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Policy @streetsforall . Bassist @leggyband . cargo bike mom. LA via Cincinnati. more buses 🚌 more trains 🚆 more bikes 🚲 more homes 🏙️ Who Dey 🐯
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@dollarbillbluez
Yeah I was not prepared for having my friend hook up with the goth punk girl who embalmed my aunt. Pretty sure that’s a uniquely post-2010ish experience.
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Here’s the guy from the Glendale council meeting who bragged about threatening cyclists with his car. “I will cut you off…and I’m not afraid to say it in front of a police officer…my time is more important to me than you riding your bike.”
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Subsequently, during council deliberation at this same meeting, Councilmember Gharpetian said, "I don't believe that people feel unsafe riding a bike in Glendale."
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@deannagmcdonald
Julia Louis-Dreyfus endorsed Bass this morning, too! Maybe the best one yet
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It has taken the City of Los Angeles almost 1/2 a year (so far) to build this one single block of one protected bike lane.
When we align on all levels of government, we can get big things done together.
Proud to stand with Vice President
@KamalaHarris
today to announce that we have DELIVERED for the people of Los Angeles.
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@john_vignocchi
@RobD2020
@maxdubler
This residential street in one of the oldest neighborhoods in LA is 50 feet wide not because the people of the 1890s foresaw and planned for SUVs, but because there used to be a train running down the middle. Many such cases.
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The Coastal Commission is trying to deny a transit project by using the same Coastal Act rule that allowed them to approve 100+ new oil wells in Long Beach in 2018. 1/
15 years ago when I lived in Monterey, I helped organize public support for bringing passenger rail back using the county-owned Monterey Branch Line. That plan evolved into the MST SURF! busway - which
@TheCACoast
recommends rejecting. Madness. 1/
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I think if you were intentionally trying to get arrested for reckless driving there are large parts of this country where you simply couldn’t do it
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@jgoose514
@Super70sSports
Of course cops hate automatic traffic enforcement. It makes you obsolete.
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@lodgepolepines
@nikicaga
I worked at Hollister in 2009 and there were so many applicants for manager positions that they started requiring a bachelors degree. To manage a Hollister.
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@brookebikesmke
My cousin in Vegas told me that they haven’t used their backyard pool all summer because it’s been too hot to go outside. Too hot to do the one activity that brings relief from the heat. No thank you!
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@chemdawgrei
This was her vehicle. I blame the
@NHTSAgov
for not regulating front-end blindspots so that a mom can't accidentally kill her own child.
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A developer wants to replace a surface parking lot with 850 units in downtown Glendale, but our Design Review Board has repeatedly sent the architects back to the drawing board due to such "issues" as these:
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If you want to build new housing in Glendale, you have to pay $10,000 to have a group of un-elected busybodies tell you that your building "appears too tall." And the worst part? You have to take them seriously.
You can pay for as many "nexus studies" as you like, there is absolutely no relationship between these development fees and the service/infrastructure needs of new residents. It's a cash grab that worsens the housing crisis, plain and simple.
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This reminds of when I moved into a punk house that miraculously had a dishwasher but I was told not to use it, for environmental reasons. They used it as storage.
Washing clothes by hand is a chore, oftentimes a lonely one. But it needn’t be. We could have communal washing facilities in each neighborhood where people can plan to come in groups to do their laundry together...
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@samswey
Most of DC's "High Injury Network" is in black neighborhoods, for reasons directly related to structural racism. The cameras are intended to try to reduce the disproportionate rate of traffic deaths in these neighborhoods.
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@ClothierHlywd
Yeah no, let’s not do this. There are plenty of Armenian residents who do not share this guy’s sentiments and support the bike plan, including our mayor.
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When transit people say, “Don’t waste time and money on light rail, just do BRT” I think about this BRT project that will cost $500 million and have taken 10 years by the time it’s completed. And it doesn’t even have a dedicated lane for the entire route.
Heard back from Metro, Pasadena to Burbank BRT won’t be operational until 2028 🥲 which is IF everything goes to plan.
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LA Metro is planning to build 2,800 parking spaces for a light rail line that it projects will get 30k daily riders and reduce regional VMT by just 0.02% at a cost of $7+ billion. So how did we get here? A 🧵
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Watching my hometown do Prop 13 in the year 2024.
Cincinnati's Property Tax Working Group is requesting the Ohio General Assembly and Gov. Mike DeWine temporarily freeze property tax increases at 2022 levels
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@samswey
You are making the assumption that the people driving recklessly through these neighborhoods all also live in the neighborhood. That's on you.
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Victorville now has more people than Pasadena. What an extreme policy failure.
2023 Census estimates just released.
Top 11 fastest growing CA cities from 2019 vs. 2023.
Bakersfield +29217
Irvine +27,228
Menifee +18,687
Roseville +17,634
Victorville +16,472
Fresno +14,136
Sacramento +12,763
Clovis +11,251
Santa Clarita +11,064
Visalia +10,397
Merced +10,019
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@cheer_wine
It's amazing how Puritanism still has Americans in a chokehold well into the 21st century
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@maxdubler
It's not even just that his proposal is absurd, it's that he's not even correct about this proposal being less resource intensive! Washing machines, especially modern ones, are much more efficient than hand washing.
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Any LA planner who was involved in burying this study so that they can justifying their push to preserve single-family zoning should have their AICP certification revoked immediately. Shameful, unethical behavior.
@APA_Planning
A key vote today in Los Angeles on whether to allow affordable housing in areas zoned for single-family homes. City officials had tried to bury a publicly funded study that called such zoning a major factor in maintaining racial and economic disparities
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ODOT wants to build a highway wider than LA's 405 for a metro area with 1/6 of the population.
Current plans for the Brent Spence Bridge Companion project call for 20 lanes of traffic through Covington.
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This is a school zone sidewalk in the City of Los Angeles.
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@dollarbillbluez
Or the fact that she came up to me at a dive bar and said, “Hey, I recognize you from your band. I embalmed your aunt.” Those two sentences did not used to go together.
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Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian, who said that he doesn’t believe cyclists feel unsafe in Glendale, apparently spends his free time filming himself speeding on Glendale residential streets. With phone in hand!!
In the midst of
@MyGlendale
delays/theatrics on a sensible safe streets plan, we’ve uncovered footage of councilmember Vartan Gharpetian recording himself speeding in residential areas, posted to his personal YouTube- he must recuse himself from tomorrow’s vote (+slow down!)
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This one was inspired by all of the urban planning jobs in LA County that require a driver's license
BIG NEWS!!!
SB 1100 our sponsored bill by Senator
@Portantino
that ends driver's license requirements for jobs that don't involve driving just passed the Senate and is on the way to
@GavinNewsom
's desk!
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In its staff report for the new Bike Plan, the City of Glendale is trying to claim that it costs $2-9 million per mile to build a Class IV bike lane and...almost $500k per mile for sharrows???
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@mlanzalott1
My grandpa was a lobbyist for the car dealership industry. I don't think his job was honest nor honorable. He, on behalf of the car dealers, fought for many of the laws that have wrecked our environment and cities.
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Glendale NIMBYs are trying to designate Verdugo Woodlands as a historic district and their website explicitly states that they are doing so in order to be exempt from SB 9.
Are there any examples of a historic district designation attempt that was successfully blocked in Los Angeles County?
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@shehjarr_
Definitely true, but a lot of low-income families have one parent who stays home because they can't afford childcare.
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Imagine if all of DTLA was as shaded as this block of 8th St 🥲
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@dionysus8
Congratulations! You hold the same views as a boomer raised on Malthusian environmentalism, but without the excuse of having lived in the 1970’s. Grass good, city bad.
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@SecondHandVegan
@AsadFromNYC
That’s your defense of a picture of a single block with no less than 10 corporate chain store signs on it?
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There's nothing surprising about the low ridership A Line stations, given that this is the typical land use. A park-n-ride surface lot for a station just 3 stops from downtown/Union Station...
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@samswey
I think this is fundamentally different than increased police enforcement, if that's what you mean. Traffic cameras reduce the need for cops, which is why cops routinely and vehemently oppose camera enforcement all across the U.S.
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Opposing buses due to loss of "public view value" is a new low for the Coastal Commission, who love to proclaim that their raison d'être is maintaining coastal access for low-income Californians.
Staff report quote: "The proposed bus road would change important public recreational facilities for the worse, w/ buses driving by for up to 16 hours of the day significantly reducing public access & public view value..." essentially, views > equitable access to the coast
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@maxdubler
This is making me nostalgic for the Sausage-Ice Cream-Espresso-Laundromat that I lived above in SF
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This map of the Northeast LA region shows census blocks where residents drive significantly less than the county average. Glendale has by far the most blocks despite a stereotype of being the most car-centric.
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@clhubes
I am reminded of how Finnish inter-city trains have a “playground car,” and how Stockholm, a city just 73 square miles, has 450 playgrounds (by comparison, Chicago has 500 playgrounds in 230 square miles).
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Yet when it comes to the Surf! BRT project, the CC staff report says, “In most cases, denial of a proposal will not lead to any coastal resource effects at all because it will simply maintain the status quo.” Just a stunning admission of their status quo bias. 3/
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@vanillaopinions
This failed Cincinnati transit system ballot measure from 2002 that had an estimated completion date of 2024 😪
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@TheCoachMak
@SwannMarcus89
Every other Western country has iphones, and yet only the U.S. has rising pedestrian deaths.
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Cincinnati is the only municipality in America that owns an interstate railway and they're about to sell it to Norfolk Southern to use the funds for road maintenance. Ludicrously huge L for my hometown.
i would support the sale iff we used the $1.6B on big transit improvements.
such a pathetic lack of vision to sell a unique, incredibly valuable asset just to maintain our current car-dependent infrastructure
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In case you thought, "Well that station opened 20 years ago, Metro knows better now," I've got bad news! Metro is going to put park & ride lots next to *half* of the stations for the Southeast Gateway Line, opening in 2035. $7 billion to connect parking lots.
There's nothing surprising about the low ridership A Line stations, given that this is the typical land use. A park-n-ride surface lot for a station just 3 stops from downtown/Union Station...
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@LauraJedeed
@QueenMab87
The very article you posted explains that the housing crisis is due to a lack of supply. It’s literally the first sentence.
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@STRONG_PlSS
I think food service workers should be paid a livable wage. That’s not going to happen with $4 meals.
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Today, the California legislature decided that we should remain the only state in the west to permit 25MPH in school zones.
Sad to say that our bill AB 2583 by
@AsmMarcBerman
which would have lowered school zone speed limits to 20mph and allowed better standards than "when children are present" is officially dead in Senate Appropriations committee.
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@dismayedartist
@mattryanharris
Keep these comments coming, please! The more MAGA weirdos support him, the more normal people sympathize with the bike advocates.
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The EIR makes a baseless claim that reducing parking would increase emissions due to people circling around in search of parking. Interestingly, the EIR has no such concern for emissions when it comes to proposed road widenings just a few pages later.
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CC staff then says that, “The benefits of a project must be inherent in [it’s] essential nature” bc otherwise someone could simply “offer carrots” to balance the harms. Again, this same agency approved a massive oil drilling expansion in exchange for some wetland restoration. 4
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@FullLaneFemme
Right. When he said, "I'm not afraid to say this in front of a police officer," I was like...well yeah, of course not. Why would you be?
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@YIMBYLAND
Santa Fe is the only American city I can recall that has numerous arcades like that
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All of my punk house roommates were lovely people but they were wrong about the dishwasher.
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@nikicaga
I like the fact that he doubled down on his support for the trans community after Republicans tried to destroy him for this picture, and still maintains 60% approval in Kentucky. Red state Dems are the party's strongest soldiers.
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@Xx_Boone_xX
Yeah, a grass monoculture that replaced wildlife habitat. Just because something is green does not mean it is environmentally friendly. Single family homes require more energy and more land (aka habitat) than dense multi family housing. Plus the obvious driving factor.
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Hey
@LADWP
if you can’t park in the bike lane without ripping up a bollard then that’s a pretty good indication that you’re not supposed to park there (plus, y’know, the fact that it’s a bike lane)
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Instead of analyzing ways to maximize the projected ridership or further decrease VMT, the bulk of the EIR focuses on ways to mitigate the impact to parking and car travel times. As a result, we are spending $7 billion to connect parking lots to each other.
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@LauraJedeed
@okbuddyre
@QueenMab87
Read the article *you* posted. It explains multiple times that the real issue is a lack of supply of homes. Notice how it doesn’t actually say how many homes are being bought by hedge funds (because the actually number is currently <1%).
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@oHIoBrent
@GoodPoliticGuy
Seriously. Springfield is best known for a college that now has rapidly declining enrollment and like all of southwest Ohio, it has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. A sudden influx of immigrants eager to work is the best thing that could have happened to Springield. A godsend.
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I would love to go to Atwater Village more often, but this is the bike lane to get there. Six wide car lanes through a small business district and
@LADOT
wouldn't spare even a foot to get the bike lane out of the gutter.
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@MorganFailchild
I made $8.65/hr at Starbucks in 2016, no more than 20 hrs/wk, and can confirm that they strongly discouraged having a 2nd job so that you could maintain open availability. If you did get a 2nd job, they would cut your hours significantly.
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By proposing off-street parking at half of the stations, Metro is essentially guaranteeing that those stations will not have transit-oriented development. What’s the VMT impact of providing 2,800 parking spaces instead of housing? The effect on ridership?
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@LauraJedeed
@QueenMab87
Institutional investors represent between 0.4-2.5% of home purchases in recent years.
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@RetailRants22
Every intersection is legally a crosswalk whether it is marked or not. That’s not jaywalking. You do not deserve the privilege of driving if you don’t know that basic road law.
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@skip_sf
Here’s Flower in its current state, less than 3 blocks from a brand new Metro station and one block from the busiest station in the Metro system. 5 fucking car lanes.
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The Coastal Act allows the CC to approve a project that conflicts with its policies IF denial would cause more harm than approval. The CC said that denying the oil fields would cause more harm than approval because the developer offered to restore some wetlands. 2/
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@MaryAnnKaufman
Please elaborate on how mandatory helmet rules would prevent a semi truck from killing a toddler who was wearing a helmet
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The EIR for the project reveals the extent to which transit projects are hindered for the sake of avoiding any slight inconvenience to motorists, as well as the extent to which CEQA paradoxically treats a threat to car dependency as a threat to the environment.
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In reviewing public comments for this transit project, I found that the LA County CEO's office actually thought that this was *not enough* parking and requested that Metro add a parking lot to the Gardendale Station, as well. And to find the funding to do so!
LA Metro is planning to build 2,800 parking spaces for a light rail line that it projects will get 30k daily riders and reduce regional VMT by just 0.02% at a cost of $7+ billion. So how did we get here? A 🧵
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There are much more legitimate reasons to not spend $2 billion on the People Mover. Like the fact that this is the adjacent land use.
The Inglewood People Mover is a boondoggle, but suggesting that it will lead to raised rents is ridiculous
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Glendale's anti-trans extremists lost their battle to overtake the school board, so now they've pivoted their efforts to opposing the bike plan. They are doxxing local bike advocates to their 20k ig followers and even insinuating that some of them are child predators.
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The problem with telling cyclists to just take back streets is that CA cities have unanimously decided that new housing can only be built on major arterials. Those are not compatible policies.
@kamoshika17
@ChrisByBike
Nice Twitter take.
If you want to go somewhere I'm Glendale, it's probably possible to get there, safely, taking backstreets.
One form of car brain is thinking you can only ride on streets you are used to driving on.
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@nextdoorsv
@raagagrawal
A lot of E Line and A Line stations do not have a fare gate. You can just walk on the train.
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@kyclasswarrior
LA removed the red tape to build affordable housing and now private developers have applied to build over 20k affordable units in just 2 years. And by affordable, I mean the rent levels are set by HUD for people making less than the median income.
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@maxdubler
Notably, Measure ULA does not exempt even 100% Affordable housing developments if built by a private developer, but it does exempt *any* project or property owned by a non-profit developer.
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Cincinnati people!!!!---please don't let the city get away with approving the replacement of a downtown bus terminal with a surface parking lot in the year 2023 JFC
A very interesting item was byleaved onto tomorrow's Planning Commission agenda and sent at 4 p.m. today, 17 hours before the meeting begins. Doesn't list the applicant on the cover sheet (!). It's for a surface parking lot at the former Greyhound bus terminal.
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@travis_robert
See also: people upset about buses in national parks that they drove to in an SUV
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Glendale, CA — where the roads are wider than the freeway!
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The EIR claims that any potential reduction of private parking to below local code requirements is also an “adverse impact” that must be mitigated and again the EIR claims reduced parking will increase emissions. For context, this is what the parking situation is like currently.
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@WarrenJWells
The fact that many of them do not have a curb cut at the entrance tells me that they are not bike infrastructure. Here's a couple near me, for example.
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@JerppaM
I thought this was Cincinnati at first because they have a similar situation going on
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@mnolangray
LA's parking is actually based on "habitable rooms," which the city interprets to include living rooms and kitchens!
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@jaredwa
@jdavey_2
@TashPoetry
@gingereejit
Is that why pedestrian deaths have increased 40% since 2010? And is that why pickup trucks are 80% more likely to hit a pedestrian than a standard car?
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These are some of the impacts of the oil well project noted by CC staff. Can someone tell me if this is better or worse than a single bus road on existing ROW?
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