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The average person does not realize cars cost more than transit because they’re not paying a fare every time they turn on their cars. This is why monthly passes or employer subsidies boost transit ridership even if the cost is the same. Or, of course, getting rid of the farebox altogether.
Free Fares vs. More Service
Darrell Owens
This echoes the conclusions of a 2021 investigation by Vice News which explored the police’s deployment of ShotSpotter in the cities of Kansas City, Cleveland, Atlanta, and Chicago and found that the sensors are placed “almost exclusively in majority Black and brown neighborhoods”. The investigation also pointed to several cases in which ShotSpotter’s high rate of false alerts led to police killings, including unarmed 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
Smart Streetlights Are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities - Failed Architecture
failedarchitecture.com
But in this innocuous intersection that poses a world of convenience and safety considerations every time I cross it in bicycle, it’s a different story. And this is just one intersection of ambiguity that I and millions of other cyclists approach every day. These are the internal conversations we must have when approaching an intersection, simply because there are so few that are built with the cyclist in mind.
Understanding an Intersection Through the Eyes of a Cyclist
Arian Horbovetz
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