Skinny kid from Cleveland. ||| Tax parking to fund transit.

Joined August 2008
Jeffrey Weston Sleasman 🔰 retweeted
Forever in our hearts, Nikki. 🖤 Been thinking about you a lot lately.
A good time to bring this back. We lost amazing women in #Cle this week. Lives that may still be here if we had listened to them, if we paid more attention to those around them, if we strongly considered the impact of our neglect to prevent/end violence against women. Alas...
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"Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car." dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
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"Killing 43,000 people a year is not the cost of doing business; it isn't ethically responsible to walk away from that and say, 'Well, that's what it costs to have a great and capacious highway system.'" usa.streetsblog.org/2024/10/…
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"For decades, Congress has poured money into the same flawed system. We’ve seen the results of that strategy. It’s time to make smarter investments in our transportation system." smartgrowthamerica.org/three…
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While disabled people are more reliant on public transit, accessibility barriers in our current transportation system can contribute to feelings of isolation & loneliness. Learn how to be ally for people with disabilities, especially when using transit. smartgrowthamerica.org/one-d…
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Jeffrey Weston Sleasman 🔰 retweeted
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new program, the Center for Zoning Solutions! Read a letter from our Director of Land Use and Development, Toccarra Nicole Thomas, to learn more about the Center! ⤵️ smartgrowthamerica.org/a-not…
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There are civic pride benefits to having all kinds of things that shouldn't get big subsidies. From having Fortune 500 company headquarters to architecturally attractive millionaire mansions to, yes, pro sports. But the beneficiaries are private
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There are also civic pride arguments to any number of *public goods*. Better to spend tax money on those.
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