Mastodon of the night:

[applegrove]

Never forget that when #Seoul, Korea removed the #Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream and a 1000 acre park in the city’s centre, not only did it completely transform the city’s public life & economic success, but when combined with public transit improvements, the vehicle traffic congestion actually got better.

The traffic got BETTER!

#cities #urbanism #traffic #cars #transit #congestion #transportation #city







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[orthoclad]

1. I propose we call it a "mast"

as opposed to a tw33t.
Or some other one-syllable word.
I oppose "toot".

[applegrove]

3. Maybe "dawn"? (the verb) Some use "boost".

verb
1.
(of a day) begin.
"Thursday dawned bright and sunny"
Similar:
begin
open
break
arrive
emerge
grow light
lighten
brighten
Opposite:
end

2.
become evident to the mind; be perceived or understood.
"the awful truth was beginning to dawn on him"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Following along with this OT subthread ...

Shoq
What drove the internet in the 90s and 00s was that it was so cool to be doing good shit with it. Social media was like a giant manure dump all over that culture. We've never recovered.

The Fediverse and the death of Twitter promise a rebirth of that culture, if we don't let the cool kids and a lazy press bury the public in vapid bullshit again.

We wasted 16 goddamn years enduring Facebook and Twitter. In the end, they were both toxic and regressive. Can we please not go back there? Please?

[eShirl]

14. "dropping"

[orthoclad]

2. Urban plannig for people, not machines

Our current model of highway-after-highway is a century old, and it doesn't work. It wrecks neighborhoods, despoils rural areas, and enslaves us to machines.

The machines own us, we don't own them.

[erronis]

4. Thank you so much for switching from the twit platform. And a wonderful post!!!

Makes me think about Robert Moses's razing of neighborhoods to construct asphalt arteries around NYC.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Neat stone walkway.

[CitizenZero]

6. Beautiful

We need more urban design like this in our world. Gives me hope that we can turn back the clock on bad city design.

[cilla4progress]

7. Amazing

Gorgeous!

[rainy]

8. Why can't we have nice things?

[applegrove]

9. People are rethinking cities everywhere.

[Bristlecone]

10. Looks like their building architecture also improved tremendously

Would love to go to Seoul.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Is there a Dunk Cam to catch all of the people who misstep and fall into the water? 🤣

[uponit7771]

12. "combined with public transit improvements" I shocked my in NY people in their 20s who didn't own

... a car to get to work because their mass transit could get them there in half hour.

[eShirl]

15. more projects like this please