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[Josh @josh_works]

This stat reminded me of ✨ safer intersection design ✨

In this first of a few posts. Here's one intersection, 'fixed' and rendered. Seems obviously good enough, yeah?

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[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

~67 people are injured every minute because of motorists.

~2 people are killed every minute because of motorists.

But sure, it's obnoxious when people who ride bikes bring up statistics. 🤡

[Josh @josh_works]

@mattknox this is a good question. Here's an example of an open letter to someone:

https://t.co/UAe9TJ2SG7

When I write an open letter to someone I usually leave it unlisted on my website - the above URL is not really findable without the direct link.

[Josh @josh_works]

@diorvijane Suzume. https://t.co/3F4feeyeSr I weep at the end, every time. And sometimes at other times. But the entire arc is wild, beautiful, memorable. It's a portable, useful metaphor.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

In the middle of the last century, US DOTs spent vast sums of money demolishing communities and plowing freeways and highways through them w/the intention of segregation. They remain major sources of division, immiseration, illness, injury and death. “USDOT, tear down that wall.”

[Josh @josh_works]

@_Murphy_Dan wow just read the whole document. full of absolutely wild sentences. The whole point was make possible the creation of suburbs? (the last visible sentence), or "one-family residence districts"?

[Josh @josh_works]

@_Murphy_Dan that comes from a 1922 marketing pamphlet about zoning, written by the mayor of atlanta and others: https://t.co/0CKeTBXIjQ

[Josh @josh_works]

@_Murphy_Dan they did not have good intentions - their explicit goal was to 'maintain adequate separation between the races'. They simply hid the intent enough from capitalism that the supreme court didn't strike it down, like their prior, more explicit attempts at race-based segregation. :(

[Josh @josh_works]

@_Murphy_Dan Abolish FAR, setbacks, separation of use, all minimums. Let roads pick up modal filters.

That would be so interesting!

[Josh @josh_works]

@Tesho13 @JeffSpeckFAICP @mnolangray @DonaldShoup Alain bertraud's 'order without design'. Alain is the goat.

[Josh @josh_works]

@UrbanCourtyard Supremacists.

The concept of a strict separation of uses justifies the lines drawn on a map that says 'commercial, here. residential, here. Industrial, here'. The same document gives 'white districts' and 'non-white' districts.

https://t.co/0CKeTBXIjQ

I hate this country.

[World Bollard Association™ @WorldBollard]

Patience is a virtue.
#WorldBollardAssociation

[Josh @josh_works]

@garrytan The greater united states has the highest rate of 'incarceration' in the world. I notice I now think vastly more poorly of even ycombinator, because of how unselfconcious you are in supporting that odious regime. Ew. Gross. What else are you so wrong about?

[Josh @josh_works]

@alicemazzy @liminal_warmth ppl side-eye me now when I show up in-person to drop off letters. I want to roll my eyes at them, isn't it obvious how well it's working, *we are both here interacting, reading something I printed off on a slaughtered tree!!!* I do it anyway.

[Aaron Lubeck @aaron_lubeck]

If you want to destroy a city, the United States Air Force is faster, but the American Planning Association is far more effective.

[Josh @josh_works]

@AndyKnny of course! Police union leaders have a job to do, if they don't do it, they get replaced: https://t.co/vkwPpbfvQk

[Josh @josh_works]

@UrbanCourtyard I spoke with the local director of planning, who was in charge of the re-write, about the racialized/supremacist origins of american zoning (quoting the document that designated 'r-1, white, r-2, colored', and other forms of segregation)...

He was totally uninterested!

[Josh @josh_works]

@UrbanCourtyard interesting!

A place I lived did this recently. It was repackaging the original bad intent of american-style zoning.

The original person that popularized american-style zoning was a trip. Check out this marketing pamphlet from Atlanta in 1922: https://t.co/0CKeTBXaui

[Josh @josh_works]

@EddieCoates @UrbanCourtyard https://t.co/7LjgutIXyO

That's the words of one of the first zoning codes. this is a link to a section about side and rear setbacks and front 'building lines'. It's all supremacist attempts to create segregated housing.

[Josh @josh_works]

@alicemazzy @eigenrobot I had a similar experience with hn and it feeling nicely like classic internet when I wrote a piece about bollards. Was lots of fun. (https://t.co/TkdcH0GhKh)

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

1. Motorists used the bike lane as a crash recovery zone endangering the lives of cyclists.
2. US drivers crash 6 *million* times a year killing ~38K and injuring ~3.5M.
3. The cyclist imposes no risks and negligible costs.

Virtually of the lethal danger is from cars.