Analysis and Recommendations For the Proposed DTLA 2040 Community Plan Update
Read here for additional details on my DTLA 2040 Community Plan update counter-proposal and argument for more housing downtown.
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2016 Ballot Initiative Voter Guide Cheat-Sheet
A cheat-sheet voting guide for 17 California ballot initiatives, and several more in Los Angeles County, the City of LA, and Santa Monica.
Ballot Initiative Voter Guide: California, LA County, and the Cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica
Analysis and recommendations for all 17 California ballot initiatives, along with some local ones in LA County, the City of Los Angeles, and Santa Monica.
How Car-Free is Your Neighborhood? Every Census Tract in the US, Mapped.
What share of residents in your census tract walk, bike, or take transit to work? I've created maps for every census tract in the U.S. that have the answers.
A Tale of Two Subsidies
In this country we waste upwards of $200 billion a year on subsidies for wealthy people to buy bigger houses and for drivers to destroy our cities and pollute our environment. Are these really the incentives we want to be providing?
Almost All of Los Angeles' Growth Is in Low-car Households
Who knew? Even Los Angeles, despite its reputation, is attracting thousands of car-free and car-lite households.
Freeway expansion doesn't improve freeway traffic, but it does make local traffic worse
When you widen a freeway you may reduce congestion for a few years, until induced demand kicks in and it fills back up. But you can't widen local roads, so they just get worse and worse, degrading quality of life for residents of our urban centers—and all for the sake of suburban commuters.
Bicyclists still don't have their fair share of road space in New York City
New York City is building a lot of bike lanes, and some are complaining that with so few bicycle commuters they're getting more space than they deserve. I look into the numbers and discover that bicyclists are still under-served relative to their share of commuters.
Want housing that doesn't break the bank for lower-income residents? Get rid of some parking.
If we want more affordable housing, one of the quickest and easiest ways to get it is to allow developers to build homes with limited parking—or none at all.
Even with poor infrastructure, rail exceeds air market share in many domestic corridors
The best rail infrastructure in the U.S. is found in the Northeast, and even it still sucks. Despite that, it claims a massive share of trips within the corridor compared to flying, demonstrating the potential benefits of rail investment in other corridors around the country.
It's time for Capitol Hill to get its first pedestrian plaza
My first foray into local transportation and placemaking, here I recommend that we close off car access for a section of a popular bar and restaurant corridor in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
