Working for city transportation leaders as Director of Open Source Operations @OpenMobilityFnd guiding MDS/CDS. Formerly @LouDataOfficer, @CodeforAmerica.
Percent of Louisville households that do not even own a single car. When you build only for cars instead of transit, bikes, and walking options across the county, you are leaving up to 50% of households behind and unsafe. Based on 2022 Census tract data:
https://t.co/qrcu2wEeEw
People need to stop looking at lines like this and thinking wow this is so awesome so many people are voting and start seeing these insanely long lines as what they are- a form of voter suppression.
As promised... here's a look at a random afternoon at Cherokee and Willow in Louisville.
Trying to mark all the traffic violations that would get you a ticket with an ❌. Too many overlapping to get them all. Was generous though with some "better" driving marked with a ✅.
Look at these poor @Collegiate1915 children waiting for car drivers to let them go and having such long crossing distances at this badly designed, super wide 5-6 road intersection right next to two parks. I was worried they would get hit by a driver.
Nobody who's traveled, even via aerial maps, needs to be told that this is the USA🇺🇸.
1. Freeway walling off river.
2. Vast freeway interchange maximizing waste of valuable urban land.
3. Extensive surface parking.
I know this city, but it's also almost every US city.