Scott Axel

Being kind takes no effort. Ted Lasso and Guy Fieri are my current role models. Tacos 🌮 & skiing ⛷️ inform all my decisions.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

Really only want 3 things for my birthday:

1) wash your hands and take precautions seriously 🧼💦

2) vote based on policy not politics, and vote with perspective for your neighbors and countrymen 👫👬👭

3) practice sustainability every chance you get! 🏞️

[Jeff Delp @JeffDelp]

Every school built should have a 1 mile walk shed. No more carpool lines.

If streets aren't safe enough for a 3rd grader to walk - they shouldn't exit.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@jongeeting So this latest question which asks council to devise a system...how could that question include potential costs?

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@jongeeting I'm not debating that point, and it's probably something that needs addressing.. I was genuinely curious how you include data on such loose concepts though.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@oschnipps @Matt439miller @tkejlboom @Boenau Lots of the consternation by urban residents across many cities are that drivers are getting away with fake tags, obscured plates, or no front plates (look at the OP again for no plates!). These vehicles are aplenty, and pose greater risks than 'Guatemalan ebikes' w/o insurance

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

White woman, world renowned academic, brutalised by cops in full view of video cameras and arrested. They still lied on court records about the event. Now think how often cops lie about those without similar privilege

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@beansandbikes Look at how many universities publicly celebrated how much profit their hospital systems made from COVID and also celebrated investing that profit into football facilities. U Miami is the first to come to mind. It's disgusting.

[Angus Johnston @studentactivism]

Really important to remember as well, though, that some campuses are just letting their encampments continue without interference, and that at those campuses everything generally seems to be entirely fine.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@GovernorShapiro @PennDOTNews @PennDOTSec again...300 million for a small section of highway expansion vs 40 million for an entire states safety infrastructure investment. Are we governing for cars or people? I don't feel safe next to roads penndot controls.

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

I wish we could have DOTs, which are meant to serve the public, do trains. But DOTs are primarily highway sales organizations run by people who do not use or understand transit and view it primarily as an opportunity to extract resources rather than a way to safely move people.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@Keith_Urbanist @NYPD9Pct @nyc311 @placardabuse Was your contact info public or did they abuse their status to find your info?

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@SEPTAPHILLY Will this one show up when scheduled?

[Paige Ellis, City Council Woman - District 8 @PaigeForAustin]

We are not supposed to be a country that arrests students for speaking their mind and journalists for covering the news.

This is un-American and violates the First Amendment.

Colleges are a place of expression and dialogue. Arresting them will not silence them.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@civic_grit It's also dangerous to plant in city soils without testing for heavy metals and other toxic chemicals. Which is easy to do through the PSU extension program!

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

And why don't the drivers that cause these crashes pay directly for their repair (such as the one that took out a flashing pedestrian cross at Gorgas park this week)? Why is that put back on the City and taxpayers? Make being an asshole prohibitively expensive.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@PhiladelphiaGov @PhillyMayor @PhillyOTIS @PhilaStreets jersey barriers are required for eateries but we can't put bollards or barriers or concrete preventing cars from going places they shouldn't? The cost of car related repair maintenance far outweighs protective infrastructure

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

I care so much less about SEPTA rebranding the trolley routes than the fact we're about to spend billions on a once in a lifetime modernization project for our trolleys without ANY sort of commitments from the city of Philadelphia to redesign our streets to avoid these problems:

[B. Carfree @BCarfree]

@bellachu10 @eRileyCasey Fat man who rides a freakishly heavy bicycle here. I volunteer to pay $100 per year as long as those people wearing wankpanzers have to pony up their 4th power appropriate share.

[lumberjack "migrate off this platform" wharfie @lumbjackwharfie]

Sidewalks that serve only foot traffic can last over a century, even in places that get cold in the winter. This crumbling sidewalk demonstrates how quickly vehicles can balloon the maintenance costs of any space where you'll let them be.

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@aaaaadriannnn @theErdTirdMans At slow speeds, especially residential it would be fine ..I'm talking Spring Garden and Kelly Drive levels of bike lane and adjacent traffic

[Scott Axel @shotskii]

@aaaaadriannnn @theErdTirdMans In evening and low light contraflow is somewhat blinding due to car headlights

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

When an 89 year old planning professor says "it has become clear that cities designed for cars have been a failure" we should listen.

Philly need not wholly reject cars but it cannot continue to allocate cars overwhelming resources at the expense of every other priority.