TylerTwoTimes

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

what is going on with congestion pricing backlash is there is a subset of people who (a) want to be seen as poor for sympathy over having to pay $9, and (b) who think the train is for the poor-poor people, which they are of course not and who are also a separate species of human.

[Motown Trailblazerz @313MTBZ]

WATTUPDOE, The Dexter
Streetscape just Opened in Detroit's
Russell Woods Neighborhood.
Dexter Avenue just received $21 million in renovation Funding!!
How would you rate it 1-10?!
@DetroitGreenway
#BikeDet #JoelouisGreenway #Detroit

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@Seanchuckle I think it’s rooted in smart city skepticism and its association with surveillance.

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

@CartoonsHateHer I think it is EXTREMELY difficult to build a village in the manufactured isolation of a car dependent American suburb.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@aaronkfoley District 5 seat should be open in about a year.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@WendellPierce start growing that beard out doggie

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The ex-chief financial officer of the conservancy behind the restoration of Detroit’s riverfront allegedly embezzled nearly $40 million over a 12 year period

How someone managed to steal so much money without anyone knowing is being investigated

https://t.co/qXonRgNOcc

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@vexedinthecity @RepKamBuckner He mentions multimodal and pul

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@cyclesixmile I don’t think they were legally allowed to issue new build permits for 40+ years(def let some slip thru). Interested to see how the new admin handles the new opportunity.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Some might be missing the point of this last tweet, so I’ll try to be more clear.

I don’t just mean that we should be striving for better. I generally do that, obviously, but I’m also a pragmatist, and “better” isn’t always on the table. Sometimes good or very good is an excellent strategic outcome, and correctly “reading the chessboard” regarding what you can and can’t achieve in a given moment is an extremely important strategic skill that has served me well throughout my career. My colleagues and clients are quite used to me constantly talking about reading the chessboard.

What I mean is that sometimes doing nothing is literally better than doing something that won’t work or is strategically ill-advised. It is quite literally NOT better than nothing.

A simple example is the use of sharrows in almost every case, and painted bike lanes in many cases. Or, sometimes, doing one well-designed bike lane that doesn’t connect anything with anything just because you’re tearing up the street anyway.

People will say “well, it’s better than nothing,” but because it fails in attracting people on bikes (because it isn’t safe, and it isn’t a complete network), it can easily reinforce the false narrative that “bike lanes just don’t work in our city, and are obviously a big waste of money.”

At best doing those moves can make it more difficult to achieve the right infrastructure (because “look, we did something, so stop complaining, we’re done now”) and at worse it can undermine the entire idea of real bike infrastructure.

Look, sometimes a pragmatic good move is definitely better than nothing, and is even cause for celebration. Other times, an ill-advised move is literally worse than nothing and you’d be better off not doing it… so don’t let someone convince you to do it by saying “well, it’s better than nothing.”

A good decision-maker and strategist hopefully can tell the difference.

That’s my point.

[don.carrera @GodOfDaSipp]

Nah Boldy a legend now😂😂😂

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

That Dave diddy line kinda goes crazy given the chatter

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

Damn fine toll/vmt infrastructure we got here.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

SUV staging on ultrawide sidewalks must be apart of that mobility innovation I keep hearing about.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

Tear them shits down

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

@botoxedbuddhist I think you miss the part where those big corporations have incredible influence over policy decisions on which/how smaller firms get to participate. Kinda like how…

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

Based on the terrible street walls of the infill projects I’m seeing in metro Detroit I don’t think we’ll be seeing bustling corridors anytime soon.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

Eliminating parking minimums is cool but how do we eliminate parking advocacy?

[Ben Wolfenstein wants walkable cities @ShutUpOtis]

@RepKamBuckner APA, as it currently exists, doesn't care about good planning. It cares about maintaining it's authority as it becomes increasingly obsolete.

[TylerTwoTimes @QGKing]

Abolish APA

[Chicago Zoning Lawyer @liz_butlerAICP]

I am a long time member of the American Planning Association. Disappointed to see the organization straight up opposing legislation like this. @APA_Planning @APA_PlanningC pls engage and lead on these issues. @kambucknerchi