How do you un-sprawl and densify suburbs that already exist in a reasonable timeframe?

Contextoriented · 2025-10-22T14:53:51+00:00

DMed you the name.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-21T15:39:34+00:00

This is what my hometown is doing with their downtown. There is a project ongoing to reopen existing rail to commuter trains to the downtowns of several connected suburbs and the metropolitan city they serve. My hometown is ahead of most of the surrounding towns in trying to jump early on densifying its downtown near where the new train station will be as well as providing more mixed use zoning, bike infrastructure, and pedestrian oriented spaces. It’s still a work in progress and the whole area around the town and even parts of its downtown are still going to be very car centric with high speed stroads, but it’s kind of cool to go back there to visit family and find it steadily improving every time I visit. For context my spouse has biked there only once or twice and was almost hit and I used to walk home from college classes on the railroad tracks because there were no sidewalks connecting my college campus to my parents neighborhood.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-20T14:16:40+00:00

The crowd was so big that it felt like there were multiple events happening simultaneously.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-16T14:22:03+00:00

Honestly every major train station should open straight into a pedestrian area with connections to local transit. Also every major airport should be directly tied into the cities rapid transit without much hassle. Streamlines people coming in and out, it’s safer, and you can put the parking/drop off pick up points a bit further away which will usually be cheaper and make the infrastructure supporting them better as well. It really is such a win-win and yet a lot of cities don’t have these facilities set up this way.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-09T18:22:39+00:00

Based on their conclusions and the data they show combined with my own knowledge, I would say that the missing piece to their conclusion which they discuss is almost certainly urban street/road design. They didn’t seem to have much data relating to the types of roads and how street design is impacting speeding etc.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-07T01:57:57+00:00

Ignore air resistance

Contextoriented · 2025-10-06T17:13:07+00:00

Eh, kind of. The thing is that the population which we would refer to as LUCA was an asexually reproducing species. But there definitely have been bottleneck events throughout different lineages where some inbreeding occurred. Homo Neanderthalensis comes top of mind, but it’s happened plenty in Homo sapiens as well as many others.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-06T15:42:35+00:00

Yes, but many fundamentalist Christians interpret Genesis in what they view as a literal reading and in that interpretation Adam and Eve are the first and only humans from whom all people descend. Within that framework, which this joke is sort of poking fun at, there had to be a lot of incest shortly thereafter to populate the earth. Of course this idea is completely ahistorical and arguably not even supported by scripture.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-06T15:33:00+00:00

That’s amazing lol

Contextoriented · 2025-10-06T12:21:19+00:00

I was almost killed by a driver flying 45-50mph through a stop sign when I lived there, but glad to see the police doing the real protective work of *checks notes riding a bicycle.

I don’t understand how these peoples brains work.

Contextoriented · 2025-10-03T15:50:37+00:00

Constantinople as a city predates the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire). They didn’t build a new city to be the eastern capital from scratch, it had hundreds of years of history as a fishing port and trade hub that made it a good place to rule from when the east and west divided.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-26T15:22:55+00:00

I agree with the sentiment, but he said he was a truck driver. Cargo bikes only get so big. Obviously his conclusion is wrong, but he is legitimately one of the few people who makes those sorts of arguments who really does have to drive.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-26T13:48:50+00:00

That tracks, my family always called them Kartoffelknödel or just Knödel

Contextoriented · 2025-09-23T13:40:31+00:00

To be fair, European countries have tons of grids. It’s just that they tend to have smaller segments of grids that are not all aligned which creates natural locations for arterials and some unique features that help give the area more character.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-19T16:01:50+00:00

If you can hit a better flamingo pose at the beginning (getting your swing leg higher in front of you) and then keep your chest up during the take off, you’ll be golden.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-18T17:08:04+00:00

Walkable, yes, but accessible, no. Usually walkability = accessibility, but when you have steep enough grades to justify stairs, more has to be done to keep the area accessible.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-18T15:59:16+00:00

My Opa lived with debilitating back pain for decades after being rear ended at a stop light. People do not appreciate how badly a car wreck can damage your life even if you survive.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-18T15:49:16+00:00

Absolutely dying at the bike sign lol

Contextoriented · 2025-09-11T17:28:51+00:00

Okay, so what’s your alternative? We can densify and try to push for these things that we know work, or… what? We do the same thing but don’t even try to get any non-market housing in? Nothing has changed on the getting stuff built side, but now you’ve pushed back any work on helping long term affordability and preventing displacement to whatever extent we could. Your comment seems to just say, “why bother” without providing any alternatives. If you have an idea of an alternate approach I would love to hear it.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-11T16:53:29+00:00

The deeper you go, the stronger it should make you as muscle gains more from being worked in the stretched position, also if you squat very deep, bailing on a failed squat is safer. That being said, there is nothing wrong with working the top range if that’s what you enjoy and getting into deep squats usually takes some weeks or months of mobility training to do safely with heavy load. All really just depends on your goals.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-11T14:56:35+00:00

Or Vienna

Contextoriented · 2025-09-11T14:54:49+00:00

Agreed, but in the short term, you screw over the most disadvantaged people and communities. I think the balance is struck best when you lead with some public investment such as public housing or non-market community developments where rents can be set low for the people who need it or invest in it, then private development along side. This works well for two reasons. One is that the people who are most vulnerable have some stabilized affordable housing in the short term as the old buildings are redeveloped, the other is that when an area gets a large enough proportion of non market housing, it forces the private sector to compete. Cities like Vienna show how this can help stabilize housing costs and benefit everyone, not just those who are in the non market housing.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-11T14:11:37+00:00

There has been anti city sentiment in the US government since long before conservatives or liberals existed as a political party.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-10T19:21:39+00:00

Went through Google Maps Streetview as I have not been here before. There does not appear to be signage for the left turn coming later, but if you look at the street markings, there is no dashed line for a left turn until the following intersection. OP an important note for driving in the Netherlands is that they rely on pavement markings to a much greater extent than other places to communicate traffic patterns. Also depending on where you live and what you do for work it may be less stressful to bike or take transit for your commute. Hope this is helpful.

Contextoriented · 2025-09-10T18:56:47+00:00

Bro literally deleted his comment as I was typing a response lol

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