China's road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.
However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It's currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.
China still has a long time til they're in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.
I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that's been happening in S. Korea.
What's needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!
As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.
Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it's still dedicated to people.
That accepts the framing that we're designing for cars/bikes/peds. We're not. We're designing for people, whether they're in a car, on a bike, etc.
In that sense it's very much not zero-sum.
It's only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.
Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you'll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.
And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.
Hochul Pushes for Congestion Pricing Delay in Last-Minute Reversal
I honestly thought it was going to be Adams, but I definitely knew it wasn't going to happen.
The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃
did they install it via an electric car?
There will always be people who do not act with regard to the safety of others. I would rather those people be on bikes than in cars.
I'm not discussing the morality of this action in a vacuum. I'm discussing it in comparison to the same person behaving equally as unsafely in a car.
And yet had you collided, it's very unlikely that anyone would have died.
Those three scenarios you mentioned are all only dangerous because of cars.
Somebody tell the most famous Bollywood actor of all time that he's Persian.
I vaguely recall someone making a ribbon of Manon's hair and pinning it to their skin.
Berkeley has had an encampment on campus since April 22nd and hasn't sent in the cops.
As always, with protests like this, the violence always begins with cops.
Some of the tenants are saying the project should open before the summer, but the Block 216 team has been tight-lipped
This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they'd be offering spots to the food carts they displaced.
Well now e-mails are bouncing and there's radio silence from everyone involved about whether there even will be a food hall anymore.
It sounds shocking, I know, but it certainly seems like the olive branch that they offered to assuage everyone's anger about the food carts they were displacing was a lie.
Did y'all know they're building a monorail line under the Panama Canal?
Panama Metro reports that civil works are now 50% complete on Line 3, the 25km monorail that will run from Albrook to Ciudad del Futuro.
R.I.P. Road Pricing in Oregon: Dead before its even tried More than just money, the demise of pricing monkey-wrenches state transportation policy It’s no surprise: ODOT’s attempts to i…
Here's the fallout from Kotek's decision to stop all tolling, as well as a history of promises made and then broken about tolling.
A couple of things I took from this article:
- Oregon has reduced GHG emissions for most sectors except transportation
- Tolling was part of the plan to reduce transportation emissions
- Tolling on the I-5 Bridge will drastically reduce traffic on it, which obviates the need for more lanes
- Only tolling on I-5 while leaving 205 free creates huge issues
- The state was counting on tolling money for all of its projects, so car dependence is hurting car dependence, which is a small silver lining
Here's Gonzalez getting "accosted" on Max
He filed a police report for someone brushing his shoulder walking through the aisle and then criticizing his homeless policies.
Him not riding Max anymore has nothing to do with "violent and antisocial behavior" and everything to do with him being unwilling to face his constituents.
Portland Diamond Project (MLB to Portland) in negotiations to purchase 164-acre RedTail Golf Course
Seems just as unlikely as previous proposals, and also way outside of town (technically Beaverton, but the course is owned by the city of Portland).
Amtrak Cascades adds two more daily roundtrips starting Dec. 11
OLYMPIA – Just in time for the holidays, WSDOT and ODOT are starting two additional Amtrak Cascades daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland. Beginning Monday, Dec. 11, more trains will run in both directions – for a total of 12 trains every day between the two most popular cities on the route.
In 2024, we will replace the deck and sidewalks of the Broadway Bridge's lift spans, as well as repair the brakes that help control their speed.
Looks like the Broadway Bridge is going to be closed for a while next year.
Miles Morales’ apartment has a Cuban flag instead of a Puerto Rican one
Whomst among us
PORTLAND, OR—Charmed by how remarkably cruel everyone was, visiting friend Kaitlyn Hickman told reporters Tuesday that she was pleasantly surprised by Portland’s open hostility toward homeless people. “I was really concerned before coming here that people were going to try to extend aid to those wit...
Trimet Proposed 2024–25 Service Changes
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It's exciting to see that there are actual plans from the new owners of the Lloyd Center.
Portland transportation director readies plan to remove key downtown protected bike lane – BikePortland
It would be an unprecedented rollback of a protected bike facility.
This seems to not be based on safety at all and is probably Mapps and Williams spending money PBOT doesn't have because of complaints by business owners that are not based on data.
Exactly the kind of stupid decisions I expected Mapps to make when Teddy appointed him.
Rev Nat's Cider is closing at the end of September
404 likes, 110 comments - revnatscider on September 5, 2023: "After 12 great years, it’s time to move on. September will be our last month in business. Plea..."
Sounds like Ryan and Gonzalez's effort to circumvent democracy is on ice for now.
Septuagenarian Upper West Siders yell at 15 year-old for wanting to preserve a car-light street at the cost of 13 parking spaces
We've seen divorces that were more amiable than a battle over a single roadway on the Upper West Side.
Some great displays of carbrain in this article.
>DeSeta also likened one of the groups advocating for the open street, Transportation Alternatives, to the National Rifle Association.
>“TA is a multi-million-dollar not-for-profit lobbying organization. And you know what non-profit lobbyists could be? NRA is a not-for-profit, so, ya know, not-for-profit is a loosey-goosey term,” she said.
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>Like DeSeta, Herb Alter, who lives at 103rd Street and West End Avenue, objected, as many opponents typically do, to the "process" by which decisions were made when he was otherwise engaged. During the pandemic, he said, he and his ill wife decamped to their East Hampton second home — and the first he had heard about the open street was at the local dog run upon his return to the city last year.
Basically, a bunch of 70 year-old rich white people who live in a neighborhood where 73% of people do not own cars are trying to get rid of some intense traffic calming the city did during Covid because they lost 13 parking spaces.
It boggles the mind that there are people who live in Manhattan and choose to own cars without a dedicated place to keep them.