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Articles by Gil Rodan
Op-Ed: Parklets Should Be Open to All—Not Just Customers | San Jose Inside
Parklets have arguably been the most notable change to our streets since the start of the pandemic. With indoor dining shuttered, businesses have taken their activities outside; spilling into the roads. Once relegated to the realm of urban activists, parklets have dotted streets across the city and the nation. But as “parklet” has become a new buzzword for business improvement districts and politicians, something essential to its character has been transformed.
Op-Ed: VTA Should Rethink Those 'Spaced Out' Bus Stops | San Jose Inside
On New Year’s Eve, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) released a video about its new bus stop-canceling project titled “Our Bus Stops Are Getting Spaced Out—Less Stops, More Go!” The way the video tells it, pesky transit riders—a fictitious elderly woman named Mrs. Roberts in particular—have forced VTA to put bus stops close to where riders live or need to go. Over time, the clip goes on to say, this led to convenient bus stops on every block.
Op-Ed: Equity? Not in San Jose
Ever since Google announced its intentions to build a sprawling mega-campus in the Diridon Station area, it has seemed as though San Jose is once again poised to drop working-class residents like dead rats in exchange for the financial windfall that the search-and-advertising giant and its associated developments are expected to bring.
Op-Ed: Without Major Change, San Jose Affordable Housing Policies Are Doomed to Fail
With the collapse of public housing nationwide due to its intentionally segregationist past and woeful underfunding by both federal and municipal governments, cities across the country are facing severe shortages in stable, affordable housing. As we’ve been reminded constantly by everything from the tent city under the freeway to the steady drumbeat of slimy politicians making cynical promises, San Jose is one of the most unaffordable cities in the country.
Op-Ed: In San Jose, 'Vision Zero' Seems More Like 'Zero Vision' | San Jose Inside
This week, once again, we learned that yet another person had fallen victim to traffic violence in San Jose. The victim was an 87-year-old man. Our streets are becoming increasingly dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists, with 23 of them slain in San Jose this year alone. Looking at the way our roads were designed, it’s not hard to figure out why. I bike on Bollinger Road and De Anza Boulevard, where the recent collision took place, fairly regularly, and I’ve had my fair share of near misses.
Op-Ed: Without Systemic Change, BLM Banners Are Nothing More Than Performative Wokeness
Recently, in an effort to ally themselves with the movement for criminal justice reform and racial equity, San Jose leaders flew Black Lives Matter banners outside of City Hall. To their credit, city leaders such as Vice Mayor Chappie Jones told onlookers that he recognized that “symbols are not enough.” One can only hope that their future actions are better than those in the past.
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