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Seattle's one fully pedestrianized street is hosting...an automotive photo shoot this afternoon.
August 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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While the proposed land use reforms in Chapel Hill and Carrboro are a step in the right direction, this is what real change looks like. Now more than ever we need to ensure that progressive communities are truly welcoming to all.
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge.

We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style

Here’s the details 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“Congress could fight back, but the Republican lawmakers in charge have shrugged, as Carl Hulse reported. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina conceded that what the administration is doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense.” But, he said, “nobody should bellyache about that.””
February 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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I may have said this before but…American cities need to flip the street hierarchy inside out. We need a pedestrian core at the heart of every city and neighborhood.
November 19, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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Contrary to popular belief it's possible to live somewhere without a driveway, without on-street parking and without direct access to automobiles
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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hey chapel hill and carrboro

december 6
5-7 pm
flying pierogi
November 15, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Getting ready for recounts starting Wednesday Nov 20 (and likely several following days especially in larger counties). airtable.com/appxxYIoCIDI... #ncpol
November 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM
We almost all have Stockholm syndrome with cars in this country
This is really important — For 60+ years, car advertising has programmed us to think driving is freedom, a symbol of status & power.

But a car marketing vet (@tomflood.bsky.social, u should follow him) is using his skills to call out car culture. #UrbanistShoutOut
sf.streetsblog.org/2020/11/05/r...
Reprogramming 60 Years of Car-Culture Marketing - Streetsblog San Francisco
Car ads and the resultant culture promotes traffic violence, according to a former car adman
sf.streetsblog.org
November 16, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Stand up for what is right!
November 15, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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I wish everyone who talked about how hard it is to make high speed rail profitable also talked about how hard it is to make interstate highways profitable.
November 13, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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No one ever accused WUNC of being an early adopter 😂.

But here we are!

Get all your N.C. Public Radio news right here in this feed. Thanks for following along
November 12, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Even without hard, physical separation, these kinds of Dutch bike streets are comfortable to bike on.
In Chicago, our leaders would say this street is too narrow for even one bike lane. In Utrecht, there’s enough space for two.
November 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Drivers killed 1.2 million people worldwide in 2021, costing the global economy $1.8 trillion, according to a World Health Organization report —  and the U.S. is among the worst offenders.

Learn more in headlines.
Monday's Headlines Are a Crash Course — Streetsblog USA
The global cost of driving in both lives and money is staggering, and the U.S. is among the worst offenders, according to a new WHO report.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 18, 2023 at 1:32 PM
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"This year, the average weight of a new car in the US was more than 4,300lb (2,000kg) – a full 1,000lb (450kg) more than in 1980."
Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of E...
From emissions to road deaths, the trend for ever-bigger SUVs is a disaster. We need regulation to turn the car industry back to smaller vehicles
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2023 at 12:18 PM