I went to an onsen (hot spring) town in Japan. They have hot spring water, so on a lot of the streets business owners just turn the hose on and point it downhill. Worked pretty well for keeping the streets clear of snow, but requires a lot of existing geographical conditions.
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The outer Richmond and outer Sunset are incredibly reactionary, car-brained NIMBYs. Only reason this went through is because it got put to a citywide vote. Left to the Board of Supervisors there's no way it would have gotten through. I think the Sunset dipshits are already trying to recall their supe for letting it happen.
I'd be interested to know whether the majority of those cost increases came from labor or materials. Or, possibly, just additional graft off the top by the contractors if Pasadena doesn't use in-house crews for their paving.
But cities like Pasadena have some of the easiest conditions possible for maintaining roads since they never (or only very rarely) get below freezing.
I do actually doubt that pride-themed anti-homeless spikes exist.
But I've seen people post and fall for this same image so many times it's like they want them to.
If you go look at street view of this street and the proposed alternative Liverpool Drive, you can see a few things:
- Eastbound Birmingham is already so wide that drivers are leaving enough room for bikes anyway.
- Liverpool has street parking where Birmingham does not, so obviously any reuse of that roadway for bikes would face vociferous opposition.
- The street is steep for bikes, but there aren't really alternatives to the grade up from the ocean.
So yeah, obviously classic bad faith socal nimbyism. All of that could be solved by the American local government's worst enemy: physical separators.
You have no idea what a tankie is.
By that metric fucking Lula is a tankie.
Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Just going to point out that it's kind of an unreasonable expectation that people will not be sweaty when it's that hot outside.
Or even just painting curbs, since they say they'll still ticket drivers parked at painted curbs.
K & R? In 2025? That's not Rust!
Well we've got all that in the US already, so can we just do the version where we get trains in addition to the other stuff, instead of just the other stuff?