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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Updated comparison chart, now including cargo ebikes.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

6 months

So each of those 38 people attacked someone on the subway about every two weeks for an entire year. And the NYPD knows who they are. And the response is "random bag screenings".

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

There are huge swaths of cities (Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc) that have quaint characteristics that urbanists claim to love (along with permissive zoning & transit), but are underpopulated because of crime. You'll never see urbanists mention this. Instead, they target suburbs.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Trains are slow bc they make stops to pick up and drop off people other than you. The solution would be some kind of point-to-point transportation where ppl can go from anywhere to anywhere. That would be much faster. Maybe we should invest in something transformative like that.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Why do urbanists care about suburban zoning when there are huge depopulated swaths of cities with liberal zoning and public transportation? Why create cities out of suburbs when the cities already exist?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

7 months

Disincentiving car ownership requires ubiquitous dense housing, fast frequent transit, and a strong determined government. And even then, people were willing to be placed on a fifteen-year long waiting list for a Trabant.

Sarah

@Henryz_mom

7 months

Please help me come up with an exhaustive list of policies that would effectively disincentivize individual car ownership. A friend asserted that parking is the answer. I believe parking is key, but there are many other things local, state, and federal gvts can do.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

"Why would anyone own a car in transit-rich NYC?" Car: 18 minutes Transit: 2 Hours 5 Minutes

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

For decades, planners have been designing "roads for people". Almost every time, no one shows up; for example, like in this picture. It's why dozens of failed pedestrian malls across the country were ripped out.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Chart illustrates the value that people place on single-family homes.

Harlo Pippenger 🥕🛠🎀

@PippengerHarlo

2 years

chart like this implies that if you go dense enough cost per unit should be relatively affordable. That clearly doesn’t happen

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

3 years

"People have the right to walk on the street and not fear for their safety" is not empathetic? What should he say? People deserve to live in fear of violent attacks?

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

Watch: Andrew Yang’s response to a question about how he would handle mental health during Wednesday's NYC mayoral debate drew fire on social media from people who said it lacked empathy or understanding.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Possible answers: A) As the population became richer, they were able to spread out and live in better housing B) People actually enjoyed living in crowded tenement slums, but were pushed out against their will

FuckCars

@FuckCarsReddit

2 years

umm I wonder what caused this.....

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

11 months

@ShabazzStuart In theory, speed governors are a good idea. In practice, they might not be set for an optimal safety/speed balance, but instead be set too low to satisfy car-hating fanatics.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

@Boenau The $15.38 toll on that approach didn't seem to eliminate congestion. You just want to punish people for driving because it feels good.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

My walkable downtown is Costco. I can shop for almost anything, I run into people I know, and can always socialize over a hot dog. And unlike a "real" downtown, it's climate controlled -- and the membership requirement filters who can get in. Lots of parking, too.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Urbanists can't grasp that their paradise can’t be achieved with “funding”. US cities differ from European cities largely bc of cultural differences. That lesson wasn’t learned when tons of $$$ was wasted on building ped malls, and is now ignored with bike lane construction.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Car hatred can often be *because* driving is easy and convenient. Ritualistic suffering, like biking in miserable weather or riding on uncomfortable transit, can be seen as an initiation rite into the urbanist club and a license for moral posturing.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

@mnolangray Are those Section 8 apartments?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

I pay transit taxes every time I: - Renew my drivers license - Renew my registration - Buy gas - Pay tolls (To say nothing of sales/income/mortgage taxes) And yet I'm told that, as a driver, I'm the one being subsidized. But by whom?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

6 years

The city took over the subways in 1940.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

I see affluent educated people casually spending the day at outdoor cafes vs proles who need transportation to get to filthy jobs that the cafe crowd's grandparents used to do. It's OK to have preferences.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

The choice for city improvement: Urbanists - Density, bike lanes, "diversity", ped streets, transit, no cars. Normal people - Remove the crazies who shout/urinate/menace in the streets/subways, and make it possible to cross a street w/o getting hit by a wrong-direction moped.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

@wanyeburkett This is like, "You'll get some benevolent tenants who will pay high rents to be nice..."

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Price comparison between cars and cargo bikes: Car: $25K Cargo Bike: $5K for a bike + $25K for a car when you realize that the bike is not what you need. (I'm just guessing here, but I'll bet that the avg cargo-bike owner is richer than the avg car owner.)

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

8 months

McDonald's feeds 100X more people each day than the number of people who commute by bike in the USA. And yet McDonald's isn't nationalized.

Transportation Alternatives

@TransAlt

8 months

Citi Bike moves more people each day than the entirety of many transit agencies, yet it doesn't receive any public funding. It's time to properly fund bike share and: ✔️ Bring Citi Bike to every neighborhood in all five boroughs ✔️ Ensure the system is affordable to all riders

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

10 degrees with 35 mph wind gusts now. If you're taking your newborn home from the hospital tonight, make sure that your cargo bike basket is insulated.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

People who are willing to pay for a detached house with a few bedrooms and baths, a yard, a short commute, and a school where their kids won't get beat up. That's who they decided to make their enemy.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

This is what people want everywhere, but the auto industry won't let it happen.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

9 months

Calculate the costs that this rally imposed on other people and file a class-action lawsuit against the participants and especially the coordinators.

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

9 months

#BREAKING Multiple roads into JFK Airport are BLOCKED by Ceasefire Now protesters demanding an end to the war in Gaza. #happeningnow

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Kids feel trapped in the suburbs. They need the sort of freedom that can only be enjoyed in the city.

Crime In NYC

@CrimeInNYC

2 years

A group of fifth graders was playing ball in a playground at Third and East 96th 4 p.m. Friday. A slightly older boy joined them. He "became upset by the rules" and motioned to his friends, who came over with pellet guns and began shooting.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

People seem to move to suburbs for mostly two reasons: 1. More space. 2. Insulation from people whose behaviors range from annoying to violent. Urbanism, as a branch of "progressive" culture, has contempt for both of these aspirations.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Maybe next week, cars should block bike lanes for the same reason, but that won't happen because most drivers are adults.

Adrian L. Childress

@ALChildress_

2 years

Cyclists block intersection to demand safer streets. #bikes #brooklyn #cyclists #nyc #safety #Traffic

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

6 years

Just a reminder that the longest commutes in the NYC region are from *inside* NYC.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

"car addiction" "affordable housing" "food desert" "congestion pricing" "social housing" "rapid transit" "transportation alternatives" Any others?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

My car's air recirculation system combined with closed windows made for a fairly smoke-free drive today. How was everyone's bike commute?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Wow, raining with 45 mph winds today! How was everyone's cargo-bike grocery shopping?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

6 years

It's Starbucks Brooklyn vs Family Dollar Brooklyn.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

American urbanists think that European cities look like the preserved tourist traps they see on vacation. But an arbitrary street view (in this case, of Utrecht) shows dumpy-looking houses hidden behind garages in a parking field -- exactly what they ridicule in the USA.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

9 months

This is what we should be aspiring to, no?

The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

9 months

@bellachu10 If the ambulance was a cargo bike, then it could use the bike lane.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Yes that's it, you'll always get a neighboring cafe. Never a... - Laundromat - Storefront church - Pawn shop - Liquor store - Bail bondsman - Strip club - Methadone clinic Also, what's so great about having a cafe (noise, people, odors, etc) next door?

Strong Towns

@StrongTowns

2 years

When many Americans hear “mixed-use development” they picture a chain store moving in next to their single-family home. We need to change that picture to neighborhood corner stores and cafes.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

It's 20 degrees with 45 mph gusts now, and I'm trying to decide whether I should personally delay climate change by riding on a cargo bike for a week's worth of groceries at Costco, or standing at bus stops for a two-transfer bus ride + a 20 min walk to accomplish the same thing.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 years

@pebonilla Doesn't seem right that the only people penalized were taxpayers, who had to pay the $50,000.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

3 years

They're getting a bit old, but they're still worth dredging up now and then. My all-time favorite demographics maps: Netflix 2010 rentals of "Paul Blart Mall Cop". It explains so much. (Wish I saved other cities besides NYC & Boston)

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

8 months

@Boenau The % of Americans who use the phrase "traffic violence" rounds to zero.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

3 years

@CaesarSalad99 Malls suffered status drift, just as many brands did; e.g., Timberland, North Face, Cadillac, Red Lobster.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 years

The golden age, before cars ruined everything.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Urbanists always get this backwards. The purpose of different transportation modes is to serve different densities and trip patterns. Transportation is a means, not an end. But urbanists think that people's living arrangements should be a means to support transportation.

John Massengale AIA CNU 🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️🚴‍♂️🇺🇦

@jmassengale

1 year

@JeffSpeckFAICP But what density supports a great subway system, a la London, Paris, and New York? The best system I know in a small city is Munich's, subsidized by the Federal government for the 1972 Olympics. It seamlessly combines regional rail with the local subway...

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

3 years

@CaesarSalad99 Epitomized by the former Randall Park Mall in suburban Cleveland. Once USA's largest mall, it turned into an extension of Cleveland's "inner city", and eventually shut down. Now it's an Amazon fulfillment center.

Randall Park Mall - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Desolate downtowns became desolate downtowns with ped malls, which then reverted to desolate downtowns with ripped-out ped malls. Bike lanes didn’t turn Manhattan into Stockholm; instead, they permitted greater opportunities for lawless motorbike behavior.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

"Homeowners like zoning in order to maintain property values" is a progressive smear intended to stoke envy/hate towards a fabricated cruel money-grubbing strawman. Homeowners want to enjoy a long-term lifestyle. They rarely think of what the resale value will be in 35 years.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

If congestion pricing is supposed to help drivers, then why is it being supported by the most virulent anti-car fanatics?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

This seems like a pretty cost- and energy-efficient vehicle to carry a few passengers and some groceries.

FuckCars

@FuckCarsReddit

2 years

Took the train to Costco 😎

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

Apartment buildings would be more "space efficient" if they had one large shared bathroom for all the tenants who, preferably, would be living in shared-family apartments.

Jedwin Mok

@jedwinmok

5 months

The average car occupancy in the US is 1.5. A bus only needs 3 people on it to be more space efficient than a car. No politics here, just facts and logic!

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

4 years

Costco does not price gouge. They sell Clorox wipes at normal prices. To get your wipes, just arrive at Costco about an hour before they open, and race to the wipes before they're sold out in 5 minutes. Thanks, Governor, for ensuring that "all NYers have access".

Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo

@NYGovCuomo

4 years

Price gouging on life-saving supplies including masks and PPE is abhorrent. We won’t allow it in NY so I’m signing legislation to ensure all NYers have access to critical supplies including masks at fair cost. Thank you @NewYorkStateAG @bradhoylman @nily .

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

"Car dependency" is a phrase only used by people who have never been bus dependent.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

7 months

There's no way this vehicle's operator can see pedestrians.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

"Congestion pricing" in NYC is different from other cities bc NYC lacks decent transit. Many/most people who drive to Manhattan do so bc transit is slow and the subway is repulsive. If the cost of driving is too high, they might permanently stay away.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

Americans, on avg, are killed by cars every 80M miles of driving. Almost like driving to the Sun. (And probably further if you're driving sensibly in a safe state like NY.) People on the subway are routinely confronted with THIS sort of thing. But, hey, no one was killed, right?

Councilwoman Vickie Paladino

@VickieforNYC

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Subway riders have to sit quietly and hope this deranged man doesn't decide to follow through and break someones face with his elbow. Because if someone effectively stopped him from threatening to murder people, Alvin Bragg would throw the book at him. And progressive

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

An obvious advantage of low-densities is that if you're surrounded by 5 neighbors instead of 25, that drastically reduces the chances that you'll be living near some annoying jerk.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

10 months

In a typical city, the time that it takes to get to your transit stop and wait for a vehicle to arrive is greater than the time it takes to make your *entire trip*, door-to-door, by driving. Urbanists call this "car dependency".

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

While buying 50 cu ft of mulch at Lowes, I was wondering how this would be accomplished with a cargo bike or public transportation. Answer: There's obviously no need for anyone to have a lifestyle that requires 50 cu ft of mulch. That's the correct response, right?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 years

What you need to know about "induced demand".

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

7 months

American cities were ruined by violent crime, the threat of violent crime, and the resulting low-trust environment. The epitome of urbanist jackassery is to instead blame highways. Crime predicts urban decay. Highway placement predicts nothing, esp bc highways are everywhere.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Flying 1st class is extremely expensive. Let's reduce that 1st class price by filling the section with coach seats, or better yet, standing room. That way, everyone will be able to afford 1st class!

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

The car-free city. No roads, no suburbs, just bliss.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

When I think of allocating public money to the neediest recipients, I think of building public transportation to ski resorts. What?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

10 years

1980: Before gentrification ruined Park Slope, Brooklyn. http://t.co/KL95Dmn6sw

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

8 years

Handy Flowchart: Should government get involved?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

They want transit because they say they're concerned about efficiency, and then they'll shut down an entire street so three people can sit in large chairs.

Open Plans

@OpenPlans

1 year

No one in a car has ever achieved this level of chill. Made possible by people-centered streets in @FlatironNY !

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

I really wish that these people would pick a city, move there, and replace highways with canals, ban cars, ban air conditioning, ban plumbing, ban refrigeration, collectivize all housing, whatever. Just go for it already and let's see what happens.

FuckCars

@FuckCarsReddit

2 years

Imagine how nice America would be if only 20% of urban highways were turned into canal greenspaces.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

9 months

Downtowns are no longer necessary for commerce. So urbanists want to convert them to places that resemble cities, but function as their playgrounds.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Oh no! A horrible traffic jam on the Cross Bronx Expressway will turn our otherwise delightful 7-minute drive into a 40-minute hell. Let's save time by using public transportation.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

7 months

This is not going to happen as long as urbanism is dominated by leftists who believe that American cities failed because of highway construction and not enough public housing.

Jason Cox

@jasoncoxnc

7 months

A painful truth that many in urbanism avoid (consciously or otherwise) is that even when things don’t rise to a crime, anti-social behavior makes people feel uncomfortable or unsafe and drives their decisions accordingly. If you want people to embrace urbanism you can’t tell

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

4 years

Dollar vans! They used to arrest dollar van operators. Then they accepted them, and now they rely on them.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

8 months

And yet there are families who for some reason prefer to live in spacious houses in quiet suburban cul-de-sacs.

Jason Curtis Anderson

@JCAndersonNYC

8 months

A residential building in Fidi is blocked by protesters chanting intifada. Parents with small children, senior citizens, and people who need to walk their dogs are blocked inside. I was told 911 was called and never showed. Protestors are making residents lives miserable.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

I'd have more respect for urbanists if they recognized that people like single family zoning for the quiet and spacious lifestyle, instead of smearing them with false accusations like they... ...want to limit supply to keep prices high ...are racist

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

3 years

If I felt that "more neighbors = more fun", I'd probably move to a crowded neighborhood instead of planting a sign in my big suburban lawn.

Taylor Hendrick

@ta_hendrick

3 years

Here we go ATL folk. HMU if you’d like one of these bad boys! @MoreNeighborATL

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

Some people prefer dense cities, and others prefer large houses in suburbs. Urbanists never even bother to *question* why people make the latter choice. Instead, they evangelize, trying to guide everyone to their imagined paradise. (Tip: Don't demonize if you want to evangelize.)

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

10 months

Supermarkets are no longer 13,000 sq ft because they learned that their customers preferred the convenience, comfort, and selection that can only be provided by 50,000 - 150,000 sq ft stores with ample parking. Love how A&P, of all stores, is used as an example here.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Once, downtowns were commerce centers. Those days appear to be over. Now, as industry and retail are gone and offices empty out, they're mostly for: -Govt offices -Residential -Leisure (focus on restaurants) -Tourism -Purposeless desolate shells -Fantasy urbanist plans

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

@TheLIRRToday @LIRR You can take the LIRR out of Penn Station but you can't take the Penn Station out of the LIRR.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

On one side: People who want to be left alone to live comfortable lives in spacious detached homes. On the other: Scolding sanctiminoous studio-apartment do-gooders (and hypocrites living in large homes) making unfalsifiable assertions about carbon emissions.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

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Here we go again, in blissful ignorance (or in deliberate manipulation) with "I want American downtowns to look like my last European vacation" pedestrian malls. They were ubiquitous, and except in a few college towns, they were failures and removed.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

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Why do urbanists think their dogma would work if it were only tried? Their formula of density, transit, walkabilty, "missing middle housing", trees, etc etc describes most of Chicago, and yet the results are dead desolate streets.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Is biking more efficient (cost per mile) than driving? Not if calculated correctly by putting its opportunity cost in the numerator: Biking roughly triples your "time cost". If your time is valuable, biking is a horribly inefficient choice.

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The Suburbanist

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3-D Density map of New York City: http://t.co/PcIPtBed50 http://t.co/yfKwZQDXs8

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

For those who complain that their rent is too high, but love the awesome restaurants in their neighborhood: Move to a neighborhood that no one ever heard of and learn how to cook your own food, you're welcome.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

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Private cars: Always available, a custom environment, and operating at >3X the speed of the fastest alternative. They allow the masses to live in large well-spaced homes and the flexibility to effortlessly travel great distances. And yet, there are people who despise this.

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@The_Suburbanist

1 year

And yet, like lemmings, generation after generation of families keep making this stupid mistake. What's wrong with them? Why don't they know they should live in cities?

Strong Towns

@StrongTowns

1 year

Many people move to the suburbs when they have a family, but then find themselves more isolated than ever before. In contrast, walkable urban neighborhoods provide nearby access to amenities and more chance encounters that build community.

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The Suburbanist

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How is this "car dependent"? With little traffic, no grades, and a wide street, it looks pretty decent for biking. (And definitely better for biking than in the lawless chaos of transit-dependent Manhattan.)

FuckCars

@FuckCarsReddit

1 year

The sad part is that most people who live in car-dependent suburbs like this don't even know that there's something wrong with this picture.

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@The_Suburbanist

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As long as de Blasio is back in the news, it's a good time to remember that the cruelest thing he did to poor people was to help make NYC a Walmart desert.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

The real residential separation is between college grads (blue & green) and everyone else. The housing "crisis" is mostly among college grads who bid prices up to live near each other. Hey urbanists, where do you live? And who do you speak on behalf of?

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@The_Suburbanist

1 year

Here's the plan: 1. Make housing really dense 2. Don't increase road capacity 3. Demolish some highways 4a. Pretend that some transit system will be built to take everyone to a romanticized fantasy 1920s downtown OR 4b. Confine everyone to a 1.5 mile RT walk around their homes

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

11 months

Cars are expensive because people love owning cars. I know this because urbanists always say that land values in cities are high because people love living in cities.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

8 years

Based on recent construction costs, the entire NYC subway would cost about $1 Trillion to build today? And take about 3,000 years?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

1 year

What's the argument these days for public libraries? That poor children (too poor to own phones) need free access to a small room of used physical books to quench their thirst for knowledge? Related: Why do affluent suburbs need public libraries?

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

4 years

Watching the suburban transit bus roll by with zero passengers on it, which is about three fewer passengers than normal. At this rate, "bus driver" might be become one of the most isolating jobs.

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

Without minimum parking requirements, more cars would be cruising for a limited # of public spaces, creating proverbial "car sewers". Also, urbanists say that there should be less public parking. They don't want free-market parking; they want to end car use. MPR is their Step #1 .

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

5 months

Arguments they use for subsidizing transit: 1. "Driving is expensive. People can't afford it. Transit should be subsidized." 2. "Driving is cheap because of subsidies. That's why people drive. Transit should be subsidized."

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The Suburbanist

@The_Suburbanist

2 years

It's a special type of urbanist who can simultaneously claim that dense urban land is precious & valuable, and that it should also be used to grow crops via "urban farming".

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