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# Project motivations
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I thought it'd be helpful to explain what motivates my work in A/B Street. These
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are just my personal values; I don't intend to make a careful argument about
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these here. In no particular order:
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- **Transparency and reproducibility**: if city government uses data, modeling,
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or simulation to inform a decision affecting the general public, then anybody
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ought to be able to repeat that analysis.
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- This means code and data should be open.
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- Businesses like [Sidewalk Lab's Replica](https://replicahq.com/) and
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[Remix](https://www.remix.com/solutions/streets) still need to generate
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income, but it's unclear why governments use taxes to pay for something only
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they see.
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- Decision making should be documented clearly. Why were the
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[35th Ave bike lanes](https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/maintenance-and-paving/current-paving-projects/35th-ave-ne)
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scrapped? Is the amount of on-street parking on nearby residential roads
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factored in? Was there analysis of how trip time is impacted by parking in
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the neighborhood and walking a few blocks to a business on the arterial?
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- **Accessibility leads to participation**: There's overhead to taking small
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ideas to advocacy groups or inconveniently timed public meetings. If the
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planning process is easier to interact with, more people will participate.
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- Seattle's
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[Your Voice, Your Choice](https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/programs-and-services/your-voice-your-choice)
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program
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- **Short-term changes**: [ST3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit_3)
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is exciting, but 2040 isn't close. There are much cheaper changes that can be
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implemented sooner.
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- Most of the edits in A/B Street are inspired by tactical urbanism; they
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could be prototyped with signs and paint.
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TODO: car dependency
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TODO: compromises/tradeoffs
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TODO: why now? AVs force us to re-evaluate how space is allocated. and now
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covid, stay healthy sts, street eateries
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