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I'm excited to share the paper we've informally titled the "everything bagel" of transportation policy. A short 🧵
Miriam Pinski
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Miriam Pinski
@mirijulip
I study and write about transportation policy. Triple Bruin, now researcher at SUMC. Safe streets and cloth diaper advocate.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2017
- An Italian mountain village? A Greek island? Nope! It's America's first car-free village, and I got to stay in it. A 🧵on what it's like. TLDR; remove the parking mandate, enable livable cities.
- Dear advice columnist, My truck is so big, I can't see the kids playing on my street. Do I just run them over? -Jerkface
- A woman sped -likely at 80+ mph - through a quiet residential street in her Mercedes SUV, killing two brothers on a marked crosswalk. To convict her of murder, and not an accident, the prosecutors have the somehow very challenging task of proving she..knew speeding was dangerous.
- New survey results confirm: Most Americans don't want car-oriented suburbs. They want walkable mixed-use neighborhoods and will pay more to live in them. They will choose an attached home over a detached one if it means a shorter commute and walkable community.
- Paris is slashing car lanes from 8 to 4 on one of its most congested, polluted thoroughfares. They're turning what was a nasty arterial into a place people will actually want to be.
Paris’ push to replace car lanes with sidewalks, bike paths and greenery steps up a gear with plans to remodel one of the city’s busiest, most polluted thoroughfares trib.al/g4VkAK5 - Every year, North American communities spend, on average, per person: $50 on sidewalks and crosswalks $180 on public transit subsidies $1,000 on public roads and traffic services More than $2,000 per capita on government-mandated parking facilitiesA Fair Share for Walking dlvr.it/SrcLjX
- An investigation into New York City's notorious trash problem discovers the underlying obstacle to putting up dumpsters is... parking. It's easier to let people pile trash bags on sidewalks that feed rats and vermin than to take some of NYC's 3 million curb spots from drivers.
- The entire French Quarter should be pedestrianized. These narrow streets are giant parties, in the best way 🥳
- An excellent in-depth article on any cyclist's nightmare: getting doored. The Dutch reach should become second nature to every driver. And, of course, we need our bike infrastructure to go from sharrows to actual protection.
- Firefighters are spending $$ opposing safer street infrastructure in LA. Nationally, just 4% of fire truck runs are for actual fires. Their main job? Medical emergencies. And traffic collisions are a significant source of emergency medical care. Curious.
- Yes, flying is miserable, and this article predicts we're doomed for more of the same. What the op-ed misses is the obvious solution: just let foreign airlines offer domestic US flights.
- Poster sessions are always a good time. This time, I kept having this conversation: Planner: we need to build trust with community studies and meetings if we want to make streets safer for pedestrians. Me: That makes sense. Do you also do that for cars?
- Let's dig a bit into the LA Firefighters' ad campaign against bike/ped/transit improvements. "In an emergency, every second counts. Don't slow us down." Convincing? 🤔
