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transit nerd lost in rural cascadia with her bikes, ice cream, and trees [email protected]

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@WSDOT_East #blewettpass is an icy mess - basically a skating rink. Could you all distribute some of that sand in a big pile on the side of the road and update your pass conditions to reflect the icy mess that it is?

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it's the simple things that suck most... RIP Reader, Podcasts, etc

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Thanks @SoundTransit for getting the Beyhive to the 👑🐝 (and back again)!

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Paris now has 180 gorgeous ‘school streets.’ They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. No brainer, really.

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@wsdot @BavarianTown @BarbChamberlain ✍️from my kiddos bedside, so thankful 🙏that he is alive and well...but terrified to let him be a pedestrian and cyclist in our small beautiful mountain town.

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Seconds before this 📷, this 🚘 made an aggressive maneuver around the car that was pulled over and turned right, past the barrier 🚧 into this closed street. Had My friend not reacted so quickly and horse collared my 👦, I would be in 🏥...or worse.

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@wsdot @BavarianTown @BarbChamberlain @BavarianTown : should we stop walking to businesses on Front Street with our families or are you guys going to get serious about making sure it is obvious that the people have the right of way there?

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@wsdot @BavarianTown @BarbChamberlain And...as we were walking home we saw yet another car confusingly - but at least slowly - wandering around the "closed" street.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)
Please.
Folks, seriously.
PLEASE.
Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.

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@CardsAgainstUrb @NASEMTRB @SoundRegion @IndyGoBus Glad u had a good experience...but since most people who are new to the city are looking up how to get downtown from the airport on a trip planner using GTFS like the one I screenshot, they need to add things like fares and those faster travel times

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Just landed in Indy for @NASEMTRB innovations in transportation analysis and planning #trbitap with some @SoundRegion friends and...*47* stops on the 🚌 from the airport to downtown 🙀😭??? Seemingly only a cash fare 🥺😬???
Oh @IndyGoBus... say it ain't so!

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Rachel James: research quality really improves when both academics and practitioners are involved.

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Summary comments from Sijia Wang on the @NASEMTRB #trbitap conference:
- we all talk about equity, but what metrics should we be using? Should they be defined by modelers? Community members?
- do our models tell us stories about winners and losers?

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From Peter Bosa at Oregon METRO: I don't think we had a single presentation about connected/automated vehicles 🤷‍♀️

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"you can't boil equity down to a single number...you have to tell a story"

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"willingness to pay isn't the same thing as the ability to pay" - John Gliebe at #trbitap session where he presents his exploration of what equity-first modeling could look like

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Michelle Bina at #trbitap presenting an equity analysis for Denver...showing that the average 🚌🚈 trip in Denver takes 2.6 times as long as 🚗.

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Time to start spending more 🛣️💰 stuck at CDOT on better transit service