finishing values doc

docs/history/history.md

@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ I originally wanted to tell a much longer story here of how I came to work on
 A/B Street, but I'm not sure this is the right time yet. So consider this the
 quick version.
 
-![Impatience is a virtue](cloud_florida.jpg)
-
 I grew up in Baton Rouge, where driving is effectively the only mode of
 transport. (I've gone back and made a point of taking long walks to confirm how
 antagonistically the city is designed towards other modes.) Very early on, I
@@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ it. I remember being stuck at the intersection of
 first wondering if the pathfinding algorithms could help with traffic. Can you
 see where this is going?
 
-![Hand-mapping UT Austin](ut_map.png)
+![Impatience is a virtue](cloud_florida.jpg)
 
 I moved to Austin for college. One of the first days of class, I shuffled down
 the stairs of Gearing Hall past a crackly old speaker apocalyptically announcing
@@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ the shortest path between their classes. The feedback I got on this assignment
 included something along the lines of, "I was really pretty impressed first that
 you would be so stupid as to actually try to do this..."
 
-![Approximately Orchestrated Routing and Transportation Analyzer](aorta.gif)
+![Hand-mapping UT Austin](ut_map.png)
 
 But I did, and that led me to discovering OpenStreetMap, which it turns out was
 pretty pivotal. (The first version of my campus map was seeded vaguely off an
@@ -70,7 +68,7 @@ mechanisms would be incredibly unfair to people without the spare cash to back
 up their high value-of-time, but I brushed this off by saying the currency could
 be based on carpooling, EVs, etc.
 
-![Manhattan took walkability seriously](manhattan.jpg)
+![Approximately Orchestrated Routing and Transportation Analyzer](aorta.gif)
 
 It was great to try research in college; I learned I _really_ dislike munging
 data and compressing my work into 6 pages of conference paper LaTeX. So I moved
@@ -85,6 +83,8 @@ were parked on narrow arterials and wondering why that was a fair use of space.
 I started paying attention to the public discourse around bike infrastructure in
 Seattle and feeling like the conversation was... chaotic.
 
+![Manhattan took walkability seriously](manhattan.jpg)
+
 Fast forward to late 2017. This is where I'll omit chunks of the story. Lots of
 things were crumbling at this point. I visited London, my first experience with
 a city that took public transit seriously. When I returned, lots of latent ideas
@@ -176,3 +176,7 @@ What poor judgments have cost me the most time?
   is more important than nice appearance.
 - Geometry primitives: I sunk too much time into the polyline problem and f64
   precision.
+
+## Trivia
+
+The name was almost "Unstreet" or "Superban" (superb urban)

docs/index.md

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ TODO:
 - Bike Master Plan
   - Prototype the
     [planned network](https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/document-library/citywide-plans/modal-plans/bicycle-master-plan)
+- Downtown one-way snake
+  - An old crazy idea I've always wanted to try
 - Unsorted ideas
   - [Parking](https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/cr1r1l/why_the_fuck_does_the_right_lane_convert_to/)
   - [Bus lanes](https://seattletransitblog.com/2018/10/05/seven-places-to-add-bus-lanes-now/)

docs/values.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ these here. In no particular order:
     they see.
   - Decision making should be documented clearly. Why were the
     [35th Ave bike lanes](https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/maintenance-and-paving/current-paving-projects/35th-ave-ne)
-    scrapped? Is the amount of on-street parking on nearby residential roads
+    scrapped? Was the amount of on-street parking on nearby residential roads
     factored in? Was there analysis of how trip time is impacted by parking in
     the neighborhood and walking a few blocks to a business on the arterial?
 
@@ -25,17 +25,26 @@ these here. In no particular order:
 
   - Seattle's
     [Your Voice, Your Choice](https://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/programs-and-services/your-voice-your-choice)
-    program
+    program is maybe an example of this
 
 - **Short-term changes**: [ST3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Transit_3)
   is exciting, but 2040 isn't close. There are much cheaper changes that can be
   implemented sooner.
+
   - Most of the edits in A/B Street are inspired by tactical urbanism; they
     could be prototyped with signs and paint.
 
-TODO: car dependency
+- **The US is too dependent on cars**: This has an unacceptable impact on the
+  environment. Even ignoring that, many cities are out of room to build more
+  roads. We can't keep scaling population like this.
 
-TODO: compromises/tradeoffs
+- **Autonomous vehicles will NOT save the day**: They can squeeze more
+  throughput out of existing infrastructure, but only up to a point. They might
+  encourage people to move and tolerate longer commutes. Mass transit and dense
+  land-use patterns handle population growth better.
 
-TODO: why now? AVs force us to re-evaluate how space is allocated. and now
-covid, stay healthy sts, street eateries
+- **Compromise and trade-offs**: I see lots of rhetoric calling for extreme,
+  sudden change. I don't want to ban all cars, because that's not realistic. I
+  want to focus on immediate steps forward. I want to come up with estimates
+  about impacting drivers by a median 3 minutes in order to save a bus route 1
+  minute, and to shift public discourse towards that.