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Good analysis, I agree 100%.

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Transportation planning is a local issue, not a national issue. Obviously national funding plays a role, but you don't need national funding for sidewalks and bike infrastructure. Vallejo's local and state government representatives are all Democrats.

I didn't know that Italians and french had the same language, traditions and skin color. I had assumed that there had been riots in the streets when Italy joined the ECSC in 1951.

You're totally right, but I hate the whole "Sweden/Europe was ethnically homogeneous" line that centrists say.

It's worse than the existing interchange. This is a one-more-lane project that makes the neighborhood worse for bicylists and pedestrians.

The project will implement a Diverging Diamond Interchange design that will significantly improve traffic flow and safety, while reducing congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. At the end of the project, it will be both safer and easier for motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists to access and navigate.

This project will relieve congestion and improve traffic flow on local streets, improve the existing interchange and intersection operations, improve the safety of local streets, and increase capacity of the local roadway network to support future growth. See the Updates tab for related Project Documents.

https://sta.ca.gov/project/redwood-parkway-fairgrounds-dr-improvement-project/

It just seems strange to portray highway interchanges in a positive light. Like, they might be the safest interchange for stroads intersecting an interstate, but that's kinda like putting a $25M bandaid on a bullet wound.

I'm not sure if there's any safe way to have level crossings for bicycles and pedestrians across highway ramps. The safe ones are almost always underpasses or overpasses. There's a bicycle path in Stockholm at the end of a highway ramp as it merges onto a 50 km/h road, and I'm terrified to use it.

Together we’re advancing initiatives focused on creating safer, more efficient travel options for all modes of transportation, from vehicles to bicycles to pedestrians

They spent $25M not making travel safer for bicycles and pedestrians, and explicitly making travel less efficient by inducing car demand. $25M could buy Caltrans an entire set of one of their new Stadler kiss trains, to go from 24 trains sets to 25.

edit: Actually this intersection is more dangerous than the existing intersection. It doubles the amount of pedestrian signals that pedestrians have to cross, and eliminates the sidewalk on the east side. Plus, they're cutting down like 8 trees and not replacing them. This is urban decay.

Those aren't bicycle lanes, they're clear zones to protect drivers so they won't hit a tree or a pole and ding their $100k truck.

All that could happen is that they kill a bicyclist and drag them for a few hundred feet, but that washes off.

In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I'm not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won't let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.

Don't get me started on Skype for Business. It's still around.

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