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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com |
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Skeeting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras.
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
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It remains insane to me that John Yoo goes to work at fucking UC BERKELEY every day without incident. In a just world, students would be dumping blood on him daily.
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Do you think he actually convinced DOTs that vehicular cycling was safer, or were they just looking for good excuses not to build actual cycling infrastructure and he was around to tell them what they wanted to hear?
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me and who
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I asked someone what the difference between the Black Eyed Peas and chick peas is. After several incorrect guesses, I had to tell them that while the Black Eyed Peas could sing us a song, chick peas could only hummus one.
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You hate Ralph Nader for throwing the 2000 election. I hate him for strangling a robust regulatory state with lawyers. We are not the same.
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My pleasure!
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It sounds to me like you have decided that the convenience of parking on campus is worth the $500/year.
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Almost every American city's zoning code requires every home and business to provide ample free off street parking. This effectively limits residential and commercial density at levels too low to support decent public transit. In short, our transit sucks because we make parking easy and free.
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People who are so poor that a $50 fine will ruin them generally cannot afford cars at all. Just say "I do not want to pay for parking." It's a lot more convincing than inventing a theoretical marginalized person who happens to justify your preferred consumption habits.
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The UCLA urban planning professor Donald Shoup has spent his entire career studying parking and wrote the seminal text on the topic, The High Cost of Free Parking. This talk goes over the basics: youtu.be/r0gokb4rPik?...
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Pricing the curb at the lowest price that ensures that 1-2 spaces per block are always open makes it so that people who need parking can find it, and that parking is allocated to people who value it the most. As a bonus, you also collect revenue that you can spend on, say, public transit.
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Parking is scarce and often in demand. Absent pricing or some other turnover mechanism (eg 2 hour parking), it will be allocated to whoever shows up first and stays the longest; and people who need parking will not be able to find a space.
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Yes, a great many urban leftists' political project is structured around importing their suburban parents' neighborhood defender politics to the neighborhoods they're gentrifying.
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The fairest way to allocate parking is to price it.
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Driving and parking in a city is a luxury.
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Immigration enforcement under Republican governance is not intended to prevent companies from hiring undocumented workers, it is intended to make undocumented workers’ positions more precarious so they are easier to exploit and abuse. ICE is great for factory owners trying end union drives.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The nightmare for the business-class Trump boosters isn't a slow economy - a slow economy is full of desperate people they can exploit! - but a booming one where workers they steal from or sexually harrass can tell them "fuck you" and walk across the street for better pay.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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I don't think every cop is a violent sadistic sociopath, but I do know if I were a violent sadistic sociopath who wanted to hurt people without suffering consequences, there's one career that I would be *extremely* drawn to
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It's funny how we demonized the dark web just a few years ago. Now almost every site has a dark mode.
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There is a train that goes to Santa Monica. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Line_...
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What do you mean by “designed for poor people, not the middle class?”
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Everything is spread out because we mandate large lots and copious amounts of free parking on the assumption that every adult will drive everywhere, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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They are driving around San Francisco as we speak.
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Alfred Twu
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You may have heard of the bad stuff in the right-wing Project 2025 plan such as banning abortion, ending LGBTQ rights, privatizing Medicare. There's also bad city planning in it, such as defunding mass transit, "oppose any efforts to weaken single-family zoning", and being against bike lanes.
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I thought donuts were not a very good dessert until I moved to California and learned that Dunkin’ Donuts just makes crappy donuts.
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Matthew Downhour
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There are two nearly self-evident urbanism laws: -"homes cannot be affordable and a good investment" -"an area cannot both be walkable and have abundant surface parking"
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You don’t actually need transit for urban walkability. Population density, scarce parking, and plenty of destinations in walking distance will do it. www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2015/do...
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Postwar transportation policy takes the private automobile as the base unit of transportation and aims to move *cars* through cities as quickly and conveniently as possible. If the goal was to move *people,* we’d have a lot more trains.
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Traffic engineers love nothing more than turning quaint small town main streets into 3 lane one-way freeways that maximize throughput and Level Of Service while absolutely destroying the streetscape.
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American DOTs LOVE raiding bicycle, pedestrian, and public transit funding to pay for car infrastructure.
SF’s Van Ness BRT project paid for the complete reconstruction of the entire street, including all the underground utilities. sfstandard.com/2022/04/01/v...
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Discarding the strict use-separation zoning that characterizes American land use regulation would be a major sea change for US urban planning but a very modest change for most neighborhoods. (Also I have been reading your blog consistently for 20+ years. Thanks for all the good Takes.)
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I have been out of grad school for a while so I don’t have the citations on hand but if I recall correctly, you hit a walkability tipping point at 35 dwelling units per acre, or about 9,000 people per square mile.
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You don’t need expensive fixed route transit to get people to walk. Just legalize density and mixed uses without requiring off street parking. www.accessmagazine.org/fall-2015/do...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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this is an extremely important thing to understand. transit needs density and walkability in order to work more than it needs money. if you have the density and walkability, transit is *profitable* to operate!
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American public transit will never compete with cars on convenience until we stop forcing every home and business to provide copious amounts of free parking, which spreads out destinations to the point that transit isn’t scalable and makes walking profoundly unpleasant.
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Abusing the Americans with Disabilities Act to bring your pet where it would not otherwise be allowed is incredibly tacky.
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I fuck with the vision.
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I’m a bike share nerd, not a bicycle nerd. I don’t actually know that much about biking.
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Update: I am tired.
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Today I am headed to the East Bay to visit every BayWheels bike share station in Berkeley, Emeryville, and North Oakland.
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Small business owners are not experts on street design, parking policy, or transportation. Many of them barely know how to run their own businesses! Expecting trained professional planners to defer to their judgment is bananas.
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Small business owners are not experts on street design, parking policy, or transportation. Many of them barely know how to run their own businesses! Expecting trained professional planners to defer to their judgment is bananas.
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Excited to see these next generation “pillar” bike share docks in a few places around SF. These stations can charge e-bikes!
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I am proud to announce that I have visited every single Bay Wheels bike share station in Daly City!
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Fireworks are wack as fuck because they freak out dogs and veterans, fuck up air quality, and routinely blow off people’s fingers and eyeballs. If you want to experience bright flashing colorful lights and big percussive sound, you should just go to your local techno nightclub as god intended.
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California historic preservationists are currently screaming and crying about a bill, AB2580, that would require local governments to report new historic designations to state housing regulators and analyze their impacts on housing production. Meanwhile, shit like this goes unchecked:
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Husband is going out of town for the holiday weekend so I am preparing to go sicko mode and attend to a variety of long delayed household chores.
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Would this be the same Aaron Peskin who personally intervened to block the reuse of a North Beach hotel as sober housing? sfstandard.com/2024/02/17/s...
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Following the news about SB 423 becoming active in San Francisco, there has been some confusion over the difference between 423 and the Builder's Remedy. Here's a table explaining how they're different.
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