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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

An Anchorage designed for people instead of cars part II: Northern Lights & Cordova. -infill of parking lots -reallocate/redesign road space The community has TONS of land available, it's just under-utilized.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

1/This is such an interesting problem for so many reasons: -we designed everything so kids can't really walk to school -we created a separate, limited-access transit system w/ high costs that only operates a few hours a day -we don't pay people enough to operate that system

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

The US has never needed foreign enemies to destroy its communities & beautiful areas; our own traffic engineers and Departments of Transportation will do it on their own. A 🧵on AKDOT's most recent proposal to further degrade the Turnagain Arm/Girdwood area: 1/

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@AK_Urban_1

7 months

Love to see this new housing going up on 36th--I just wish it was taller and there was more of it 😏

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Never seen one of these little guys hopping around on the coastal trail before 😻

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@AK_Urban_1

3 months

Fire Island downtown testing out using more of their land for people to sit, eat, & relax rather than store vehicles. I guarantee if you ever had to ask permission from a planning department to do something like this it would require meetings, notices, determinations, etc

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

1/Quick thread on parking reform in Anchorage- Q: Is it working? A: Yes Q: Was it the end of the world? A: No Let's look at some examples...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Anchorage of the future: 1. Reallocate right of way 2. Get rid of parking mandates to allow more housing 3. Let the city become a city

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Anchorage has a ton of coffee drive-throughs--what does this reveal about the city? A 🧵1/

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

Cities work best when they are full of people. Why aren't 4th avenue and other streets pedestrian centered all summer long? It's such a better use of space:

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

I really don't understand why Anchorage hasn't doubled down on building up UAA to attract as many students from the PNW as possible. Import their money, for 4 years, some stay and enhance the state... Would require allowing UAA to have housing around it though

Kevin Berry 🇺🇦

@KevinBerryEcon

4 months

University education isn't zero sum. Out of state students subsidize in state students. They also bring money into Alaska by spending in Anchorage, and help reverse the trend of negative net migration.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Future Anchorage Fairview edition: -Reprioritize street space (bus/bike lanes move lots of volume) -slow down speeds -fully protected bike lane -make riding the bus fun again

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Anchorage is so great--it's just amazing that we have a park like this in a 290,000 person city 🤩

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

1/ I just spent a few hours watching people move through the street system downtown. The sample size isn't huge, but here are some possible takeaways...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Future Anchorage, downtown edition: -take back streets from DOT's life-hating terminator's grip -reallocate ROW space/prioritize people-first -Use more public street space for activities like dining 🥂🍝🍝 instead of vehicle storage

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

This is kind of cool: 81,000 people in Anchorage have access to services within a 15 min walk. Seems like these are the key areas to focus pedestrian infrastructure investments:

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

1/ What should everyone know about zoning? Short 🧵about Anchorage:

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@AK_Urban_1

2 months

Here is a timeline of what has unfolded over the last year & how AKDOT has created a situation where the state basically got no infrastructure construction in 2024 (and might still lose more funding in 2025). It's dull and obscure but surprisingly bad, even for AK standards.

AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

2 months

State transportation processes are boring and hard to follow--which makes them ripe for both corruption & concealing incompetence. AKDOT has now missed another important milestone, screwing Alaska out of millions in transportation funding for FY 24... Great find by @DermotMCole

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Finally a safe pedestrian street in front of 49th State!

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

A deep dive 🧵 into the Rustic Goat "traffic problems" and walkability in Anchorage. Spoiler--the problem is too *much* parking and lazy street management. But see for yourself: 1/

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@AK_Urban_1

7 months

It seems like a lot of Anchorage's local land use politics is controlled by a small group of wealthy, angry, retired, already-got-mine, anti-change incumbents w/ basically limitless time & resources to travel to other neighborhoods to agitate against progress that they don't like

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@AK_Urban_1

2 months

I wonder if this is why the Ted Stevens Airport plan calls for massive expansion of parking facilities but not a single mention of using the existing, fully-built train infrastructure (that runs right to downtown).

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

2 months

A proposed streetcar btw St Paul & MSP is dead, apparently due to opposition from the airport. Note: Airports collect big $$ from parking & taxis/ridehail. Quality transit reduces # of people driving to/from their flight --an outcome airports don't want.

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Whoa--the assembly bringing @clmarohn from Strong Towns up here is a big deal. For anyone not familiar, the Strong Towns thing is looking at how cities full of roads and low density are often financially unsustainable. Looking forward to hearing Marohn's thoughts on Anchorage...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Snowy days like this reveal how overbuilt our road infrastructure is; driving tracks tell the real story of how much road is *actually* needed. And the remaining snow is in effect a temporary road diet...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

This would be way less of a problem if we had designed things over the last 30 years so that kids could walk or roll comfortably to school on their own... 🚶👩‍🦽🚴‍♀️

Anchorage Daily News

@adndotcom

2 years

The Anchorage School District is dealing with such a severe bus driver shortage that nearly all eligible students will be without bus service for weeks at a time, officials announced this week.

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

Browsing Whitehorse street view and finding all this cool newish housing. What do they do that we don't?

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

If there was any question that traffic engineers have made road lanes too wide in Anchorage... Just look at how much asphalt is obviously not being driven on right now for the larger streets. This means more snow to move when it falls and more dirty runoff when it melts...

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@AK_Urban_1

11 months

1/ Remember the protected bike lane pilot on Pine street this past summer? Some exciting info on results from the BPAC meeting this evening: -it reduced speeding -it reduced intense speeding -it slightly reduced traffic volumes -the world didn't end

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Interesting to think of how much AK travel infrastructure is not really for people living in AK Cruises: structured for tourists, not transit Trains: structured for tourists, not transit Roads: structured for single occupancy drivers--but also the occasional mining company...

Carrie Nash

@CarrieinFbx

1 year

Wow. This is quite the disappointing story. I hope she can help to foment change to the PVSA.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

O'Malley Road before and after-- What AKDOT has done to this public right-of-way will change the character of this area permanently: -More driving -More road noise -More traffic incidents -More long term maintenance costs 1/

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

The bigger picture here is that if Anchorage hadn't been designed around low density housing & planned automobile dependency there would be: -Fewer streets to plow (cost = 📉) -Narrower streets (cost = 📉) -More housing per street (budget = 📈) -Better access for all 👨‍🦯👨‍🦽👩‍🦼👶

Daniel Lent

@mrlent

2 years

As our neighborhood is mostly ranch-style homes, there's a higher-than-average amount of assisted living homes and individuals with disabilities. They have to wait till Saturday to have safer street access and will be dependent on others or 911 services if anything happens.

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Driving the stretch of the Seward highway that AKDOT insists needs to be widened for a billion dollars. It's a perfect day on the weekend in the middle of the summer... where's all the congestion they are always admonishing us about?

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@AK_Urban_1

7 months

People: we walk in direct lines Moose: we walk in direct lines Wheelchair users: we roll in direct lines Snow plowers: we plow in direct lines Crosswalk design: "Let's design these to require a 40°-90° turn that dumps people right into the intersection 👨🏻‍🏫👨🏻‍🎓👷🏻‍♂️"

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

1/ ADN updated their article on HOME to include the tired (and predictable) whining of the same old busybodies who have been trying to keep new people out of Anchorage for decades. Very little in good faith, very little factually correct. Just bitter self interest...

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

NIGHTMARE FUEL-it's 2040, and the Cross/Zaletel zoning bomb led to a huge reform 15 years ago: -greedy developers added hundreds of new housing units -thousands live downtown -people walk to work -South addition is so dark that no one has seen flowers growing since 2028 🥀

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

For another TOTALLY INSANE & ABSOLUTELY NOT POSSIBLE rethinking of our public roads... What if we made Northern Lights 2 way & turned Benson into a busway/greenbelt? Let AKDOT know what you want to see in the State Transportation Improvement Program😏

Emily Weiser

@BirdingByBike

1 year

What if we banned cars from the Seward Highway for a day? - 9a-4p on a Sunday (avoid commutes) - EMS obviously excepted, so don't @ me - Free train shuttle for transpo & recreation - World-class attraction and a treat for locals. It's our road. How do we want to use it?

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

I can't tell if it's worse than other places, but it seems like AK has a sort of dull acceptance of normalized traffic violence. There are multiple stories like this every month! And the roads have been *engineered* to function this way.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 months

State transportation processes are boring and hard to follow--which makes them ripe for both corruption & concealing incompetence. AKDOT has now missed another important milestone, screwing Alaska out of millions in transportation funding for FY 24... Great find by @DermotMCole

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@AK_Urban_1

9 months

One clever thing that AKDOT did with their Fairview highway expansion project materials is hide the aerial view on their maps so you can't see how many homes they are going to destroy:

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@AK_Urban_1

9 months

2/3 Note that none of them really touch Merrill field that much, and one would really destroy the trail system:

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

Ted Stevens International Airport, an endpoint with both great bus service and a full unused train terminal, is planning to build more parking to attract drivers--in some cases up to $225,000 per space. For 885 spaces you could also get about 3 million $50 taxi rides

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@AK_Urban_1

8 months

Blocking growth in Anchorage so that it sprawls into the MatSu leads to an Alaska that looks and feels the same as everywhere else in the country:

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Terrific article. Dare we dream that Anchorage is on the verge of effective and common sense land use reforms!? Save Anchorage from Parking Mandates @JLee907 via @Sightline

Save Anchorage from Parking Mandates

The city shouldn’t require parking that never gets used.

www.sightline.org

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

If I had $1500 to spend on walkability in Anchorage I would probably try pedestrianizing a few segments of certain streets like this with steel bollards:

Michael Natelli

@MichaelNatelli

1 year

If you had $1500 to improve walkability in your town, how are you spending it?

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

The O'Malley road expansion is such a gash across the landscape; totally unnecessary and yet a very fitting monument to the hubris/single-mindedness of traffic engineers/AKDOT. They would probably do the same to every road in Anchorage if they could get the $$$ for it.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

"people don't bike in the winter" "You can't expect people to bike with children"

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

People love trains! 🚂 🤩

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

1/ Like many cities in the US, Anchorage land use regulations seem to be obsessed with regulating what happens on private property while barely noticing what happens with public property. Just look at how newer developments interact with the streets they are on...

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

6/ This situation was fascinating--a woman was standing under a dumpster lid. At first I thought maybe she was just taking a rest from the sun, then I realized she was waiting for a bus. The dumpster lid is the bus stop's only shelter.

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Anchorage Twitter (and people interested in living in the city): 1. What's your experience finding housing choices in Anchorage? 2. What do you think housing choices will be like for your kids here? 3. What do you think housing choices will be like if you retire here?

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

1/ The fish creek trail connector project looks awesome. I wonder why they have this weird alternative (S3) that is less connective to the other trails and is likely way more expensive due to tunneling? Let's look a bit closer...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

AKDOT, in all their benevolence and consideration, have kindly provided us with official markers of all the places that need real ped crossing infrastructure. If you know of any other locations of these signs around town, please send me their location so I can make a map!

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

It's crazy how pleasant and almost European these small Alaskan towns look when their downtowns are full of people instead of cars 😮

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

Will a wider, faster highway that costs around a billion dollars fix this?

Don Moore

@capture907

4 months

This recently happened near Beluga point in the eastbound lane. They are diverting people into the beluga point parking lot to get around it. Traffic is backing up, especially eastbound.

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@AK_Urban_1

3 months

Two approaches for thinking about zoning private property:

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@AK_Urban_1

3 months

Attn: Anchorage "If your city cannot financially sustain its essential infrastructure without outside support, your city is fragile and its future is tenuously dependent on others"

Charles Marohn

@clmarohn

3 months

If your city cannot financially sustain its essential infrastructure without outside support, your city is fragile and its future is tenuously dependent on others.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

One of the nice things about designing a city to be usable by those with visual/other impairments is that the designs are all-inclusive: they generally make life better for EVERYONE. No reason not to support them.

dwarven king

@TristanJWalsh03

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@ryanwal72819805 @akclee @mattbuxton

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Every proposal to open up new land "for cheaper housing" relies on an expensive, heavily subsidized road for people to get there--and the public's going to have to pay for it. When it includes an honest accounting its higher travel costs, sprawl just isn't actually affordable..

The Alaska Landmine

@alaskalandmine

1 year

It's time to finally build the Knik Arm bridge. #akleg

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

1/ For anyone interested in better cities-- "The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements" by Donald Shoup, one of the best pamphlets on the topic, is apparently available for free online thanks to the City of Dallas, TX. a 🧵

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

1/ We've all seen it or heard it over and over: "Demand for trails is just going to increase and we need to accommodate people. Our trailheads need more parking" My question is: how do people think this scenario plays out to its final conclusion? a 🧵:

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Nice new pedestrian infrastructure going in on Arctic at 32nd 👏👏👏

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

1/ One of the biggest myths in use land use discussions is that single family homes, home ownership, or owner occupiers are somehow "better" stewards of their neighborhoods by default. This is extremely easy to disprove by a quick stroll through any neighborhood in Anchorage:

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@AK_Urban_1

3 months

1/ A few months ago I began to notice how the people opposing any land use reform in Anchorage were always calling for more "PROFESSIONAL PLANNING"--yet "professional planning" never seemed to be providing any actual solutions. Now I'm realizing that...that was the point. A 🧵

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Wouldn't it be awesome to have a trail connection from the coastal trail to fish creek? This entitled property owner (red circle) wants to lease the land from the railroad to prevent the public from getting the path for up to 95 years. Drop AKRR a line if you'd like to comment..

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Parking downtown on the 4th of July: South of the park strip: free on public streets, nearing capacity North of the park strip: pay-per-use, vast underutilization

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

Dream for UAA (branding changed to escape university lawyers) It's a state institution but Anchorage should be an awesome home for it

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

I really don't understand why Anchorage hasn't doubled down on building up UAA to attract as many students from the PNW as possible. Import their money, for 4 years, some stay and enhance the state... Would require allowing UAA to have housing around it though

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

1/ This op-ed is remarkably bad--but on the positive side we are lucky this person is no longer making decisions for our community. A 🧵 on a few of the things the writer seems to be unaware of...

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Tried out @ancpeoplemover 's new whip this morning--nice ride!

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Good choice of image for this article, and hopefully it raises two questions: 1)why did these suburban-sprawl type houses get built in a high density zone in the middle of the city? 2)What prevented the developer using this land more efficiently?

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@AK_Urban_1

10 months

Is it just me, or does anyone else want @capture907 to do a run of postcards or notecards of these awesome photographs? I would love a pack of them to send or give as gifts. ( @capture907 , sorry for calling you out!)

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

It's insane that I can hear motorcycles whining & revving half a mile away while inside with all the windows and doors closed. Obviously lots of reasons it happens, but I just can't imagine that so many people wld operate vehicles like this if our roads were designed differently

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

10/10 If anyone has any other interesting observations about how people move around downtown, by all means post them. It feels like Anchorage is becoming slightly more flexible in trying new things, so maybe we could do some other pilot projects in this area.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 months

1/ Last night the Assembly renamed Sand Lake Park as "Chitose Park" in honor of Anchorage's sister city in Japan. Chitose already has a park named after us, plus an Ankareji Park golf course! But let's take a screen tour of this smaller city of around 98,000...

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

"you're not stuck in traffic--you ARE traffic"

Don Moore

@capture907

6 months

I took my camera for a ride and didn’t realize it was slush cup day when I left. This is traffic heading from Girdwood to Anchorage about 8pm.

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@AK_Urban_1

8 months

Some great stuff in this FHWA letter calling out AKDOT for whining about their STIP failures were due to "nEw ReQuiRemEnts 😭" Nice to see one of Alaska's most wasteful public agencies facing some accountability for once...

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

4/ Also it's interesting how crosswalks are designed versus how people cross them. These were probably nice designs on paper but they don't align with reality--People like to walk in direct lines to where they are going.

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

Juneau trying to increase housing and imagine that--they've identified smaller lot sizes, smaller setbacks, and more housing types as a way to do that 😮😱

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Why not just get rid of parking minimums altogether?

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

Anchorage was designed so that we're all dependent on a lot of infrastructure that we either aren't willing to pay for, or actually can't afford. My op-ed in the @AlaskaCurrent :

The Alaska Current

@AlaskaCurrent

2 years

Anchorage's sprawling infrastructure struggled during the December snowstorms, but there is a better way. From @AK_Urban_1

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

1/ ZALETEL/CROSS ZONING b0mB: It makes no sense when people complain that building brand new, more-expensive construction next to their single family home will "lower their property values". Higher density infill happens *because* rising property values justify it.

Anchorage Daily News

@adndotcom

1 year

Assembly members Kevin Cross and Meg Zaletel have proposed a sweeping overhaul of zoning rules to address Anchorage's housing shortage. It's drawn pushback from critics who say the measure is “throwing a bomb” at land-use rules and neighborhood plans.

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

This is the "local character" of both Soldotna and Wasilla:

Strong Towns

@StrongTowns

1 year

If a road looks like this, no amount of signs or speed limits will curb speeding and accidents.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

6/ even if we aren't going to design our cities to be kid-friendly, it's also worth wondering why we need two different bus systems in the same metropolitan area. What if we just expanded the capacity of people mover to serve both more students AND the public?

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

This is cool & Anchorage is a cool city for trying something out like this 😎

Anchorage Health Department

@ancpublichealth

1 year

Starting today, crews will be installing a temporary protected bike lane along Pine/McCarrey Street. Go for a ride and have a look at the temporary changes! 🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️

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@AK_Urban_1

7 months

1/ Ten years ago, a developer wanted to rezone & redevelop this East Anchorage lot from an old mobile home park into new apartments. The MOA Planning Dept pushed for a special limitation during the rezone to "protect from shadowing" ...today the site remains undeveloped

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

17/ To conclude: to have a walkable city, you have to *let things become walkable*. This means you can't constantly facilitate drivers every time they have a minor inconvenience (whether patron or local resident). Walkable places are walkable because they are...less driveable.

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@AK_Urban_1

6 months

Fellow northern city Whitehorse having an absolute banger of a year for transit ridership after they improved routes and reliability. Free fares found to be less important🚌👏 Anchorage can do this too

City of Whitehorse

@city_whitehorse

6 months

The City is celebrating record-breaking success for Transit as it continues making improvements to its bus system. April saw the highest ridership figures in the system’s history with 86,374 rides taken. System-wide improvements will continue this summer.

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

One hard question I hope someone will ask AKDOT: did you pay for this using paving funding, or safety funding? If it's paving, it doesn't seem appropriate, if it's safety, then please hire better engineers. The clear safety fix would have been adding crossings (purple)

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@AK_Urban_1

1 year

Great pic and awesome building

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@AK_Urban_1

4 months

5/Makes me think of the old saying: "Society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit" Except the modern version for Anchorage wld be: "Society grows feeble when old people block housing because they will personally never need it..." shame on them

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

2 months

Great find here: In January of this year, the AKDOT commissioner boasted about how AK always gets lots of redistribution money from the federal government. 7 months later, AK is in last place, getting only $19 million out of $8.7 billion available...

Dermot Cole

@DermotMCole

2 months

State transportation department fails to explain loss of tens of millions in highway funds: Posts from Reporting From Alaska for 09/01/2024 -

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

2 years

@kaylicthompson 1. Get rid of parking minimums (costly, not effective) 2. Allow single staircase residential up to 6 stories 3. Lot size/coverage 4. Simplify /delete design standards 5. Simplify setbacks 6. Allow up to 6 stories in the city 7. No more TIAs 8. Urban: all mixed use

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@AK_Urban_1

10 months

My holiday wish: allow so much new housing to be built in Anchorage that there's always plenty available for everyone.🏘️

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

4 months

Great op-ed on why housing density makes sense if we *actually* care about the environment. Good to keep in mind the next time someone living on the hillside throws a tantrum about housing & also pretends to care about the environment

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@AK_Urban_1

5 months

Let's make Anchorage a city of pilot projects that convert into better infrastructure over time. Why shouldnt we be the innovation leaders that other "winter cities" look to?

Ben Matheson

@benmatheson

5 months

my two predictions: -this will be a great lesson in showing how quickly and dramatically our infrastructure can change with minimal equipment -the sidewalk on the north side of 6th will be a much nicer place to walk with a bike lane buffer.

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

2 years

It's hard to describe how different it feels driving on northern lights when it is two lanes, slow speed, and with a very healthy median--in contrast to AKDOT's preferred design it's almost... pleasant.

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@AK_Urban_1

2 years

It will be awesome to get new housing downtown. When people complain these are "luxury" apts, remember that the most luxurious type of housing is that which needs tons of space, infrastructure, and upkeep--low density sprawl. New housing is always $$$, then moderates over time

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

2 years

How often have you heard: "We can't fix Anchorage because Alaskans just love their cars too much"? A 🧵exploring where that statement goes wrong: 1/

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@AK_Urban_1

7 months

1/ It's time Anchorage got serious about PublicLandMaxxing for housing: the golf course on O'Malley is nearly 9 million square feet of beautiful rolling land, low seismic risk, no wetlands. Now pays only ~$22,000 a year in taxes. Only golf welfare lovers would oppose this.

push the needle

@pushtheneedle

4 years

What if we took a 160 acre golf course and repurposed it for housing and saved 95% of all the trees? Now you have 40,000 people living on two future light rail stops with a wonderful tree-lined dense walkable neighborhood

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

4 months

Lol--the guy who wrote this op-ed was part of the working group that created one of the *most exclusionary* special limitations on housing anywhere in the city. Total clown world revisionism 😂

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AK_Urban

@AK_Urban_1

1 year

The police report stated they charged this guy with a DUI sometime after 9am. How many more people are driving around Anchorage in multi-ton vehicles in the middle of the day!?

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