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jony neuemonic posted:"green space" is unironically awful and a sure sign your urban design is a disaster. this guy is cool and japanese zoning is cool
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this guy is cool and japanese zoning is cool agreed
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japanese zoning is really good. i'd love to see the concept over here, but the NIMBYs and municipal government busybodies would never stand for it.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this guy is cool and japanese zoning is cool i suspect his actual economics posts are crazy, but he knows a thing or two about cities.
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it figures that the same anti-greenbelt train spergs are also in to anime zoning 
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Sep 1, 2016 02:43
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who is actually pro-"green space" is it local property owners thinkin it'll raise property values nearby?
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"i want things to be pretty as i drive by them" accesible parkspace does have value tho, but 'green space' is code language for bigger street medians unsuitable to pretty much all uses other than looking good and being expensive
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Sep 1, 2016 03:26
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green space should be an easily accessible short train ride away from the city
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Sep 1, 2016 03:27
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or located in city parks
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Bloody posted:or located in city parks I live right next to an old quarry and landfill that was turned into a gorgeous 50-acre nature park with a big hill (a Thing in Chicago) and a fishing pound it was also designed to hold the water from a century-level flood so hopefully my house will stay dry I'm still only a ten minute walk from the L and it's a 4 mile bike ride to work
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minivanmegafun posted:I live right next to an old quarry and landfill that was turned into a gorgeous 50-acre nature park with a big hill (a Thing in Chicago) and a fishing pound seems like a good reason to promote greenways, parks, and bike trails rather then trains and buses but what do I know
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Shaggar posted:you people cant even get lights configured properly so i don't expect you to understand how to build anything else. please post an example of traffic lights in maine because i dont believe u
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this guy is cool and japanese zoning is cool mishaq posted:green space should be an easily accessible short train ride away from the city Bloody posted:or located in city parks these are all good and cool ideas, please get elected to city planning boards and decrease their retardation level if you're in europe enter the civil service because the amerifailure of civic planning has crossed the pond and we have silly garden """city""" quarters (pseudo suburbia) now
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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i live across the street from a national park
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blugu64 posted:seems like a good reason to promote greenways, parks, and bike trails rather then trains and buses but what do I know not much at all about why cities need transit more than roads apparently
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blugu64 posted:seems like a good reason to promote greenways, parks, and bike trails rather then trains and buses but what do I know if you tear down the freeways and install mass transit, you can have plenty of room for your parks hmm epic hmmery
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our third lrt project appears to have secured the local funding in order to apply for the big matching federal money. it's not a super good project. however this is america, so the quality of the project is irrelevant. my guess is that the main opposition (Republican speaker of the state House) is only opposing it because he has noticed that a certain segment of his supporters get really fired up when he talks against it
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Sep 1, 2016 22:40
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well we certainly can't have ~*those types*~ using the light rail to come into our neighborhoods and steal our televisions
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Some other factoids about it are pretty funny, too. The guy in question, Speaker of the Minnesota House Kurt Daudt, doesn't live near the proposed rail line. In fact he only barely, technically, and marginally lives in the Twin Cities metropolitan area; he lives in Isanti, a town that I don't think has any kind of public transportation services, public or private. He got into politics because he was unemployed and racking up credit card debt, i.e. he needed a job. And the job he had before being unemployed was, wait for it..... used car salesman 
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minnesota can pick some real winners doncha know
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quote:As Gov. Jesse Ventura prepares to leave office, he ends a term that saw one of the most dramatic four-year shifts in Minnesota's financial picture. Ventura inherited a $4 billion surplus, and leaves office with the state facing a $4.5 billion deficit. Will he be remembered as the man at the helm when the state's economy took a nosedive? Or as a competent CEO who left a lasting stamp on state government? i swear i am not making this up
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any updates on the monorail in Tennessee that was going to be built in the median of the interstate?
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Lutha Mahtin posted:our third lrt project appears to have secured the local funding in order to apply for the big matching federal money. it's not a super good project. however this is america, so the quality of the project is irrelevant. my guess is that the main opposition (Republican speaker of the state House) is only opposing it because he has noticed that a certain segment of his supporters get really fired up when he talks against it will this one also be at grade? will it at least have synchronized lights? i was once waiting to turn left across university and was the only car at the intersection. the light cycled for me, stopping a train
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how many other large cities do the same thing as san diego were the trains have to blast massive horns throughout the night?
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pointsofdata posted:how many other large cities do the same thing as san diego were the trains have to blast massive horns throughout the night? all of them, those are FRA rules because americans are loving braindead around train crossings they can sometimes establish a 'quiet zone' if enough people complain though
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it's because trains are very dangerous
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blugu64 posted:it's because trains are very dangerous we're not talking about europe
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blugu64 posted:it's because trains are very dangerous how many Americans die in train-related accidents each year? like maybe 20?
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minivanmegafun posted:how many Americans die in train-related accidents each year? like maybe 20? It's a lit more than that but mostly deserved like these: https://youtu.be/1iJo9PTKi_Y
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pointsofdata posted:It's a lit more than that but mostly deserved like these: https://youtu.be/1iJo9PTKi_Y im going to classify those as auto accidents
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Cygni posted:all of them, those are FRA rules because americans are loving braindead around train crossings it's mind-blowing how anyone thinks it's an acceptable situation
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we should do this to more trains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-jRpFik3c
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blugu64 posted:it's because trains are very dangerous that's part of what makes me want to gently caress and cum in them
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minivanmegafun posted:im going to classify those as auto accidents louisiana is absolutely full of people who love getting squished by trains iirc it's nearly twice as many as the #2 state for train fatalities the actual reason is b/c there are an absolutely huge number of rural rail crossings there due to the massive massive port(s) requiring lotsa freight lines and since louisiana is poor as poo poo a ton of these rural crossings are at-grade and unlit w/ safety equipment consisting solely of a single stop sign
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minivanmegafun posted:how many Americans die in train-related accidents each year? like maybe 20? pointsofdata posted:It's a lit more than that but mostly deserved like these: https://youtu.be/1iJo9PTKi_Y minivanmegafun posted:im going to classify those as auto accidents a lot of these are intentional suicides
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minivanmegafun posted:how many Americans die in train-related accidents each year? like maybe 20? That's probably the number of Palo alto high students alone It got so ridiculous that they hired guards at track crossings iirc Notorious b.s.d. posted:a lot of these are intentional suicides
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hobbesmaster posted:will this one also be at grade? will it at least have synchronized lights? It's the Green Line extension going from Target Field out to Eden Prairie. The route is crappy but is also NIMBY'd to all hell so it might not actually have much conflict with roads. Regarding University, well, I'd be interested to see the phenomenon you are describing, as it is not something that I, a car left-turner have ever experienced on that street. Also I live within walking distance of it now so  or whatever.
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paging hp hovercraft for his thoughts on https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-22/the-road-not-taken-what-if-infrastructure-were-actually-planned
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lol i was waiting for this to show up quote:The ASCE has a system bias in favor of portraying the United States as having the infrastructure of a Third World nation. They lobby for the civil engineers who would be employed if we really were upgrading our infrastructure. they're right tho we spend waaaaay too much on roads which younger engineers like me have bitched about for years and that obama finally started turning around on far too many of these highway projects like widening don't fix anything long-term, but the people in charge of these decisions are politicians, not engineers and planners, and can't easily have their feet held to the fire on outcomes the way design standards are set up now i'd fuckin love to see some travel performance standards that force state and local-level governments to seriously examine other travel modes and invest into them. we already sorta kinda do this at a federal level thru HOV lane subsidies that require defined travel time reductions (that are measured thru studies) - creating standards like that for any arterial roadway project would be amazing for getting these places to invest in transit it'd also be a good way to elide the states' rights people on land use issues w/o just dropping a big federal dump on them. sure, each state can still choose to adopt their own design standards, but it's still a great idea lol at throwing environmental review under the bus tho - the nimbys love that poo poo and scream bloody murder at master plans
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