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Supporting a new generation of walkable neighborhoods with housing abundance, active public realms, & thriving small business ecosystems. Building @remainplaces

Salem, MA

https://t.co/JFve8Tej9t

Joined April 2009

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Jonathan Berk

2 months

Walkable, Denser Development Can Address Both Housing And Traffic Woes Massachusetts has some of the worst traffic & most expensive housing in America. A shift in our land use patterns can help us solve for both crises. My piece in this weeks @CWBeacon

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Walkable, denser development can address both housing and traffic woes

Part of the solution to our existential housing and transportation crises is building more homes, of all types, in and around walkable neighborhoods.

commonwealthbeacon.org

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Cities should be places to live in, not spaces to pass through. It’s time to focus on planning for “place,” not “space.”

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

BREAKING: Toronto City Council has voted 18-7 to end single-family only exclusionary zoning, allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes in all residential areas of the city. They become the largest city in North America to do so. 📍Toronto 🇨🇦

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

BREAKING: Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council has voted 8-1 to REMOVE ALL MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS from the city’s zoning code (commercial and residential)!

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Jonathan Berk

2 months

“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities." - @GovDougBurgum North Dakota comments during the @NatlGovsAssoc winter meetings

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1 year

We could be going cross-country at 250mph in a new electric vehicle...

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On my watch, the great American road trip is going to be fully electrified. And now, through a tax credit, you can get up to $7,500 on a new electric vehicle.

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Town: Our doctors, nurses, teachers etc. can no longer afford to live in our community, we’re proposing to make it easier to build more housing. Residents: NO! —1 year later— Residents: Why’s my favorite restaurant closing? Why do I wait 5 hours at the hospital? Town: 😐

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Jonathan Berk

10 months

In 2010, Lancaster, CA transformed Lancaster Blvd. from a 5 lane road into a tree lined, 2 lane street. The positive impact was immediate with 50+ new businesses opening and $273mm in new economic activity and w/ reduced speeds, traffic related injuries plummeted.

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2 years

It’s amazing what we can do when we rethink how we use some of the space we devote to moving and storing cars. 📍 Millennium Park, Chicago

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Jonathan Berk

7 months

Train travel between Orlando and Miami officially kicked off this morning. @GoBrightline trains will run nearly every hour, covering the full route in a little over 3 hours with stops in Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. 🎥 @Ananyati

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8 months

"New housing will ruin the character of our neighborhood!" *the neighborhood*

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5 months

94% of Parisians live within a 5-minute walk of a bakery. 🇫🇷 🥖

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10 months

The retail vacancy rate on Montreal’s Mont-Royal Avenue dropped from 14.5% before pedestrianization (2018) to 5.6% after pedestrianization (2023). 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦 @Val_Plante @AvenueMontRoyal

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1 year

BREAKING: Massachusetts is set to become one of the first states in the Nation to; 1) eliminate single family only exclusionary zoning, and 2) end mandatory minimum parking requirements.

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4 years

“Our city could never be like Amsterdam.” 🚲 🚲 🚲 This is now Paris’ reality 🇫🇷 🎥 @schlijper

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Jonathan Berk

3 months

Anne Hidalgo Promises That 'Cars Will Not Return To the Eiffel Tower' After The Olympics "The Trocadéro will be greened and the Pont d'Iéna pedestrianized, up to the Champ de Mars, which will be reforested. The whole thing will form a large park in the heart of Paris."

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

"Land use comparison of a typical European city and a North American city." 📸 Thinkaboutmaps (IG)

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2 years

All I want for Christmas… 🚄 🎅🏻

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

Philly could be America’s first car free city before the night is over.

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Jonathan Berk

1 month

peak New England design is a former Friendly’s converted to a Dunkin

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

BREAKING: Boston set to announce Newbury Street will become a pedestrian only street from May 1st through October 31st.

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Jonathan Berk

7 months

Rishi Sunak lives on a pedestrian street.

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Rishi Sunak

7 months

We are a nation of drivers. Most of us use a car every day and, for many, life would be difficult without their car. But too often, drivers feel under attack. That changes today with a long-term plan to improve drivers' experience on the road. Here’s how 👇🧵

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Jonathan Berk

10 months

A recent @realtors survey found that 77% of Americans would pay a premium to live in a neighborhood where they could easily walk to parks, shops and restaurants. That number jumps to 92% for ‘Gen Z.’

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Jonathan Berk

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Anne Hidalgo became Mayor of Paris 10-years ago. In that time the City has; 🚲 built 1,300km of bike lanes 🌳 planted 145,000 new trees 💨 reduced air pollution by 40% 🌳added 45km of new parks 📚 converted 180 streets to “school streets” 📍 Paris 🇫🇷

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

“Induced demand” in Montreal. 🚲

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

In 2020, Paris launched “school streets” outside 211 schools, closing streets to traffic during pick-up & drop-off. At least 22 have since become permanent pedestrian streets, creating dynamic new community spaces 7 days a week. 📍 Paris 🎥 @EmmanuelSPV

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

Voters in San Francisco voted 60% - 40% to permanently kick cars out of Golden Gate Park, creating a safe space for outdoor recreation and mobility for all. 🚲 🏃‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🎥 @LukeBornheimer

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic. If you make more bicycle infrastructure you get more bicycles… You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

🎶 You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one🎶 🚇

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

60% of cyclists interviewed on the roads in Paris began cycling last year after the installation of pop-up bike lanes. @Prefet75_IDF 🇫🇷 🚲 🎥 @briceperrin

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

"The Katy Freeway in central Houston expanded in 2011 to more than 20 lanes in some segments. That project cost $2.8 billion. When it was finished, travel times out of downtown increased, by some estimates as much as 30%."

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Jonathan Berk

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despite the fact that the oranges, lemons, grapefruit and tomatoes were all wearing bright colors.

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@nbcwashington

NBC4 Washington

4 months

JUST IN: A car went inside the Whole Foods in Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday, damaging the produce section and disrupting grocery shopping.

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

In Houston, Texas, plans call for widening 24-miles of I-45 at an estimated cost of $9 billion. 🚗 In France, plans call for building 32,000 miles of bike lanes across the country at an estimated cost of $2.2 billion. 🚲

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Looks like Boston is, in fact, Loon Mountain. ⛷ ⛰

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

The streets of Paris are car free today as part of an event called "Journée Paris Respire" or "Paris Breathes Day". For one day only, cars are banned from Paris. Parisians and tourists are invited to "discover Paris in a new light". 📍 Avenue des Champs-Élysées 🇫🇷

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1 year

We want more of this… to protect that.

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Jonathan Berk

5 months

"Before the pandemic, if you had told us you wanted to close the street to cars, 100% of stores would have opposed it. Now that we’ve done it, nearly 100% of businesses would oppose reopening the street." @_mxmla ❄️ We can't be afraid to try new things... 📍Leavenworth, WA

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

The City of Montreal has converted 13 streets in 7 boroughs into pedestrian boulevards complete with space for outdoor dining, public seating & social space, art installations & enhanced cycling & pedestrian routes. 📸 @AvenueMontRoyal 📍Montreal 🇨🇦

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Jonathan Berk

7 months

“New research indicates that there may be a whole host of toxic chemicals being shed from tires & brakes that have been largely ignored until now. Even worse, these emissions may be so significant that they exceed those from a typical car's exhaust.”

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Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds

Researchers say tire emissions pose a threat to global health, and EVs could make the problem worse.

www.thedrive.com

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

In the 1970s, change to Amsterdam’s streets was met with similar opposition & vandalism many American cities are experiencing today as we attempt to transform our streets into shared spaces for bikes, buses, people & cars. 🎥 @notjustbikes

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic. If you make more bicycle infrastructure you get more bicycles… You get what you invite.” -Jan Gehl 📍 Montreal 🚲

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

BREAKING: Montreal will invest $12 million over 3 three years to turn 10 streets into pedestrian arteries. “These projects are not only good for the economy, they also contribute directly to the quality of life of the population.” - @Val_Plante

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

The transformation of Herald Square in New York City into a space for people continues to be a success. 📸 @Streetfilms 📍Broadway, New York City

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Jonathan Berk

4 months

Community in January: *fights a new proposed housing development on main street* Community in April: *cries on Nextdoor when their favorite Main Street shop closes due to lack of customers* Community in July: *fights new proposed housing development on main street*

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

how it started how it’s going 📍 Hanover St., Boston’s North End

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Jonathan Berk

10 months

Suburban drivers when you propose new bike lanes in a neighborhood they don’t live in and travel through once a year.

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Jonathan Berk

7 months

Rishi Sunak’s United Kingdom 🇬🇧 🚗

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Jonathan Berk

11 months

It’s the cars… It’s because we spent decades undoing great parts of American cities and designing new ones for the car first… the human as an afterthought. Only now are we beginning to undue nearly a century of auto centric planning that has decimated our built environment.

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@culturaltutor

The Cultural Tutor

11 months

Do you ever feel that older cities are just more interesting than new ones? Well, it isn't just because they're old. It's because of something called "vernacular architecture"...

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Jonathan Berk

22 days

This would get you from Boston to New York in an hour. 🚄

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23 days

The American mind cannot comprehend this 🚄💨

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Jonathan Berk

9 months

"Multifamily housing will destroy the character of our community." The community:

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Cities aren’t loud. Cars and traffic are loud.

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Jonathan Berk

5 years

Wild lightning storm in Boston right now. 🌩 #weather

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

“I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.” - David Byrne 🚲 📷 Getty Images #MetGala

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

The US is 4% of the world’s population and uses 20% of the world’s oil. ⛽️ 🌎

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Jonathan Berk

29 days

Every city needs the “pedestrian brick” as part of their vision zero strategy. 🧱 🎥 @VisionZeroYVR

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

This is a greener, safer, more equitable and more efficient distribution of road space. 🚲 🚗 🚌

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

"We took an underutilized, dingy parking lot & used some paint and planters to transform it over a weekend. In the 3 years since we implemented the project, retail sales increased 172%, 2x that of adjacent areas in the same neighborhood." -Janette Sadik-Khan 📍Brooklyn, NYC 🇺🇸

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

73% of Massachusetts voters recently polled support a proposal to reimagine the MBTA Commuter Rail system into a “regional rail” network where trains would travel every 15 to 30 minutes day, night and on weekends. 🚊

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Governor Baker sharing how Amazon didn't choose Massachusetts during the HQ2 process partly due to our housing crisis, saying on their way out; "You don't have enough housing. Your housing's really expensive. You don't have a process or a pathway to create more."

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

Greater Boston would be in a very different position today if we had spent $25 billion on public transit upgrades & expansion instead of the Big Dig...

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

The world's first Dunkin' "Bike-Thru" lane in the Philippines. 🍩☕️🚲 📷 @dunkinph 🇵🇭

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Jonathan Berk

29 days

“What the fu** are they putting me on the big screen for.”

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

BREAKING: Boston’s Newbury Street to be open to pedestrians every Sunday from July 2nd through October 15!

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

Who wants to help me put these billboards up all along RT 128, 93, 495 and the Mass Turnpike? 🚆🚇

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Jonathan Berk

28 days

BREAKING: Massachusetts set to introduce legislation to legalize the New England Main Street and Downtown… again. These centuries old, beloved, neighborhoods had been made largely illegal for the past half-century by modern day zoning.

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Jonathan Berk

11 months

Change your streets… change the world. 📍 Barcelona 🎥 @hausofmerius

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

Mexico City transformed two vehicle lanes outside the Plaza del Zócalo, the City's main square, into space for people, bikes and a massive street mural inspired by Oaxacan fabrics. 🇲🇽 📸

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Jonathan Berk

5 months

*can you point to where on this chart your ‘community character’ is destroyed?*

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

This is a heavily subsidized community.

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

Boston’s next Mayor riding the MBTA’s Orange Line to City Hall. @wutrain 🚂

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

Paris is removing 50% of its on street parking spaces and asking Parisians what they want to do with the newly reclaimed public spaces this creates. Their aim is to make the city greener and more people-friendly. 🎥 @TheB1M

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Jonathan Berk

29 days

Out= pedestrian crossing flags 🏳️ In= pedestrian crossing bricks 🧱

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Todd Nickel

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OMG I love it.

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

People will drive to a mall to park far away from the entrance to walk long distances and shop but we assume we need to provide the parking right in front on all of our main streets and in our downtowns...

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Jonathan Berk

4 years

Paris Mayor @Anne_Hidalgo riding her bike to work... in the rain.... encouraging "all those who can ride a bicycle" to favor this mode of travel. 🚲 She’s doing her part by installing 400 miles of protected bike lanes across Paris. 🎥 @BFMParis

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Jonathan Berk

1 month

Paris saw bicycle usage double in the last 4 years. This follows a decade of investments in a safe, comfortable, cycling network & the announcement of an additional 180km of cycle paths & 130,000 bike parking spaces by 2026. 📍 Paris 🇫🇷 🎥 @EmmanuelSPV

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Jonathan Berk

2 months

“Only 1% of the land in America’s 35 largest cities is walkable. But those areas generate a whopping 20% of the US GDP.” 🎥 @wef

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Jonathan Berk

3 months

45% of Americans have no access to any form of public transit so right off the bat you can just toss this report out the window.

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3 months

Mass transit isn't the commuter magnet it's thought to be. Despite massive spending, only 3% of Americans use it for daily commutes.

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Jonathan Berk

3 months

“House Bill 2252, sponsored by Rep. Mark Klicker (R-16, Walla Walla), would require every city and town in [Washington] to permit the operation of a neighborhood cafe in a residential zone, regardless of whether the zone allows other business uses.”

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Jonathan Berk

4 months

"The owners of the Greenhills Bakery in Dorchester today won approval to raze their current store to replace it with a larger bakery topped with three additional floors with nine condos."

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Jonathan Berk

4 years

Berlin’s temporary protected bike lanes installed almost overnight in response to #COVID19 . 🚲

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

In 1973 the Netherlands was hit by an oil crisis that sent the price of oil skyrocketing. In an effort to curb oil consumption nationwide, car-free Sundays were introduced banning private car travel on Sundays from November 1973 until January 1974.

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Jonathan Berk

2 months

This popular little coffee shop in Austin, Texas serves up some of the best coffee and breakfast tacos in the heart of a low density residential neighborhood with no off-street parking. It would be prohibited in most American neighborhoods today. 🌮 ☕️

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

The "triple-decker" is iconic in Boston architecture. Between 1880 & 1930 we built 15,000 of these working class homes support a growing City. They had high densities, limited set backs and many had minimal or no parking. Imagine proposing Boston to Boston today...

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Jonathan Berk

3 months

In a 1972 study, Donald Appleyard showed how traffic rates influence social interactions & friendships. People living on heavy traffic streets; 0.9 Friends 3.1 acquaintances People living on light traffic streets; 3.0 friends 6.3 acquaintances Prioritize people over traffic.

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Jonathan Berk

10 months

This is infinitely better than a few parking spaces. 🍻 🍔 📍 @LolitaBoston

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Jonathan Berk

10 months

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

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Jonathan Berk

4 years

We’re just beggining to realize all of the missed opportunities that have been locked away in our cities and towns when we choose to look at our streets exclusively as places for cars.

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Jonathan Berk

4 months

A moment of appreciation for this Marblehead triple decker.

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

1 in 2 Americans want to live in a walkable neighborhood... ...only 1 in 12 Americans are able to. It's time to plan for and build a future centered around walkability, place and community.

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Jonathan Berk

3 years

Each of these brought 1 potential customer to a commercial district.

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Jonathan Berk

3 months

Live in a walkable, transit-oriented, neighborhood.

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Gas Biz Guy

3 months

Pumping gas is one of peoples least favorite things to do. What are ways we can make the experience better?

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Jonathan Berk

5 months

Land use patterns in Europe vs. America

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Jonathan Berk

6 months

People will pay thousands of dollars to visit great examples of walkable urbanism around the world… then fight every aspect of it when they get home to their own communities.

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

🪴 mixed use w/ neighborhood retail 🚗 no parking 🏠 2,700sf of living area on a 700sf lot Legalize it!

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

The perfect building doesn’t exi… 🏠 16 apartments 🥖 bakery 🍻 Cider mill and taproom 🍔 parklet 🚲 protected bike lane 📍 Central Square, Cambridge

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Jonathan Berk

7 months

“A city can be friendly to people or it can be friendly to cars, but it cannot be both.” - Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá

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Jonathan Berk

1 year

We put countless regulations in place to preserve historic, walkable neighborhoods like Boston's Back Bay... ...yet we put countless regulations in place to make it nearly impossible to build walkable neighborhoods like Boston's Back Bay today.

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Jonathan Berk

5 months

Today was a very good day for the future of train travel in America. 🚂

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

“I could tell you about the emissions saved by the bike bus, that it takes 100s of cars off the road… but the thing that sticks… is watching all these kids floating to school on a vast ocean of joy.” - @byjacobward @NBCNightlyNews 🚲 🚌 @CoachBalto

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Jonathan Berk

2 years

It’s almost as if they never intended for a parkway to cut Boston off from the Esplanade… 📸 IG: oschapov

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