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Brent Toderian
@brenttoderian.bsky.social

QUESTION: What does your city need most to become a MUCH BETTER CITY FOR ITS PEOPLE, in 3 words or less? Name the city (doesn’t count in the 3 words), explain your answer(s) if you think it’s needed, and include images/graphics if it helps make your case.

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Hugh McKellar
@maddogeco.bsky.social

Armidale, NSW, AU. EnergyCo transmission line. Armidale is the heart of a proposed renewable energy zone. But it needs the transmission line connect all the wind and solar farms. Some farmers have been co-opted by an astroturfing gas company to reject the line and all the benefits it will bring.

kytkosaurus.bsky.social
@kytkosaurus.bsky.social

Prague, start being a city... Prague just now is no city, but a group of villages in trenchcoat, pretending to be a city. It badly needs much more density, shorter distances, mixed uses, care about public places and not just their motorised transport and parking functions.

Tina Carleton
@oreganospice.bsky.social

Run more buses. Portland is currently cutting back bus service because of low ridership. Instead they should be doubling the amount of buses running. The difference between waiting 15 minutes for a bus and 30 minutes is what makes a person with the option choose to drive instead of ride.

Fynn Bytez
@fynnbytez.bsky.social

I live in a small town in OR and as soon as I got here they shut down the bus service. Now the only way to get to the store in town is to drive or hike. It gets worse cause if you need more general stuff you gotta drive a town over. Our corner stores just can't cut it.

Narimane
@naridorey.bsky.social

Paris : benches*, trees, grass. *the ones you can sleep on Less asphalt. It's way too hot at night. Open parks at night. Reduce night lights (for people that sleep windows open). Those past days I've seen people sleeping in patches of grass bc it's impossible to sleep inside their homes.

Hugh McKellar
@maddogeco.bsky.social

I’ve been saying this for years but what if England had its own parliament separate from Westminster.English parliament for English matters Westminster for UK matters.

Ben Keith 🎃
@benlk.com

More population density, in Columbus, Ohio. So many of our problems come from residents being too spread-out: can't support non-chain businesses, can't support non-auto mobility, can't hut enrollment minimums at public schools. Drives a lot of suburban flight.

Alex Pelsor
@alexpelsor.bsky.social

Indianapolis 1. tear down the 65/70 split downtown and replace it with dense housing 2. Upgrade its 3 BRT lines to light rail similar to the Ottawa confederation line 3. Introduce congestion pricing

wyboinregina.bsky.social
@wyboinregina.bsky.social

Regina: housing, density, transportation (+arts) Housing for all. Density for better services with less taxes. Transportation with protected bike lanes, 10 minute bus frequency, and slow down traffic. Arts for the culture and belonging.

vmlinuz
@vmlinuz.org

Leeds: trams, trams, trams. If you know, you know... (Leeds is famously the largest city in (Western?) Europe without a mass transit system. Over my lifetime, there have been at least 3 serious attempts to create one. The latest attempt was endorsed by Kier Starmer days before he resigned.)

Pascal Amsterdam Velo Mondial
@pascal-amsterdam.bsky.social

Amsterdam Enforcement creating 'Flânerie Zones'. Amsterdam already has the policy. The pedestrian zones are mapped. The car-restricted areas are defined. The speed limits are set. The street space meant for people is described in plans and on signs. What is missing is enforcement for Flânerie Zones!

Jennifer
@jenwith1n.bsky.social

Portland: Funded, prioritized transit. (There are a lot of things we need, as a housing nerd I should have said “neighborhood housing choices” but we are cutting transit service right now and it’s devastating. Plus our streetcar doesn’t have dedicated lanes.)

Kent Lind
@camasonian.bsky.social

Converting free on-street parking into protected bike lanes and sidewalks would be an absolute game changer here in the other (and original) Vancouver. Plus all the necessary zoning changes to make ”missing middle” housing buildable by right.

Knud Jahnke
@knudjahnke.bsky.social

Heidelberg: Less plaster, more shade (that counts as 3, doesn't it?) There's a tendency for "easily maintained" concrete plaster, everywhere. Inner city already has 5-6°C heat island effect. More trees, less concrete tiles in public spaces.

Knud Jahnke
@knudjahnke.bsky.social

We have a lot of stone in the center, but in the past decade a lot of new rural area was built up. Partially on a former railyard, and partially in former US barracks. And these areas terribly amounts of concrete streets and places.

Moody Brutalist
@edbcn.bsky.social

Barcelona Metropolitan Bike Highways We need much better connection between the outer cities of the metro region. We should build a street-separated network that runs in the river flood plains.