Notices by Jason Thorne (jasonthorne@mastodon.social)

Fitting bike lanes onto narrow commercial main streets that have lots of competition for the space can be tricky … but downtown #Waterloo has done it pretty well.

#cycling #BikeTooter #urbanism #worldcarfreeday

If we look at different modes of travel through the lens of PEOPLE-moving efficiency rather than VEHICLE-moving efficiency (source: NACTO).

Here’s an interesting “last mile” thing that’s often over-looked. When you park your bike at the bike parking station in downtown Eindhoven, you can pick up a free baby stroller for walking around with your child!

Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it https://tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw3

From 75 parking spots to 55 homes. The new CityHousing Hamilton affordable housing building on this former downtown city parking lot is almost finished!
#housing #urbanism #cities #hamont

A new “continuous sidewalk” in #Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street + reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections. Same at the driveways, so you don’t get the up-down “roller coaster effect” when you’re #walking, #cycling or using a wheelchair.

#safestreets #urbanism #accessibility

Someone once suggested to me that the walkability of a neighbourhood could be determined based on the number of staples in the hydro poles. I always liked that idea.

The “Low-Line” … an emerging new public space under the “L” in #Chicago.

Cycling “The 606” in Chicago … one of the best urban walking/cycling trails in North America.
#cycling #biketooter #chicago

Nighttime stroll along Paseo del Prado, #Havana.

Havana car culture is a car culture I think I might be able to get behind 😃

House prices vs. incomes in Canada from 1984 to 2022 (source: Beauty of Data)

Crossed another one off my “urbanist bucket list.” Today I walked the Cheonggyecheon River in #Seoul, former site of a 12-lane expressway that was torn down in 2003 in order to daylight and restore the stream and create an urban park right through the heart of the city.

Urban-scale working vehicles on the streets of #Tokyo.

Very cool. Automated underground bike storage in Kyoto.
#cycling #biketooter

Putting the “furniture” back in “street furniture” (Roppongi Hills, #Tokyo)

#Tokyo had different architects from across the country design its new public toilets. And they’re fabulous.
#architecture #urbanism #city

You don’t often see outward facing seats on transit vehicles, but being able to gaze out the window rather than at an ad across the aisle makes for a pretty enjoyable ride! (This is the Kuala Lumpur Monorail).

#transit #malaysia #kualalumpur #transportation

Street commerce in Hanoi.

#citylife #hanoi #vietnam #urbanism #streetlife #streetphotography

Never seen anything like this before! A bike lane that continues into, and through, a shopping mall (#Singapore).
#biketooter #cycling