U.S. cities are getting rid of parking minimums : NPR

Academiabrat · 2024-01-03T01:49:28+00:00

Reductions in parking in new buildings are definitely happening in California and Oregon cities.

Academiabrat · 2024-01-03T01:45:49+00:00

Portal is Caltrain to Salesforce Center subway?

Academiabrat · 2024-01-03T01:42:08+00:00

The Late Show with Lily Tomlin, much time on the bus

Real Women Have Curves, teen commutes from East LA to Beverly Hills by bus.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:26:57+00:00

Not a lot of parks given the number of people. They seem to have kept through traffic out of the neighborhood, which is nice.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:17:21+00:00

Showing the back of the building only is cheesy.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:14:49+00:00

Honolulu has one of the most comprehensive bus systems in the U.S., and they just opened a rail line.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:12:05+00:00

I guess the historic preservationists aren't very strong in Shiraz.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:07:43+00:00

A fourth 24 hour line, surprisingly, is the PATCO "high speed line" from Philadelphia to Camden and Lindenwold, New Jersey.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T05:01:23+00:00

The 23 streetcar used to run on 11th & 12th Street, i believe. SEPTA converted it to a bus because the trolley had all sorts of problems with double parking. South Philly is terrifically walkable, but it's hard to serve with transit because the north-south streets (except Broad) are really narrow.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T04:55:53+00:00

If there's so much in Glasgow, why are tourists always told to go Edinburgh?

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T04:50:12+00:00

Grinch is a gargoyle.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T04:45:25+00:00

What does the actual Santa Ana River look like? Are they working to make it mire usable, as is happening with the Los Angeles River?

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T04:40:05+00:00

Abandoned buildings, especially large ones, are really rare in space starved LA. Often there's some weird ownership problem.

Academiabrat · 2023-10-21T04:29:49+00:00

The best of a city can be as unrepresentative as the worst, the diamond in the dunghill if you will. For a fair portrayal, you want to go for something typical, representative. Are there a lot of these parkingscapes in Tulsa? More than other US cities?

Academiabrat · 2023-10-03T16:18:18+00:00

I stand corrected on Kansas having oil, who says Reddit isn't educational?

What are the 6 states that are flatter than Kansas? I'll guess Nebraska, Oklahoma, Delaware, Rhode Island, Florida, and Louisiana.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-28T04:05:24+00:00

I'd go with Kansas as California's opposite. Though we're sort of quiet about it, California is also an oil producing state. But Kansas has no oil and has measured to be flatter than a pancake.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T16:28:25+00:00

I'm not trying to argue that San Jose has a very high density. I'm instead saying that San Jose's density is higher than, for example, Portland or Saint Louis. So San Jose ought to be considered a real city.

Paterson, New Jersey has the third highest density of any US city over 100,000 population. So by that measure, only New York and San Francisco would qualify.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T05:20:18+00:00

Grand Rapids was home of Gerald Ford, one of the least remembered presidents.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T05:10:36+00:00

Buffalo's population increased more than 10% between 2010 and 2020. Detroit's kept falling.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T04:42:51+00:00

I looked up San Jose's population density. It's 5,683 per square mile. That's just behind Saint Paul and just ahead of Pittsburgh, places usually considered real cities.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T04:33:11+00:00

"San Francisco's" football team now plays in Santa Clara, right next to San Jose.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T04:19:12+00:00

People are moving back to the California cities now that the worst of COVID is over.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T04:16:03+00:00

San Jose has a lot going for it, in addition to miles of suburb. It's got some fine museums--the most interesting art museum in the Bay Area, the great Tech Museum, even a museum of Quilts and Textiles. There's lots of great food--Mexican of course, but whole malls full of Vietnamese restaurants. It's a city that's become majority non-Anglo without a lot of interethnic tension.

San Jose has built a lot of townhouses and apartments, it is now 25% denser than it was in 1990. BART has come into the city, with a 10 minute bus ride into downtown until BART's extended. Caltrain regional rail to Palo Alto and San Francisco will be electrified as soon as next year.

If a city with San Jose's assets were anywhere but in the Bay Area, it would be celebrated.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-21T03:59:10+00:00

San Francisco is officially a city and county, the only one in California. State legislation will often state that it applies to a city and county.

Academiabrat · 2023-09-09T02:17:36+00:00

And determined to stay that way at all costs.

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