Planning: general 🌇 Random Planning Thoughts (and Photos) Deserving No Thread Of Their Own

[mendelman]

There’s a popular planning-adjacent podcast out there that planners like and support (based on the social media posts, reposts, likes, and comments that I see), and every time I try to listen to an episode that sounds interesting, I get all “I can’t. I just can’t!” A lot of buzzwords, a lot of hand-wringing, a lot of self-congratulatory back-patting, all with a healthy dose of finger pointing at the seemingly obvious albatrosses around the neck of planners. I know what the albatross is, and the host never quite comes out and straightforwardly calls it what it is, instead, the host uses code words and pulls out the ol’ “the revolution will come from the bottom up” rabbit from the hat, and guess what listeners, do I have the org and resources for you to make that happen!

That sounds like a Strong recommendation.

 

[Planit]

Traffic Jams in the 1500s.

A Shakespearean History of Traffic

Could Shakespeare ride a horse? How did Tudor wine orders get delivered? Did playhouses cause congestion? and other questions

shakespearestage.substack.com

 

[Dan]

Daily Mail: Welcome to Britain's vape capital: How FIFTY FOUR e-cigarette shops lining two streets in Manchester is a damning indictment of our high streets

Welcome to Britain's vape capital: FIFTY FOUR e-cig shops on two roads

Cheetham Hill, an inner city neighbourhood in Manchester, once home to Marks and & Spencer's first ever store, has been transformed into the 'Canary Wharf of vapes'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That's a violation.

I wonder if vape shops in the UK have 10,000 lumen string lights in their windows like those in western New York.

 

[jumbach]

Daily Mail: Welcome to Britain's vape capital: How FIFTY FOUR e-cigarette shops lining two streets in Manchester is a damning indictment of our high streets

Welcome to Britain's vape capital: FIFTY FOUR e-cig shops on two roads

Cheetham Hill, an inner city neighbourhood in Manchester, once home to Marks and & Spencer's first ever store, has been transformed into the 'Canary Wharf of vapes'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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That's a violation.

I wonder if vape shops in the UK have 10,000 lumen string lights in their windows like those in western New York.

Let's me guess: This is High Street (a common street name in the UK)