Alessandro Rigolon

Declaring that Vision Zero is a goal is a bit like declaring a climate emergency. Many blue cities do both and don’t follow up with concrete action. Ironically, the interests of vocal drivers affect both

Anakin and Padme meme: Safety is our first priority Higher than LOS, right? ... Higher than LOS, right?

Me talking to the city engineer about the new Vision Zero plan.

The only true bipartisan issues in the U.S. are the love for cars and suburbanism

“I hate cities and I definitely never go there because they’re dangerous and woke, but don’t they dare build traffic calming so that I need to slow down in my large vroom vroom.”

“We have a climate emergency and I want the government to take urgent action. But I don’t want my city to convert space for cars into bike lanes, and God forbid my city lets developers build more housing near transit.”

“I want a small government that endlessly funds freeways so I can drive my car from my suburb to the city. And a small government that uses zoning to force my neighbors to build large homes on large lots.”

Ugh, that stinks

Unfortunately, state see cities (especially blue cities in red states) as dumping ground for all the bad stuff, including highways. Even small incremental progress such as the Reconnecting Communities program is now gone (or at least I can’t find recent updates)

Downtown highways are a quintessentially North American scar. Their negative economic impact is enormous, and the sooner we get rid of them, the better off we’ll be.

It’s crazy how many points these races give

Salt Lake foothills with single track trail and blue skies

Morning mountain bike ride

The fact that transit doesn’t work for everyone in every circumstance does not means we shouldn’t build homes near transit. It does work for many

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Here you go

He’s definitely not in top shape. If he were, he’d be solo by now.

While we’re all watching Omloop, Paul Seixas is riding away solo with 40+ km to go at the Faun-Ardèche Classic. Pogacar style, at age 19. More total domination. Let’s hope to see him race against Tadej soon.

Yeah MvdP about to drop everyone on the Berendries. Won’t wait until the Muur

I'm feeling quite confused at the moment

Ig post by heal Utah

“There might be times when the sound science is still wrong.” That sums up current Republicanism pretty well, especially the Utah GOP

U.S. Cities Building the Most New Housing [2025 Edition] Analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Zillow, researchers identified the U.S. metros and states that are building the most new homes.

Not really. The LA metro is around number 40 for new homes built per 1,000 existing units nationwide. It’s not a place that builds a lot of housing for its population

Respectfully, I don't need to explain to a random person on the internet without a real name what I do or don't do. Have a good day

Lots of people do. And the train stops are already there. There’s good demand for walkable and transit oriented communities

I teach and research urban planning I Utah. What financial interest would I have? It’s honestly ridiculous. And this is a CA state law so LA shouldn’t be special or different and follow state laws

This is not about the city building affordable housing directly. It's about zoning that can allow denser and more affordable housing

I didn't have MvDP FOMO-ing in my bingo card

State law puts more homes near train stops. If LA wants to delay that, it must pick areas to upzone L.A. leaders opposed SB 79. Now that it’s law, the city is scrambling to delay some of its provisions until 2030.

The elected officials in the City of Los Angeles never fail to disappoint. The lengths they'll go to stop denser and more affordable housing near transit is beyond me. If you build transit, you need to build dense housing around it.

Americans are experiencing some sort of collective hallucination wherein if you expand highways and introduce autonomous vehicles, traffic congestion will magically decrease. A dose of reality: congestion will only go down if we all drive less

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

State lawmakers, Ivory Homes target Summit County in bill encouraging urban development - Park Record State lawmakers and Ivory Homes are seemingly targeting Summit County in a new bill focused on urban growth and development.

After taking control of SLC’s streets, the Utah legislature seems to be forcing Summit County to let Ivory Homes build a luxury mountain community. Apparently, “local control” only applies to conservative suburbs, not to blue cities and counties

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