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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 7d

I’m not talking about 28mph e-bikes, but a path like the Schuylkill river trail or Burlington’s waterfront bike path, you probably average 8 mph on a bike avoiding pedestrians. Averaging even 15 with dedicated ROW would be huge benefit to cycling mode share

NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 7d

There are a whole bunch of overcrowded waterfront paths in cities that would massively benefit from separated bike and ped paths if they are going to be used as part of the transportation network for cyclists.

Even with pinch points, speed ups would be really significant.

Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 7d

This in no way absolves what happened here, but I will note that older trails like the Schuylkill River Trail have extremely narrow pinch points and widths that don't meet modern expectations of travel at variable speeds. Car ROWs get regularly widened but trails are ignored

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 17d

It’s just hard to wrap my head around how someone who holds these convictions so deeply, who’s personally traveled to melting ice sheets, can spend their time making it harder for other people to live in a less carbon intensive way, because they don’t want more neighbors.

NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 17d

Later in the show, there’s a lovely interview with Paul Bierman, who talks eloquently about how the US is responsible for cumulative emissions, that are putting the entire Greenland ice sheet at risk of collapse and how we need to take action, personally and in political action.

Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 19d

Betty Smith, Vermont Public’s founding mother, has been with the station since its very first day.

This year, she's celebrating her 50th anniversary in public radio.

Betty joined Vermont Edition to share stories from the early days of VPR and her thoughts on public media's future.

Vermont Public's Betty Smith celebrates 50 years in public radio

Plus, a new film about the melting ice of Greenland features a University of Vermont professor.

www.vermontpublic.org

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 19d

Curious if ramps at the end would be sufficient or if you’d want to add some at noble or spring garden as well. I guess you’re starting to increase costs at that point but you’re also making it more accessible.

NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 19d

Could see it having pretty substantial delivery bike usage as well, though not sure park advocates would be happy about that.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 19d

Do you think it would be valuable to have a bikeway on a portion of the viaduct? It’s ~70 ft wide most of the way, and could provide grade separated access to center city from a quickly growing neighborhood.

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 19d

It is fantastic that the Ben Franklin Parkway vision is still moving forward despite Mayoral change, but any time someone has to convince you that you won't feel the "irrelevant" cars anymore, it's a major red flag that road dieting hasn't gone far enough!

There’s one hostility that won’t be going anywhere: the road itself. Although McCoy believes a full pedestrianization of the Parkway could be possible, Carroll says such a move was never seriously considered. “There’s neighborhoods that depend on those roads,” he says. “It’s not ‘All Park, No Way.’ It’s ‘Less Way.’” But it does raise a fundamental question: How much of a park is possible with a giant road still running through it? Matt Rader, the CEO of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and past president of the Parkway Council, believes cars won’t feel as dominant as they do today. “You’re going to have a park at Eakins Oval, a park at Logan Square, and they’re going to be linked by two giant parks on both sides, and the cars in the middle are going to become almost irrelevant,” he says. “Whereas today it’s the opposite, because every space for people is just this little sliver of land between, like, two lanes of cars.” Anderson agrees. “Will it be bucolic, where you’re lost in nature? No. But can it be a vibrant urban park? That I think we can achieve.”

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · 22d

Preview of SEPTA's reimagining regional rail plans from a Transportation Research Board webinar today.

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American Public Transportation Association @apta-info.bsky.social · 23d

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Sep 9

My puke stains are probably still on the escalator of the xi’an metro escalator from a bout of food poisoning.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Having been to a bunch of cities in China, can assure you this isn’t true

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JRUrbaneNetwork @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social · Sep 8

SEPTA Sino-American Friendship Station (formerly Spring Garden Station) circa 2035. New underground high speed metro line platforms were constructed and served by 160kph metro trains reaching Glassboro, Grenloch, King of Prussia, West Chester and Wilmington in 30 mins, departing every 3 mins each.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s still wild to me that McDonald’s chicken is amazing everywhere outside the US because they don’t use white meat.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Aug 29

The feet are this amazing textural delicacy, and the white meat pretty much only fit for gym bros who care about getting 1000g of protein per day or whatever.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sweet, will be on the lookout!

NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Aug 25

Does the data include years of cars? Would be really interested to see a map of average and median year of production.

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book 1312 @book-1312.bsky.social · Aug 20

State capacity is when you can look at a super narrow (750mm) 1880' suburb-to-rural single track rail line with 50 yo cars and can decide
"we should upgrade it to 1m gauge, increase frequency, triple platform length *and make it driverless*.
But keep it single tracked"
Then do construction in 1 year

13km line from Liestal, BL, CH to Waldenburg. The lines leaves from a suburb of Basel, goes through some mean looking hills, ans ends in a tiny village pair of 3000 souls.

1980 rail car. It looks like a classic "boxy vintage LRT", except the rail gauge looks tiny.

Modern low floor city tram Stadler Tramlink except its running in the middle of fields. It looks quite long, about 80 meters.

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Jul 31

What would they actually need to run more expresses? Is this an arsenal interlocking thing?

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NotABot @vturbanist.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ridership on this would really suffer from competition with 476. Shame it didn’t happen in the 80s before the competition

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Uday Schultz @a320lga.bsky.social · Jul 27

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

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Blvd Subway @blvdsubway.bsky.social · Jul 14

The Transit Cost report on the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway is out!

ibx.transitcosts.com/rbs-post/

RBS Post