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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 1d

What an absolute service to #DecaturGa and #DekalbCountyGa.

Being an informed voter is hard. Functioning democracy depends on it, and guides like this help a lot.

Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · 1d

The Decaturish team proudly presents this voters guide as a service to our readers voting in the Nov. 4 general election. Races on the ballot include the state Public Service Commission and city elections.

The Decaturish Nov. 4 Voters Guide

The Decaturish team proudly presents this voters guide as a service to our readers voting in the Nov. 4 general election. Races on the ballot include the state Public Service Commission and city elect...

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 3d

I “brush and run” every morning and nobody’s ever called the police about it!

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politicsofcars.bsky.social @politicsofcars.bsky.social · 3d

The only thing more vulnerable than a child while they are being hit by a driver in a three ton metal box, is a driver's ego if anybody questions their automotive rights.

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Eric @howephil.bsky.social · 3d

Atlantans would *love* modal filters to mitigate cur through drivers in their neighborhoods and make the streets safer for kids & walking around again 👀

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 6d

After all, they’re not called badiculars.

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Griffin Wasdin @heflinhollis.bsky.social · 9d

One of the dirty secrets in ATL urban planning is that traffic is down (WAY down in some cases) despite adding tens of thousands of new residents. Here’s a pic of me easily riding my bike down the center lane of Peachtree during Monday rush hour, and there are more pedestrians than car drivers.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 9d

I love that I saw your post right after this thread: bsky.app/profile/worm...

worm adderall @wormmo.de · 9d

They live in groups of a dozen or more, and raise their young collectively. Together they defend a territory of 15 acres around their granaries - dead trees that they spend months drilling holes into, each hole storing a single acorn. A granary can have over 50,000 acorns in it

acorn woodpecker holding an acorn in its beak, on a tree trunk completely full of acorns

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atl-paul.bsky.social @atl-paul.bsky.social · 20d

Doing a pit maneuver in a city's downtown is absurd.

Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 20d

This morning, GA State Patrol did a PIT maneuver that caused a car to crash into the Avis car rental on Courtland Ave in Downtown Atlanta, nearly hitting two unhoused people on the sidewalk.

This is awful in so many ways.

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www.11alive.com/article/news...

Headline "GSP: Car slams into building in Downtown Atlanta during trooper pursuit"

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 21d

The street grid and Beltline near Sylvan Middle have so much potential to provide safe routes for kids. Glad the city is talking about improving bike infrastructure nearby.
atl.direct/safe-routes-...

Safe Routes to School program providing APS students the confidence and competence to bike safely to school

Safe Routes to School "Cone Crusher" Bike Safety Program

atl.direct

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · 28d

I need a NIMBY to please explain the opposition to reducing the minimum house size here. I read the article and I truly do not understand it.

Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · 28d

Very interesting story by Zoe Seiler.

DeKalb commission divided over minimum unit size amendment

The DeKalb County Commission is considering reducing the minimum unit size for single-family homes. The legislation is slowly moving through the approval process. Commissioners deferred the item for a...

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🍤 @elcameron.bsky.social · 28d

As a developer and architect, who lived in a 1949 dekalb house built at 800sf, expanded to 1,008, I find it absolutely insane we have a minimum unit size. It just hurts housing availability. Makes it harder to provide starter, and downsize homes, and increases the barriers of entry for homeowners.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s like “Share the Road.” Everybody hears what they want to hear.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 4

2/2 “Actually to be fully consistent and safely within the Technical they have to do it.

And that is key. That is dehumanization doing its own dehumanization. That is the real renewable energy miracle of tech.”

adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 4

1/2 I feel seen, and insulted (laudatory). This really got me:

“not only do the structurally empowered eighty-to-ninety-percent-men … get to choose emotions over efficacy, they get to do so while also maintaining the notion that they never have emotions in the first place.”

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 4

Love this place.

Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · Sep 3

Walking into Guild + Journeyman, one can find a cup of coffee, a bike repair shop and a friendly conversation.

Guild + Journeyman offers unique blend of coffee and bikes

DECATUR, Ga. — Walking into Guild + Journeyman, one can find a cup of coffee, a bike repair shop and a friendly conversation.

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atlantaworks.bsky.social @atlantaworks.bsky.social · Sep 2

Under 300 families benefitting from the housing program, and 20k people have left the city due to displacement. @atlantabeltline.org didn't suffer bc it was the first of its kind, it's bc of corporate greed. All these developers got subsidies for "beach front," & now they're reneging on promises.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 2

And that death toll doesn’t even include this crash with victims in critical condition

www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/02/2...

2 children, mother hit by car, seriously injured while trying to cross Buford Highway

A mother and her two children are seriously injured after a car hit them while they were crossing Buford Highway on Labor Day, according to police.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Sep 2

The carnage out there is unreal #bancars
www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia...

15 killed in crashes over Labor Day weekend in Georgia

"Thank you to everyone who made safe driving choices this holiday period,” Georgia Department of Public Safety said.

www.wsbtv.com

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/15/i...
Oh, nice. #BanCars

‘It’s going to look different’: Cars to be banned from driving up Kennesaw Mountain

Right now, cars are only allowed to drive up the mountain Monday-Friday, not weekends or holidays.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Aug 29

Speed cameras work. Maybe one day GA govt will let us use them for more than just school zones.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · Aug 29

At the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition annual summit yesterday, Shannon Hake of SFMTA's Livable Streets division presented some *very impressive* early results from their automated speed camera program.

Short 🧵

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · Aug 29

In response to my rant yesterday, I was asked how we can make better parks and other public places for teenage girls? What do they want? I have answers to this, so now a positive 🧵.
Starting in Sweden, where this was co-designed by teenage girls.

Frizon shelter - a curved space with seats like swings and lovely coloured perspex in the roof and a view of the city of Umeå at dusk. Two teenage girls sit in one of the swing seats having a chat.

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adtree.bsky.social @adtree.bsky.social · Aug 28

And light rail on grass can be gorgeous.
bsky.app/profile/moda...

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · Jul 22

Trams on grass, Reims edition.

Various photos of colourful trams moving along grassy streets lined with trees and vegetation in Reims, France.

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Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · Aug 26

"University of Miami-based nonprofit BikeSafe found that adding a pop-up bike lane to a long-standing local bike bus at the Coconut Grove neighborhood elementary school actually decreased the number of cars in the school drop-off line by an average of nearly 30 percent"

Very cool