Heck yeah. My new #paper with Lindsay Oluyede & Carlos Pardo is out today in #TransportReviews:
"The why and how of COVID streets: a city level review of research into planning motivations and approaches during a crisis"
This labor of love examined the processes that led to and shaped #COVIDstreets programs in 28 cities around the world, as reported in peer-reviewed literature. 🧵
@DrTCombs Yeah, for us in #cville it revealed the importance of organizational capacity to prepare for and adapt to whatever hits us, which we are still working through but it is IMO positive and important
Shout out to the #cville school bus drivers who lean on the horn every time a driver speeds by a bus loading or unloading schoolchildren. In general I’m not a fan of big horn noise in the morning, but that is all good
@da5nsy I'm not sold on the exact implementation, but if clients could implement a way to relate tags that would help a bit. For example, if a Mastodon client knew #RVA and #Cville are places in #Virginia that would give potential for better features when querying about places. As it is, Mastodon doesn't really even know those are places. Any system of hashtag metadata could go a long way.
@DrTCombs We have some similar challenges in #cville . The current thought is to remove parking mandates but shift development pressure more evenly across the city instead of concentrating it in lower income and/or historically Black areas. I agree that ignoring equity is a massive problem.