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Reducing state and federal infrastructure costs while boosting local economies by strengthening urban places is a win-win from in-city freeway transformation.

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@WalkableDFW

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The Paris metro 1 line moves 4x as many people each day than the busiest DFW highway. Dallas is full of cars but empty of people.

Dallas Texas TV

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WE. ARE. FULL. (Via IG/ emilyylandon)

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Highways remain terrible for mass evacs, on of their original core purposes.

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Traffic backing up out of Tampa north on I75

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the answer is white supremacy and it has been tremendously costly to all taxpayers.

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why did we do this? why did we spend billions to ruin our beautiful city and make everyone miserable.

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Dallas is built as if there is no sun, no heat, nor wind b/c we copy/pasted our zoning and development from everywhere else in the country rather than considered our climate. Our climate analog is Sevilla, Sp, which is built for the climate:

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Studies show some neighborhoods in Dallas are 10 degrees higher than others because of the infrastructure and lack of greenery.

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1 year

Two cities; two infrastructure networks:

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It is completely insane to toll the perimeter and have the highway thru the center be free.

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2 years

Spending the 20th century building this rather than real transit networks is the greatest city-building blunder in history

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Single family zoning is heavily subsidized.

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5 years

Siri, show me what governmental failure looks like

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Can't believe these cities are't smart enough to run international trucking freight directly thru the city center

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Hellscape

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Highways occupy 320 acres of real estate within 1-mile radius of the center of downtown Dallas, land worth more than $10 billion.

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High speed rail in Texas is a massive, costly boondoggle that wastes money and grabs land. It is enormously unpopular for a reason.

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@salimfurth having adequate rail service as well.

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They're cooking up the next hurricane as we speak

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when you propose bringing affordable housing into the neighborhood

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World class transportation system, functioning perfectly on a Saturday. I can see the planet warming from Klyde Warren Park.

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@raywinTX free parking and free highways is not how one creates vibrant central cities.

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4 years

I didn't say it. The NYT editorial board did.

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Notice how large the public transit isochrones are for LA and ATL, people won't shift modes unless we shrink the driving isochrone like London and Berlin.

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@schmangee @pushtheneedle where we're going we don't need any roads.

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Car dependence is a national security risk

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I recall during the city's West Dallas planning effort it was very important to "preserve single family zoning" to "prevent gentrification". Now, it's littered with these:

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Hear me out. What if we could sub-divide the overly large minimum single lot size?

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1 year

When the 210 highway was built thru Pasadena CA in the 1970s it immediately wiped out 10% of the city's tax revenue.

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5 years

Wild. Who could've predicted

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This is the result every time Dallas preserves single family zoning "to prevent gentrification."

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3 years

Congratulations to Tarrant County on having the lowest vax rate of major Texas cities and today having the most covid cases of any Texas county.

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

Don't build highways that disconnect people from destinations.

TxDOT Austin

@TxDOTAustin

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Don’t walk on the highway. It is too dangerous. Drivers could lose control and hit you. #ATXtraffic #txdotwx

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@WalkableDFW

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if you want tourism build walkability, not convention centers.

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The answer here is that there shouldnt be a 35 thru the center of Austin bc it is bad at its one job (precisely bc of location) and it sits on several billions in land value, potential housing, and tax base.

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

A city not built strictly for the car is adaptable and resilient; can seemingly change overnight. Unfortunately, we spent decades wrecking adaptable urban form into something very fragile and will take similar time and investment to restore US cities to this level of efficiency.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

4 years

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

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5 years

Nice neighborhood ya got there. Shame if something happened to it.

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1 month

Makes cutting DART's funding seem like a pretty bad idea.

Dallas Texas TV

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WE. ARE. FULL. (Via IG/ emilyylandon)

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@WalkableDFW

5 years

Tonight the @dartmedia board of directors unanimously approved the contract to hire @humantransit to help redesign the bus network, the first complete reimagining in the agency's history.

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@WalkableDFW

5 months

Let's say average fare for a weekday trip on the Elizabeth Line is $4. The 700k trips on 260 days of the year are generating $728 million annually in fare revenue annually. How much is the Katy Freeway generating in revenue?

sam

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London’s new Elizabeth line moves almost twice as many people per day as the 28-lane Katy Freeway in Houston highways are simply not an efficient way to move a lot of people in an urban area

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4 years

Texas: can't winterize grid, can propose this.

Christof Spieler

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The next TxDOT proposal for Houston: widening I-10 through the Heights.

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@GMUW1987 unfortunately the buses have to share lanes with single occupancy vehicles

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8 years

You sell cars and solar panels for single family homes.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging...

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Upzone all of this to unlimited height and allow mixing of uses.

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

That's called a highway and they were a catastrophically expensive failure.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

@Erdayastronaut @flcnhvy Individualized mass transit is the future

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@WalkableDFW

3 years

Sorry about gas prices. Can I interest you in building walkable, transit-friendly neighborhoods (and passing policies that enable them)?

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3 years

Casual day in Bishop Arts

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3 years

I once walked 16 miles in a day in Paris. You don't notice how far you've gone when you're brain can process things other than "how do i not die crossing this street?"

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@WalkableDFW

6 months

This is what a failing city does. It is reactive rather than proactive. It continues to cut away at its own foundations rather than fix the underlying problem that the entire municipality is insolvent unless it attracts more people. Necropolis.

Dallas City Council could consider diverting DART funding to address pension crisis

DART says sales tax reduction would detrimentally impact the transit agency’s services

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

So that's what happens when you don't replace buildings with highways and parking lots

Chris

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Crazy how Melbourne has grown. This is 1950 vs 2020. That’s 70 years or growth @cityofmelbourne via my page @oldvintagemelbourne (Instagram).

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4 years

on the violence that has long been underreported:

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1 year

American cities as well as federal, state, regional, and local transportation policy perpetuating misguided and ultimately failed 1960s thinking to this day:

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1 year

In all likelihood, no matter where you are, despite all of those property taxes you pay [Cali exempted] your single family home is being subsidized by more dense development (or the bill for life cycle costs on the subsidizing infrastructure/services hasnt come due).

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@WalkableDFW

4 months

Step 1: never allow highways into your city

push the needle

@pushtheneedle

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seattle has so much to learn from our much more successful neighbor to the north

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5 years

Paris metro map overlaid onto Dallas

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@pushtheneedle

5 years

Hey @WalkableDFW imagine having 16 lines & 245 stops inside Loop 12...

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@WalkableDFW

9 months

Not only should it not be widened. 35 should be removed with all interstate traffic re-routed to 1, 183, and 130

KUT Austin

@KUT

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Opponents of TxDOT's plans to widen I-35 are taking their fight to federal court. The legal complaint echoes calls heard at rallies and from local elected officials against one of the largest road projects in Austin's history.

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Found hell.

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4 years

"...found that low-income households that obtained a car were able to work more hours and earn approximately $2,300 more per year, which sounds great, but they spent an additional $4,100 annually on their vehicles, so they ended up with less time and less money overall."

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1 year

A whole 1,000 per day, huh?

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2 years

Driving is freedom.

Intel Point Alert

@IntelPointAlert

2 years

DEVELOPING: Numerous people ‘stuck’ inside parking garage at American Dream Mall in New Jersey #EastRutherford l #NJ Traffic has reportedly been at a standstill for hours inside the mall’s garage. Panicked shoppers are calling 911 for assistance. Working to gather more details.

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4 years

Soviet bread lines, but in vehicles that cost on average $9k/year to own, register, maintain, and operate.

Eric Feigl-Ding

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4 years

Dystopian—thousands of people waiting in lines for food in Dallas, Texas. This is what Trump’s failure as a leader has led to during this pandemic. #COVID19

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Dear millenials, you really need to show up to vote.

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9 months

You know what has never made sense, a $4B high speed rail line from Dallas to Fort Worth that never gets up to speed and would still take 30-plus minutes when we could just add express trains to the TRE.

Dallas to Fort Worth high-speed rail has some planning head scratchers

The early stages Dallas to Fort-Worth high-speed rail project was presented to Dallas City Council's transportation committee last week. The briefing raised...

www.dallasnews.com

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5 years

Dallas wasn't built for the car. It was bulldozed and re-built for it. Rate of commuting to work by transit in 1960:

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@dfdunham Gotta have my 5br/4ba without a single amenity within walking distance.

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Hartford, what you doin?

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Have you noticed how future population projections lead to highway expansions but never housing policies?

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6 months

The Onion?

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Dallas named the third 'most-walkable' city in the nation

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4 years

Some people travel to take pictures of monuments and historical sites. I take pictures of the true novelty: small-lot infill housing.

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1 year

The closest analogue to Dallas climate is Seville. They built for their climate. We build reflective glass buildings to make ambient sidewalk temperatures 140+ degrees.

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8 months

Every single deck park is better without the highway beneath.

Barrett Linburg

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Dallas has mastered the deck park Klyde Warren park is on every "must visit" list for tourists and plenty of locals go there to enjoy a nice afternoon It covers Woodall Rodgers Expressway, connects Uptown with downtown, and has VASTLY increased property values and rents of

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4 years

This is land 1 mile south of downtown Dallas, a major American city.

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7 months

Feel like we're getting awfully close to having to have a serious conversation about opening up the Knox Street subway station:

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@WalkableDFW

2 years

The Eisenhower Admin. opposed inner loops primarily because of cost, but they also knew it was bad transportation design. Meanwhile, the Robert Moses acolytes in the BPR were convinced inner-city highways would solve local traffic problems. Inner loops are congestion multipliers.

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@WalkableDFW

2 years

It's because they imagine their current car-requisite world as suddenly carless where everyone would be stranded and helpless rather than imagining or believing that building another way is even possible.

People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One

Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?

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@WalkableDFW

3 months

Attn: Dallas.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

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Lo and behold, the city recently renovated the plaza around city hall. This will look even better when the trees have a chance to mature.

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@WalkableDFW

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this is gorgeous and illegal in most of Dallas.

YIMBYLAND

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I want to live in a city where people choose to stay and raise their families instead of moving to the burbs. Building beautiful multi-unit housing for families is key to this vision. I believe that Austin will be ground-zero for bringing families back into the city.

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4 years

Better use of an off-street space than a car IMO

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@WalkableDFW

11 months

I couldnt be turned off more by this before/after, but a reminder, the gentrification and displacement that is happening in West Dallas is specifically due to the West Dallas plan from 2011 that maintained SF zoning "to prevent gentrification".

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

Study this issue long enough and you've read the exact same story in every city. Just change the neighborhood names and highway numbers.

L.A.’s freeways might be the most racist monuments in California

Spewing carbon monoxide across L.A. on the freeway system feeds into a pot of racism and segregation that’s been stewing for nearly a century.

www.latimes.com

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

Austin is about to build a legitimate transit system...yet still spend $7 billion expanding I-35.

CBS Austin

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4 years

BREAKING: Proposition A, the $7 billion project to expand bus and rail lines across Austin, has been approved by voters

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@WalkableDFW

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Why is our infrastructure failing? Why are we on a high cost treadmill just to prevent infra from failing? Why is there so much pressure to raise property taxes? Land productivity is too low compared to life cycle costs of infrastructure.

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Cities w/ greatest proportion of downtown area given over to highway ROW (w/in 1-mi radius of center of CBD): Dallas - 15.68% KC - 13.01% Tulsa - 12.95% FW - 11.91% Cincy - 11.52% ATL - 11.23% Mpls - 11% CLT - 10.77% Hou - 10.71% Columbus - 10.53% Pgh - 10.39% SD - 10.02%

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@WalkableDFW

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In a handful of US cities between 10-12% of their downtown land w/in 1-mile radius of the epicenter of downtown is unperforming highway right-of-way for what should be their most valuable and productive taxable land.

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3 years

Siri, show me a bad transit system.

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10 years

If we just spend a few more billion we'll finally solve congestion. Promise http://t.co/cmOrCsQKiN

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Population density maps for Charlotte, first in 1960 (first two images, red lines where the highways came in), then in 2000.

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@WalkableDFW

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2 extensions, 2 new lines. Every neighborhood connected to every neighborhood in Downtown 360 geography w/in 1 transfer. Combines serving existing activity areas w/ leveraging investment and growth needed for value capture towards operations $.

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@WalkableDFW

4 months

Stop wasting money.

CultureMap Dallas

@CultureMapDAL

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TX Dept. of Transportation seeks input on 'record-breaking' 10-year plan

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trading one home for one home, preserving single family zoning virtually assured gentrification and a loss of affordability as supply of housing couldn't match new demand.

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@WalkableDFW

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1) our infrastructure and mobility choices subsidize outward growth as we prioritize travel distance over efficient land use 2) Dallas has not sufficiently invested in walkable, complete n'hoods 3) Dallas needs a land use vision and development code that allows for infill dvlpmnt

Enrique MacGregor

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Why are Dallasites moving to the suburbs?

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@WalkableDFW

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Suffolk County, NY has more than 10x the cases as Dallas County and half the density for all those "are cities the cause and are they dead" takes

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@WalkableDFW

7 years

Not Amsterdam, just everywhere else.

Robbie Calvert

@calvertplans

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Thank god this 1960s American transport planners vision for Amsterdam wasn’t realised.

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@WalkableDFW

4 years

Adequate federal and state funding that instead goes to wasteful highway expansion projects.

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3 years

whoops

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7 months

@TxDOT Detroit has interstates. How did this line of thinking work out for them? Or those who lost homes or businesses to the construction of inner-city highways? Or, the 40,000 Americans killed annually on roads?

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@WalkableDFW

3 years

FYI, the entire DART system will be fare free for a week celebrating the launch of the new bus network starting January 24th.

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@WalkableDFW

6 months

That's great! I look forward to public transit showing up in your budgets.

TxDOT

@TxDOT

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Hey Texas explorers! Did you know that connecting folks with our vast state is one of TxDOT’s top missions? ✈️🚆🚍 #TxDOTTransit Learn more here:

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"The theory behind the interstate highways was to evacuate cities in case of ICBM attack. Houston had a one day long traffic jam during Hurricane Rita and 100 people died in the jam. They're not even good at what theyre supposed to do."