David Alpert
@alpert.bsky.social
Washington, DC local government nerd, formerly GGWash
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“It has been a very good week here in New York. There’s less traffic, quieter streets — and I think everybody’s seen it."
Travel times on bridges and tunnels into central Manhattan dropped 34%, and traffic volumes in the area 7.5% during the first week of decongestion pricing.
Travel times on bridges and tunnels into central Manhattan dropped 34%, and traffic volumes in the area 7.5% during the first week of decongestion pricing.
IT'S WORKING: Initial Data Show Congestion Pricing Has Stemmed The Tide of Years of Increasing Traffic - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing has led to a 7.5-percent drop in traffic in the Central Business District below 60th Street, the MTA said on Monday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“It has been a very good week here in New York. There’s less traffic, quieter streets — and I think everybody’s seen it."
Travel times on bridges and tunnels into central Manhattan dropped 34%, and traffic volumes in the area 7.5% during the first week of decongestion pricing.
Travel times on bridges and tunnels into central Manhattan dropped 34%, and traffic volumes in the area 7.5% during the first week of decongestion pricing.
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this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
January 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)
Nature and infrastructure
January 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Nature and infrastructure
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After a decade of work and half a billion dollars, the 6th & R is finally restored to its overbuilt and unsafe design—now made irrelevant by a road diet across the street.
DC Water said they couldn’t update the designs approved in 2014, a bitter reminder of our sclerotic planning system.
DC Water said they couldn’t update the designs approved in 2014, a bitter reminder of our sclerotic planning system.
December 12, 2024 at 8:36 PM
After a decade of work and half a billion dollars, the 6th & R is finally restored to its overbuilt and unsafe design—now made irrelevant by a road diet across the street.
DC Water said they couldn’t update the designs approved in 2014, a bitter reminder of our sclerotic planning system.
DC Water said they couldn’t update the designs approved in 2014, a bitter reminder of our sclerotic planning system.
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This is exactly how a bike lane network should be conceptualized…in the same design language and typology of that city’s public transportation network and with connectivity to subways, busses, LRT etc.
Once again, Paris is leading the way.
Once again, Paris is leading the way.
THIS IS AMAZING!
This is the planned bike path network for the #Paris region for 2025.
It will involve 450 kms of lanes. Not just #Paris intra-muros (within the Périphérique) but Grand Paris—a true regional network, incorporating long-neglected banlieues (suburbs).
Via @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
This is the planned bike path network for the #Paris region for 2025.
It will involve 450 kms of lanes. Not just #Paris intra-muros (within the Périphérique) but Grand Paris—a true regional network, incorporating long-neglected banlieues (suburbs).
Via @emmanuelspv.bsky.social
December 8, 2024 at 11:10 PM
This is exactly how a bike lane network should be conceptualized…in the same design language and typology of that city’s public transportation network and with connectivity to subways, busses, LRT etc.
Once again, Paris is leading the way.
Once again, Paris is leading the way.
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Take Metro to Dulles (and DCA) 🚇
And if you do choose to drive, skip the terminal traffic by going to Innovation Center and riding Metro one stop.
And if you do choose to drive, skip the terminal traffic by going to Innovation Center and riding Metro one stop.
Traffic is backed up as far as you can see at Dulles airport. Today, tomorrow & Sunday are expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving travel days. One tip: Try to get people you’re picking up to go upstairs, there’s a lot less traffic up top than at the arrivals level.
November 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Take Metro to Dulles (and DCA) 🚇
And if you do choose to drive, skip the terminal traffic by going to Innovation Center and riding Metro one stop.
And if you do choose to drive, skip the terminal traffic by going to Innovation Center and riding Metro one stop.
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Reckless driving is often associated w/vehicles that have fake license plates/tags, long-expired temp tags or obscured tags. Approved in committee last week, my bill addresses an untenable status quo by allowing DPW to tow these vehicles immediately. wjla.com/news/local/p...
https://wjla.com/news/local/pro…
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Reckless driving is often associated w/vehicles that have fake license plates/tags, long-expired temp tags or obscured tags. Approved in committee last week, my bill addresses an untenable status quo by allowing DPW to tow these vehicles immediately. wjla.com/news/local/p...
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...
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This would supercharge the Texas economic miracle. Build it!
November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
This would supercharge the Texas economic miracle. Build it!
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“We don't right now have any information about who put them up. We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.”
Boulder’s explicit traffic safety signs are the latest real-looking fakes on Colorado roads
Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.
www.cpr.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:19 PM
“We don't right now have any information about who put them up. We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well done. So someone went to a lot of trouble to put these large signs up.”
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Good/bad to know we were right!
NEW: Many Americans say people in their community are driving more dangerously than before the pandemic. But is that perception borne out in reality? A review of the latest available statistics suggests that it is. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
November 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Good/bad to know we were right!
Yesterday I told Bluesky I wanted less like some posts about national politics. Today I open it up and on my Discover tab - indeed the posts are not about national politics!
November 16, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Yesterday I told Bluesky I wanted less like some posts about national politics. Today I open it up and on my Discover tab - indeed the posts are not about national politics!
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Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
November 15, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day.
Leadership.
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Welcome to Bluesky, @wmatagm.bsky.social! 🚇🚌
November 15, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Welcome to Bluesky, @wmatagm.bsky.social! 🚇🚌
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April 1, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Utah’s women’s basketball team, which was participating in the NCAA tournament, left Idaho for Washington state after being terrorized by racists in pickup trucks outside their Couer d’Alene hotel. www.ksl.com/article/5096...
'I was just numb': Utah forced to move hotels after racial hate crimes during NCAA Tournament
The NCAA Tournament was supposed to be a fun experience for the University of Utah women's basketball team.
www.ksl.com
March 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Utah’s women’s basketball team, which was participating in the NCAA tournament, left Idaho for Washington state after being terrorized by racists in pickup trucks outside their Couer d’Alene hotel. www.ksl.com/article/5096...
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There is a heavy class-based and religion-based dynamic to this where it's a way to punish and discipline parents who aren't rich enough to chaffeur their kids everywhere or where both parents have careers rather than the mom staying at home bsky.app/profile/gree...
The backlash to e-bikes in around San Diego in particular is _extreme_ — and in the predominance of car-brained arguments, one can really pick up an undertone of 'parents should drive their kids around, like I did' truculence.
March 11, 2024 at 4:54 PM
There is a heavy class-based and religion-based dynamic to this where it's a way to punish and discipline parents who aren't rich enough to chaffeur their kids everywhere or where both parents have careers rather than the mom staying at home bsky.app/profile/gree...
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Was just talking to my brother-in-law who lives in suburban sprawl San Diego. Ebikes are now ubiquitous there and have actually lead to kids being able to be independent and hang out with each other despite the horrible built environment.
So naturally there's a big push there to ban ebikes
So naturally there's a big push there to ban ebikes
While there are all kinds of reasons why families move to the suburbs, some people make the mistake of moving there because they think their kids need space. That's not really true. What kids need are other kids.
The hill I will die on is that this is not a digital problem. We don't send younger kids out to play by themselves anymore for fear of kidnapping/CPS, and those kids become teens who don't do it either. There's also a loss of third spaces for teens. Even the freaking malls require chaperones.
March 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Was just talking to my brother-in-law who lives in suburban sprawl San Diego. Ebikes are now ubiquitous there and have actually lead to kids being able to be independent and hang out with each other despite the horrible built environment.
So naturally there's a big push there to ban ebikes
So naturally there's a big push there to ban ebikes
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Way to go first time rep to Virginia's House of Delegates Adele McClure 🎉 Not only is this a win for housing, but it's rare for first-year representatives to get bills through the entire legislature 👏 Single staircase reform for Virginia! #urbanism #YIMBYsOfNOVA
March 7, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Way to go first time rep to Virginia's House of Delegates Adele McClure 🎉 Not only is this a win for housing, but it's rare for first-year representatives to get bills through the entire legislature 👏 Single staircase reform for Virginia! #urbanism #YIMBYsOfNOVA
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That's certainly one way...
March 7, 2024 at 4:01 PM
That's certainly one way...
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Article 4 Section 4: every state is guaranteed a Republican form of government (originalists will give this a whole new meaning)
March 4, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Article 4 Section 4: every state is guaranteed a Republican form of government (originalists will give this a whole new meaning)
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States’ Rights is an American political philosophy that means states are allowed to be more authoritarian than the federal government, but cannot be more liberal than the federal government
March 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
States’ Rights is an American political philosophy that means states are allowed to be more authoritarian than the federal government, but cannot be more liberal than the federal government
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1994: internet is ephemeral
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
February 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM
1994: internet is ephemeral
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
Making a news website archive unavailable is just a jerk thing to do. Are they hoping to sell it to make a tiny bit of cash or something?
Finally, the press release says staff will be able to access an archive of their stories "to support their professional pursuits." The DCist archive remains unavailable to the general public, however.
February 24, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Making a news website archive unavailable is just a jerk thing to do. Are they hoping to sell it to make a tiny bit of cash or something?