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I put up a mini-site today at citydensity.com/ to help you compare the world’s cities. You can see how many people live near a city, or use my favourite metric: "population weighted density" to get an accurate measure of how dense a city is to live in.
Every one of these streets in inner Melbourne needs to be turned into a one way street to create a massive park. Canning is just barely usable parkland as is, but with no traffic on one side it would be a paradise.
Why does twitter always talk about institutionalization? It's not needed!
It's not sexy but the solution is clear: give people housing, and pay people to go to that housing once a week and check up on them. Basic stuff! Australia uses CTOs 4x NYC.
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Sense is finally prevailing in Arden. The urban planners thought they were playing city skylines by setting the exact height of every single building in the precinct rather than doing their job of providing open space, schools, and flood mitigation.
Imagine writing a whole twitter thread with the worry that an apartment building's amenities will be overused :/
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According to the report, NYC drivers have 11% more deaths per mile than for-hire vehicles and 21% fewer injuries. Plausible.
But then it says they’re 1,400% more likely to cause “serious” injuries. That’s not plausible. It’s a category error: comparing “serious” to “critical.”
I suspect the original author's error here is egregious. NYC's taxi commission commonly reports 'critical injury' (ie: near death) and the OP appears to compare that to Waymo's 'serious injury' (any trip to hospital). ?retraction @Gothamist nitter.cf/arpitrage/status/20796…
definitions compared below. I believe the confusion comes because TLC defines "Serious Crash" as a crash in which any person has suffered "Critical Injury" or death. "Serious crash" =! "Serious injury"
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highways.dot.gov/media/20141
Stadiums in cities suck. They are usually empty and ruin walkability of nearby attractions. There exist only ways to remediate them (e.g. make them less huge like baseball and basketball stadiums, or put them on a peninsula so they don’t interrupt any more common journeys.)
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Because airports are one of the few places people in the US have to pay for parking, suburbanites fixate on mass transit to them. Rail works best for high frequency routes in dense areas - and that's not an airport in an exurb. When those lines get built they become white elephants fast. Baltimore's BWI line sees ~1,000 passengers a day!
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Who has the prettiest house?
Coming in a few days.
Feature requests welcome.
Why do so many insiders believe that higher fare revenue is the best way to increase spending on public transport? Complete misunderstanding of democracy.
In a democracy, this is how you get better train services:
abc.net.au/news/2014-10-26/w…
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Coming up in a few days: NYC car traffic levels, predicted at the lot level.
Something I’ve always wanted: Instead of a single “walk score”, I want the components for quality of life. It’s not just that I can walk to a subway station, but that I can do safely and in quiet.
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Residential parking permits would become another immortal institution like NYCHA or taxi medallions
- Reform/price changes will be politically impossible
- Years-long waiting lists
- Residents will resell permits for 10x what they paid
- NYC will later let people inherit permits
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no longer do you need to look up at Mars and wonder: exploremars.app/
