Tim Fliss
@tpflissThere is no backyard. Tweets represent my commute, not my employer. Mastodon: @[email protected]
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NEW: The draft One Seattle Plan growth strategy has been released. It would implement the state middle housing law in a modified form, reshape the city’s approach to growth, and provide room for an additional 100,000 homes over the next 20 years. Plan: seattle.gov/documents/Depa…
Streets are for everybody and in Milwaukee, we’re making them: 🚶🏾♀️Easier for pedestrians ✋🏼Calmer for autos 🚴🏼♂️Friendlier for bikers No matter how you get around the city, we won’t stop until it’s safer for everyone. @MilwaukeeDPW urbanmilwaukee.com/2024/02/09/dat…
"In Minneapolis," @JerusalemDemsas writes, "the green community has fractured as a wide array of self-described environmentalists find that they don’t agree on very much anymore." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Transit times are already challenging under normal circumstances, but the current state of our bus system is alarming, and it reinforces car dependency. 1h45min to go from Wallingford to Bellevue transit center… the driving time was 23 minutes!
If we build it (protected, connected & maintained bike infrastructure), the bikes will come. Even when it’s cold (this was at 24°F), even when it’s snowy & icy. On a 5 block walk along Bryant tonight I saw 7 people on bikes, 6 pedestrians and 4 cars (all w/ 1 passenger each).
France just keeps building more trams. This is Avignon, opened in 2019. Only 3 miles so far, but (from what I could find) 4,000 daily riders. Typically of French trams, fates are integrated with bus, and there’s a stop at the train station.
Disastrous US pedestrian safety trends are due in part to vehicle design. Massive vehicles with high front ends have vast blind spots. We have been here before. Long front ends have also limited drivers’ views. In 1941 automotive engineer Arthur Stevens proposed this redesign.
A new study from @IIHS_autosafety: "Vehicles with hoods more than 40 inches off the ground... were 44–45 percent more likely to cause pedestrian fatalities than those with... hood heights of 30 inches or less." SUVs & trucks are killing pedestrians. iihs.org/news/detail/ve…
All the supposedly unsolvable logistical problems that require our streets to be built for supersized vehicles have actually been solved in many other parts of the world. "But the [fire trucks / trash collection / deliveries]!" is just an excuse.
Some people think if you pedestrianize streets, emergency/sanitation vehicles won't be able to get in. Well, one of the men in this photo just pulled out and replaced the bollards to let this baby trash truck in! Catania, Sicily.
Thank you @CMAndrewJLewis Thomas St is the ONLY designated east-west walking and biking route in South Lake Union for people of all ages and abilities. It’s well past time we finished the upgrades
Some people think if you pedestrianize streets, emergency/sanitation vehicles won't be able to get in. Well, one of the men in this photo just pulled out and replaced the bollards to let this baby trash truck in! Catania, Sicily.
Today @WilliamJRipple et al released the 2023 report on the terrifying state of our #climate. It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet. Here is a thread of some key takeaways. 1/n
I'm watching the District 5 city council debate, featuring @CObeySumner and Cathy Moore! Will be tweeting the interesting stuff.
My kid learned how to bike a couple weeks ago and immediately asked if we could go downtown. We are so thankful for all the new separated bike lanes that make a ride downtown loads of fun and super easy for all ages!
Broadway north of Denny really needs a rethink — so much space is wasted on moving and storing cars in such a great neighborhood to walk, bike, and bus. We can’t wait for the streetcar extension.
When we launched @ooneepod in Hudson Square a month ago, naysayers said that cyclists didn’t need parking here. A month into operations, and *before* any outreach…this location is filling up on its own. There is just massive latent demand for 🔒🚲 parking in #bikenyc
Our latest #PageOne picks include fascinating prose you won’t want to miss, including I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home (@AAKnopf) by Lorrie Moore, As If She Had a Say (Curbstone Books) by Jennifer Fliss (@writesforlife), and more: at.pw.org/PageOne2023x4
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