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Sep 4 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Design your transit, service, and emergency vehicles to fit your city—not the other way around.
Tiny buses serve narrow streets of #Rome's centro storico. #Roma
Small fire trucks serve narrow streets of #Tokyo.
Alley bus in #Chongqing
A small fire truck being tested in #DC.
A primer on right-sizing vehicles: how they do it on the streets of #Tokyo

medium.com/a-chair-in-a-r…

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Sep 1
Room for 42 compact, self-powered, low-emission vehicles.
Or 1 fucking Tesla. Image
FYI: Follow @Tweetermeyer, author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Image
To Capt. Obvious and Company out there, and there seem to be a lot of you: Clearly not meant to be a photo of an actual bike rack! It's a Brompton folding bike publicity shot.
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Aug 30
1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D.
2: The same map in 3D. ImageImage
Tokyo Train #Transit:
2 interlinking metro networks and 12 separate rail companies
882 stations
43 million users a day
(2.5x number on all US transit) Image
3d model Tokyo Arteria by Takagatsu Kuriyama.
Video here:
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Aug 29
What's missing from these pictures?

No on-street parking makes all the difference in the cities of #Japan. The 1962 "proof-of-parking" law means you buy a car, you've got to show you've got a place—off public streets—to warehouse it.

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In the three #Tokyo neighborhoods I spent time in over a decade, the streets were refreshingly free of on-street parked cars—certainly compared to North America. Image
The parking laws lead to some interesting arrangements; cars squeezed into tiny garages (how do you open the door to get out?); car elevators; multi-storey lots where cars are stacked like battery hens. ImageImageImage
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Aug 29
This year, cars will be banished from streets around 168 schools in the #Paris area—students and parents can access them on foot or by bicycle.
These "rues aux écoles" (School Streets) are a big win for the safety of kids.

paris.fr/pages/57-nouve…
They also eliminate the vicious circle, in which getting to school without a car is dangerous—only because there are so many cars outside the school.
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Aug 28
"NASA has declared automobiles are the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world."

Your regular reminder that cars aren't part of the problem—they *are* the problem.

giss.nasa.gov/research/news/…
...and SUVs are the absolute worst.

“In 2010, there were 35 million SUVs in the world’s car fleet. Now there are over 200 million. SUVs were the second greatest contributor to the world’s increase in carbon emissions from 2010 to 2018.”

vox.com/the-goods/2020…
And replacing 1.3 billion+ gas vehicles with EVs isn't going to help.
theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/…
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Aug 26
THIS JUST HAPPENED—AND IT'S BIG.
Speed limiting tech on cars is now mandatory in the European Union.
"From July 2022, Intelligent speed assistance (ISA) will be mandatory for new models/types of vehicles introduced on the market."
road-safety-charter.ec.europa.eu/resources-know… Image
These are speed governors in new cars and trucks that stop them from exceeding maximum speeds limits. Image
NYC has equipped 50 municipal vehicles with similar tech.
www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-…
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