1. Land use planning to eliminate the need for transportation (everything within walking distance) and 2. Public Transportation - both BEFORE building roadways.

Very interestingly the #1 cause of workplace fatalities is car crashes.

Agree with that sentiment. Recently saw an OSHA (federal workplace safety standards) has a NIOSH hierarchy of controls that prioritizes 1. Elimination then 2. Substitution over other means like safety equipment, which if applied to FHA and DOT Vision Zero equates to:

And the decision to require off street parking, prioritizing automobiles over existing housing.

It’s fascinating that Nathan Fielder has gone to intentionally comical lengths to attempt to solve a contributing factor to airline crashes when the far more serious, overripe, hit you in the face low hanging fruit is US automotive fatalities.

Construction news, mapped!

This ruined my day. It’s generally Dumbfounding.

I have a lot of questions and the least important one that comes to mind is why is the CTA building 650 parking spaces, and how do they cost $46k each (without soft costs?).

Seismic from my understanding, since formwork and shoring needs to withstand an earth quake. Also the trades there are higher paid.

You forgot taxes