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"When someone asked him how people would spend their time after the revolution, when capitalist wastefulness had been done away with, Marcuse answered, 'We will tear down the big cities and build new ones. That will keep us busy for a while.'"
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The federal govt should just buy an e-bike for anyone who wants one… would be a lot cheaper and more effective than 1000’s of $ in subsidies for EVs
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donate to mike gravel, even just a dollar. that's it, that's the tweet
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This was the entrance to Myers Park in 1912. No trees, no homes, yet still streetcar service.
Then, the view in 2021. Note the side gates still exist
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#GorkaMustGo
because he is...
wait do we actually have to list reasons to get rid of a formal, actual, legitimate nazi in the white house?
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@Innamo
You denounce DSA but not illegal occupation, apartheid, and ongoing genocide? How cruel of a person you are, Sara
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At Gold Line phase II costs, Charlotte could build this entire tram network instead of the Silver Line + still have $3 billion left over
But, Charlotte's regional transit planning model requires capital investment be spent servicing suburbs, so this could never even be an option
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Hypothetical 2005 Light Rail map (1989)
System depicts seven lines running along existing rail ROWs and one newly built line to SouthPark. If only...
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More City of Charlotte residents live outside of I-485 than inside of Route 4, yet it seems that the former, larger group holds very little political capital, has minimal media or cultural influence, and exerts virtually no impact on the city's identity at all.
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A 15-mile light rail line in Charlotte (Silver Line phase A, left) will likely take about 20 yrs and $5.1 billion to construct
A 16-mile light rail line in Nürnberg (StUB, right, shown in purple) will take about 10 yrs and €428 million to construct
The problem is structural...
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Rents for a 1BR unit at The Hawk in South End start at $3610/mo. For just 833 sq ft.
Beyond wild
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It shouldn't count as a mixed-use development if you don't actually mix any of the uses...
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Shifting to a full time, well-staffed, decently paid general assembly should legitimately be the
#1
priority whenever (if ever)
@NCDemParty
get’s back into power.
One of the greatest barriers to running for State House or State Senate is the fact that North Carolina has a “citizen”, or part-time legislature.
Legislators in North Carolina receive a salary of $13,951 a year with a per diem rate of $104 while in session...
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It's incredibly unnatural that there is a significant contingent of Americans who do not ever walk anywhere in their daily life
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@Jazzzmeister
@Shane_maps
New Jersey is >2x as dense as Switzerland and has no where near its coverage.
This is a district of rural Germany (761 sqmi; pop density of 240/sqmi) with intense public transit coverage, including rail. It can be done throughout the rural US
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It’s incredibly easy to take away and repurpose an entire vehicle lane. Who would’ve thought 🙄
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Thinking about this map today. Only half of all roads in Charlotte have a sidewalk on at least one side
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My fixed-route transit priorities for Charlotte in the short- to medium-term (this is just a quick crayoning)
Nearly all improvements are within 5 mi of Trade/Tryon (1/x)
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It's pretty phenomenal that
@CharlotteDOT
's director is a Republican from Mint Hill.
We will never end car dependence with conservative suburbanites in charge of our roads and public space...
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Somehow the renders of Camden Exchange (the Price's building) conceal the podium really well for a building with *466* parking spaces
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Charlotte was denser in 1970 than in 2022
1970 pop density: 3,237.29/sqmi
2022 pop density: 2,877.31/sqmi
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Planning dept wants to alter UDO to allow (dense) housing in commercial zones and to limit drive-throughs in center place types 👀
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Every time a road is resurfaced in Charlotte a two-way cycle/multi-use path should be added on one side. If the road’s ROW is wider than 60 ft, one should be put on both sides. Take away car lanes if there’s not enough space
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A 337-unit apartment building with 535 parking spaces was approved today at Tryon/27th. This amount of new parking simply must not be tolerated in a city with net-zero ambitions
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@nigelm91
@slutoIogy
@HUNTYCHAN
She almost died at his hands and you’re asking for respect for a serial abuser? Wtf
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@karl_anon1
@lostchimp69420
82.8% of '21 AfD voters were born before 1987 (84.8% in the east). Not sure how you could even be so wrong about such a thing.
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The UDO should extend fourplexes to all Neighborhood 1 zones. Only because I would love to see these be built again all over the city
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The city of Charlotte should publish its own official “Charlotte fourplex” plan and expedite permitting for them on all lots that meet siting reqs. Doesn’t seem like it would be that hard.
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Charlotte's 2016 Transportation Action Plan (TAP) uses the intersection of South/Woodlawn as an ideal design
"Designed for all travel modes" What a complete joke
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At non-anglo European costs, this fully tunneled, fully automated, 54km light metro network would likely cost ~$6-10 billion. And at US costs? ~$30-40 billion.
sigh
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Shout out to
@CharlotteDOT
for using tactile paving so visually-impaired pedestrians can safely cross the Highway Of Death, you guys do amazing work :)
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Updated long-term fantasy map
Green - S-train
...S1 - Kings Mountain-Salisbury (20' takt)
...S2 - Rock Hill-Mooresville (40'/20')
...S3 - Rock Hill-Stanfield (60')
...S4 - Wingate-Lincolnton (20')
Blue - LRT station quantity/spacing adjustments (6')
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There are essentially two Charlottes: Inner (within Charlotte Route 4) and outer (outside of Route 4). Let's look at growth patterns in each of these
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The Park Rd ramp at Fairview takes up over 2 acres.
@CharlotteDOT
should remove the ramp and sell the land
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Cooper is one of the only prominent moderate/mainstream Democrats that I genuinely like
The GOP legislature is planning to choke the life out of public education, and you need to know what’s happening. Watch Gov. Cooper's special address on public education.
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I wasn't previously aware of this...
A 250-key hotel, 700-bed student housing project and additional market-rate or extended-stay housing are planned next to University City Blvd station
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Building footprint map of (part of) First Ward. Other than the park, the entire area is devoted to car storage and movement
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this view is example
#9384938483392
of what could be a marvelous thing if it wasn’t ruined by the insatiable demands of the private automobile
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This site is walkable to 100k+ jobs, so naturally they're building 2000 parking spaces 😣
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The gold line overlaid on Amsterdam. The line isn't actually that short, Charlotte is just stretched too thin
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Rode the Gold Line yesterday. Sure would be nice if it had an avg speed above 6 mph
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"Cuba soars to near top of COVID vaccination charts on decades-old bet"
In the past week, Cuba (pop. 11.3m) had 1 covid death. Its vaccination rate is approaching 91%, the third highest in the world.
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People also need to realize that being critical of US military intervention is not synonymous w supporting Assad/Putin.
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A year ago this was a golf course 🎉 soon it will be >1k homes (many of them affordable) and a large park :)
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Years and years of fiddling around for the “perfect plan” and we get parking lots and townhomes. Bleak.
The site plan for Eastland:
Tepper’s portion is now listed as “future development”
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@cowboy41319
@BenjaminPDixon
it means they endorse militarized apartheid, so more or less yeah
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Amtrak gets way too much credit. It is really a horrible service and people should stop pretending that it's good.
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Light rail in Charlotte (and in many US cities) is just a poorly-executed attempt at merging a Straßenbahn, U-Bahn, + S-Bahn into one mode. And then wondering why it doesn't stick.
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The last early-era streetcar in Charlotte ran in 1938, this ceremony commemorated the event. It would be almost another 80 years until streetcar service would resume
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Central Ave needs a road diet, Uptown needs a lot more pedestrian space
Areas with the most pedestrian injuries in Charlotte. (Made using NCDOT data for car crashes involving pedestrians where an ambulance was called.)
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Charlotte Country Club's new assessed value is down $3,227,700. Meanwhile property in adjacent neighborhoods all went up *very* significantly.
The assessed value of the country club is only $15.5m, a criminally ridiculous amount. I'm pretty sure land adjacent to Plaza-Midwood goes for more than $60k/acre :/
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I'm almost certain that Charlotte has fewer people near (within 5 km) downtown than any other city of its size on earth. We could use some density
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Every bus stop should have a shelter, a bench, bike parking, posted schedules and live departure boards. Every single one.
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There is a very easy solution to this that requires nothing but political will
Expect delays on the CityLYNX Gold Line due to heavy traffic on Trade St.
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I propose you make the bus come more than every 30 minutes
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Pop. change in the southeast, '20-'21.
This is very concerning from a land use perspective. Nashville, Bham, Atlanta, Memphis are all shrinking. Other cities (Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, etc) are barely growing. Nearly all exurbs have exceptional growth... bad, bad, bad
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Charlotte's ring roads overlaid on Paris will never cease to amaze me
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Abundantly comical that Charlotte could readily find whatever transit plan it pleases without state approval if it were willing to raise property taxes and city leaders just act like that isn’t an option
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I’m waiting 26 min for a train with about 100 other people rn 🙃 That number will surely be several hundred by the time the train comes. Do better
@CATSRideTransit
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I'm under the impression that there's a lot of talk in Charlotte as to how to pay for the silver line, but not as much about why it costs $8 billion and how to make that figure lower.
The cost is truly absurd when considering the scale of infrastructure and service
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The climate deniers at NCDOT are expanding I-85 in Gaston County to eight lanes for $635m(!)
Even the consultants at
@wsp
know that a new regional rail line between Gastonia and Uptown (along existing tracks) could be built for less...
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When considering his opposition to allowing denser housing, remember that Tariq Bokhari's (single-family) home is worth $1.25m!
#cltcc
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Grading permits were filed today for two residential high-rises
Design Center II (left)
- 336 units
- 495 parking spaces
- 13.2k sf retail
Metropolitan (right)
- 283 units
- 490 parking spaces
- 4.1k sf retail
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A senior vice president at Wells Fargo with a multi-million dollar SouthPark mansion just tipped $2 on a $97
@SunflourBaking
order and I really want to dox him. Lol
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You could build this rail network and it still wouldn't be nearly as long as the silver line... building suburban transit infrastructure is one expensive hobby.
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Every additional pedestrian or cyclist death in our city makes me so much more angry at CDOT and NCDOT. It’s almost insulting to witness these people talk about vision zero anymore
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Went to south end for the first time in months this morning, and wow this is way worse than I thought it would be (and i thought it would be terrible!)
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Remember when we closed off a block of Tryon to cars for months on end and everything was fine? Then it was just taken away?
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Still think this is the optimal ultimate plan for Charlotte fixed-route-wise
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Net housing units added in central Charlotte from 2010 to 2020. Each dot represents two units, empty block groups represent no or negative growth.
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On the left is a six-block area from a 1987 urban design plan for First Ward and on the right is 2022.
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my family is from SF+LA, then priced out to inland CA (like so many), then priced out of state (like so many more) to NC. still can't afford to move back
this jackass moved to SF from michigan, yet still dares to espouse such an openly exclusionary position. sad
Genuinely amazes how Yimbys, who only started to want to live here a few years ago, think all of San Francisco should have prepared over six decades and several recessions for their grand arrival.
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It's concerning that a certain Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commissioner who happens to be vice-chair of the zoning committee frequently engages with transphobic content on this site.
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“Upgraded” bus stops in the US’ 16th largest city (this week) vs. standard bus stops in a small German town on the suburban fringe of a rather small city (1mo ago)
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If building residential without parking can be done in Optimist Park and Seversville, it should be mandatory in Uptown and South End. Not sure why this is controversial
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*ofc credit to clearskyimages/.com for these images*
03/2012 ➝ 03/2023
I'm still inclined to believe this is (much) more a result of TOD zoning than any inherent worth of proximity to light rail
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