Advanced transportation & smart growth
California
Joined March 2010
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Parisians can now be whisked by urban gondola from the suburbs to connect with the Metro in half the time of cars!🚡
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"[Our] readers support gondolas" "North Texas is the nation’s fastest-growing metro [and] congestion will significantly increase. New solutions are needed to enable the region to continue growing & prospering" #dallas dallasnews.com/opinion/lette… @PhilWalkable @bobbyfijan
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1⃣ Learn more about Swyft Cities below
2⃣ Follow @urbanistvc and @swyftcities for updates
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America is ravaged by PEDESTRIAN HELLSCAPES.
With Swyft Cities, we can *hop over* them. Pedestrians and bikes cost-effectively soar over cars and traffic, connecting and *growing* friendlier places near every stop.
This is a critical enabling technology for scaling urbanism — which is a critical, and still largely overlooked, climate solution. #SFClimateWeek
The need to provide connectivity across a barrier (freeways, rail yards, etc.) is an emerging trend amongst early @swyftcities customers.
📷: @Cities21's Pecha Kucha presentation at last night's
@SFClimateWeek Climate Tech + Built Environment event.
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5 Dallas-area cites are being considered for our first US implementation of @WhooshTransport autonomous elevated cable & rail system. Looking to bring advanced mobility to the fastest-growing metro area in the country @wfaa @PhilWalkable @YIMBYLAND wfaa.com/article/life/north-…
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These North Texas cities are being evaluated for 'aerial gondala' transportation system wfaa.com/article/life/north-…
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‘Uber-like’ elevated cable cars could be DFW’s next attempt at tackling traffic dallasnews.com/news/transpor…
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🧵 Where will you be able to ride with @swyftcities first?
It's official: FIVE North Texas cities — Dallas, Plano, Arlington, Frisco, and DeSoto — are vying for the first US systems. And that's not all, so stay tuned for more announcements!
As reported by @dallasnews and @WFAA:
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Transportation dictates urban form.
Why autonomous gondolas were born at Google:
The strategic value of transportation. 🧵👇
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It's rare to successfully reform large systems/institutions to get better outcomes if the reformers don't fully understand them.
Most "simple fix" ideas for climate = flatly irrelevant.
We need radical ideas that spring from expert insight.
We need a professional insurrection.
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Some credible opinions you can cite include Schellnhuber’s view that at +4 degrees Celsius only one billion survive.
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Conversations since this have convinced me that a ton of professionals engaged with climate/sustainability questions fear the potentially very real career consequences of pointing out the huge gaps between the scale of the crisis and the speed of their employers' actions.
Thousands of climate/energy/sustainability professionals wrestle with this fear of being branded as unreasonable (perhaps even made unemployable) if they're honest about the magnitude of the planetary crisis we face.
This is one of climate denialism's greatest victories. xitter.cf/solar_chase/status/102…
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On downtowns after COVID: "If global tech towers and fast-casual lunch chains reflected one downtown ideal, which is the model now in crisis, the post-pandemic downtown of Jackson Square—eclectic, crafty, and refined—is a vision on the rise." newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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.@repblumenauer: “There is no such thing as free parking. Two billion parking spaces in this country?! Here in Phoenix parking is 21% of the city’s land. That could be repurposed for housing to drive down costs. A single unit of parking adds $50k to multifamily housing projects.” – at Phoenix, AZ
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This week @WHO……
….rather than acknowledge their culpability and explain WHY they misled the world about SARS-CoV-2 AIRBORNE transmission….
…they chose to erase the word AIRBORNE and the mode of transmission terminology that led @DrTedros and @DrMikeRyan to deliberately deceive the world about SARS-CoV-2 transmission and thus how to stay safe.
Will we ever know WHY Mike Ryan had such a reluctance to use the word….
…and will we ever be sure they have learnt the lesson that deception and lies about vital facts and putting political considerations above scientific integrity can end in a monumental tragedy like a global pandemic??
Happening this week @WHO👇
We must apply lessons from the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic to be better prepared for the next one…
Maintaining/sustaining gains made across all aspects of the response is challenging but critical for future epidemics & pandemics who.int/news-room/events/det…
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Parking places a lot of hidden costs on society -even on those who don't own a car. Then add in environmental costs, lost opportunity costs from wasted land & costs in lower quality of urban life #parkingreform #newurbanism #urbanism #urbandesign @BusinessInsider @insidertranspo
Building housing becomes more difficult due to the cost of storing cars that many residents don't even have. @UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs has estimated that carless renters pay nearly half a billion dollars annually for parking they don't use. businessinsider.com/america-…
ALT A text graphic attributed to a study published in 2018 by the federal government's Government Accountability Office that says, “Parking added an average of $56,000 in costs per unit to multifamily housing in California and Arizona. Parking accounted for about 27% of per-unit costs, regardless of whether the resident owned a car or not.”
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"protected bike lanes are the best investment of a city’s infrastructure dollars when it comes to tackling the climate crisis" speedandscale.com/now-is-the…
@terplan’s 2014 Google Talk “solved” the Bay Area’s housing shortage. @cityofpaloalto was the worst offender. “There are policy reasons behind why rents are high, commutes long, and cars necessary. It doesn't have to be this way.” youtube.com/watch?v=OSEkM4ok…
@spur_urbanist brainstormed 30-story residential towers (a la Tyson’s Corner) for the Googleplex. @cayimby @paloaltoforward @yimbyaction @JointVentureSVN @TribTowerViews @SVLeadershipGrp
Decades of unbuilt Housing Elements are now countered by state policy, bringing UNSTOPPABLE new housing proposals forward via #SB330:
paloaltoonline.com/news/2023…