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Paul

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I like to ride my bike around Detroit. Founder of the Rust Belt Ride.

  1. More cities should be trying 2 year pilots exploring different ways to use their public spaces.

    One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

    View of the central Copenhagen pedestrian street where it widens into a gorgeous square with fountain
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  2. Cis people:

    This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand.

    And buy the trans people in your life a drink.

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