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Legalize dense housing. Build protected bike lanes. Invest in public transit.

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@mateosfo Would be interesting to see a comparison across countries of punishments for drivers killing people

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@delong @jbarro Kinda ironic that our most conservative institution — the military — doesn’t forget our Native American heritage

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Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire https://t.co/rWGNcEMk9e via @NYTimes

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@UrbanCourtyard So true. A really egregious example is San Antonio claiming that they’re the 7th largest city in the country (based on expanded city limits but not MSA)

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@jonlovett Should also add
-Drivers licenses, no matter how shitty a driver you actually are

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@UrbanCourtyard @SPUR_Urbanist Wouldn’t a SPUR-hosted presentation on courtyard blocks / bringing families back to the city be amazing?! SF needs more family-friendly housing options

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@UrbanCourtyard A corollary to this might be lack of energy discipline within buildings. In the US we often assume kWh cost will always be cheap. We lazily rely on over-engineered AC; no thought given to shade, passive solar, building orientation etc

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@MayorKrauss @Boenau As an avid pedestrian, I can tell you that “drivers only looking to the left” is exactly the issue *today* at stoplights with Right on Red as default. Roundabouts reduce points of conflict

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@jasonc_nc SFFD wants to upgrade its fleet. The new mayor is big on private donations. Step 1/ find a philanthropist who gets it 2/ donate next gen euro-style trucks https://t.co/vowKITWEGS

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@jasonc_nc Wonder if the mentality is, “responding to fires puts us firefighters in harm’s way, but responding to car crashes / EMS calls there’s no risk to us.” Fire Marshals,
for ex, focus on preventing fires only. There’s no Marshal for traffic safety

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@McFaul All good analogies. But we’re on our rhetorical back foot when we explain “deficits aren’t inherently bad.” Better to stick with “He’s confusing trade deficits with fiscal deficits. Businesspeople should know the difference”

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@IDoTheThinking Very sad though how all the little restaurants are always empty because they don’t provide any onsite parking :/

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@IDoTheThinking I’m sure you’ll notice but you’ll love how great the wayfinding is on the local trains. And the station police resemble helpful hotel concierges and aren’t nose in their phones crushing candy

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@jasonc_nc Lisbon fire station situated on one-lane cobblestone street. Very sad how the city burns down every year due to lack of wide arterials

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@Qagggy We have plazas! We just call them toll plazas

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@Caltrain Just curious, is Caltrain advising any other train agency on how they can electrify? Share the best practices!

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@contrerasforca Love those bollards and bump-outs for daylighting! Such simple design. Spain has got urbanism best practices galore

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@YIMBYLAND @HandNF “This new apartment features ‘Emily in Paris’ stairs!”

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@Sharkyl Wonder if the best time to seize these dirt bikes and ATVs en masse is when they gas up together at a gas station. Turn the pumps off. Let them scatter til they run outta juice and ditch their bikes

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@CharlieReam Great to see! Thank you for championing these improvements. (This stretch in particular always seemed to have drivers parked in the bike lane.)