"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

What the Midwest would look like if it had Spain's HSR system. (Reddit) Chicago - Minneapolis: 3.5 hours Chicago - St. Louis: 2.5 hours Chicago - Dayton: 2.5 hours Chicago - Detroit: 2 hours

According to Bloomberg, traffic congestion in NYC was the worst in the country, costing $9.1 Billion in 2023. Hey, but at least everyone can drive their metal box into Manhattan for free.

Fewer things changed my perspective on the reality of American cities than the realization that they weren't built for the car, but demolished for it. (Interstate highway construction in Kansas City MO, 1957)

Good to know this will be replaced for storage of three parked cars.

The Dutch invest €500M—€30 per capita—per year in cycling. What is the return? Over 1,000 km and 60 hours of cycling per capita per year; preventing 6,500 deaths and €19B in healthcare. Don’t ask whether you can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether you can afford not to.

Paris is building dozens of miles of new subway lines. Meanwhile, you just defunded the only subway expansion in New York City when you suspended congestion pricing.

i am in an uber in LA about to scream so i am going to post this map of the Paris RER overlaid to scale. cities can be easier to get around if we want them to be

Just saying

This is what I want to see AI used for, not to create yet another social media auto replier for marketing.

For the most part, Colleges are the only place where walkable urbanism exists and was never made illegal.

Yes to this. “If half of American lawns were replaced with native plants, we would create the equivalent of a 20 million acre national park, nine times bigger than Yellowstone or 100 times bigger than Shenandoah National Park." - Doug Tallamy

America has only declined in 4 narrow ways: -Forgot how to build subways -Forgot how to run railroads -Banned walkable apartments & cool skyscrapers -Sacrificed the institutions of adult friendship for helicopter parenting, long commutes, & easy solo digital entertainment

“The mark of an advanced society is not that the poor drive but that the rich take transit.” Oslo:

What Silicon Valley was meant to look like if NIMBYs hadn’t fought for it to look like one big, glorified office park:

Instead of listening to Kathy Hochul at the DNC, here’s a picture of new elevators in the subway that will not be seen in 70+ stations because she unfunded them at the expense of rich suburban drivers.

The reason the average American and elected official aren’t sold on transformative transit investments is that they’ve never been to other countries where metro areas like Kansas City have robust local and regional transit options. It’s a cycle we must break.

These are not "unconference" rules - they are the Principles of OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY that are part of an overall methodology (read it and follow the instructions as a whole). Other formats fit under the Unconference umbrella too - World Cafe, Fishbowls, Spectrograms.