Mastodawn

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇May 4, 2023

Do you know Smeed's Law?

The British engineer stated speed of urban traffic is self-regulating—attempts to increase it are self-defeating.

Avg. speed for #London traffic in 1949: 9 mph
Avg. speed of London traffic 65 years later: 8.98 mph.

Bicycles have *always* been faster.

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Adam Liss

@straphanger Reminds me of the article by @pluralistic on Disneyland, traffic, and the idea of the “Red Queens’s Race” https://doctorow.medium.com/managing-aggregate-demand-part-iv-8d2022a5125b

Managing aggregate demand (Part IV) - Cory Doctorow - Medium

This is Part IV in this series. In Part I, I opened the with news that Disneyland Paris is getting rid of its Fastpasses in favor of a per-ride, per-person premium to skip the line, and explored the…

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