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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 43m

Time to move👏the👏curb👏 and make it permanent and beautiful

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 57m

Feds using tear gas on the streets of Chicago, again

The Sidewalk School @thesidewalkschool.bsky.social · 2h

Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 52m

I meant this left photo (pic 1 here) is the woonerf.

Meanwhile, in America towns of 3,000 look like pic 2, which while it has a sidewalk, I don't really consider walkable, as the sidewalk just ends as soon as you get to the main road (pic 3)

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 55m

Yeah that's usually the problem, after 3 weeks they clear your six pallets of now completely useless cooked wine.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 58m

I thought yours would be like "mega project fully funded"

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 59m

Also it's a bit long for a car coat...the whole point of a "car coat" is it's not long enough to get tangled etc when getting into and out of a car.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

Wine held in customs.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15h

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yeah I forgot to call this out:

Google maps time estimate showing 35 min by car and 34 min by bus.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, I imagine most people here drive to a big suburban supermarket. (There isn't one in town.)

Some might bike or bus if they are a 1-car household and other partner drives to work.

For shopping trips into Utrecht city center (clothes, etc.) it's probably a mix of bus and car bcs parking.

Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

I mean in the left photo it's basically a woonerf, I assume most people would walk in the "street" rather than on the little side path.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

If we're going to have any small towns at all I don't see why they shouldn't be pleasant to walk around and reachable by bus.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

I agree with you that Utrecht and inner suburbs should be un-NIMBYed but I don't think that means we must eliminate villages.

My experience with riding suburban buses in the NL is there are tons of normal middle class people on them, not just poor people. (Lots of people drive too obviously.)

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, this is a 12th Century village.

If people want to live there and commute in 30 minutes to Utrecht I don't see why we should relocate them!

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

There isn't even a North American sign that means yield to oncoming traffic.

Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

Sleepy village life. Small brick roads. High car ownership, but everywhere is safe and pleasant to bike or walk.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

The road into town:

- Bike paths on both sides!
- Speed table!
- 30km/h (18mph) speed limit!

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

On the main road: bus service to Utrecht every 15 minutes (30 minutes late night until 1am).

Covered bus stops with electronic next bus displays.

To get to the bus stop: a two-way bicycle path with an underpass under the main road, and covered bike parking!

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

Welcome to Cothen, population 3,000, a far-flung village outside of Utrecht. 🧵

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

This street was converted from one-way to two-way even though it's very narrow.

You can go either way, but in this direction you must yield to oncoming traffic by pulling over.

(The black and red arrows in the red circle indicate this.)

I feel this is rare in North America.

2019 / 2020

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

I'm struggling to see the court-mandated unique alphanumeric identifiers on these guys...

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

The adjacent block is already on communal underground bins, though.

Starting with recycling but now expanded to trash.

2014 (left) is recycling only, by 2016 (right) there are containers for trash too.

These large underground bins are easily & quickly emptied by a truck.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 3h

It's interesting they put the trash collection on the no-parking and no-sidewalk side, for easier automated collection and no blocking of the sidewalk.

There are even little paved squares for the trash cans to sit on.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 4h

I like how the same type of people who spent all of the 1990s shouting "piracy isn't theft!" are now suddenly very much equating piracy with theft.