Ian van Lierop

[TARC @ridetarc]

Jarrett Walker + Associates, considered the best in the business for transit design projects, are helping lead the TARC 2025 redesign. In a recent blog they share some more information on the creation of our recently released concepts: https://t.co/S17hR54DkH

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

August Meet-Up! Wed Aug 28 at 7:00p!

@ridetarc will be presenting on its network redesign concepts at @LFPL's main branch on York St. We'll have time for discussion and feedback.

After the presentation, join us at Noble Funk for an S4P social hour! See you there!

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

This month's meet-up:
Tue Jun 25 at 7:30p at Monnik

We'll be welcoming Deputy Mayor of Public Works Nicole George.

Topics:
✅Upcoming @KIPDA projects
✅The creation of @LouMetroDOT
✅@Streets4Peeps Slow Streets Program
✅ @VisionZero_Lou and @KYTC's HSIP projects

Join us!

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

Yo! Next Thursday, May 30 at 7:30p, we're hosting a Hang Session at Ten20 Brewery in Butchertown.

This month's topic: @ridetarc

TARC's Comms Director will be presenting on the network redesign that's already underway + the fiscal cliff that's leading to service cuts.

Join us!

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Can we...just accept that we suck at this?

I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.

https://t.co/CCWzdwPSUu

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

This Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30p!

We're hosting our first hang session of the summer at Noble Funk in Old Louisville.

All bike advocates, walkability enthusiasts, transit nerds, YIMBYs, and Louisvillians are welcome!

Come hang out!

[anitazavrrr @anitazavrrr]

very good summary of how Metro Government and Metro Council have been aware of this looming issue for quite some time and acting "blindsided" just shows that they have been neglecting their duty here

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@ArtByAlida @allvowels These circles around the perimeter of the site are probably trees

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

It's budget season. And we are asking for Metro to invest in traffic calming in 2024 -- to make neighborhoods, business districts, and parks safer for everyone.

S4P is proposing a $5 million allocation for traffic calming.

Please email your support here: https://t.co/rwe22Tj8RH

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

Use this link to send an email to Louisville city leaders urging them to dedicate funding for safe streets!

[Streets For People 🌳 🚴🚶🚌 @Streets4Peeps]

Let's fund safe neighborhood streets in this year's city budget https://t.co/rwe22Tj8RH

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

The Jones Act is Bad Actually

[Senator Roger Wicker @SenatorWicker]

The Jones Act helps stabilize the nation’s maritime industry. It facilitates some 650,000 jobs across our vast system of shipyards, ports and waterways and adds $150 billion annually to our economy.

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@hyperplanes The problem is that this doesn't save time and doesn't result in more cumulative learning. It just created a situation where a bunch of motivated kids spent the year before college not really doing anything, which in hindsight seems kinda not great

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@hyperplanes This was possible because middle school had an "advanced math" track that was the equivalent of Algebra 1 so you could jump straight into Geometry freshman year. And some people took precalc in the summer at a local university so they could do AP calc junior year

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@hyperplanes The problem is that city planners have devolved responsibility for designing new roads to developers so nothing ever takes The Big Picture into account

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

Update: seems some level of sanity may be prevailing
https://t.co/JJ3PyblcD2

[CJHoytNews @CJHoytNews]

BREAKING: Indiana SB 52 is dead. House Speaker Todd Huston says there is an agreement with IndyGo to incorporate more general-purpose lanes of traffic while the Blue Line project moves forward. SB52 would have effectively killed the Blue Line project.

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

Absolute clown behavior from the Indiana state legislature. What a disgrace.

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

I don't even live there and I'm pissed. It's just the gall of it all.

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@mikedwyerwrites @GoodsonWen71708 @KimDwyer_SSW @robmolou @mikedwyerwrites I do appreciate your thoughts in general. I was in a sassy mood Friday night, so I apologize for the perhaps aggressive QT. You raise some totally fair points, & there's a lot of things I'd love to respond to but I also don't really want to write a novel here ha

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

No, it's actually literally the lack of bike lanes. 🤣

Love my "unappealing, niche hobby" that gets me to work, out to see friends, or to go shopping, that saves me thousands of dollars per year on gas, insurance, and parking, and that helps keep me fit and healthy. 😎

[Mike Dwyer @MikeDwyerKY]

@robjceo @cityresearch This, 100%. It is staggering that the bike lane advocates would complain about aggrieved vocal minorities.

I know maybe five adults in the city that bike regularly. The rest of us don't bike because it's an unappealing, niche hobby, not because of a lack of bike lanes.

[Ian van Lierop @ianvanlierop]

@mikedwyerwrites @GoodsonWen71708 @KimDwyer_SSW @robmolou I would agree that transit is more important than bikes, and I think you'll find that most pro-bike infrastructure folks would tend to agree!