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Loren S.

@txbornviking

Land-use policy 🤝 transit policy Transit Alternatives, Urban Living, and Texas predominate. Not necessarily in that order.

Joined March 2013
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| Highways are social engineering! |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　 づ
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What an amazing development
Taste Project (@tasteproject_) profile pictureTaste Project@tasteproject_16 Jan 2024
Taste Project Community Restaurant will soon have a second location in Arlington! Our 13,000 square foot space will include a dining room, covered patio, traditional and production kitchens, a culinary classroom, offices, and room for expansion. @cityofarlington
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La Ciudad de Fort Worth tiene un plan de crisis y centro de calentamiento para ayudar a los residentes. Hay tres centros comunitarios y dos edificios de la biblioteca listos para recibir a los huéspedes durante la tormenta. FortWorthTexas.gov/Winter
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The City of Fort Worth has a crisis and warming center plan to assist residents. There are three community centers and two library locations ready to welcome guests during the storm. FortWorthTexas.gov/winter
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I imagine this is soon to find its way to the shelves of @SpaceAboveUs... smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air…
Space Shuttle Astronauts Tell All

Space Shuttle Astronauts Tell All

A new book by NASA astronaut Tom Jones shares intriguing stories about the agency’s longest-running space exploration program

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Celebrating 3 years without off-street parking mandates in South Bend! Another year of not missing them. Another year smoothing the way for more affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization. @Parking_Reform
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Michael Divita (@MichaelPDivita) profile pictureMichael Divita@MichaelPDivita12 Jan 2021
BREAKING: Tonight, the South Bend Common Council has passed an ordinance eliminating all minimum off-street parking requirements citywide, making it the largest city in the Midwest to do so.
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Surely we can do better @CityofFortWorth... 28% of @DTFortWorth land used as surface parking... what a terrible use of our most valuable & economical productive land. And heck, would @Nerd4Cities believe this is a city with no parking minimums downtown? youtu.be/NmJRzYn99rg?si=N_BD…
10 Cities That Destroy Their Downtowns With Parking

10 Cities That Destroy Their Downtowns With Parking

It's sometimes said, you can have a place with cheap, ubiquitous pa...

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9th "worst" in the nation... but also something @UrbanFortWorth created this visual a few years ago to drive home the point on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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If only there were some quality #TransitAlternatives to the daily highway gridlock... Imagine if @TxDOT & @NCTCOGtrans invested half as aggressively in transit expansion as they do in highway expansion, it might ACTUALLY make a difference.
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VALUE URBAN DESIGN. Main Street was transformed by rail — 6 traffic lanes to 2, with wider sidewalks and new landscaping. It became a much better place, not just a better transit line.
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Free rides on Fridays with @fwbikesharing continues in 2024! bluezonesproject.hs-sites.co…
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Happy New Years! In appreciation of your support we want to offer our friends a FREE UFW downloadable 2024 calendar. ufw.org/calendar2024 En agradecimiento por su apoyo, queremos ofrecer a nuestros amigos un calendario del 2024 descargable de la UFW GRATIS. #WeFeedYou
A photo of a downloadable UFW calendar

ALT A photo of a downloadable UFW calendar

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In 2022, @KaleyAJohnson found Carswell has long been plagued by sexual abuse and cover-ups. From 2014-2018, 35 women reported staff sexually assaulted them. That's more than at any other federal women's prison in the US. Kaley's investigation is here: star-telegram.com/news/local…
Exclusive: Fort Worth Carswell women’s prison plagued by sexual abuse, cover-ups

Exclusive: Fort Worth Carswell women’s prison plagued by sexual abuse, cover-ups

A Star-Telegram investigation reveals a pattern of sexual misconduct and cover-ups at prison for women.

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"Being raped was not part of my sentence." An El Paso woman filed a federal lawsuit yesterday, alleging staff at FMC Carswell repeatedly sexually assaulted her. And she isn't the first to report sexual abuse at the Fort Worth prison. star-telegram.com/news/state…

Fort Worth prison staff repeatedly sexually assaulted woman in custody, lawsuit says

“Being raped was not part of my sentence,” said a woman who was incarcerated at FMC Carswell in Fort Worth.

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The poison of our #autocentric culture.
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more pics teapawt.org/sablestarfush/status/1…
Hannah (@sablestarfush) profile pictureHannah@sablestarfush14 Dec 2023
Replying to @who_shot_jgr
@who_shot_jgr there is a service delay in Newark NJ. A bull is running up and down the line 😭
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Image from Hannah (@sablestarfush)
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There are many different bovine jokes I could make about this. But genuinely HOW did a cow get up onto the Newark station tracks???
NJ TRANSIT (@NJTRANSIT) profile pictureNJ TRANSIT
@NJTRANSIT14 Dec 2023
NJ TRANSIT rail service is subject to up to 45 minute delays between Newark Penn and PSNY, due to Police activity near Newark Penn Station. NJ TRANSIT rail tickets and passes are being cross-honored by PATH and Hoboken, Newark Penn and 33rd Street New York. Police activity:
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❤️ #goals I like the S2 and S3 ideas along with 10min frequency. Now to get land-use policies to match this vision around stations.
Varun Vishwanath (@Varun_Vish) profile pictureVarun Vishwanath
@Varun_Vish3 Dec 2023
Replying to @floppatakes
If/when they unify all the systems with a full fleet of modern DMUs/EMUs, it’ll be unstoppable
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