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#transportation #engagementInflation
"The injustices of the feedback process—that it primarily caters to older, higher-income drivers obsessed with #parking because research consistently shows bus riders, who are statistically lower income, are either too busy to attend such meetings or unaware they’re even taking place—have been well-documented in the urban planning field."
As if current bus riders were the only people #busLanes are for 
#InducedDemand
"there has not been a single housing unit destroyed or person displaced to build a bike or bus lane anywhere in the U.S. On these grounds alone, it is simply absurd to compare urban highway construction to bike and bus lanes. Projects of such vastly different scopes and scale deserve different approaches and mindsets."
Let's do away with the idea of #transportation projects entirely until we've finished scrapping together an entire #network of low stress bikeways and priority bus lanes.
@enobacon@urbanists.social"It was all based on conjecture that suburbanites like to drive places and so the easier it is to drive to the center city the more likely suburbanites would be to go there, logic which failed to account for lost business from the people the highway projects displaced and the broader hollowing out ...
the urban #freeway fad was the exact opposite of #bike and #busLanes: a novel, brash idea, fashionable at the time but with no evidence to back it up beyond fancy dioramas and civic boosterism."
@enobacon ugh. Everett, MA (primary a lower income community) got tired of the feedback loop. And started doing pilot programs instead. And just did survey after they were installed to see what folks liked. They aren't a shining example (plenty of local drama that I won't go into) but the amount of infrastructure they've built out in short order is impressive. They are almost done with their section of the East Coast Greenway & are working on numerous bikelanes & public spaces.
@enobacon they also had an infusion of cash from a casino going in. But I can honestly say they didn't squander it. Working with the MBTA to get rapid bus network & taking every inch of underutilzed space they have and turning them into parks. Which isn't much. It's very, very, dense without parks builtin to neighborhoods.