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Brittany Bailey

@beebailey.bsky.social
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Transportation nerd. Promenade Queen. Infrastructure Wonk. Staffer @MayorToddGloria , @YIMBYDemsSD. Streets should be safe for all ages & abilities.

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Brittany Bailey @beebailey.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
WHY
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
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Brittany Bailey @beebailey.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Oh so we’re just doing this now huh
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A raised crosswalk on a state-owned highway? They* said it couldn't be done! *every state DOT except for Hawaii apparently
Raised crosswalk on Kauai
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Brittany Bailey @beebailey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
And they say no one’s rides the bus….
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Molly Fleck @mollyfleck.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When people say things like "what about disabled people?" or "do you expect people to bike to the hospital?" as an argument against building better bike infrastructure, I always think of this particular member of the Chicago biking community. Glad to see her story featured today. 💖
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Brittany Bailey @beebailey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Literally running to the bus on the corner so I don’t miss it Get to the back end of the bus Bus drives off Fml 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt...
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What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
After years of arm-twisting, I am super excited that the State of Washington is one step closer to ending its Woonerf Ban. (Watch this space as the next legislative session convenes in January).
Woman riding a bike on a narrow street in Amsterdam.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 13/11/2024
"If you ask people what streets are for, they say cars. That's opposite of what they said one hundred years ago...Streets—venues of myriad public activities as late as 1920—were redefined as exclusive transport ways."
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.
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Sordan Jnodgrass @jsnod.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This is 2 blocks from an elementary school
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Oslo is presenting the results of its cycling strategy 2015-2025. Modal share: 🚲📈 6% to 9% 🚗📉 35% to 26%
PowerPoint slide: Modal share for Oslo. Two pie charts.
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