But what if it didn't go near you or where you wanted to be but was free? Eh? 🤨

Evidence from UK, NL, Paris, etc. is that local trips shift more to walking/cycling as they become both safer and relatively more convenient, and there's no real increase in traffic outside or on the edge of the filtered zones.

Letting side streets be used as extra capacity for trips through the neighbourhood doesn't really reduce traffic on the main road, thanks to the Jevons Paradox, and more people will make trips through as a result.

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This is likely going to lead to deaths and worsening health (including mental health) of disabled people, just like the UK has seen with PIP cuts and the DWP insisting people are fit to work despite their doctors providing clear evidence that they are not.

Heaven forbid people have somewhere to stop and sit while enjoying a stroll around their neighbourhood.

Isn't there something called something weasel-wordy like "secure by design" which councils have used to justify removing park benches and street furniture on the grounds that encouraging sitting encourages loitering which encourages crime?

We've gone from technology being about democratising the flow of information by allowing anyone to publish their life and viewpoint to an Internet and politics flooded with bullshit generated by robots trained on unreliable garbage and naked bigotry. The sooner AI companies go bankrupt the better.

It reads like a very early 2000s conservative criticism of post-modernism while engaging in the exact kind of behaviour it derides. I don't know why anyone thinks these companies have anything positive to contribute to the world.

Some will have moved to the Greens as a result of not liking Starmer's Labour Party and becoming fed up with the infighting in a party that doesn't even have a real name. Others will be holding their nose and realising maybe Starmer isn't as bad as they thought when looking at the alternatives.

A classic piece of Brisbane bike infrastructure, a dropped kerb from a shared path down to a bike lane that ends and is replaced with parked cars. This is Herston Road, just out the front of Herston busway station, where exiting busway users mix with cyclists and pedestrians travelling both ways.

There are so many models for community commerce and recreation. And if your argument is that shopping centres are often the best place for the young, elderly or disabled to meet, why does your city suck so bad that a badly lit, overstimulating temple to overconsumption is the gold standard?

Driving to a street market means you're giving over would-be market space to motor vehicles and the market feels less accessible. If you can walk up to a market and walk around you'll be a truly public event. Street markets near transit are even better!

You can have a street market in a mall, a public square, a park, a car park, and these feel far more vibrant than a shopping centre even when they're curated and all stalls have the exact same tent and table setup. But they only really work if the community can walk there.

Shopping streets are commerical spaces linked by a footpath with a road for traffic. They're vital to community high streets and are often their focal points. Shopping centres, on the other hand, are too same-y and any inclusion of nature feels artificial and contrived. They're un-places.

Malls as pedestrian spaces are also thoroughfares where you may stop for something like a takeaway coffee or to browse a music shop before getting your bus/train. The mix of users and built microenvironments, mixed with nature, makes them feel alive. And these aren't just shopping streets.

I've always known malls to be outdoor, public, pedestrianised spaces that are flanked by retail buildings. The Queen Street Mall, Brunswick Street and Chinatown Malls, Pitt St Mall. These are all places with diverse destinations with their own architecture and design.

Odd use of the word "sprawl" and "up to 5x" is laughable given their contrived example.

What is lot sprawl? More housing on an existing lot?

Free employee parking is a subsidy paid by the employer and not all employees drive. Allowing those who don't to cash out this subsidy instead and take it as earnings, per-km payment for non-car commuting, or even employer provided transit passes are winning strategies that incentivise staff.

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That's what, half a Photoshop?

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can) YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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They'll revel in the fact that he's mocking Muslims.

I think we'd do well with small scale plans like LTNs to try to prevent rat running in residential areas but we also need investment in our bike network which has a lot of gaps in it and is largely just painted lanes.

This, and I just watched a video about Groningen's traffic circulation plan. Brisbane doesn't have the leadership to reduce traffic in the city centre. TransApex project wasn't about reducing that, it was about providing bypasses for cross-city car trips. At least we have 50c public transport fares.

Adjusted for ~40 years of inflation, my parents bought the house I grew up in for $200,000. If you were a child care teacher and stay at home parent expecting a 3rd child nowadays you wouldn't afford a home. You'd struggle to even make rent on a place you could get to work and back on the same day.

Smiling to yourself is a self-loathing microaggression

It can fit exactly one Earth inside it!

a group of women are riding a roller coaster that says screamer on it ALT: a group of women are riding a roller coaster that says screamer on it

I suspect that it's because they can't conceive how big the Earth is and so they think of something much smaller spinning fast and conclude that it's ridiculous because they don't feel like they're on an amusement ride.