Justin Burker
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Justin Burker
@jburk3r.bsky.social
Who knows? I just go where the trade winds blows. Urbanist. GIS. Aspiring generalist. University of Miami graduate student. Birds. Flyers.
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Citizen: I think we need a sidewalk installed here.

Traffic Engineer: First we will need to do a multi-year study to see if the data supports it.

Citizen: Do you mean data like this?
December 21, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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What's unusual about me as a consulant?

1. I don't believe in predicting future human behavior.
2. I'm interested in human freedom as a primary goal of transport. ... 3/

humantransit.org/basics-acces...
Basics: Access, or the Wall Around Your Life — Human Transit
What if we planned public transit with the goal of freedom?  Well, it’s hard to improve things that you can’t measure, but now it’s becoming possible to measure freedom, or as we call it in transport ...
humantransit.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Every car in your city represents $8K or more per year being sucked out of your local economy instead of being spent on housing, goods & services.

If you can go car-free, it gives you a huge boost in disposable income.

I wish more retailers understood this.
November 29, 2024 at 12:05 AM