Read this article— some rare blunt honesty about choosing all the suburban “advantages,”including the fact that it’s heavily subsidized by the rest of us, and then complaining about the amount of traffic in your commute into the city. It may sound snarky, but it’s also true. “You know what the suburbs aren’t, though? Close to downtown.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/pellerin-choose-ottawas-suburbs-deal-with-the-traffic-woes

#Sprawl #Suburbia #Cities #Suburbs #cars #driving #city

This platform—#Mastodon—still lacks what I liked about Twitter all these years: enlarging my horizon beyond the usual suspects:

Follow a politician from Malaysia and a journalist from Zimbabwe alongside the IMF Managing Director. Learn about an earthquake in Mongolia from someone on the ground after a comment on Belgian party politics. Communicate with an activist in India and a bureaucrat in Palestine.

I think any modern platform should make accessible—and amply—voices we usually don't hear.

Paving tiles are so much easier to repair, pull & replace for utility work & #tree root care, and rearrange for new road layouts than #asphalt or #concrete.

Tiles are cheaper, can embed rather than spew #carbon, and provide drainage.

Photo next to #transit hub in #Lund #Sweden. White crosswalk pavers in arc of gray pavers. Smooth enough for #disability & #bike use. Perfect for #transit speed.

And pavers can hold the weight of a #bus.

#PavingTiles for the win!

#infrastructure #engineering

CW news

Driver Hits Kindergartener w/ Car in West Roxbury.
“BTD proposed a series of steps to make the road safer for pedestrians, including reducing the number of auto travel lanes, but pulled the plan after some vociferous residents accused the city of being under the control of evil outside interests, such as bicyclists, out to ruin their neighborhood.”
#transportation #bospoli #mapoli
https://www.universalhub.com/2022/driver-hits-kindergartener-crossing-centre-street

#France makes it official: take the high- speed train, don’t fly

France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/02/is-france-banning-private-jets-everything-we-know-from-a-week-of-green-transport-proposals