We are not shortcuts. We’re even more than two ways.

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All
one has to do is actually look at the streets in question to easily
determine that they were designed from the beginning for mutlimodal use.
They didn’t end up that wide by accident and we’re lucky they and the
practical sensibility they represent
are
still there. Every time we diminish one of those modes, though, either
directly like transit removal or indirectly by making non-motorized use
too dangerous, our capacity as a community – the ability of the city to
function as a platform for working, learning, recreating, giving and
receiving care of all kinds – is diminished right along with it. That we
have ended up, after two hundred years of public and private
investment, in a position of begging for such basic consideration serves
as testament to just how badly we have neglected not only our heritage
but the ways of shared opportunity and decency that created this place.
When city leaders do finally hear that begging, when it registers as
something more than a spreadsheet, it will be their consciences making
the case, not us.

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