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Take Bellevue, Washington. The city needed to conduct a safety study as part of their Vision Zero efforts (see sidebar). Bellevue planners didn't want to wait years for patterns to emerge from actual collisions, so they worked with Transoft Solutions to automatically analyze 5,000 hours of footage from 40 existing HD traffic cams, and identified nearly 20,000 "near misses" among pedestrians, cyclists, cars, buses, and other road users — data that could previously only be identified from qualitative and manual review of video footage of an intersection.
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According to one analysis, insects are going extinct eight times faster than mammals, reptiles, and birds; per the same study, the world loses 2.5 percent of its insect mass every year.
San Francisco’s version of rent control lacks vacancy controls, which means landlords can re-set rents at whatever the market will bear when new rent-controlled tenants move in.
The logic is that with vacancy controls, landlords won’t invest in maintaining their properties. But the flipside is that the landlord also has a strong financial incentive to evict longstanding tenants who are paying below-market rates.
So every decade during a boom, there is a tragic, elderly face for the story of displacement.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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