family to get clear answers as to what happened to their father,” said Spencer. “I would like them to know that it wasn’t their father’s fault.”

Gary White Matters.

#Kingston
#Police
#Hudsonvalley

https://t.co/w6XieRNSy8

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

“Save a life, hit a bollard” - to the tune of “save a horse, ride a cowboy” @WorldBollard

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

@JuliusGoat Honestly if more people were willing to live together the housing crisis would be much less severe. I’m looking at boomers with three empty bedrooms.

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

@swyftcities @BrentToderian @LolitaBoston Cool! Do you face a source for that?

[sam @sam_d_1995]

lmfao in case you needed proof of how stupid NYC’s new outdoor dining rules are, L’industrie (top slice shop in the city) just parked an old school bus outside and turned it into a dining area

[Peter Norton @PeterNorton12]

One hundred years + 8 days ago: On Monday, December 15, 1924, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover opened the two-day National Conference on Street and Highway Safety. We today are immersed in its legacies.

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"Unfortunately, your box was apparently one pound too heavy for the carrier aircraft, which experienced a massive mechanical failure, resulting in a geyser of jet fuel raining down on a nearby bird sanctuary."
https://t.co/YxMScqlFBx

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

And free fares, a la Kansas City and Ulster County NY, help as well!

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

The American middle class is generally in the top 20% globally.

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

Now would be the time to grow a spine, Kathy.

[Streetsblog New York City @StreetsblogNYC]

Our friends @openplans are first out of the gate to put @GovKathyHochul's climate betrayal into the exactly right perspective:

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

@jehiah @GovKathyHochul Trump has said he would kill congestion pricing… this seems like a good time for Katy to stop tf up

[NACTO @NACTO]

New legislation will help NY NACTO members expand automated enforcement:

🏫@KingstonNYgov can launch a speed camera pilot program in up to 3 school zones.

🚦@NYC_DOT can now install red-light cameras at up to 600 intersections—four times the current limit of 150 intersections.

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

The fact is, the top 10% wealthiest make the same amount of emissions as the bottom 50%. We all need to reduce emissions, but also the rich need to be drastically taxed so their consumption can be reined in, and wealth can be redistributed.

[Streetsblog USA @StreetsblogUSA]

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy took to Bloomberg to share ideas for cutting transportation emissions through the tax code. https://t.co/ZdD4fJFb6h

[Peter Norton @PeterNorton12]

Market Street Railway Company, San Francisco, 1927. Assertions to the effect that “people preferred to drive” are guesses in the guise of explanations. In cities, a small minority of motorists degraded street car service.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

The automobile industry invented “jaywalking” because pedestrians were getting in the way of cars taking over cities.

In 2023, more than 90% of jaywalking tickets issued in New York went to Black and Latino people.

Jaywalking legalized in New York City
https://t.co/LJ4uyYQ0UJ

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

@dogstar7tweets @IDOT_Illinois So you’re saying that the rocks could be thrown at cars in order to ascertain their distance?

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

Too good.

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

2. The confusion

[Sweeten 🍯 the Streets 🚸 @EllaRayKondrat]

Could this be considered a form of democracy?

[FuckCars @FuckCarsReddit]

Post your favorite "Desire Paths".

These are paths that naturally form as a result of bad planning.

[SDL @SocDoneLeft]

We need to defeat this fascist scum.

If you're a leftist in a swing state, and you can't compel yourself to tactically vote for Harris to defeat Trump:

Swap your vote. Get a leftist in a blue state to vote Stein, and vote down this Nazi freak. https://t.co/4ftudCfk6u

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵