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Oh, surely it can't be THAT bad -- OH GOD

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Bass is in such a precarious enough position though that if she does it too much then she gets Lori Lightfooted out of the general. Ideally she should try to platform Huang to both shore up her center-right base and split the people to the left of her more equally.

Bass 25/Pratt 11/Raman 9/Huang 3/Miller 3/Other 9/Undecided 40

Cross tabs of candidate by age bracket and by race/ethnicity

New Luskin poll for LA mayoral election: Bass 25%, Pratt 11%, Raman 9%, undecided 40%. n=813, late March
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I very nearly retired early today.

23 traffic signals and was only stopped at three for 136" (86" of that from a state signal).

11.6% stopped at signals
4 3% stopped at City operated signals.

"Standard capacity"=volumes? Iirc the gondola tech has capacity in the low thousands of pax/h...

Spain?, curb running

Spain, curb running

Netherlands, curb running (but center running was more common overall in NL)

Netherlands, center running

supposedly haussmanian paris has curb running ovoid sewers but I couldn't find a good section of a whole street

Italy, curb running

Italy, curb running

NL, curb running

NL, center running

I looked for a bunch of examples and yeah it appears I generalized too much, from some sections I'd seen, on the relation between inlet strategy and sewer location. Both are pretty common. Screenshot dump...

Yeah. The type of catch basin inlet more common in LA is vertical, but even then you can get e.g. wide and deep local depressions in the gutter to improve capacity. And regardless once you have large, inflexible concrete structures, they're going to either constrain or make pricier future road work.

Also - looking at the inlets in your pics + streetview makes me think I generalized across the continent too much in this other curb-inspired thread! Is the way Victoria does it typical across Canada?

On parking yeah... the site linked in OP makes the point that curbs don't stop sidewalk mounting, and I get the bollardposting, but ehhhh that's one thing they do kind of do. Like sidewalk parking happens here in LA with 6" curbs, but short curbs do make it easier in e.g. NYC and Paris

The second one's very interesting, it varies quite a bit in that area. A lot of short vertical curbs I see here in the US (esp Bayrea) look like they're short just because of resurfacing without milling.

Lots of NA cities do differently, so not 100% generalizable. And a lot of the US has bigger design events than Europe. But the combination of center sewer (have to trench across the road) + big inlets + inability to build seems like it leads to additional, unnecessary annoyances when reconstructing.

Catch basin in Berkeley

Multiple curb inlets visible within 100m in Rotterdam

Plan view from an Italian presentation https://docs.dicatechpoliba.it/filemanager/438/012_fogna%20pluviale_acque%20di%20prima%20pioggia%20e%20caditoie.pdf

Longitudinal distance-flow graph from the same

Another vague international comparative sense I have for something vaguely relating to curbs is on drainage. Generally, the tendency seems to be that North America has fewer, higher-capacity inlets (catch basins) with center-running storm sewers, vs more closely-spaced inlets with curb-running sewer

That's true, I don't encounter rolled curbs too often myself and haven't given them their fair due, but they are very common

Aside 2: recently encountered a situation where reducing curb height to anything below 6" in order to meet drainage had been rejected by the client, instead opting to reconstruct however many blocks of ok sidewalk at a higher elevation

Flush, 6mm bullnose, 25mm 90deg, 50mm delineator

60mm 90deg, 60 mm splayed, 120mm standard, 200mm high

Dutch entry kerb (~60+mm), Bus stop (nb Kessel) kerb (~140mm), HGV protection kerb (300+ mm), stacked kerbs (bespoke heights)

Aside 1: look at the variety of curb types on display! In concreto-America, we have 1 section (vertical curb with integral gutter; sometimes there's variation esp. for bikeways), 1 height (6"), and 1 material (concrete) in 99% of situations

Look at this (120mm is shorter than the common "standard" in the US of 6"):
- the scare quotes!
- "It is difficult to create accessible dropped kerbs associated with 120mm kerbs as associated gradients will usually be too steep" (so in the US we contort ourself with ramp design-fu)
- bollards!

Online one sometimes sees Europeans, especially Britishers, note that actually, the standard curb (sorry, kerb) height is 15 cm or so. This is sort of true (but not really descriptively true).

Anyways, I stumbled on some curb height patriots from the UK affirmatively defending 60 cm curbs.

(sorry misread... but I'd guess yeah!)

The cobbles are mostly a Caltrans preference

Someone had said that they went back to manual formwork; is that not the case anymore?

From a vehicular cycling facebook group while searching for the history of an MUTCD clause: "segregationist farce-silities" (n.b. "crosswalk along a shared use path"). Impeccable Foresterist Standard English.

That’s definitely the concern I have with trying to replicate any of this in the US. You can’t really do Dutch materials without Dutch maintenance culture. Which in turn depends on different financing mechanisms (taxes rather than one-off impact fees, etc.)

Yes the painful sibling to "we can't pour concrete due to costs" is "we can't pour too much paint on or drill stuff to the pavement due to costs"

New developments in two stair corridor geometry

How immediate could a recall be anyways? Like 6-8 months from inauguration to replacement at the absolute most aggressive (~2mo signature gathering, 1mo signature verification, 2mo to election, 1mo post election)? Seems like we should be more worried about this

Isn't this already what Option 1 is though (reading the memo, I guess technically the base option is less restrictive but still it was already presented)? It is at the end of the day upzoning prompted by SB 79 as part of an alternative plan, so only really "half-exempting"

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How would that even work in terms of SB 79 compliance? (ie what labored interpretation of one of the alternative plan exceptions would even be possible here)

The compromise position on MAID...

One of my shameful aesthetic opinions is that the NIMBY wolf inside of me is anti-utility undergrounding because overhead wires are so pretty