Rob Bratney

Graphic designer, urbanism nerd, cocktail wonk, photographer, bad musician, baseball fan. Living in Chicago, IL. From Kansas City, MO.

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Apropro of nothing other than for your post-thanksgiving lull viewing pleasure and because I just posted it to reddit: a bigger, better, even more expanded KC streetcar map.

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@ChicagosMayor Thanks Mayor! Much, muuuuch more of this please! Ignore the complainers - bikes lanes like this make traveling in the city more equitable and safe, and we need a lot more before the skeptics will see it as a viable alternative for themselves.

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@sackupsnowflake @ChicagosMayor “We cannot walk and chew gum at the same time!!”

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@AJManaseer @ChicagosMayor You’re welcome to hop on a bike and try the bike lane instead! I promise you won’t be stuck in traffic then.

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@JGrantGlover @citybythelake I honestly can’t tell if a) these are the correct standards, or if b) these even apply to non-digital applications, but Jeremy if you’re interested in looking into this I found this resource: https://t.co/pOSPzGh7Sd.

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@The_unwounded_ @FullLaneFemme @James_Kowalsky I’m sure you want to believe that, but it simply isn’t true. It’s more than possible - it’s easy if we actually try things.

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@The_unwounded_ @FullLaneFemme @James_Kowalsky This is a known phenomenon - check out the reduced demand section: https://t.co/RlnLdB4ki7

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@The_unwounded_ @FullLaneFemme @James_Kowalsky You think this, but you know you don’t know this. Check out what was happened elsewhere, like in South Korea, or in San Francisco, when highways were removed. The cars don’t spring up somewhere else - they simply don’t come. https://t.co/buZgETfueP

https://t.co/rcqauSBA53

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@Wisc9999 @FullLaneFemme State Street in the 70s was all bus exhaust and stores and offices that closed at 5. Not a big mystery why that didn’t work.

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This could be Michigan Ave or State St in downtown Chicago

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@FullLaneFemme Wasn’t the joke in the 70s that the only person who lived in the Loop was the priest in the rectory at United Methodist or something?

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@FullLaneFemme Everyone badmouthing this idea on account of the failed State Street conversion in the 70s are a) unhelpfully unimaginative, and, b) not taking into account how much denser the loop and surrounding neighborhoods’ populations are today vs then.

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@JGrantGlover Agree AND wouldn't putting a city-wide bike path down the middle of these boulevard green spaces be pretty low-hanging fruit? Is anyone talking about that?

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@EngineerDustin Look at the turn radius, yeesh. No wonder a driver sped on through

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@STBikesKC I chalk this up mostly to overly restrictive zoning, but also Jane Jacobs was talking about the need for aged buildings back in Death and Life of Great American Cities for exactly this reason

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@JGrantGlover Oh hell yeah

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@JGrantGlover Thankfully some are still operational commercial spaces

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@JGrantGlover 2/2