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Urban Nehrd

@lukegarrott

Parejo para todos. Level the field. Ex-councilman, Salt Lake City. Chicago native. Poli Sci PhD. Footballer for life. #ProRelforUSA

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Fixed it for you: "Driver smashing into Pumpkins mom makes for terrible Halloween trick" chicagotribune.com/2024/10/30/bil…

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Induced demand 101 Traffic =/= cars Traffic = *people* driving in cars. Building more road for people to drive on does nothing to reduce traffic and, in fact, makes it worse by encouraging more driving. The only way to ease traffic is to get *people* out of cars. #utpol #slc

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Fuck this. The cta is resolving to communicate LESS for 2025? I think not. Please RT if you think Ram Villivalam Don DeWitte and ESPECIALLY Governor JB Pritzker’s CTA board nominees should be getting in CTA President Carter’s ear to reverse this dumb idea by Monday of next week.👇🙄

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Alderman Marty Quinn's ban on hemp retailers in his ward around Midway airport just passed out of City Council License Committee without any opposition. Mayor Johnson just spent start of New Year with all out press blocking similar limits in General Assembly. 😂🤣😂

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American investors are flocking to foreign club soccer. Just imagine if USA soccer had real clubs and promotion/relegation. These people would actually have the incentive to invest here in American soccer. #ProRelforUSA

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SLC residents are sounding the alarm as powerful businesspeople partnered with suburban state legislators to strip the city of its ability to plan its own streets. Instead, it would operate under oversight from the Utah Department of Transportation. Here's why it's bad. #utpol

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First, due process: The move to impose this ban on making neighborhood streets safer was tucked into an omnibus bill that has to pass. It was done on the Senate floor, two minutes before the vote. It was so last minute that opponents initially voted in favor of it because they

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Second, public safety: UDOT owns and operates the most dangerous roads in Salt Lake City, some of which criss-cross through the center of Downtown, and others dissect neighborhoods and create boundaries that residents don't cross. The advocacy group Sweet Streets has been

Second, public safety: 

UDOT owns and operates the most dangerous roads in Salt Lake City, some of which criss-cross through the center of Downtown, and others dissect neighborhoods and create boundaries that residents don't cross.

The advocacy group <a href="/SweetStreetsSLC/">Sweet Streets</a> has been
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Sweet Streets UDOT makes roads in cities dangerous by applying 1950s style engineering tactics that prioritize cars above all else. It does this by building lanes that are the same width as highway lanes, which gives drivers a bigger buffer from each other and a sense of safety at higher

<a href="/SweetStreetsSLC/">Sweet Streets</a> UDOT makes roads in cities dangerous by applying 1950s style engineering tactics that prioritize cars above all else.

It does this by building lanes that are the same width as highway lanes, which gives drivers a bigger buffer from each other and a sense of safety at higher
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Sweet Streets Next, the economy: These roads are built for suburban commuters to enter and leave the city at high rates of speed. Studies have shown that the types of wide, one-way roads UDOT builds — like 500 South and 600 South Downtown west of State — are bad for business. Consumers

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Sweet Streets Salt Lake City's economy is booming. Its revenue is up 73% in the past five years, a period when it has been working somewhat aggressively to make its streets safer and catch up with a backlog of deferred maintenance on streets it owns (for now). I mention this because the

<a href="/SweetStreetsSLC/">Sweet Streets</a> Salt Lake City's economy is booming. Its revenue is up 73% in the past five years, a period when it has been working somewhat aggressively to make its streets safer and catch up with a backlog of deferred maintenance on streets it owns (for now).

I mention this because the
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Sweet Streets The city has been working to negotiate with these suburban legislators to minimize the harm they want to cause on the city. All work is being done behind closed doors. The bill is up in a House committee today at 4 p.m. The sponsor said an amendment is coming, but the amendment

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#MLS, a franchise, closed league, gets crowds like this for an intercontinental trophy competition. It embarrasses US soccer culture, which is better than this. #prorelforusa

#MLS, a franchise, closed league, gets crowds like this for an intercontinental trophy competition. It embarrasses US soccer culture, which is better than this. #prorelforusa
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This is a perfectly accurate picture of the US right now. Big, expensive vehicles on the street, absolutely no one on the street