Texan husband dad safe streets advocate YIMBY freeway fighter policy wonk punk rocker serial boards & commissions member democracy builder pepper grower hot sauce maker advocate for sustaining human life on this planet executive director of Farm&City
Jay Blazek Crossley
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there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.
it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City
So cool to be at opening celebration of @capmetroatx.bsky.social’s 800 Pleasant Valley & 837 Expo Center Bus Rapid Transit lines.
These were cut from Project Connect in 2017 based on foolish decision-making data, but were -arguably- saved by this blog post I wrote.
farmandcity.org/2017/06/23/p...
I think one of the world clocks at the @nytimes.com offices is off in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast, which just seems kind of a a perfect little picture of where we're at in the world.
The third clock from the right is apparently gonna be at whatever minutes it wants.
Jay Blazek Crossley
Jay Blazek Crossley
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Rain garden was hard at work today near one of Austin’s roundabouts
Luckily, the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas research institutions have studied how to implement credit-based congestion pricing (the correct answer) for the Austin region fairly extensively.
Let’s do this!
Part of the backstory as I heard it for the 2004 UNO (University Neighborhood Overlay) upzoning of Austin’s West Campus is that Council Member Brewster McCracken ended up at a CNU (as in an actual Congress, basically an annual conference) and was like “yeah this all makes sense, let’s do urbanism.”
Montserrat Garibay seems to be winning perhaps the most important state house race on the Texas Democratic primary side of things – for those that care about urbanism, equity, the environment, fair markets, etc.
Thank you Chris Riley and Brewster McCracken (among others) for putting Austin in the stratosphere of climate responsible city policies (at least in West Campus).
