Jaded KCMO urbanist. Marketing agency owner. Curious person. Creative generalist. Traveler. Visited 49/50 largest US metros.
Matt Staub
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A public service. Streetcars of San Francisco. @sfmta.com
I was way ahead of this trend.
Imagine being in marketing for the pet health insurance company Fetch. You're spending all of your working days trying to make Fetch happen.
I appreciate that the neighborhood likely freaked out about parking impact, but appeasing them by punishing your patrons who bike, walk and use transit is not a great look.
"The symphony intends to fold free parking into concert ticket prices. Representatives told neighbors that the venue had secured 1,400 spaces between garages to the north and west..."
Terrible policy. @kcsymphony.bsky.social
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I have never driven a car to a symphony event. Why should people who don't drive subsidize the people who choose to, and why incentivize the more operationally difficult and unsustainable mode of travel — especially with @kcstreetcar.org blocks from the venue?
If every billionaire is a policy failure, what is every trillionaire?
What I don't get about city NIMBYs is: if you're so focused on parking that you'll oppose amenities and new housing, why not just move to the actual suburbs instead of your streetcar suburb? There is plenty of parking!
Back in the day of headphone jacks, I used to keep a few pairs of cheap airplane earbuds in my bag and offer them to people as a polite/helpful way to tell them to stop playing their phone sound on transit.
Now what's the move?
I am worried about the impacts on folks on the margins without transportation alternatives, but I hope some real pain from gas prices will put a dent in our decades of irresponsible car bloat and inefficient-for-fun trucks. It's time for a reckoning.
