Andy Boenau
@Boenau
Simple truths about city planning & transportation. When I'm not engineering safe & healthy streets, I'm running my mouth about it.
YIMBY movement includes all sorts of people from all walks of life. The common denominator: it should be easy to build more homes. Self-described socialists & capitalists agree on the ends but hotly debate the means, especially economics. Which is closer to your view on the…
People come up with the dumbest excuses for driving fast in cities. This was in WaPo: "Have these people never had to put the foot down to avoid a dangerous situation like a pedestrian stepping into the road"
Oh, the vast majority already drive safely. Silly me.
The vast majority already drive safely.
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It's easier to connect in walkable places. It should be easier to build them in the U.S.
The starter home of a 19th century worker. Then we made them illegal to build and now that house is $1M+ and that worker instead has to live 45 min outside of the city, completely detached from the community he works in.
Anyone who studies traffic safety knows that in most car vs. bike crashes, it's the driver's fault. Ignoring that helps soothe the conscience of people who want to drive fast and sleep well at night.
Hitting a pedestrian at 30 MPH will likely send them to the hospital. Hitting at 40 MPH will likely send them to the morgue. A $35 fine is nothing considering the stakes.
When land use regs are relaxed, you can make good use of space under highways, along train tracks, etc. This spot has 6 soccer fields, 3 on each side of a pedestrian crossing.
Because locals complained about losing parking, Uptown cyclists will now have to cross a highway on-ramp and take a flight of stairs to get to the Hudson River Greenway. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/07/22/dot…
This law has trade-offs: 🏘️ more homes will be built 😭 more NIMBYs will cry keranews.org/news/2025-07-2…
It’s worrisome that a lot of drivers think the speed limit is a target speed. A lot of roads in cities are marked for speeds much higher than they should be for the amount of pedestrian and bike traffic they carry. People need to learn to drive to conditions, not speed limits.
Driving under the speed limit is not safe. Either go the speed limit, over it, or get off the road. 🤷🏼♂️
I always forget, how far past a stop sign are you allowed to park? 🤔
You have to understand, speed isn't the problem. Bike lanes are the problem.
I'm told any interference with speed is an attack on freedom. Meanwhile: “A violent four-car pileup...injured seven people and caused widespread disruption. The crash...involved a driver who police say struck a stopped car at a traffic light, triggering a chain reaction.”
