Whoa, this is so cool. I was the designer on the original edition of Streetmix, the friendly street builder web app we did at Code for America.
Ten years later, someone made a mod for Cities Skylines game that basically recreated our UI within the game. I don’t think I have ever had my work remixed in such an interesting way!
🎙️ “The Urbanist Agenda: NYC REALLY Screwed Up Congestion Pricing (with Doug Gordon) (50m)” https://castro.fm/episode/bxEfxl
/by @notjustbikes /cc @TheWarOnCars
I listen to stuff like this and it is ALWAYS the state / province which holds the city back and often screws it over.
North America desperately needs devolution of power to municipalities.
New York City was about to roll out congestion charging. The cameras were up, the staff were hired, the metro projects were financed, and thousands of people were lined up to make public transit better ... and then the governor cancelled it on vibes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing_in_New_York_Cityhttps://thewaroncars.org/2024/06/07/kathy-hochuls-congestion-pricing-flip-flop-fiasco/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/new-york-city-toll-hochul-democrats-00161930https://hellg…
Next Saturday at noon, in NYC, join us for a very different kind of bike ride. It’s a free musical experience with sound, song, and some performances on bike and off! See DOT’s improvements on Broadway and envision how good it can be without cars.
Imagine a Broadway designed for people, creativity, and a livable, green future. Be part of the Broadway Bike Down, a creative bike ride. When: Sat July 27 from 12-2pm. We will meet up at Columbus Circle in front of the monument Ride End: Union Square South Route Guide: Route details will be shared ahead of ride. Celebrate the Magic of Broadway by bringing our car free Broadway dreams to life on this slow roll bike ride down Broadway. We will be biking together with music, on-bike performers, and a lot of community energy. The Broadway Linear Park Campaign calls for the creation of a green, car-free space along Broadway from Union Square to Central Park through the vision of broadway in 5 Acts. With our voices, bikes, and community, and activism, we will transform Broadway into a green, musical, and exploratory oasis. Broadway Bike Magic is presented by The Broadway Linear Park Campaign, ArtEvolve, and Transportation Alternatives. Lauren Larken and Stephen Scuderi will MC the ride with live music and NYC performers. Wear your finest green, sparkly, and creative garb! Join and participate: Join the ride as a participant! This ride is free and open to the public! We encourage all participants to be curious, to bring their creative selves, and be open to boogying with us! Wear green, and anything sparkly and festive that allows you to express your most expressive self! Costumes are welcome and encouraged! Volunteer as a ride marshal! We are looking for experienced safety marshals to keep everyone safe and comfortable on our ride. Please contact Emily at [email protected] if you are interested in volunteering as a bike marshal. Ride Accessibility. The ride is accessible for all ages, helmets encouraged, little ones and families welcome. Please be comfortable riding in a straight line on a bike. This ride will be a slow roll, giving us plenty of time to take in the surroundings and be together as a community. Experienced safety marshals will keep us safe and prepared along the ride. Helmets are required for this ride. About the organizers: Art Evolve is a 501c3 not for profit organization who incubates activism projects through multidisciplinary art, music & bicycles. We co-founded: Right to Be, House of YES, Will and Whit Project and Broadway Bicycle Magic. ArtEvolve.org Broadway Linear Park is a grassroots campaign led by volunteers proposing the creation of a green, car-free space from Union Square to Central Park. The Broadway Linear Park will transform the avenue into a new destination, integrating nature, art, design, and people in a unique way, inspiring New Yorkers and visitors. Let's give New York City a great new attraction, flowing right through the heart of Manhattan. Transportation Alternatives’ is an advocacy organization with a mission to transform New York City streets into safe, sustainable, equitable places to walk, bike, take public transit, gather, and thrive.
Yes! Except this isn't about "how much the city might have collected in one hour," but instead:
+ Better trains
+ Faster buses [notice the cop car helping clog the bus lane?]
+ Less pollution
+ Faster ambulances
+ Safer cyclists
+ Greater economic productivity
+ More jobs
+ A more livable New York
#NYC #climate #sustainability #cars #bikeNYC #cycling #CongestionPricing
Words like "moderate" and "centrist" are weasel words with no clear meanings.
In San Francisco, they mask the *extreme* politics of tech figures who increasingly align with authoritarian Donald Trump.
Read my op-ed in the @sfchronicle
@abucci @markhurst
I'm sure Google sees this as just another critical news cycle. They're used to it. And, unfortunately, Gemini makes perfect sense if you know the details.
You see, Search makes Google a ridiculous amount of money. Vastly more than anything else they do. But those Search profits aren’t growing like they used to, back in the 2000’s when the Internet was growing and putting a powerful wind in young Google’s sails. So, there’s pressure from shareholders to make Search more profitable, and to find value in other places.
That’s why over the past decade they’ve tried jamming so many things into Search, and jamming Search into so many things. But it’s not working. Not really. Nothing they did was a huge draw, but it all got piled into the code base, and now it’s massive technical debt. For that reason, Search is becoming a burden. Google needs it, but it costs a fortune to maintain, and it can take literally decades or even centuries of engineering time to make big changes.
Marcin Wichary
Andres
Heliomass has moved
Broadway Linear Park
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Gil Duran
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