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capntransit

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Climate advocate, queer, ranting against bullshit for over a decade.

Here are some reasons to get people to shift from cars to transit:

Reducing pollution
Increasing efficiency
Reducing carnage
Improving society
Access for all

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Andres4NY, to nyc
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Cool, cool. End of August. Sure, no rush, bike lanes don't need protection or anything.

('s 311 has entries allowing you to report multiple types of 'illegal' games, but nothing for reporting any kind of unsafe bike lane situation. So you just send a generic comment to Queens commissioner, which may get answered eventually..)

Furniture Store Complaint Make a complaint about a furniture or mattress store. Gambling Call 911 to report illegal gambling. Games of Chance Complaint Make a complaint about a business that hosts bingo, raffles, and other games of chance. Gaming Cafe Complaint Make a complaint about a business with three or more computers for playing games. Garbage Truck Spill Report waste leaking or spilling from a garbage truck or trash that spilled onto the ground while being loaded into a truck.
Stray Animal Report a stray or abandoned animal. Street Con Game Report a street con game, such as three card Monte. Street Fair Vendor Complaint Make a complaint about a vendor at a street fair. Street Flooding Report street flooding or ponding.

capntransit,
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@Andres4NY This is why 311 stats should always be suspect. It's not clean input!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-limits-of-kvetchocracy.html

capntransit, to random
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Anniversary blog post from May 28, 2010: We do not make just one mode choice. We make mode choices repeatedly, of at least three kinds: Single Trips, Habits and Investments. We're not going to get people out of cars by addressing only one kind of choice.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2010/05/mode-choices.html

capntransit, to random
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"Memorial Day will be celebrated as usual, by high-speed collisions of automobiles and bodies strewn on highways and the sound of ambulance sirens throughout the land." - Howard Zinn, 1976

h/t @bhalpin

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/whom-will-we-honor-memorial-day/

capntransit, to random
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We should have torn down the 1950s-era Bronx River Parkway extension that people keep dying on (one person died last month). Instead advocates stopped at a half-assed Sheridan Expressway teardown and we're spending $138 million to rebuild the bridge with wider lanes and shoulders. Sorry, we gotta cut corners on transit, though!

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/bronx-river-parkway-bridge-project-flatiron-ee-cruz-nyc/692693/

capntransit, to random
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RT @dahvnyc You can thank NYC Council Speaker Adams for effectively destroying NYC's outdoor dining program. Speaker Adams made clear that she wanted curb space reverted to free car storage & that she didn't see the purpose of outdoor seating year-round.

The result was a set of regulations that make it so onerous and cost prohibitive to set up tables in the street that the number of outdoor dining set-ups is shrinking from thousands to hundreds.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-summer-is-the-end-of-outdoor-dining-in-nyc-as-we-know-it

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Anniversary blog post from May 27, 2014: When new housing is proposed, many people object that it's not "affordable," which is what our biggest need is. When elevated trains are proposed, people object that they'll reduce property values.

Why not kill two birds with one stone: build els with new apartments next to them!

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2014/05/cheap-housing-with-els.html

capntransit, to random
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New blog post: There's an approach to climate change that focuses on "Making Polluters Pay" for the cost of carbon pollution. But who counts as a polluter? Why are they so insistent that it's just a handful of corporations?

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2024/05/making-all-polluters-pay.html

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@Colinvparker @wollman @DiegoBeghin In my experience, the people who promote this strategy play a bit of a shell game. They may claim that (a) there's no need for consumers to change their behavior, because all their polluting consumables will be replaced with carbon-free ones, or (b) that the consumers have been duped by the evil capitalists, and will change their behavior as soon as the capitalists stop manipulating them.

capntransit,
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@Colinvparker @wollman @DiegoBeghin Yes, I'm not opposed to penalizing the owners and managers of large corporations, and penalizing just the corporate organizations may even produce some results.

I just don't think it's anywhere near enough. People like Rick Heede and Blair Horner repeat it like it's the obvious solution that will solve all our problems, and that distracts from the work we need to do to change behavior.

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@wollman @Colinvparker @DiegoBeghin Oh, I know! But Blair Horner, the Executive Director of NYPIRG tells us that it doesn't have to happen that way.

He spends a good chunk of this interview from last week reiterating it, and tweets about it almost every day.

https://www.wamc.org/show/the-capitol-connection/2024-05-23/the-capitol-connection-blair-horner-executive-director-of-nypirg

capntransit,
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@DiegoBeghin @Colinvparker Yes, we definitely need to be prepared with a strategy to meet any backlash!

capntransit,
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@Colinvparker @DiegoBeghin Exactly! I can kind of understand it from people whose focus is elsewhere and just want to do something about climate change - or at least to be seen to do something.

I can't understand it from people who've made opposing climate change their central career or mission in life, like Mary Heglar, Tess Riley, Cline Jones and Rick Heede.

Sometimes they'll even admit they're fudging the numbers a bit, but it's worth it to focus on big polluters.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal

Alon, to random
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Pedestrian Observations: Stop Spacing on Crosstown Routes https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/05/26/stop-spacing-on-crosstown-routes/

capntransit,
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@Alon Good point:

"IBX errs in only stopping in East New York at Atlantic Avenue, connecting to the L and the LIRR, with no direct connection to Broadway Junction for the A/C and J. The distance between these two locations is only 350 meters, and it may be awkward to have two stops in short succession, but the meaning of high relative density is exactly that it’s okay to have more closely spaced stops."

kkavee, to random
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what is the correlation between memorial day and hotdog? Got buy 2 get 1 ballpark sausage at GE today

capntransit,
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@kkavee outdoor grilling!

capntransit,
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@kkavee haha no, they have sales on grilling meats every summer holiday. Even though we have Memorial Day and Independence Day in the summer, the meat sales are just about parties...

capntransit, to random
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Poking around in my blog archives, I found a link to this 2008 Streetsblog post where State Senators Jeff Klein and Eric Adams proposed suspending bridge and tunnel tolls on major holidays and giving every driver a gas tax rebate of $200.

"Unfortunately, according to AAA, there'll be 360,000 fewer drivers this Memorial Day weekend, because of high tolls and our very high gas. This is something we need to address immediately," said Klein.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2008/05/28/state-senators-lets-get-more-cars-on-the-road

capntransit, to random
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RT @streetfilms Wow! Just got a nice note from an urban planner who was very angry more people haven't watched our Paris School Streets Streetfilms! She called it "the most important educational tool made for urbanists in the last 5 years."

Thanks. I agree. So watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPzocuqKPc

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Anniversary blog post from May 26, 2012: Man's parking lot inhumanity to man

At some points I've thought that buying a car would protect me from the negligence and predations of drivers. It would, but only to a point. Everyone in the system is miserable.

https://capntransit.blogspot.com/2012/05/mans-parking-lot-inhumanity-to-man.html

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RT @climatetransit Chicago transit has no ambition to get better, most of the cities urbanists have been beaten down horrendously by Dorval Carter that they cannot imagine a world where they build anything better than BRT on one of their most major streets.

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RT @bfurnas 12 months ago this was a few tables where families could have a nice outdoor brunch, now it’s a parking spot for a single (1) BMW.

capntransit, to random
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Andrew Cuomo didn't actually provide high-capacity, functional bicycle and pedestrian connections at either end of the path on the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge, and Rockland sprawl is still deadly.

But Cuomo did build large parking lots on both ends, which are now full, so Governor Hochul is now running shuttle buses so that people can park in the Palisades Center Mall or the Tarrytown train station. They can also take transit to either place, but that's not the focus.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-free-memorial-day-weekend-shuttle-bus-governor-mario-m-cuomo-0

Transportist, to random
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Interesting study comparing commute mode (active, transit, car) globally reported in Economist. The headline is bad though, many of these cities are not Walkable but just Poor. https://www.economist.com/interactive/2024-walkable-cities Original data in this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272#b0295

capntransit,
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@Transportist A city that is too poor for a sizeable elite to terrorize with cars and hostile infrastructure is walkable.

capntransit,
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@Transportist Ah, but what if the streets aren't paved?

capntransit, to random
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RT @choresh2 Sidewalk extensions are so much better than free car parking spots

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RT @regionalplan We heard today is someone's birthday!

The Brooklyn Bridge opened 141 years ago today. We found some old-school bridge crossing photos in our archives, circa 1980s.

Five people walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, wearing 80s-style office and business casual clothes. One man is carrying a briefcase. In the background the Bell switching tower can be seen with its marble cladding and AT&T logo, and the World Trade Center.
Two women walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, in a section that is higher than the rest of the pedestrian deck. It is lined with chain-link fence. The women are wearing 80s-style office clothes with skirts below the knee, and holding a large tote bag between them by the handles. In the background the World Trade Center and the Woolworth Building can be seen. Two men in suits are climbing the stairs to the elevated walkway.

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