it was dumb and petty AF and took way too long

and yes, it's hardly moving needle on units

but turns out it was foundational to making needed changes in seattle.

also best headline i've ever written?

www.theurbanist.org/2015/07/17/m...

I hope this happens to protected bike lanes by 2050

We face this challenge here in my CO town too. More trained police officers are a good investment, yet what we have is a huge expansion of ancillary stuff: PD public information officers, expensive Mobile Command Centers, duplicative SWAT teams, frequent & expensive vehicle replacement, etc. :-(

Thank you. Long overdue. But better late than never.

There needs to be a “Don’t share nor sell my contact info” button on every donation screen. A single donation can put you on political campaign lists that circulate for years. Decades even.

Beautifully put. Will it sway minds and hearts? I hope so.

Pretty. But how are they watered? Volunteer neighbors? Did they run irrigation lines to each planter? Planters dry out very quickly.

Density is how the middle class outbids rich people for well/located urban land. When you outlaw that, you eventually displace everyone who isn’t rich. This is why San Francisco is so boring now.

Such excellent points rebutting the scare tactics used to block basic, incremental housing. She could speak the exact same script for Littleton CO. And probably many communities all over. The anti-housing scare tactics are so repetitive.

Who would have thought? Housing prices, like all other commodity prices, are responsive to supply and demand. Denver joins Austin and Minneapolis in giving a clear example of how “cost of housing” directly relates to availability.

Fixing this mess after four years of the wrecking ball is gonna be fun

Seattle has a shockingly good bus system. The headways are impressively tight even on “lesser” routes. The coverage of its network puts places like Denver and San Diego to shame. Add light rail and it just gets better. Someone knows what they’re doing up in Metro.

SD city government knows how to disappoint. They’re insanely good at doing the wrong thing, explained with the flimsiest of pretexts.

People focus too much on the “Zero” in VisionZero. I try to focus on “vision.” VZ is aspirational and always has been. It’s not a computer program. It’s not a formula. VZ is a harm reduction approach applied to infrastructure design. Getting 30% reduction in harm is a win.