@eseery.bsky.social
📍UT 💼MA. Here too lurk or repost: Govtech, urbanist, and anytime Beth Moore interacts with Matthew Pierce (are they here yet?).
Amazing!! I bike through here regularly and it's fairly scary. This will be great.
15.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
Massachusetts released its Unlocking Housing Production Commission report with a series of bold policy recommendations.
🚗 eliminate min parking reqs
🏡 duplexes on all lots, quadplexes if utilities
📐 min lot size reform
🏗️ single-stair reform
💰funding incentives
www.remainplaces.com/post/a-bold-...
"In most cities, ~ 80% of the crashes occur on 15-20% of roadways. We can make changes to that number. We don’t have to change 100% of our roadways, but we can be strategic & target these places and immediately see benefits in no longer killing our neighbours." -Kelcie Ralph
25.01.2025 15:00 — 👍 65 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 1Rep. Elison says there's been lots of bills, but nothing's really changed on a federal level. So he's proposing to deal with what he can control: Utah joins Hawaii and Arizona on standard time.
If the nation moves onto Daylight Saving Time? Utah would join. But that's on Congress, not Utah.
A new OECD report confirms that US road safety is an abject failure.
Americans are far more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich countries. US per capita crash death rates are at least 3x higher than Ireland, Norway, UK, Germany, or Japan.
www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-...
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
I find zero value in celebrity culture until we get to Keri Russell, who doesn't hop on a bike for the "look at me" photo shoot, but rather lives the bikes-for-transportation lifestyle in Brooklyn NY.
12.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 798 🔁 66 💬 44 📌 14
99% of all residential parcels in the City of Boston do not conform with modern zoning.
“Without case-by-case zoning relief, the current zoning code effectively declares that nothing should be built in Boston that looks like what is currently in Boston.”
Rep. Elison has filed a bill to ditch Daylight Saving Time: le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/... #utpol
10.01.2025 21:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0House Majority Whip Dailey-Provost has filed a bill on food carts and bicycles: le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/...
10.01.2025 21:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0In Swampscott the minimum lot sizes for single family ONLY zones (some 80% of residential land) are as follows:
A1: 30,000
A2: 20,000
A3/4: 10,000
We are 13 miles from downtown Boston.
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IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social
SUVs are too big. #CarBloat
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
