andys627

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by andys627 7y ago
> Driving everywhere in Houston results in a hell of a lot higher quality of life than riding public transit everywhere in Boston. It's a trade off. One of these tanks the planet and the other doesn't, however.
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by andys627 8y ago
If you order a Big Mac at McDonalds and hand them $0.25, you haven't paid for for your Big Mac.
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by andys627 8y ago
Exactly!
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by andys627 8y ago
It's crazy how much SimCity cities look like the cities we've built for the last 75 years. Our cities really can be simplified to a game "fun" for someone to dive in right away. My thesis is that cities are oversimplifie
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by andys627 8y ago
Some cities are having success lately with implementing large networks of cycle tracks, all at once, rather than one or two at a time. Calgary: http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation/TP/Pages/Cycling/Cyclin
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by andys627 8y ago
I am bad at math... could you help me understand. A 80,000 truck and 5,000 car drive down the road... how much more damage does the 80,000 truck do? Thank you.
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by andys627 8y ago
Butter and milk that don't have to travel as far by road would be cheaper. So much of our national Walmartification is possible because of roads are subsidized.
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by andys627 8y ago
For real estate, your state’s realtor organization will have standard purchase forms available with a quick google search. With these, a title insurance company, and home inspector, you can easily do a private party real estate deal where e
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by andys627 8y ago
Agree. We've really put all our eggs in one basket in the USA... you NEED a car to reasonably participate in most parts of society. Sure public transit or biking are options, but they are much less efficient than driving. This is the p
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by andys627 8y ago
I think woonerfs would work well in SF and elsewhere. Cars are allowed, but they have the share the space with pedestrians and bikes. Speed limit is super slow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf Would be sweet to s
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by andys627 8y ago
Yes - the argument is against the primacy and dominance of cars, not their existence in reasonable circumstances.
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by andys627 8y ago
Why is it seen negatively?
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by andys627 8y ago
I would like to preemptively suggest that the author is focusing on dense areas of the country. He is suggesting high speed rail between Portland-Seattle, Dallas-Houston, NYC-DC, etc. Not Los Angeles-Chicago or DC-Seattle.
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by andys627 8y ago
Did I read right that a $66m investment netted $40m this year?
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by andys627 8y ago
> solar panels are these big heavy lumbersome things Not really, compared to other systems in your house. Take HVAC... big metal furnaces burning gas within the conditioned space with tubes/duscts strung through the walls, attics, a
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by andys627 8y ago
> They belong in the bike lane (which should exist in the first place) A bike lane really isn't safe enough to get people on bikes and scooters into it. It needs to be a separated cycle track like what is common in Copenhagen. This
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by andys627 8y ago
We would be healthier, happier, less harmful to environment, richer, have more friends, be better connected to our communities, etc. if we built mobility around walking, biking, transit, AND cars... not ONLY cars.
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by andys627 8y ago
Cheesy aviation idiom: "Any landing you walk away from is a good landing, any landing you can use the plane again is a great landing."
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by andys627 8y ago
I think he did. No one reads press releases... I am not a fan of Trump but I think it's cool (terrifying?) that we can get his stream of consciousness through Twitter.
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by andys627 8y ago
> He was trying to bankrupt the short-sellers, and he was doing it by lying I'm out of the loop - can you point me to some proof of this?
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by andys627 8y ago
Latin America absolutely destroys the US in urbanism
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by andys627 8y ago
Good compromise considering where we’re at in the us.
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by andys627 8y ago
Change will happen faster if the decision makers realize induced demand - building car capacity (supply) induces more demand of drivers... building safe bike infrastructure induces more people to ride.
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by andys627 8y ago
So many of our problems with regard to urbanism are rooted in making things efficient for cars over other users.
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Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago(nature.com)
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by andys627 8y ago
> Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society. We want it ( https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/62-percent-u-s-want-fede... )... Our politicians just aren't doing it.
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by andys627 8y ago
Don't they have to have several years of experience as well?
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by andys627 8y ago
Yes they require _someone_ to have a general contractor's license and insurance.
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by andys627 8y ago
I have not seen a lender that will give an "owner-builder" a construction loan without being a licensed general contractor. There are various common ways to structure a deal with a general contractor - fixed price, "cost-plus
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by andys627 8y ago
This is a good thing. You want any home you may buy to have been built under the supervision of a licensed general contractor.

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