Jeff Speck
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City planner, walkability advocate, writer, husband, father. Partner, Speck Dempsey. Author: Walkable City & Walkable City Rules.
Brookline, MA
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In Carmel, IN, we are turning an office park into a town center:
#SprawlRepair
#RetrofittingSuburbia
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Perfect new complete sidewalk at The Wharf DC. 10 5 10 5. Room for biking, walking, trees, bike storage, butt storage
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Two buildings very similar in scale. One shows a mature, steady hand, confidence, humility, and respect. The other is what almost every developer builds everywhere these days, and what most design codes are more likely to demand.
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Indianapolis is a city held hostage by its State legislature. I have never seen such an activist anti-urban coalition in state government. Truly breathtaking.
Indiana just banned dedicated bus lanes, basically killing the Blue Line project in Indy, a 24 mile bus rapid transit line connecting the airport to downtown & beyond. Thanks
@IndyGOP
for providing me with one more reason not to move back to my family's hometown.
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I’d be curious to learn more, but it appears as if an SF Waymo tried to drive through a parade on Chinese new year and was appropriately destroyed.
BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved.
Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …
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IF YOU READ ONE THING TODAY.
This is the most important article I’ve written.
If you won’t read it, please unfollow me. I am no use to you.
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@balajis
You fail to understand that a city’s streets are not just for cars. They are the public realm, the civic forum, and the foundation of society. As Adam Gopnik puts it, they are not a city’s veins but its very neurology. Screw your self-driving cars.
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This intersection, once hailed as a masterpiece, is finally being recognized as a travesty.
Shibuya crossing: +/- 390.000 pedestrians a day still have to stop for a few people in cars every minute...
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To discuss the color of the clothing of this pedestrian hit by a cop going 50 mph over the speed limit on a downtown street with no siren, as if it’s remotely relevant, is a despicable act. Shame on
@KING5Seattle
The officer was traveling at 74 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone just before his police cruiser hit Jaahnavi Kandula in January.
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Incredibly shameful.
#Seattle
buried its highway so it could replace it with a gorgeous surface. . . highway! A lesson in everything going wrong.
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This is fantastic.
I’ve been fighting for decades (against traffic engineers, truckers, bus agencies, and fire departments) for 10 vs. 12 foot urban lanes.
Now there’s a
@JohnsHopkinsSPH
study pushing 9 feet.
Nine feet.
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My new hero.
“Crime is a social issue that could be solved by giving people their basic needs.”
Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.
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“Trees take too long.”
Look what they did in a mere 8 years. . .
Cambios que inspiran.
Guadalajara cambió 6 carriles de contaminación por un paseo arbolado y una línea de tren ligero subterránea.
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If the bike logo doesn’t fit, it may be too narrow.
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In Miami Beach, I have just discovered this town's most amazing tree. I am in love.
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A cybertruck went to Nantucket.
It parked in a crosswalk ‘cause f*ck it.
To work on its tan
It next hit the sand
Where poor engineering then stuck it.
Cyber Truck driver parks in a Nantucket crosswalk… then proceeds to get stuck in the sand on the beach.
Karma does exist. 😊
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When your friends lie to you.
Repeat after me: no highway expansion has ever saved energy or reduced pollution. Ever.
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My wife looked into a round trip
@amtrak
Boston to SLC, sleeper car round trip for herself and our two kids. Any guess of the cost?
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$4700.
Might as well book a cruise!
Help,
@SecretaryPete
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Hoy cow. Can someone please explain to me why this is happening, and how I can keep it happening?
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Looks like they forgot to do a shadow study.
Salzburg. A city whose beautiful walkable streets would be unbuildable today and yet which … seems to be fairly popular. 🤔
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People who think support for walking and biking is elitist needs to look at this chart.
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This x 1000.
The huge blind spot in fighting climate change is land use.
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So sad. They buried the highway and then put a highway in on top of it. It didn’t have to turn out this way.
Just admiring Seattle’s expanded waterfront surface highway. 🛣
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Multilane one-ways doing what multilane one-ways do.
WATCH: A driver crashed into a tree and then into Kzoo Swift on South Westnedge Avenue around 3 p.m. today.
Video courtesy: Kzoo Swift owner
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THEY ARE MAKING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE WALKABLE CITY!
Here's the teaser:
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"Sixty percent of Americans polled by the National Association of Realtors say they want to live within walking distance of places to work, shop and recreate. Only 10 percent want to be located in homes that only have access to other houses. . .
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Small brain: How many cars can we move?
Big brain: How many people can we move?
Galactic brain: Why do we need to move people? Put their daily needs close at hand.
#Walkability
Remember to keep changing the question.
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Yeah, 18 feet for a street is about right.
(Elfreth’s Alley, Philly)
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If you call yourself an urbanist, you MUST watch this.
Don’t choose ignorance.
I’m a Harvard-trained designer who grew up in a house by a Gropius apprentice. I love good modernism. But I have to admit that what this video depicts is superior.
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BUILD MORE HOUSING!
Now that I’ve made my position clear, let me ask: why do they even give degrees in architecture and licenses in architecture when this sort of despicably undesigned facade has become the absolute standard product in apartment design?
BUILD MORE HOUSING!
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We Will Rebuild. They sent us the Statue of Liberty. Let’s give them the Wall Money.
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Nobody is asking, but we need to put together a dream team of advisors for
@PeteButtigieg
including
@JSadikKhan
@humantransit
@yfreemark
@TamikaButler
@schmangee
@Penalosa_G
@clmarohn
@jeffreytumlin
and
@gabe_klein
.
Who did I miss?
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Greetings from the “developing” world. Mexico City offers superior urbanism, and walkability to most American cities. A lot of lessons here.
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My understanding is that this is an absolutely incorrect take. Cell phones have proliferated in Europe as well, without the same outcomes. The principal cause is SUVs. Also, the rise in suburban poverty. Read your
@schmangee
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Ok, good, but why does anyone need to move a home with a truck that big? If you’re a billionaire get two trucks.
The truck only fits because parallel parking is vacant. We should not have to design residential neighborhoods around that vehicle.
Narrower neighborhood streets better limit speeds and cut-through traffic, but can still accommodate large vehicles when necessary. We don't need to compromise safety and quality of life for an occasional truck, I promise they can still navigate their way and at safe speeds!
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Can we all dispense with the fireworks and just switch to this now?
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Check out these affordable sidewalk extensions from
@TrueformGroup
. Would love to see these used in the US.
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Exactly. We were talking to a number of cities about following New York’s lead. This is a disaster coast to coast.
This cowardly act from
@GovKathyHochul
will also have a chilling effect on a number of other American cities who seemed poised to follow her (former) leadership.
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Hi, we’re
@ZeroFatalities
. We’re going to show you a young victim of a hit and run, share his name and, in the next sentence, imply that it was his fault.
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Dedicated bus lanes are making a huge difference in suburban Boston.
#Dedicatedlanes
help move more people more quickly....just check out this rider video from the
#ArlBRT
pilot in
@arlingtonmagov
! The bus lane will be made permanent this summer.
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All I see are the shitty streets.
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186 people died on Queens Boulevard until NYC invested $4 million in 2014 to curb speeding.
186 men, women, boys, and girls.
No deaths since.
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My nightmare: I go to hop on my bike in the morning but it's gone. So I take the bus to where I last remember riding it, and it's there, but painted all white and chained to a post. My key doesn't fit the lock. I ask for help, but everyone looks right through me.
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Excited to learn that
#Nashville
’s new mayor has a first edition
#Walkable
City.
Are you ready for Freddie? I am!
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3, 2, 1…
IT’S HERE!!!
Today is the day: The 10th Anniversary of Walkable City has arrived!
With an introduction by
@JSadikKhan
and 100 new pages of update by me.
Get yours while they last!
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Small brain: how many cars can we move?
Big brain: how many people can we move?
Mega-brain: why do we need to move at all?
Put things closer together, people!
Remember to keep changing the question.
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I've been (fairly) polite in my comments so far, but this Neanderthal proposal deserves only one response: Go fuck yourself, Mr. Trump.
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Just in case folks are wondering what Tesla has unleashed on our roads. . . according to Tesla.
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Second visit, I can’t recommend Mexico City enough. Just a great place.
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Built in 2007, people. It’s not that hard.
(Thanks,
@culdesac
)
A newly built village, with gentle density and different architectural styles. Designed around people and nature. Who wouldn't want to live here?!
📍Op Buuren dorp,
@StichtseVecht
🇳🇱
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The average Dutch transportation engineer has taken taken 10 to 15 classes in transportation engineering. The average American transportation engineer has taken 1 to 3 such classes. Does that clarify things?
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Planners (and nature) to Engineers: THIS is how wide our streets need to be.
Planners and Engineers: How wide do our streets need to be?
Nature:
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Mansplanning! Love it!
It’s no accident that, certainly from Jane Jacobs onwards, the campaign to rehumanize our cities has been a largely woman-led enterprise.
MansPLANning: The compulsive, dismissive act of designing cities for cars despite its failure to reverse congestion or improve street life. On
#InternationalWomensDay
, let’s change lanes with my streetfighting sisters in this Man Man Man Man Man world.
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I'm always blown away that none of these people will park their cars and walk in to save 15 minutes. What is up with that?
Suburban planners: of course we need 3 acres of land for 36 people waiting in line for coffee
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AGAINST MOBILITY
Transportation success is now measured by the number of vehicles moved.
Transportation success must instead be measured by the number of people moved.
Planning success must be measured by the number of people who don't need to move.
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A lot of people in my feed misunderstand what a USDOT Director does. The key qualifications are not transportation experience but rather leadership skills, political acumen, and the right outlook. A Buttigieg who embraces transit, micromobility, and walking would be a huge win.
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First bike ride 2 months after shoulder surgery. Back in it!
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Thanks to Capital Bike Share and a whole bunch of bike lanes, I had the most amazing tourist experience in my old hometown today. Everyone should see the city this way.
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I hope you will read this!
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I am slowing coming to understand Portland's recent zoning reform. It is remarkable and should become a national model:
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Because people are bored, why not reopen the controversy I stared months ago by saying this new duplex in my neighborhood was Bad Architecture? Folks defended it. I now have pics that show how it greets passers-by. This is not about style; blank walls kill street life. OKBye!
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You’re hired.
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Disturbing to hear cycling STILL being called elitist by guys in $2000 suits when 38% of cycling commuters come from the bottom 25th percentile of income earners.
"Imagine being in one of these sexy roads with 2 lanes and the bicycle lane is empty, and you're 30 mins late for work, all because we've reserved this for the elitists who know how to do things right & somehow can afford to ride their bike while everybody else is going to work"
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Welcome to perhaps the most ambitious TODs in the US.
#UtahCity
Streets already in, buildings going up.
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More victim blaming, this time from the
@SpokesmanReview
A driver runs a stop sign and flattens a scooter rider. The caption?: scooter collides with vehicle. Puh-leese.
This is so heartbreaking. The driver did not stop at a stop sign, the rider had right of way, and they still determined after investigation that there was “no negligence on the part of the driver, no impairment and no recklessness”? Make it make sense.
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The real scandal is that you rarely wait more than 90 seconds for a train in Moscow.
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Pedestrian beg buttons mean that your city has anti-walking leadership. Remove your buttons or your leaders.
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I can say unequivocally that this new town in the Netherlands (by the late great Rob Krier) is superior to anything I have ever worked on or seen built in the US.
Gorgeous.
A new town was built in the Netherlands and it’s not what you’d expect…
A thread🧵
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Ooh, THAT’S interesting
Now that’s how you do a safe pedestrian crossing. Complete with a speed hump for vehicles and narrowing a two-way road into a single lane right where people cross the street.
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Sing it brother.
“Protected bike lanes and bus lanes are not a frill… they are a life saving measure.” -
@SecretaryPete
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89% increase in pedestrian fatalities over a dozen years. No bueno.
Causes:
1. SUVs and high-hood pickups. Look, my hood has a hood!
2. The suburbanization of poverty. People living carless in the auto zone.
New report finds that over 8,000 pedestrians were killed on US roadways in 2022.
Jimmy Carter was president the last time that happened.
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Here’s what I learned this week: it’s not allowed on Twitter to call out a building for ignoring its context. Apparently every new building is just fine, and I’m a shit for thinking quality matters.
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So important. Look what Paris did in a mere 8 years. Why can't we?
#Boston
2012 vs 2020 What a transformation. Highlighting the inefficiency of the automobile as means of transporting people.
@Anne_Hidalgo
2014 vision of re-engineering the city's roads and Junctions to be less car centric has really paid off. Less pollution, congestion & more cycling
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Don't be fooled by its traditional garb; Poundbury is a deeply radical project, arguably the most successful new town of the past 80 years, including 35% social housing indistinguishable from market-rate product.
It needs to be the standard.
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The
@nytimes
simply is not aware how much elite projection goes into the assumption that the automotive user is the dominant user of our streets, especially in NYC.
Hey
@nytimes
, here’s what you should be writing: “New York is working to prioritize people, not cars on its streets. Pedestrians and bicyclists say these changes will save lives.”
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Wow, no words.
OK, words:
This drawing kills me because, reorganized with an understanding of how spatial definition makes streets and squares, these buildings could make a town!
In 2019, not 1989, so why, why, why are we still allowing single use, out-of-town, car-dependent business parks like this one?👇(1/10)
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I am a car nut from childhood, have always loved sporty cars. For the past 5 years, I had an SUV. Then I listened to
@schmangee
and others, and no longer wanted to risk killing pedestrians with a high hood. So we bought a low wagon. Guess what: it is SO much more fun to drive!
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On another topic: I'm a self-employed sole breadwinner with a family of 4. Guess what I have to pay annually for family health insurance? Not even fancy insurance. . . a
#BlueCross
@BCBSMA
HMO.
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Wait for it.
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$30,000.
Tell me this system isn't broken.
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Heartwarming story out of Ontario:
Mayor is against bike lanes, attends my lecture at
@GoodRoads
conference in Toronto, publicly reverses his position.
Wow, this is why I do this work. Let the striping begin!
@BrentToderian
@JSadikKhan
@MikeLydon
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One of my faves.
“The less you spend on street width, the more people will pay to live on it.”
Tradd Street, Charleston, SC. 18’ wide pavement within a 30’ right-of-way.
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@steamyporkbuns
Everything you do to make a city more walkable makes it more rollable. Everything you do to make a city more rollable makes it more walkable. Some of my friends in wheelchairs call what they do “walking.” Some of my friends who can’t easily walk use bikes. The only enemy is cars.
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A Denver study, conducted by Alejandro Henao—who worked as an Uber and Lyft driver while earning his Ph.D. (as well as a 5-star rating)—found that for every 100 miles of moving customers, his car had to move 169 miles. (1/5)
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I met my wife on a train platform.
Dear Elon Musk.
I like public transit. I’ve never bumped into a murderer on the subway. But I do recall stories of people meeting their spouses on it. Here’s one example where they even wed on the bus where they met.
Sincerely, a non-billionaire.
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Who decides how large names are on maps, and what the heck is a Pigeon Forge?
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The three of us just spent $78 bucks on this at the Nashville airport. AMERICA RULES!!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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TFW you’re watching the new season of Better Call Saul and you get to see one of the protected bike lanes you planned for Albuquerque.
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