Left Urbanism
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16321714 > Alternative link: https://archive.ph/BxMKZ
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133154 > Link to original Tweet: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1795048724021862898
High quality: https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/ Tweeted here: https://twitter.com/BackOnTrackEU/status/1733895843487326293
::: spoiler spoiler Community land trusts! :::
Not exactly urbanism but transport is important
Drink once every time they say or imply "innovation"
[Amsterdam Just Closed their Busiest Road - Not Just Bikes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcBC7MFRIk)
(Speaking from a USA perspective) How do we start to convince people that building and maintaining housing should be funded through public funds and the decisions should be made by the public? It's hard to educate the well-meaning general public to be skeptical of the developers that roll into town and claim to be able to build affordable housing. The programs our cities often rely on aren't meeting the reality of what our communities need in terms of long-term pricing, quality of housing, and related resources. What do we do?
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Despite being one of the poorest, this province is full of breathtaking nature wonders. In Guiyang city alone, there are lakes, waterfalls, caves, canyons, and mountains and over 500 parks. This video only shows a small corner of the city. People living here have easy access to nature more than most viewers can imagine. They have the best of two worlds!
I live in Vancouver, and the SeaBus ferry across the bay is incredibly successful. Crosses Vancouver Harbour between Downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver in less than 15 minutes with service frequencies less than 10 minutes apart, with really low boarding and deboarding times too. There are numerous other systems like it in the world, too. And according to this Infographic: ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/cc955e27-25b8-45a0-8424-7a0ccc91f1ec.png) And this one: ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0bd36e9d-994d-4db1-86f9-60d6dd9ba3c7.jpeg) It seems that ferries have really low carbon emissions per passenger per unit distance, beating out busses and even most regional trains, so I assume they're really energy efficient in general. So for costal cities or cities bisected by or bordering a river (which, most major cities fall into one or both categories) should we be investing in more ship based rapid and regional transport? I imagine it could be cheaper and faster to build from scratch than a brand new train line, since you only need to build out the docks and no track infrastructure since the water is already there. Imagine a rapid ferry zigzagging between the two coasts of a river, connecting the transit networks of either side without needing to use bridges (which are both expensive and tend to be choke points and bottlenecks for the transportation network). Or a bunch of ferries going up and down a row of coastal districts, or a star-shaped network across a bay or lake, when you would normally need to go around the perimeter? Also, for systems like these that do exist, what are some well-running ones that could be used as examples? What about poorly running ones as examples of what not to do?