Will be tweeting from this tonight. Full house! https://twitter.com/greg_shill/status/1199021058508120066
"If enough people assume it's real, it becomes real." Kristan Lawson on his fantasy bus line he made look offical to get people talking, per Kafui Attoh.
"Making a better system requires politics. It requires three messy world of rights, and yes, redistribution."
"Never make transition an issue by itself."

Transportation is inseparable from workers rights, daily life, etc.
@greg_shill up on managing cars and what does the law have to do with it.
Our system mandates driving and EXPOSURE to driving. By definition we can't individually opt out.
In American, 1 crash every 7 seconds, and 53,000 ppl killed every year by emissions: tail pipe and none tail pipe (eg microplastics).
Pedestrians deaths up 50%!! in last decade. Federal safety regulators have known for years but place blame on victims.

Ppl over 50, ppl of color, low income, and wheelchair users most affected.
"Cars are the private jet of the city. They just don't do a good job of moving many people." @greg_shill
We have an individual-responsibility oriented framework.
Compliance is ensured by signs and law enforcement, fails to approach problems as a system.
Parking mins...didn't catch the city but even bars have minimum parking requirements?!
Particulate matter is not part of CAFE standards. Law is not regulating non exhaust emissions.
Zero tax benefits or subsidies for ebikes or active transport.
Govt will help you buy an electric Porsche though!!! Up to $7500!!
System goals should be around health and economic performance, not speed.

Output: lower emissions, higher quality of life, better cities.
. @AttohKafui: a system in which you need to drive exacerbates inequity. Political groups can push legislation.
@greg_shill: no large change has happened *without* changing the law.
"Parking meter over? 50, 60 bucks.
You don't get tazed, you don't get hauled of to jail, you don't get a criminal record that collateralizes your job."
In Greek, idiocy = "disengaged from public life." "The idiocy of rural life" in Marx = how industrial capital was pushing people into cities where they could organize.
"Cars make idiots of us all." They disengage us from what transit allows. @AttohKafui
Minneapolis liberalized zoning thru effective organizing and by bringing up racist history of zoning, eg how redlining disenfranchised black people. Gave moral dimension to their arguments. @greg_shill
Bus drivers announcing stops is the result of disability advocacy. But everyone benefits when stops are announced. @AttohKafui
Auto loans got a carve out from the consumer protection program... unlike every other credit product. @greg_shill
...whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast.
Convinging ppl to do something different is very difficult. It *must* be a material improvement. The barriers are material. Current transit does not do that. @AttohKafui
Those feel good stories where someone who walks 25 miles a day to work and is gifted a car is just an indictment of how terrible our system is. @AttohKafui

It's hard to convince that person they don't need a car. @greg_shill
Biggest response that surprised me was from unions. I think it taps into something they've been thinking a lot about: how can they build in public benefits into contact negotiations? @AttohKafui

YES AND YES!!!
A lot of people come out of fights for housing rights. It's a question of real estate and property. It's that systems view.
Wonky term for getting ppl out of cars: Transportation Demand Management
"We should think about public transit the same way we think about libraries." @AttohKafui
There's a huge role for organized labor in the public sector precisely bc they are in the public sector. They can protect against the encroachment of private interests. See: Chicago Teachers Union. @AttohKafui
Audience Q: "Do you think calling cars 'weapons of mass destruction' would help the cause?" (Cc @TheWarOnCars)

In most placed they are seen as necessities, not weapons. @greg_shill
"History of labor on this has been uneven. How do we navigate?" @greg_shill to @AttohKafui

"Well it depends on the union. And we must provide material benefits to transitioning to another well paying, unionized job. They must keep hold of what they've gained."
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