zachkatz

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by zachkatz 4y ago
Yep, absolutely! Our plan is to integrate existing local advocacy orgs into the platform—so we automatically benefit from their political connections + bandwidth, while they benefit from our tools + reach. Perfect win/win to Get Stuff
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by zachkatz 4y ago
He's definitely seen the account, we made one of his hometown ("Fake London," Ontario) and he retweeted it: https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai/status/15541736198734520...
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by zachkatz 4y ago
I've run large bike lane/car-free streets campaigns before [1] and have talked with a bunch of activists from groups all over the country, so I have a good deal of experience here. You're right that these problems are politic
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by zachkatz 4y ago
Building a platform that accelerates the construction of protected bike lanes and car-free streets worldwide by connecting citizens, advocacy groups, cities, and urban planners: https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai/statu
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by zachkatz 4y ago
https://www.blackhatworld.com/
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by zachkatz 5y ago
A way to see all the people on Twitter who live in your city (like a “search by location in bio” feature)
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by zachkatz 5y ago
> probably only 20% of trips in New York are conducted by car I’d reckon it’s less than 20%, maybe even as low as 5%. The subway alone has a daily ridership of about 2 million, plus the massive amount of people who just walk or bike to t
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by zachkatz 5y ago
>I'm not sure how much of someone's personality you can determine from a pre-recorded, scripted monologue to the camera. You can determine a lot because what they decide to post/record says a LOT about them. Like, waaay mo
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by zachkatz 5y ago
No, the assumption is that video shows a more accurate portrayal of one's personality [than just photos/text], because it's closer in resolution to real life. In other words, if you agree that meeting someone in real life i
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by zachkatz 5y ago
> A big problem with dating apps (particularly for women) is that users see so many potential matches that they don’t take anything seriously I said this in another comment, but IMO, the reason people don't take anything seriously i
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by zachkatz 5y ago
The problem with dating apps is that it can very often be pretty unclear whether the person is actually worth getting to know or not (cute pictures =/= compatible personality). Which is why, IMO, the killer feature for dating apps woul
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by zachkatz 5y ago
My understanding is that it works like this: 1) Apple pays PR company to write a really compelling pitch for an article (maybe even writing basically the whole thing, or at least providing all the quotes and whatnot) 2) Journalist writes th
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Yep. A great example is here (flip back to 2008 to see the before picture): https://www.google.com/maps/place/@52.3728948,4.8591403,3a,7... It's remarkable how they squeezed a protected bike lane in there whi
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Thanks!
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by zachkatz 5y ago
> kids from Monickendam and Volendam go to school in Amsterdam As someone who just moved to the NL, that's really surprising to me: Do kids from Volendam really go to school in Amsterdam? Are there no schools in Volendam, or is it j
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Optimistic note: It doesn't have to take 40 years. One of the reasons it took so long in the Netherlands (ignoring the politics for a moment, which were not as smooth sailing as many assume) is because the Dutch were, literally and fig
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by zachkatz 5y ago
If the casino found building a cycle path to be a worthwhile investment, why wouldn't other local businesses and the local government?
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Cycling infrastructure is cheaper to build than not to build: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/06/cycling-infrast...
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by zachkatz 5y ago
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/02/all-those-myths... See excuse #3, "our population is too spread out"
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by zachkatz 5y ago
And curves! The natural, flowing, yet carefully considered geometry of the intersections (basically, design affordance) is really something unique. The Dutch have spent the last ~50 years getting the fundamentals right (something cities all
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Read The Power Broker. It was Robert Moses who invented the idea of ramming highways through cities, and he did a brilliant job of selling urban planners around the world on his vision (he would wine and dine them at his mansion, for instan
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by zachkatz 5y ago
I'd like to contribute a collection of my own: changes in Dutch streets from 2008-ish to today, captured on Google Streetview: https://twitter.com/z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z/status/14646977114422067... Even in the last
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by zachkatz 5y ago
I really love this! Any plans to make it a bit easier to use on desktop? I'd love to build my personal website on this, just like GeoCities back in the day.
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Meanwhile, you can charge 12+ e-bikes in the space of one car. That's the real infrastructure we need.
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by zachkatz 5y ago
> artificially beautified What's the difference between artificially beautifying and genuinely beautifying?
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by zachkatz 5y ago
“A couple of door dash drivers” There are over 80,000 delivery cyclists in NYC. https://inthesetimes.com/article/doordash-delivery-workers-d...
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by zachkatz 5y ago
Note that discouraging car ownership—and instead encouraging cycling with safe infrastructure, like the Netherlands has been doing for the last 50 years—actually dramatically increases independence for both children and adults: https:&#x2F
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by zachkatz 6y ago
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/3/making-normal-n...
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by zachkatz 6y ago
E-bikes are the new horses.
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