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Stephen Maples

@spudmapes.bsky.social
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Transportation & urban planning, politics, UGA fandom.

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Stephen Maples @spudmapes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Im voting for Zohran
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 22/03/2025
“Even with the caveats about limited data and untangling causation and correlation, the statistics are striking: the first year of a scheme in Wales where the speed limit on urban roads was lowered to 20mph resulted in about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured.”
theguardian.com
Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?
Research suggests the scheme may be more popular than thought, with consultations dominated by a loud minority
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I dream that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.
A white truck parked on the road and sidewalk.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is important — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 car parking spaces and built an 80 km protected cycling network in just 18 months with 32 million €. Result: An average 70,000 bike trips a day. Leadership.
Before: 12km of bike-lanes in SevilleAfter: 120km of Seville bike-lanes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025
the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.
fastcompany.com
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 14/01/2025
Congestion pricing has actually made it much easier to drive a car in Midtown and Lower Manhattan? Whaaaa? How????? DUH! hellgatenyc.com/congestion-p...
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Traffic Data: Holy Shit This Congestion Pricing Thing Is Working
Drive times are way down, and isn't that… priceless?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social SUVs are too big. #CarBloat www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The new electric SUV market under battery supply constraints: Might they increase CO2 emissions?
Two trends have shaped the European car market over the past decade: electrification and SUVisation. Recently, they have merged in a new product: the …
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a 9m track for metros can move as many people as a 175m wide road for cars.
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A fun fact about congestion pricing for the haters is that you only get charged one $9 toll to enter the congestion zone per day, no matter how many times you come in or out. It's $6 to ride the subway twice. You're spending three extra dollars.
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
70% of the world’s population has universal healthcare, but not the US We are the only highly developed nation without it Our healthcare is twice as expensive as the average wealthy nation US ranks last among industrial nations for deaths that could be prevented with timely access to healthcare
Universal health care map
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Logan Mohtashami @loganmohtashami.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
eyeonhousing.org/2024/12/top-...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/11/2024
Trump is going to let Elon Musk's fake self-driving tech run over as many people as he wants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-Driving Cars
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have told advisers they plan to make a federal framework for self-driving vehicles one of the Transportation Department’s priorities, accordin...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
good evening to public transit
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