Sounds like this happened on the Claremont Connector. Just because we call the neaeby pedestrian passage to FFX "the gates of Mordor" doesn't mean you need to act like an orc.

Costumes for Smarter Growth

Now do Virginia.

out impacts, at the policy level. The market will figure it out. And things that get us closer to that are good (i also think the biden methane charge helps with the methane leak issue, but freely admit I don't know the details)

Matts point, iiuc, is that in the current policy environment the ghg impact of any particular piece of infrastructure is very difficult to estimate. Afaict thats largely true, even if he misses some details. My point is that if we properly price ghgs, we dont need to do all the modeling to figure

I also cant say how much if at all the methane tax precedent actually increases the odds of a broader GHG tax. But if it does, that's a potentially huge upside.

I dont know what will be involved in rebuilding EPA, nor do I know if opposing all new fossil fuel pipelines actually impacts Dem electoral chances. All im saying is that there are ways to address methane leakage that MIGHT be politically wiser than banning new NG pipelines.

Establishing the precedent of a pigouvian tax on at least one green house gas was good, i think. Could have been modified in a Harris administration.

Didnt the Biden climate bill include a tax on methane emissions as an incentive ?

Someone on Facebook, in response to the possibility that Falls Church will ban gas powered leaf blowers, said what about noxious autos? What do think the odds are that they actually support measures to encourage less driving?

East of Commonwealth the only restriction is the 3 hour max during the day on weekdays to deter metro station Parkers. No meters, no weekend restrictions. One issue is that when parking spaces are empty, they dont serve to calm traffic.

Plus this proposal won't make it difficult to drive. The space for bike lanes will come from parking. There will still be plenty of on street parking spaces in the area. Parking is abundant enough that theres no resident parking district west of Commonwealth afaict

Id add that A. Its generally not safe or comfortable to ride sidewalks because the surfaces aren't suitable and there are driveways crossing where drivers dont expect someone coming at bike speeds B. Its illegal to ride a dockless rental bike or scooter on the sidewalk in Alexandria

Possibly California is different than the rest of the US? You seem to be making the same mistake many Mamdani enthusiasts make - ignoring regional differences. Spanberger, bless her, seems to realize she's running in Virginia- not NYC, not West Virginia.

now, and I don't care to debate the causality. If the streetcar craze went too far, I think some of the reaction against it went too far.

Not quite fair. It was intended to have separate right of way on K Street downtown, which have given it some real value. When that was killed making it all mixed traffic, it lost its transit value. It may have accelerated the redevelopment of H Street, but that redevelopment is taken for granted

Yeah

Not really. A. Ideological position is dramatically different in the rest of the country. B. Cuomo is a particularly bad candidate

Here in Virginia, Spanberger is running ahead of both her more "progressive" running mates.

Wow.

Its all a half mile to a metro/VRE/Amtrak station, etc, so
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What if someone wanting a new curb cut had to pay for the value of the on street parking spots to be removed? Isn't that the Shoupian solution?

"I need a parking space in front of my house, even though it means the bus stop isn't accessible, because cars make it too dangerous to walk from another spot" The paradoxes of autocentrism.

Minneapolis built more housing than any other major Midwest city & it’s not a mystery why.

They allowed modest density housing types city-wide, cut regressive parking mandates, and made it easier to build apartments near transit.

The results: more homes + slowed rent growth.

Wait, is this about David Ricardo, 19th c economist ?

Difficult to answer when there are so many items I wont eat for cultural-religious reasons. Other than those, a 3. I was way more picky as a kid.

Yup, seems that way

Im glad that he's following in the footsteps of Mayor Bloomberg on advancing transportation alternatives.

And ISTR people saying Mills was Schumer's candidate. I think this attempt to find "teams" within the Dem party is quite overdone.

We said it in Brooklyn, occasionally, and it was a walkable nabe. The el stop had signs "to city" and "from city" Of course Brooklyn had historically had a separate identity, and this was only 70 or so years after annexation.