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Harsh Shah

@harshahahaaha.bsky.social
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Mumbai Urbanist 🚶🚌🚊🌃; opinions are my own

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depavement @depavement.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
CDMX rules. I’m walking 7-9 miles a day. The architecture is interesting and beautiful. Public transit runs frequently. Abundant protected bike lanes. A dozen parks like Washington Square and Prospect Park but with tropical plants.
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Brian Meersma @bmeersma.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Congestion pricing would fund badly needed accessibility improvements for NYC subways. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/n...
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Congestion Pricing Settlement Stalls Between New York and New Jersey (Gift Article)
Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York offered New Jersey “generous” incentives to settle its lawsuit against the tolling plan. A judge could soon determine the program’s fate.
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FromTweets2Skeets @holmadick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I'm so glad I got rid of my car. I wish society rallied more around public transportation and walking. It's cost effective, eco friendly, healthier, and you actually notice more stores/eateries/scenery/humanity happening.
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Chicago Concrete Post Company, 1924: “Smashing automobiles? Yes, — but saving lives.” Silent policemen were no flexposts. When “protecting pedestrians” was the end, unyielding mass was the means. That’s automatic enforcement our best tech today can’t match.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I would love it if people talked about disability access, universal design, and the citizen’s fundamental right to the city more often—not just when the Department of Transportation wants to install a speed bump.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 25/11/2024
"Sometimes, a shop owner claims his business was ruined because the city removed 4 parking spaces. With surveys, our mayor can say: ‘6,000 more people pass your shop a day thanks to a new bike lane. Are you sure you’re a good businessman?’”
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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
People are willing to walk a lot farther when you make it a pleasant walk.
Calle de la Mantilla, Cartagena, Colombia.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
*But I also like to keep things fun, so not everything is so serious. If we can't laugh with regularity while doing this type of advocacy, we'll go nuts or burn out.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 25/09/2024
#DriverNotCar Emphatically.
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Anacortes Area Plant Boo @tarnado.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
E-bike handlebars with a gravelly path in a green woodland beyond
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David King @cityplanning.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Or The City We Became: www.goodreads.com/book/show/42...
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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend …
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 19/09/2024
#CongestionPricing
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/09/2024
Mass timber is so cool.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 19/09/2024
Protected bike lanes are great, and having less car traffic is even better. A short ride on King St in Waterloo:
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
India HSR concept 🚆
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
So many UK drivers love to play tough and then be like "I can't ride a bike because I might get wet and I can't use public transport because I am frightened of the children on the bus."
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YIMBYLAND @yimbyland.com · 15/09/2024
I freaking love these. Cute little row houses like these would sell like hotcakes in Sunbelt cities if they were actually legal to build as infill. The market wants gentile density, we just need the cities to let us build!
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Kent Lundberg @kentlundberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
managing kerbs is good for business
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
@indianurbanist.bsky.social
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Waited 20 min at peak hours for a CST bound bus in SoBo.
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Even Toronto had more frequent buses than Mumbai 😔
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Staced & Whirled @girlawhirl.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
“I have a concept of a plan” Plan:
35 cars smashed into each other, wreckage everywhere
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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
More raised crosswalks, please.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Says the guy who kneecapped high-speed rail by flogging his silly Hyperloop idea: jalopnik.com/did-musk-pro...
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Katherine Garcia @katherinejulia.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
#DC Train Lovers: join our amazing Happy Hour at metrobar tomorrow 9/12 with transit fans united in their support for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. All aboard! RSVP: partiful.com/e/DPaAVRLusc... #transit #climate #housing
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Yes. EV market share is approaching 100 %, so allowing them in the bus lane just turns it into a car lane.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
After decades of privilege, electric vehicles were finally expelled from the bus lane on one of the busiest highways leading into Oslo.
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Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Efficient transport infrastructure looks empty.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 11/09/2024
Good morning to Vancouver housing people! Can you help get Ravi Kahlon to try posting over here? The housing discourse needs him
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 12/09/2024
The idea that housing is built by “greedy developers” who it’s fine to squeeze endless fees out of is itself greed by municipalities on behalf of people who already have housing
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Ontario's Premier shelved a plan to make minimum heights near transit, despite widespread support from other parties, cities, and presumably his own caucus. Doug Ford is Canada's top NIMBY. The centre-left in BC is eating conservative premiers' lunch on this issue. globalnews.ca/news/1074251...
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Ontario wanted ‘massive density’ around its transit projects. Then the plan vanished | Globalnews.ca
A raft of internal government plans show Ontario considered imposing minimum building heights for buildings around transit stations but ultimately scrapped the plan.
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Is it mainly developer NIMBYism?
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Why the escalation in urban home prices in India, then?
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Alexandre Varella @alexandrevarella.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
They are doing a wonderful job being dominated by Trump and shutting Kamala’s voice. Embarrassing. To say the least. Trump is forcing and getting at least 70 seconds more than Kamala in every exchange with the absolute incapacity of the moderators to avoid it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
The moderators want Trump to win but it's increasingly clear that their attempts to prop him up aren't enough and people are noticing it more and more
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YIMBYLAND @yimbyland.com · 11/09/2024
Want lower rent? Let the developers build!
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 11/09/2024
And now for something different. You’ve heard of rails to trails, but rails _and_ trails is better
Spur Line Trail in Waterloo on a nice day: multi use path with people walking, a grass strip, then a single rail track curving through a shaded green area
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 09/09/2024
This is what we fight for.
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Scandinavian101 @scandinavian101.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Californian optimism posting
Digital artwork of a speculative vision for the future of the LA Union Station. Visibile are: LA LRT, a trolleybus and a number of electric trains, including a CAHSR consist.
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Alex Diaz-Papkovich @alexandr.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
I spent ~18 months collecting stories of Canadian drivers crashing into people and ended up with a set of 257 times they slammed into structures too. The stories are bonkers. Injuring kids in bed, damaging 4th floor apartments, burning down houses, annihilating restaurants-just par for the course!
Emergency crews investigating after car crashes into Mississauga apartment building

The car hit a window on the second floor of the building and there’s possible damage up to the fourth floor, Mississauga Fire said.

https://www.cp24.com/news/emergency-crews-investigating-after-car-crashes-into-mississauga-apartment-building-1.6063207Young girl injured after truck crashes into Brampton home where she was sleeping

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/05/02/brampton-crash-house-girl-sleeping/https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/caledon-home-destroyed-after-car-crashes-into-garage-catches-fire-1.6392259

Caledon home destroyed after car crashes into garage, catches fire4 people sent to hospital after pickup truck crashes into Calgary restaurant
Vehicle drove into Sammy's Chophouse on Saturday night

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/four-people-sent-to-hospital-truck-drove-into-restaurant-1.6550991
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Interesting. What’s stopping them from raising FSI, ending plot size /parking mandates, then?
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Can I get one for walking? 🚶🏼‍♂️
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Even with a more significant rise in carbon emissions and global temperatures, Earth at its worst would be more habitable than Mars at its best. Colonizing Mars is and has always been a delusion.
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Harsh Shah @harshahahaaha.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Lodha essentially cut my residence’s proposed clubhouse in half and built a 50 storey building in its place. How could that be NIMBY?
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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 25/06/2023
When it comes to addressing the housing shortage, developers will undoubtedly play a crucial role. However, the current situation highlights that Indian developers, often backed by political connections, tend to exhibit NIMBY tendencies, exacerbating the housing shortage issue.
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