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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage]

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Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility. Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · Nov 21

Read my interview for CNU's 25th anniversary compendium of Great Ideas (posting to pin basically). www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

Great Idea: Freeways Without Futures

Reducing state and federal infrastructure costs while boosting local economies by strengthening urban places is a win-win from in-city freeway transformation.

www.cnu.org

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Edward Russell @byerussell.com · 1d

The head of Vancouver’s transit agency can sum its ridership recovery in one word: Frequency.

“Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership.“

Many Vancouver 🚌 run every 5min or less, and the SkyTrain runs every 3-4min, via @davidzipper.bsky.social

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 1d

The only place where people are less self-aware of their surroundings than airports is the state fair.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 2d

Cancer stage of capitalism.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

PEPSI CEO, on @cnbc.com:

Lower-income consumers are "stretched, very stretched." Hispanics "are especially hurting. We see their mobility, their income, their behavior changing. .. They don't meet their friends as often. .. We're concerned about some parts of the population."

$PEP

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 2d

antisocial places make antisocial people and vice versa.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 2d

Driving turns many people into sociopaths. Walking kids to school is such a pleasant experience daily and an essential connection to your community.

And yes, I am aware most schools cant be walked to and that is a problem.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 3d

This is not affordability.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 3d

You relocate the highway to expand downtown and leave all this mess behind. I promise you don't need this.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think we need this.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8d

In the era of extreme weatlh divide, meritocracy is a myth.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8d

Comparing Weiss’s career arc to Kaleb Horton's really drives home how broken the incentives in media are.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8d

Bari Weiss isn't really a journalist in any meaningful way, she's just a preening troll who excels at flattering power, it's hard to see her succeed to such an extent without feeling like maybe you're the one who's losing their mind

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8d

man, he was such a talented writer and photojournalist. She is nothing more than a hack, which is the nicest thing I can say.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8d

I had a great time with my diverse group of hardworking colleagues solving the Zyclon-B problem. It was an honor.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8d

Linkedin Posts are the banality of evil.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 8d

Time for a decongestion toll zone?

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 10d

Why does this matter? Minneapolis wiped out 31.2% of its present day property tax revenue with these highways.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

Forgot the image. Also, worth noting the development potential of red-bounded land within the blue circle is $5.6 billion in downtown Minneapolis at 55% land use efficiency. So maybe we pull the interstates out as well??

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 10d

Property Tax Revenue per acre Downtown Average / Citywide Average:

Boston = 8.8x

OKC = 448x

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

#40. St Paul MN - Great River Road. I generally don't focus on waterfront highways b/c they typically have low development potential and half the point of highway removals is the redevelopment and oppty for new housing...

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

#41-48 Downtown Minneapolis and all of its ridiculous stumps.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

#48, 49, and 50. I'm not done in Minneapolis. I'm taking out portions of 35W, 94, and 169.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 10d

They're called 'Miracle Miles' because it is a miracle there are any walkable places left in the US.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

Bottom right on the chart are cities with the greatest development potential often have some fairly robust development markets, thus relatively low proportion of their property tax revenue, but 20% of total property tax revenue is still a HUGE number.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

Can't recall if I've posted this before but this will eventually become the basis for the Atlas of Inner-City Highway Impacts. x-axis is potential redevelopment value of highway right-of-way w/in 3-mile radius of center of downtown. y-axis is % of property tax revenue lost due to those highways.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

Original Yellow Book plan had the 675 connection much further north and not directly through downtown:

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

#51 I-675 Saginaw Michigan. There is just absolutely no way this creates anything of value.

Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 11d

169 in particular is 1) redundant and 2) is full of these four-leaf clover interchanges, each of which take up 40 acres. There is like seven of them. I generally don't stray outside of the 3-mile circle, but that's 280 acres of land that could be better utilized. Large-scale sprawl repair.

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