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Project motivations

I thought it'd be helpful to explain what motivates my work in A/B Street. These are just my personal values; I don't intend to make a careful argument about these here. In no particular order:

  • Transparency and reproducibility: if city government uses data, modeling, or simulation to inform a decision affecting the general public, then anybody ought to be able to repeat that analysis.

    • This means code and data should be open.
    • Businesses like Sidewalk Lab's Replica and Remix still need to generate income, but it's unclear why governments use taxes to pay for something only they see.
    • Decision making should be documented clearly. Why were the 35th Ave bike lanes scrapped? Is 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?

  • Accessibility leads to participation: There's overhead to taking small ideas to advocacy groups or inconveniently timed public meetings. If the planning process is easier to interact with, more people will participate.

  • Short-term changes: ST3 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

TODO: compromises/tradeoffs

TODO: why now? AVs force us to re-evaluate how space is allocated. and now covid, stay healthy sts, street eateries