Jeff Speck @JeffSpeckFAICP Twitter profile

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Jeff Speck

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1 year

In Carmel, IN, we are turning an office park into a town center: #SprawlRepair #RetrofittingSuburbia

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@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Perfect new complete sidewalk at The Wharf DC. 10 5 10 5. Room for biking, walking, trees, bike storage, butt storage

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 months

Two buildings very similar in scale. One shows a mature, steady hand, confidence, humility, and respect. The other is what almost every developer builds everywhere these days, and what most design codes are more likely to demand.

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Jeff Speck

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2 months

Indianapolis is a city held hostage by its State legislature. I have never seen such an activist anti-urban coalition in state government. Truly breathtaking.

Dave Gifford

@DE_Gifford

2 months

Indiana just banned dedicated bus lanes, basically killing the Blue Line project in Indy, a 24 mile bus rapid transit line connecting the airport to downtown & beyond. Thanks @IndyGOP for providing me with one more reason not to move back to my family's hometown.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 months

I’d be curious to learn more, but it appears as if an SF Waymo tried to drive through a parade on Chinese new year and was appropriately destroyed.

Gia Vang

@Gia_Vang

3 months

BREAKING: An autonomous Waymo vehicle is intentionally set on fire in Chinatown, according to SF Fire. Firefighters said they got reports around 10 people were involved. Waymo said “a crowd surrounded and vandalized the vehicle, breaking the window and throwing a firework …

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

IF YOU READ ONE THING TODAY. This is the most important article I’ve written. If you won’t read it, please unfollow me. I am no use to you.

How to Fix the Most Dangerous Streets in America

The multilane arterials known as “stroads” remain dangerous fixtures of US cities. In an excerpt from his book Walkable City, planner Jeff Speck outlines how to tame them.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

@balajis You fail to understand that a city’s streets are not just for cars. They are the public realm, the civic forum, and the foundation of society. As Adam Gopnik puts it, they are not a city’s veins but its very neurology. Screw your self-driving cars.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

I have news:

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

This intersection, once hailed as a masterpiece, is finally being recognized as a travesty.

Cycling Professor 🚲 

@fietsprofessor

1 year

Shibuya crossing: +/- 390.000 pedestrians a day still have to stop for a few people in cars every minute...

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Jeff Speck

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7 months

To discuss the color of the clothing of this pedestrian hit by a cop going 50 mph over the speed limit on a downtown street with no siren, as if it’s remotely relevant, is a despicable act. Shame on @KING5Seattle

KING 5 News

@KING5Seattle

7 months

The officer was traveling at 74 miles per hour in a 25 mph zone just before his police cruiser hit Jaahnavi Kandula in January.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

19 days

Incredibly shameful. #Seattle buried its highway so it could replace it with a gorgeous surface. . . highway! A lesson in everything going wrong.

Qagggy!

@Qagggy

20 days

Take a good look, nerd.

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Jeff Speck

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6 months

This is fantastic. I’ve been fighting for decades (against traffic engineers, truckers, bus agencies, and fire departments) for 10 vs. 12 foot urban lanes. Now there’s a @JohnsHopkinsSPH study pushing 9 feet. Nine feet.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

7 months

My new hero. “Crime is a social issue that could be solved by giving people their basic needs.”

Kat Abu

@abughazalehkat

8 months

Fox News tried to do a bunch of scary man-on-the-street interviews about crime. It didn't go well.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

8 months

“Trees take too long.” Look what they did in a mere 8 years. . .

Carlos A. Sainz Caccia 🇵🇸

@sainzcaccia

8 months

Cambios que inspiran. Guadalajara cambió 6 carriles de contaminación por un paseo arbolado y una línea de tren ligero subterránea.

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Jeff Speck

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1 year

Whoa what just happened?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

If the bike logo doesn’t fit, it may be too narrow.

Dirk Janssen🇳🇱🇺🇸

@NLinSF

2 years

Paint is not infrastructure.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

In Miami Beach, I have just discovered this town's most amazing tree. I am in love.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

When your friends lie to you. Repeat after me: no highway expansion has ever saved energy or reduced pollution. Ever.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

My wife looked into a round trip @amtrak Boston to SLC, sleeper car round trip for herself and our two kids. Any guess of the cost? . . . . . . . $4700. Might as well book a cruise! Help, @SecretaryPete !

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

Hoy cow. Can someone please explain to me why this is happening, and how I can keep it happening?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 months

Looks like they forgot to do a shadow study.

Nicholas Boys Smith

@boys_nicholas

5 months

Salzburg. A city whose beautiful walkable streets would be unbuildable today and yet which … seems to be fairly popular. 🤔

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

7 years

People who think support for walking and biking is elitist needs to look at this chart.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

This x 1000. The huge blind spot in fighting climate change is land use.

Smart Growth America

@SmartGrowthUSA

5 years

"To save the planet, the #GreenNewDeal needs to improve urban land use"

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

So sad. They buried the highway and then put a highway in on top of it. It didn’t have to turn out this way.

The Urbanist

@UrbanistOrg

2 years

Just admiring Seattle’s expanded waterfront surface highway. 🛣

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Multilane one-ways doing what multilane one-ways do.

News Channel 3 WWMT-TV

@wwmtnews

2 years

WATCH: A driver crashed into a tree and then into Kzoo Swift on South Westnedge Avenue around 3 p.m. today. Video courtesy: Kzoo Swift owner

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

THEY ARE MAKING A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE WALKABLE CITY! Here's the teaser:

Walkable USA - Proof of Concept

Work sample for the documentary film "Walkable USA" which chronicles the efforts of city planner Jeff Speck as he works to help Hammond, Indiana revitalize…

vimeo.com

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

"Sixty percent of Americans polled by the National Association of Realtors say they want to live within walking distance of places to work, shop and recreate. Only 10 percent want to be located in homes that only have access to other houses. . .

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Yeah, 18 feet for a street is about right. (Elfreth’s Alley, Philly)

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 years

Small brain: How many cars can we move? Big brain: How many people can we move? Galactic brain: Why do we need to move people? Put their daily needs close at hand. #Walkability

Mikael Colville-Andersen

@colvilleandersn

6 years

Remember to keep changing the question.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

Oh please let me be the first person who did this

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

A new slide I made

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

9 months

If you call yourself an urbanist, you MUST watch this. Don’t choose ignorance. I’m a Harvard-trained designer who grew up in a house by a Gropius apprentice. I love good modernism. But I have to admit that what this video depicts is superior.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

We Will Rebuild. They sent us the Statue of Liberty. Let’s give them the Wall Money.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

Nobody is asking, but we need to put together a dream team of advisors for @PeteButtigieg including @JSadikKhan @humantransit @yfreemark @TamikaButler @schmangee @Penalosa_G @clmarohn @jeffreytumlin and @gabe_klein . Who did I miss?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

Greetings from the “developing” world. Mexico City offers superior urbanism, and walkability to most American cities. A lot of lessons here.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

My understanding is that this is an absolutely incorrect take. Cell phones have proliferated in Europe as well, without the same outcomes. The principal cause is SUVs. Also, the rise in suburban poverty. Read your @schmangee

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Jeff Speck

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6 months

Ok, good, but why does anyone need to move a home with a truck that big? If you’re a billionaire get two trucks. The truck only fits because parallel parking is vacant. We should not have to design residential neighborhoods around that vehicle.

Mike West

@BikeMikeWest

6 months

Narrower neighborhood streets better limit speeds and cut-through traffic, but can still accommodate large vehicles when necessary. We don't need to compromise safety and quality of life for an occasional truck, I promise they can still navigate their way and at safe speeds!

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Jeff Speck

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10 months

Can we all dispense with the fireworks and just switch to this now?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 month

@seanw_m Sounds lovely. Natural materials age naturally. Patina yay.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 years

Check out these affordable sidewalk extensions from @TrueformGroup . Would love to see these used in the US.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

Hi, we’re @ZeroFatalities . We’re going to show you a young victim of a hit and run, share his name and, in the next sentence, imply that it was his fault.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Dedicated bus lanes are making a huge difference in suburban Boston.

BostonBRT

@bosBRT

5 years

#Dedicatedlanes help move more people more quickly....just check out this rider video from the #ArlBRT pilot in @arlingtonmagov ! The bus lane will be made permanent this summer.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

All I see are the shitty streets.

Archinect

@archinect

4 years

. @GrimshawArch unveils design for new Santa Monica College arts complex. @SMC_edu

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 years

186 people died on Queens Boulevard until NYC invested $4 million in 2014 to curb speeding. 186 men, women, boys, and girls. No deaths since.

No Longer New York City’s ‘Boulevard of Death’ (Published 2017)

Queens Boulevard has not seen a pedestrian fatality in three years. It has become a centerpiece of the mayor’s Vision Zero traffic safety campaign.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Speck

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2 years

My nightmare: I go to hop on my bike in the morning but it's gone. So I take the bus to where I last remember riding it, and it's there, but painted all white and chained to a post. My key doesn't fit the lock. I ask for help, but everyone looks right through me.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

@ABC7NY @ABC7NY delete your account, victim-blamer.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

8 months

Excited to learn that #Nashville ’s new mayor has a first edition #Walkable City. Are you ready for Freddie? I am!

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

3, 2, 1… IT’S HERE!!! Today is the day: The 10th Anniversary of Walkable City has arrived! With an introduction by @JSadikKhan and 100 new pages of update by me. Get yours while they last!

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

7 years

I've been (fairly) polite in my comments so far, but this Neanderthal proposal deserves only one response: Go fuck yourself, Mr. Trump.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 years

Small brain: how many cars can we move? Big brain: how many people can we move? Mega-brain: why do we need to move at all? Put things closer together, people!

Mikael Colville-Andersen

@colvilleandersn

6 years

Remember to keep changing the question.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

How things work in a developed nation:

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Just in case folks are wondering what Tesla has unleashed on our roads. . . according to Tesla.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Built in 2007, people. It’s not that hard. (Thanks, @culdesac )

De Filmende Fietser

@FilmendeFietser

2 years

A newly built village, with gentle density and different architectural styles. Designed around people and nature. Who wouldn't want to live here?! 📍Op Buuren dorp, @StichtseVecht 🇳🇱

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Jeff Speck

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1 year

Second visit, I can’t recommend Mexico City enough. Just a great place.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Planners (and nature) to Engineers: THIS is how wide our streets need to be.

Tom Millar

@transport_tom

5 years

Planners and Engineers: How wide do our streets need to be? Nature:

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Jeff Speck

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3 months

The average Dutch transportation engineer has taken taken 10 to 15 classes in transportation engineering. The average American transportation engineer has taken 1 to 3 such classes. Does that clarify things?

America Has No Transportation Engineers

Op-ed: The American “transportation engineer” is a really a civil engineer who has received a little exposure to the transportation sector. If all a nation can provide are civil engineers who are...

nextcity.org

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

10 years

Oh, this is absolutely priceless! http://t.co/eJ0q3Zaq3l

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

I'm always blown away that none of these people will park their cars and walk in to save 15 minutes. What is up with that?

21st Century City

@urbanthoughts11

2 years

Suburban planners: of course we need 3 acres of land for 36 people waiting in line for coffee

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Mansplanning! Love it! It’s no accident that, certainly from Jane Jacobs onwards, the campaign to rehumanize our cities has been a largely woman-led enterprise.

Janette Sadik-Khan

@JSadikKhan

5 years

MansPLANning: The compulsive, dismissive act of designing cities for cars despite its failure to reverse congestion or improve street life. On #InternationalWomensDay , let’s change lanes with my streetfighting sisters in this Man Man Man Man Man world.

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Jeff Speck

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6 years

AGAINST MOBILITY Transportation success is now measured by the number of vehicles moved. Transportation success must instead be measured by the number of people moved. Planning success must be measured by the number of people who don't need to move.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

7 months

WTF just happened here, #Boston ?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

A lot of people in my feed misunderstand what a USDOT Director does. The key qualifications are not transportation experience but rather leadership skills, political acumen, and the right outlook. A Buttigieg who embraces transit, micromobility, and walking would be a huge win.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

11 months

First bike ride 2 months after shoulder surgery. Back in it!

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 months

I hope you will read this!

Why your city needs a downtown ‘walkability plan’

Here are 10 tactics to plan for better walkability with immediate implementation, improving safety and reviving a city center in the process.

www.cnu.org

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Thanks to Capital Bike Share and a whole bunch of bike lanes, I had the most amazing tourist experience in my old hometown today. Everyone should see the city this way.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

I am slowing coming to understand Portland's recent zoning reform. It is remarkable and should become a national model:

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

Because people are bored, why not reopen the controversy I stared months ago by saying this new duplex in my neighborhood was Bad Architecture? Folks defended it. I now have pics that show how it greets passers-by. This is not about style; blank walls kill street life. OKBye!

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

You’re hired.

Mobility Behaviour 🎓

@davidlois_UNED

3 years

Hay espacio para repartir, y debe repartirse. Estupendo 📹 de @otucis

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Jeff Speck

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8 months

Welcome to perhaps the most ambitious TODs in the US. #UtahCity Streets already in, buildings going up.

Utah City breaks ground, a very ambitious TOD

A new transit-oriented development in Utah is planned with the density and amenities of a big city downtown.

www.cnu.org

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

Disturbing to hear cycling STILL being called elitist by guys in $2000 suits when 38% of cycling commuters come from the bottom 25th percentile of income earners.

Bobby Lewis

@revrrlewis

3 years

"Imagine being in one of these sexy roads with 2 lanes and the bicycle lane is empty, and you're 30 mins late for work, all because we've reserved this for the elitists who know how to do things right & somehow can afford to ride their bike while everybody else is going to work"

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

The real scandal is that you rarely wait more than 90 seconds for a train in Moscow.

Mike Lydon

@MikeLydon

5 years

A subway station in Moscow vs New York City. Let that sink in, @MTA ...

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Pedestrian beg buttons mean that your city has anti-walking leadership. Remove your buttons or your leaders.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

8 months

Ooh, THAT’S interesting

Neil Arason (he/him)

@neilarason

1 year

Now that’s how you do a safe pedestrian crossing. Complete with a speed hump for vehicles and narrowing a two-way road into a single lane right where people cross the street.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

11 months

Sing it brother.

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

11 months

“Protected bike lanes and bus lanes are not a frill… they are a life saving measure.” - @SecretaryPete

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Jeff Speck

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11 months

89% increase in pedestrian fatalities over a dozen years. No bueno. Causes: 1. SUVs and high-hood pickups. Look, my hood has a hood! 2. The suburbanization of poverty. People living carless in the auto zone.

David Zipper

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11 months

New report finds that over 8,000 pedestrians were killed on US roadways in 2022. Jimmy Carter was president the last time that happened.

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Jeff Speck

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4 years

Here’s what I learned this week: it’s not allowed on Twitter to call out a building for ignoring its context. Apparently every new building is just fine, and I’m a shit for thinking quality matters.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

Let’s make that permanent everywhere.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

Don't be fooled by its traditional garb; Poundbury is a deeply radical project, arguably the most successful new town of the past 80 years, including 35% social housing indistinguishable from market-rate product. It needs to be the standard.

The new urbanist developer King

Charles III, who ascended to the throne of the United Kingdom late last week, may be the only world leader who has personally built a successful mixed-use, walkable town.

www.cnu.org

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

4 years

So important. Look what Paris did in a mere 8 years. Why can't we? #Boston

James Stafford

@Jamesdestafford

4 years

2012 vs 2020 What a transformation. Highlighting the inefficiency of the automobile as means of transporting people. @Anne_Hidalgo 2014 vision of re-engineering the city's roads and Junctions to be less car centric has really paid off. Less pollution, congestion & more cycling

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Jeff Speck

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1 year

Seriously, why is this happening? Very grateful.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

The @nytimes simply is not aware how much elite projection goes into the assumption that the automotive user is the dominant user of our streets, especially in NYC.

Danny Harris

@DannyHarris_TA

5 years

Hey @nytimes , here’s what you should be writing: “New York is working to prioritize people, not cars on its streets. Pedestrians and bicyclists say these changes will save lives.”

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Jeff Speck

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5 years

Wow, no words. OK, words: This drawing kills me because, reorganized with an understanding of how spatial definition makes streets and squares, these buildings could make a town!

Jonny Anstead 🏘🚶‍♂️🚲🌳

@JonnyAnstead

5 years

In 2019, not 1989, so why, why, why are we still allowing single use, out-of-town, car-dependent business parks like this one?👇(1/10)

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Jeff Speck

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3 years

I am a car nut from childhood, have always loved sporty cars. For the past 5 years, I had an SUV. Then I listened to @schmangee and others, and no longer wanted to risk killing pedestrians with a high hood. So we bought a low wagon. Guess what: it is SO much more fun to drive!

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Jeff Speck

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4 years

On another topic: I'm a self-employed sole breadwinner with a family of 4. Guess what I have to pay annually for family health insurance? Not even fancy insurance. . . a #BlueCross @BCBSMA HMO. . . . . . Wait for it. . . . . . $30,000. Tell me this system isn't broken.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

One of my faves. “The less you spend on street width, the more people will pay to live on it.”

Vince Graham

@VincentGGraham

3 years

Tradd Street, Charleston, SC. 18’ wide pavement within a 30’ right-of-way.

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Jeff Speck

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4 years

Sharing a project we presented recently in #Derry , #NH . Very excited to move it forward.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

@steamyporkbuns Everything you do to make a city more walkable makes it more rollable. Everything you do to make a city more rollable makes it more walkable. Some of my friends in wheelchairs call what they do “walking.” Some of my friends who can’t easily walk use bikes. The only enemy is cars.

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Jeff Speck

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5 years

A Denver study, conducted by Alejandro Henao—who worked as an Uber and Lyft driver while earning his Ph.D. (as well as a 5-star rating)—found that for every 100 miles of moving customers, his car had to move 169 miles. (1/5)

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

8 months

Who decides how large names are on maps, and what the heck is a Pigeon Forge?

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Small blocks are the best!

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 years

I met my wife on a train platform.

Matt Armstrong

@matt_a7

6 years

Dear Elon Musk. I like public transit. I’ve never bumped into a murderer on the subway. But I do recall stories of people meeting their spouses on it. Here’s one example where they even wed on the bus where they met. Sincerely, a non-billionaire.

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@JeffSpeckFAICP

8 months

The three of us just spent $78 bucks on this at the Nashville airport. AMERICA RULES!!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

5 years

Seriously, you put this on your CAR???

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

TFW you’re watching the new season of Better Call Saul and you get to see one of the protected bike lanes you planned for Albuquerque.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

7 months

What’s most remarkable about this important graph is that almost all the gains in sustainability and quality of life occur by the time we get to 25 units per acre, a delightful density (think Georgetown). Only marginal improvements beyond. Missing middle gets this done.

Patrick Siegman

@PatrickSiegman

7 months

Imagine if academics, bankers, planners & politicians all understood that American families that live in compact, mixed-use neighborhoods own fewer cars, drive less & have much lower transport costs than those who live in sprawling suburban subdivisions…🧵

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

6 months

WHAT DO WE WANT??? 9-FOOT (URBAN) LANES!!! WHEN DO WE WANT THEM??? NOW!!! Great summary @cnupublicsquare @TheWarOnCars @JohnsHopkins (yes of course frequent bus routes should maintain 22 foot clear yes of course the fire truck template must fit)

Johns Hopkins study recommends narrow travel lanes

A nationwide study of more than 1,000 street sections sides with urbanists and planners in the long-standing battle with traffic engineers over the benefits of narrow travel lanes in urban places.

www.cnu.org

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

3 years

I just let loose on the Engineering Influence podcast. Best stuff starts at 24.00. "This is a crime. This is a profession, the American street design profession, that is legalized vehicular manslaughter at the engineering moment.” 1/7

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

1 year

Always easy to tell when I’ve spent a weekend in NYC.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

2 years

In a pinch, 10 feet is enough for a damn good cycle track. (15th St. DC) 3 3.5 3.5. This means any street can lose a lane and add bikes.

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Jeff Speck

@JeffSpeckFAICP

9 months

This photograph has (for today) removed my hope for America.

cars.destroyed.our.cities

@CarsRuinedCity

9 months

Lafayette, Louisiana is so car dependent that their brand new elementary school is built like an industrial center where trucks line up to deliver and pick up goods. All of this for a demographic (kids) that can’t even drive.

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