urbanist // working, teaching + writing in urban design, mobility + public life // Associate Studio Director + Integrated Transport Lead at ASPECT Studios
@PhilipThalis Incredible bang for buck isn't it! Imagine hundreds of these types of public projects all over Sydney instead of motorway mania. What a missed opportunity.
@abroninvestor@PhilipThalis@cityofsydney@CloverMoore@googlemaps Most improvements simply narrow the existing asphalt without removing parking, providing more space for everything else. This allows some existing areas of parking to be lengthened while still providing new trees, etc. next to parked cars. Hard to explain without a drawing!
@abroninvestor@PhilipThalis@cityofsydney@CloverMoore@googlemaps The design provides a net increase in parking from what is currently there, together with more trees, more planting, wider footpaths and more outdoor dining areas.
It's literally a win-win-win-win-win.
"Claims that autonomous vehicles present a deus ex machina that would liberate Americans from deadly collisionsโclaims that the industry has made for yearsโshould be treated as the self-serving deceptions that they are."
https://t.co/7sS3YVY5Sx
We ran this full-page ad in @nytimes and several local papers today.
Human drivers aren't good enough. America can do better, and it is time we fully embrace AVs.
Hey @cityofsydney, your roadworks contractors have done a pretty dodgy job patching up Pitt St, which just brought down a cargo bike with my family on it - any chance of a touch up?