Children haven’t changed in the past 100 years, but our attitudes about their ability to be independent have.
Rochester, NY, made the decision to undo a past harmful highway project. Here are the challenges they faced—and the rewards they’ve seen since freeing up that valuable land for development.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has proposed a substantial set of reforms to enable incremental and missing-middle housing solutions and add 100,000 new housing units to the city.
"After a road diet, all motorists seem to drive at a rate that feels comfortable to a mildly-impaired older adult."
The Modern Tram Has Gone Off the Rails.
Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/rmtransit-the-modern-tram-has-gone-off-the-railsFrom the humble streetcar to sleek caterpillars ...
Like many other places around the U.S., Philadelphia is facing school bus driver shortages and bus scheduling issues. Its solution? Offer $300 per month to families that drive their children to school.
Portland’s “bike bus” swept headlines last year, showcasing how biking can be a safe, viable, and fun way to commute to class. Here are similar efforts being spearheaded by Local Conversation groups.
Worth noting that there is a huge difference between being hit at 20 or 40 mph. This study showed risk of severe injury of 25% at 23mph vs 75% at 39mph and risk of death of 10% at 23mph and 50% at 42mph. There is also the impact zone/characteristics, F150 with the tall & flat front will be much more dangerous in an impact than if it had a shorter height and was sloped which could roll someone over the hood. And other considerations like trucks are heavier and have worse visibility. But I agree stopping speed isn't the end all be all for road safety, but one factor of many that need to be taken into account.
Speed cameras are not even part of a solution to street safety. They are a dead end.
Drivers tend to unconsciously regulate their speed based on visual cues. By taking some simple steps to narrow a street visually, we can make it less dangerous.
Buses are great, but not if the surrounding infrastructure doesn’t support people getting to their bus stop on foot.
If your city is doing a street reconstruction project that involves replacing the curb, then don’t miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do a something majorly transformative…by simply moving the curb.
Taking away a lane for cars to create a dedicated bus lane made for faster commutes for everyone, thanks to faster, more reliable service on one of the region's busiest bus routes.
Violations dropped 30 percent over the course of the first year of 24/7 speed camera enforcement in New York City, officials said.
The MTA’s apparent reluctance to give a break on congestion pricing to drivers who use tunnels may threaten its goals. Here’s why.
There is currently a mandate in the new Ohio budget bill that an interchange must be built between Brunswick and Strongsville. But odds are, it’s only going to make traffic problems in the area worse.
Adding an interstate exit will not fix congestion issues for this highway in Ohio. Here’s why.
Mayhem — and, more accurately, the perception of mayhem — on the streets of the city is provoking a new backlash against delivery workers. But are poor workers really the ones to blame?
In December 2022, separated, buffered bike lanes were installed (despite opposition) on this road in Montgomery County, MD. Statistics now show no negative consequences for drivers, but a lot of positives for cyclists.
Amtrak is bringing High Speed Rail to Texas?!
Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/rmtransit-amtrak-is-bringing-high-speed-rail-to-texasThe US might just be getting its first 200m...
Just wish there were more connections there, east to SJ and West. From where I am would have 3 different trains to get there.
You could use the Steam link app on your phone and basically any Bluetooth controller.
Got a bidet as a joke gift for Christmas a few years ago, it has been an absolute game changer. Hate pooping anywhere but home now, I actually feel clean, and use much less toilet paper.
If I understand right, posts are only synced from the point someone on your same server subscribed to them? So you aren’t seeing his posts on mastodon, you are seeing his posts that have been synced to your instance.
Cannot wait for this to come out. It is interesting that it is airing during what is typically a movie slot.
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They have videos on the road building tools, and from what we have seen so far road building will be much better than CS1.
Recycle is the last part of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". Recycling shouldn't be the primary thought in designing around plastic/other materials. The primary design goal should be to eliminate or minimize the amount used.
Haven’t heard that before, will need to look into it. Big one I’ve heard is CAFE standards (fuel economy) are more lenient for light trucks vs passenger cars. I think this was mainly for shipping/work vehicles, but companies took advantage to sell bigger cars for better profit.
The same people who wish it was safer for their kids to walk to school if it wasn’t for all those other dangerous drivers and SUVs. Also SUVs are more likely to run over your own kid in the driveway due to worse visibility if I recall correctly.
It’s almost become an arms race of sorts. Cars getting bigger and more dangerous so people have to buy even bigger cars to feel safe.
It depends on which other smart home stuff you are using also. I use Apple Homekit, and Schlage Encode Plus has been perfect. Keypad, key backup, and uses Thread instead of WiFi for quicker performance and better battery. It doesn't require Apple products, but does have Apple Homekey function which is nice.
@selfhosted may be a good place to ask. Can run your own "cloud" photo backup on a computer so photos taken on phones can automatically be saved. Would also recommend a second drive at friend/family house so you can back-up off-site to follow the 3-2-1 rule (3 copies, 2 different types of storage, 1 offsite) for backups. For even better redundancy for drive failures you could run a NAS running multiple drives in RAID. Basically, RAID combines multiple physical drives into a single "logical" drive with different speed, capacity, and redundancy capability and the NAS allows you to access that over your local network or internet.
Great video from Not Just Bikes on third places.
Main issue is how we are/have been building towns/communities. More often than not, you'll see new builds on land solely for single family homes or only residential apartments instead of mixed used (commercial first floor, residential/office second+ floors) buildings. These all feed onto higher speed roads/highways where you have to drive to shop/eat/work/etc. Many older/pre-suburb towns may still have good third places, we just don't build towns like that anymore.
Had it in there because its such a common phrase and forgot about it. Will remove it because I agree with the opinion piece.
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Insane how anyone could see this and think its the best/only way people should travel.
- Reddit could have gotten ad revenue from third party apps by requiring them to display ads they deliver as part of the API, but never did so. Third Party Apps were never able to deliver Reddit's ads. Most people are just using the official app anyway.
- Don't really see a way they could charge for Reddit without it being useless (as it is now), or detrimental to the experience (like a subscription for posting). They could have increased the amount of ads or preroll ads before opening posts. Worse user experience, but not any worse than what is happening anyway.
- LLMs can just use web scraping to get data from Reddit without access to the API, which is even more costly to Reddit.
The only way their move makes sense to me is to push people into using the official app so that they can collect usage metrics and sell that data or use it to better position/sell ads.
As far as I can tell you can't necessarily reach an arbitrary destination since per the article - "the robovehicles exclusively run on dedicated roads about five feet wide". Though I suppose it could stop at an arbitrary point along those roads.