Strongly recommend watching this video from Bloomberg Citylab, which does a great job of discussing removing cars from streets in our major cities.
Strongly recommend watching this video from Bloomberg Citylab, which does a great job of discussing removing cars from streets in our major cities.
@stevesnider hi Steve! So, using the YouTube shortcode does not work in Gluon or the Micro.blog feed. Here’s a permalink to that post which has the video. cc: @help/@manton
@jsonbecker The timeline currently removes embed
tags like YouTube. I'm not sure the best way to solve that... I could allow them, or maybe convert YouTube links to something playable in the timeline.
@help I don’t have strong feelings, just wanted it to be a thing you knew about and not something just unconsidered.
@bix I’m glad that was published, but my view is that it’s about 1/3 right, 1/3 wrong, and 1/3 tangential. For what it’s worth, the video is really discussing major projects underway that well pre-dated COVID, while trying to not ignore the current situation as impactful. 14th street busway was a success long before COVID, and Mission Street has been decades in the making. Planning has a fraught history for sure, and good to wrestle with that.
@bix I should add that most of the counterpoint isn’t really a counterpoint, it’s a cry to include communities of color and center work on justice, not really against the specific reforms in the video I linked to. It’s also quite contradictory on the calls for environmental justice while giving primacy to private vehicles until racist policing can end. I don’t really think that needs to be a contradiction— there should be a both attitude toward deemphaszing private motor vehicles and making streets safer for all people.
@help Maybe I'm not understanding, but could the YouTube embeds work like the microcast player in terms of how they might appear in the feed?
@bix sorry it was late last night— my point was that centering environmental justice as one key value conflicts with personal vehicles as another key value ans that conflict was left primarily to me as the reader.