https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-15/la-habra-orange-county-coyote-village-condominiums-greenbelt-flood-channel-collapse-winter-storms

#BlameGame: Our #politics like our #infrastructure remain purchased by #fossilfuel possibilities rather than the #resilience and #safety needed for a warming planet.

#DonutCities #FiscalizingLandUses #PonziScheme #SegregatedSprawl #RevenueShortfalls #PolicePensions #HousePeopleNotCars

#FiscalizingLandUses #PonziScheme: #Cities across the country are experiencing inflexible #expenditures and highly constrained #revenues. Without residents’ demands being met, the prospects of hollowing out increase. #Budget #projections look bleak in many cities, with notable cases including large metros such as Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and New York City.

#SegregatedSprawl #Services #HousePeopleNotCars #WalkableCities

https://theconversation.com/san-jose-and-the-reemergence-of-the-donut-city-209319

https://theconversation.com/ever-larger-cars-and-trucks-are-causing-a-safety-crisis-on-us-streets-heres-how-communities-can-fight-back-206382

#laneDiets #CarFreeSchoolZones #MicromobilityPriorityParking #VisionZero #RegulateSafetyOutsideVehicles #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #HousePeopleNotCars

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/08/paved-paradise-grabar

In a new book, Paved Paradise: How #Parking Explains the World (Penguin Press), Grabar illustrates how Americans have saturated their cities with parking. Along the way, they have demonstrated that they often care more about housing cars than housing people.
#HousePeopleNotCars #CarFreeCityCentersPlease #WarsForOil

#UnionStation and the surrounding #neighborhood absolutely rocks. #Waiting for Amtrak back to the Bay Area. The Metro #BikeStation is in the first thing you see when you turn into Union station- as it should be if the architect didn’t go to the #fossilfuel school of design.

#DeschoolingSociety
#HousePeopleNotCars
#ParisAligned

#UnionStation and the surrounding #neighborhood absolutely rocks. #Waiting for Amtrak back to the Bay Area. The Metro #BikeStation is in the first thing you see when you turn into Union station- as it should be if the architect didn’t go to the #fossilfuel school of design.

#DeschoolingSociety
#HousePeopleNotCars
#ParisAligned

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-03/how-parking-conquered-los-angeles-in-14-facts-maps-and-figures

#HousePeopleNotCars: Considerably more space is devoted to #parking in L.A. than to roads themselves: 200 square miles to 140 square miles, according to the study.

Life downtown is navigating the dystopian and the make-believe, the frivolous and the consequential… the fluid line between hipsters, tech workers, financiers, drug users and homeless people turned into a strange pageant running east and west of Spring Street… A dazed woman in a blanket wandering toward the light of the Metro. Young men driving loud and wild beneath the stars.

#DTLA #HousePeopleNotCars

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-25/la-downtown-life-diary

In #poor countries the rising #middleclass is discovering that the first thing they want to buy when they can afford to is a #car. From Johannesburg to São Paulo, Bengaluru to Jakarta, the car is increasingly dominant. The fastest-growing #cities all over the world look more like Houstons than like #Amsterdams. And far more people live in them than in #America or #Europe. That is why unless we deal with the car, #climatechange is going to prove unstoppable.

Carmageddon: how cars make life worse and what to do about it. By Daniel Knowles. Page 23.

#ObliviousConsumption #taxtherich #HousePeopleNotCars #walkablecities #15minuteneighborhood

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/health-impact-tyre-particles-increasing-concern-air-pollution

#20sPlenty, especially on major #roads through low income communities: Small particles separate from tyres as cars travel, become airborne and can be inhaled deep into the lungs. #Airpollution causes 26,000 to 38,000 early #deaths a year in England and #particle #pollution has been linked to a wide range of #diseases.
#dirtyair #EnvironmentalJustice #HousePeopleNotCars

Established #media publish important policy ideas about a decade or two after Streetblog, Propublica, and other real news outlets! San Jose is here. But while it gets the #HousePeopleNotCars #movement right the article misses the bus on how #pricing can realize benefits now, and how #delivery and #shared #micromobility have also changed #parking within the #urban paradigm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/business/fewer-parking-spots.html

#HousePeopleNotCars: Sightline estimates that in Portland eliminating #ParkingMinimums stands to make about 37,000 potential new #homes less expensive to develop, and therefore more likely to start construction, or 20 percent of Kotek’s new homebuilding target for the Portland metro area, and 10 percent of the entire state. 
https://www.sightline.org/2023/02/02/with-flexibility-over-parking-oregon-homebuilders-get-to-work/