Mostly in California, occasionally elsewhere.
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Need a visual reminder that paint is NOT infrastructure?
HT @77_mgm nitter.gq/77_mgm/status/14044966…
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“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities."
- @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings
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1970: One more lane will fix it.
1980: One more lane will fix it.
1990: One more lane will fix it.
2000: One more lane will fix it.
2010: One more lane will fix it.
2020: ?
The annual Thanksgiving video of the 405 Freeway in LA:
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Reaching zero roadway deaths may sound impossible, but some sizable US cities have repeatedly achieved it. We can and must do everything we can to build on this progress and end the crisis on our roads.
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It’s really this simple.
“If biking was safer, more people would be encouraged to do it. Most people I know avoid cycling here because they don’t feel safe.” latimes.com/california/story…
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When the sheriff dept captain says PCH is deadly, you’d best believe it.
Deadly in Malibu and deadly in many OC cities. – at Irvine, CA
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An estimated 5.3 million people die from causes associated with physical inactivity every year.
It takes a ton of effort to be physically active when our surroundings discourage it at every turn.
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Why can’t all of PCH have this? Cc @CaltransDist7
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REMINDER: A #protectedbikelane may be the difference between a joyous bike ride to school or soul-crushing gridlock in the dropoff zone.
P.S.: This video is from car-centric #Miami. If we can build protected bike lanes, your city can too.
#onelesscar #outsideisbest
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This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ yoyoma.lnk.to/natureatplay
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IMPORTANT: “Cars kill Americans at insanely high rates, killing 43,000 Americans in 2021, a number that has, almost unbelievably, increased by nearly a third in the last decade while our peer countries have decreased their car fatalities.” Via @voxdotcom vox.com/future-perfect/2023/…
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New video from Front Street shows virtually all of downtown Lahaina has been burned down.
