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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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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 20h

This is not affordability.

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

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 · 1d

I don't think we need this.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 6d

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

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

Linkedin Posts are the banality of evil.

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Patrick Kennedy [Undo Damage] @humanecosystem.bsky.social · 6d

Time for a decongestion toll zone?

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

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

#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 · 8d

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

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

#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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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

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

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

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

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

#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 · 8d

Also, can't forget the racism factor.

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

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

We acknowledge a car has to hit an intersection at some point right? The dream of a vehicular trip from garage to garage uninterrupted and without stopping throughout is impossible. So hit intersections a 1/2-mile earlier, pull these stumps out.

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

a quick effort at redoing this.

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

You went to the effort of burying the freeway, just to create this. Why? What was gained?