Steve Raney

Advanced transportation & smart growth

[Swyft Cities🚡 @swyftcities]

Parisians can now be whisked by urban gondola from the suburbs to connect with the Metro in half the time of cars!🚡

[Swyft Cities🚡 @swyftcities]

"[Our] readers support gondolas" "North Texas is the nation’s fastest-growing metro [and] congestion will significantly increase. New solutions are needed to enable the region to continue growing & prospering" #dallas https://t.co/0IapNoKyrk @PhilWalkable @bobbyfijan

[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

1⃣ Learn more about Swyft Cities below
2⃣ Follow @urbanistvc and @swyftcities for updates
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[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

America is ravaged by PEDESTRIAN HELLSCAPES.

With Swyft Cities, we can *hop over* them. Pedestrians and bikes cost-effectively soar over cars and traffic, connecting and *growing* friendlier places near every stop.

This is a critical enabling technology for scaling urbanism — which is a critical, and still largely overlooked, climate solution. #SFClimateWeek

The need to provide connectivity across a barrier (freeways, rail yards, etc.) is an emerging trend amongst early @swyftcities customers.

📷: @Cities21's Pecha Kucha presentation at last night's
@SFClimateWeek Climate Tech + Built Environment event.

[Swyft Cities🚡 @swyftcities]

5 Dallas-area cites are being considered for our first US implementation of @WhooshTransport autonomous elevated cable & rail system. Looking to bring advanced mobility to the fastest-growing metro area in the country @wfaa @PhilWalkable @YIMBYLAND https://t.co/rxB3NQlGu6

[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

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[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

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[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

🧵 Where will you be able to ride with @swyftcities first?

It's official: FIVE North Texas cities — Dallas, Plano, Arlington, Frisco, and DeSoto — are vying for the first US systems. And that's not all, so stay tuned for more announcements!

As reported by @dallasnews and @WFAA:

[Laura Fingal-Surma 🚡 frontier urbanist @urbanistvc]

Transportation dictates urban form.

Why autonomous gondolas were born at Google:
The strategic value of transportation. 🧵👇

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

It's rare to successfully reform large systems/institutions to get better outcomes if the reformers don't fully understand them.

Most "simple fix" ideas for climate = flatly irrelevant.

We need radical ideas that spring from expert insight.

We need a professional insurrection.

[Jane Morton @SafeClimate]

@solar_chase Some credible opinions you can cite include Schellnhuber’s view that at +4 degrees Celsius only one billion survive.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Conversations since this have convinced me that a ton of professionals engaged with climate/sustainability questions fear the potentially very real career consequences of pointing out the huge gaps between the scale of the crisis and the speed of their employers' actions.

[Steve Raney @Cities21]

@christofspieler @mpactmobility

[Steve Raney @Cities21]

@christofspieler

[Mpact @mpactmobility]

On downtowns after COVID: "If global tech towers and fast-casual lunch chains reflected one downtown ideal, which is the model now in crisis, the post-pandemic downtown of Jackson Square—eclectic, crafty, and refined—is a vision on the rise." https://t.co/X4nbuPvQp5

[Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon]

.@repblumenauer: “There is no such thing as free parking. Two billion parking spaces in this country?! Here in Phoenix parking is 21% of the city’s land. That could be repurposed for housing to drive down costs. A single unit of parking adds $50k to multifamily housing projects.”

[John Johnston @JOHNJOHNSTONED]

This week @WHO……

….rather than acknowledge their culpability and explain WHY they misled the world about SARS-CoV-2 AIRBORNE transmission….

…they chose to erase the word AIRBORNE and the mode of transmission terminology that led @DrTedros and @DrMikeRyan to deliberately deceive the world about SARS-CoV-2 transmission and thus how to stay safe.

Will we ever know WHY Mike Ryan had such a reluctance to use the word….

…and will we ever be sure they have learnt the lesson that deception and lies about vital facts and putting political considerations above scientific integrity can end in a monumental tragedy like a global pandemic??

[Steve Raney @Cities21]

@TIME @covidcrisisgrp AEROSOLS: @CDCgov & @WHO denied transmission geometry. Every case study came from >6’: Skagit, Diamond P., Guangzhou. Prevented “avoid stagnant indoor air” guidance. 500K unnecessary deaths. Did @covidcrisisgrp consult @ShellyMBoulder @kprather88 @jljcolorado @linseymarr?

[Steve Raney @Cities21]

@covidcrisisgrp @peterbergencnn AEROSOLS: @CDCgov & @WHO denied transmission geometry. Every case study came from >6’: Skagit, Diamond P., Guangzhou. Prevented “avoid stagnant indoor air” guidance. 500K unnecessary deaths. Did @covidcrisisgrp consult @ShellyMBoulder @kprather88 @jljcolorado @linseymarr?

[Steve Raney @Cities21]

@washingtonpost @covidcrisisgrp @drcharitydean @PostLive 1 of 34 @covidcrisisgrp members, @mtosterholm, understood transmission in 2020. Compare the US with Japan, with CO2 meters displaying indoor air safety. #COVIDisAirborne