This is the line-up for parents picking up kids at an elementary/middle school in East Tennessee.
Parents sometimes arrive at 10 am for the 3 pm pick-up.
There's got to be a better way.
And there is...
#backtoschool
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I have an essay in the Globe and Mail this weekend.
It's about how I and a group of parents fought to have street outside our children's elementary school closed to cars.
This year, we succeeded!
Now we're going to have to fight to keep it in place.
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Trump take nice train station.
(Nothing left soon.)
"Trumpβs administration is taking management of D.C.'s Union Station away from Amtrak in the latest example of the federal government exerting its power over the nationβs capital."
"These damn bicycles are taking over the streets!"
NEW MCGILL STUDY: Hard facts from #Montreal to set things straight.
Cars now get 79.6% of the infrastructure area (roads) in the city.
Pedestrians (sidewalks): 18.3%
Micromobility (lanes for bikes, scooters etc.): 1.57%
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Thanks to the Republican-controlled State Senate of #Pennsylvania, which doesnβt give a damn about the people of #Philadelphia, the transit system of the 6th largest city in the U.S. is about to collapse.
That is messed up.
"A highway is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time."
βMilan Kundera
(π· Ed Burtynsky Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles.)
High-speed rail:
β62% of California voters support building the project. The poll also shows that as voters get younger they are more likely to support the projectβ
Guess who doesnβt like it? Older Republicans. (They prefer choo-choos in museums.)
In #Vienna, any citizen can replace a street parking space with a parklet, an urban green space for everybody to enjoy.
The grΓ€tzloasen, or neighbourhood oases, are built by volunteers, and more than 100 have been built with the blessing of city hall.
