Blogosphere: NY Ungridlocked, Saving Baton Rouge Transit, Dallas Light Rail Vs. Tollway, Housing & Transport LInk, Robocar future
May 17, 2012
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Blogosphere: New York Becomes Ungridlocked
City-Journal
Back in February 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, in three months' time, New York City would permanently close Broadway to car and truck traffic in Times Square and Herald Square. The plan would "ease traffic congestion throughout the Midtown grid," the mayor said...
Read On Blogosphere: Saving a Transit System and Turning Tides T4 America Blog
Last month, the citizens of Baton Rouge, LA, voted to raise…
Back in February 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, in three months' time, New York City would permanently close Broadway to car and truck traffic in Times Square and Herald Square. The plan would "ease traffic congestion throughout the Midtown grid," the mayor said...
Read On Blogosphere: Saving a Transit System and Turning Tides T4 America Blog
Last month, the citizens of Baton Rouge, LA, voted to raise…
News: LA's Changing Boulevards, Houston Supercommuters, Transport Bill Talks, Florida's Outsource City
May 15, 2012
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Los Angeles: Boulevards Are Changing in LA
Los Angeles Times
As Los Angeles' boulevards reassert their place in the public realm, the transformation along Atlantic offers glimpses of a new city identity taking shape...
Read On Texas: Dallas to Houston Supercommuters Top of Nation Dallas Morning News
Has that Frisco-to-Dallas commute…
As Los Angeles' boulevards reassert their place in the public realm, the transformation along Atlantic offers glimpses of a new city identity taking shape...
Read On Texas: Dallas to Houston Supercommuters Top of Nation Dallas Morning News
Has that Frisco-to-Dallas commute…
Blogosphere: Bike Score, Evaluating TOD Justice, Census Change Impact, Form Based Code Value, Brazil Urban Development
May 15, 2012
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Blogosphere: Walk Score Releases Bike Score
Walk Score Blog
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, we are thrilled to launch Bike Score and our first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score...
Read On Blogosphere: TOD That Is Healthy, Green & Just Seattle Transit Blog
Today Puget Sound Sage released a new report on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley. It outlines changes seen in the…
Just in time for Bike to Work Week, we are thrilled to launch Bike Score and our first ranking of the most bikeable U.S. cities. See how your city ranks and vote for your city to be next to get Bike Score...
Read On Blogosphere: TOD That Is Healthy, Green & Just Seattle Transit Blog
Today Puget Sound Sage released a new report on Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Rainier Valley. It outlines changes seen in the…
Blogosphere: Value Capture, Staten Island BRT, Bike Work Day Record, Density More Than High Rise, Death Of Detroit
May 14, 2012
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Blogosphere: Value Capture Past, Present, Future
Lincoln House Blog
Although it's been used widely in Europe and Latin America, value capture - the concept of asking private landowners to contribute to the cost of infrastructure, for example, in anticipation of the rise of property values such projects bring - has been a little harder to find in the U.S. That may be changing. One notable project, the Dallas-Fort Worth Cotton Belt transit line, is based on fundamental principles of value capture...
Although it's been used widely in Europe and Latin America, value capture - the concept of asking private landowners to contribute to the cost of infrastructure, for example, in anticipation of the rise of property values such projects bring - has been a little harder to find in the U.S. That may be changing. One notable project, the Dallas-Fort Worth Cotton Belt transit line, is based on fundamental principles of value capture...
Blogosphere: Bamboo Bike, Driving & Work, CAHSR State Budget, Bus Rodeo, DC Development Subsidies, Housing & Land Use
May 11, 2012
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Blogosphere: Can a Bamboo Bike Change the World?
Mashable
Big Idea: BBS holds bike-building workshops where students can craft their own bamboo bicycle - a sustainable form of transportation made in a sustainable way...
Read On Blogosphere: Metro Logos Around the World Transit Maps
Slightly tangential to my usual posts, but cool nonetheless. The Metrobits.org website showcases around 170 Metro logos (and other train systems as well - Sydney's CityRail is most decidedly not a Metro, but…
Big Idea: BBS holds bike-building workshops where students can craft their own bamboo bicycle - a sustainable form of transportation made in a sustainable way...
Read On Blogosphere: Metro Logos Around the World Transit Maps
Slightly tangential to my usual posts, but cool nonetheless. The Metrobits.org website showcases around 170 Metro logos (and other train systems as well - Sydney's CityRail is most decidedly not a Metro, but…
Blogosphere: Unsustainable Gas Tax, State Of Infrastructure, Transit Recession, Copenhagenization, Frequency vs Coverage
May 10, 2012
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Blogosphere: WMATA Says Blogs Aren't News Media
Greater Greater Washington
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
WMATA lawyers incorrectly read the laws in 2009 to declare Greater Greater Washington, and other blogs, not part of the news media. Today, they reiterated this incorrect interpretation in response to a PARP request (their version of FOIA) from Michael Perkins...
Read On Blogosphere: Five Things House/Senate Bill Should Do T4 America
The "conference" on the…
Blogosphere: Tech Startups & Transit, Bikes & Urbanism, Chicago BRT Push, LA Parking Changes, The Need For HUD, Prosperity Collaborative
May 7, 2012
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Blogosphere: Economic Crisis Rolls On in Pittsburgh
Transport Politic
The board of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan region, announced last week that it would have to cut services by 35% by September 2 - the largest cut ever for the agency - if it is not provided an increase in state aid...
Read On Blogosphere: Transit Gives New York Startups Edge Mashable
Asking…
The board of the Port Authority of Allegheny County, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan region, announced last week that it would have to cut services by 35% by September 2 - the largest cut ever for the agency - if it is not provided an increase in state aid...
Read On Blogosphere: Transit Gives New York Startups Edge Mashable
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Blogosphere: Civil Rights & Transit, Toronto Speed Limits, Pricing Travel Behavior, Origin Story of CNU, DC Sustainability Vision
May 3, 2012
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Editorial: Civil Rights and Transit Service
Los Angeles Times
Wouldn't it be great if we could move public transportation across the city of Los Angeles as easily as the avenging thieves of the film "The Italian Job" moved their fleet of get-away Mini Coopers by hacking into the transit authority's computers and making all the lights turn green at the right moment?..
Read On Blogosphere: World's Largest Underground HSR Station …
Wouldn't it be great if we could move public transportation across the city of Los Angeles as easily as the avenging thieves of the film "The Italian Job" moved their fleet of get-away Mini Coopers by hacking into the transit authority's computers and making all the lights turn green at the right moment?..
Read On Blogosphere: World's Largest Underground HSR Station …
Blogosphere: Virginia Beach Rail Vote, Transit Score, Transit-Oriented Burbs, Sustainable Cities, Urban Planning For Dummies, 'Evil' Suburbs
April 30, 2012
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Blogosphere: The Onion Releases Transit Issue
Planetizen
Out this week, the satirical newspaper The Onion has collected a host of stories dedicated to transit and transportation. Some of these you may have seen before, but many are new to us...
Read On Editorial: Virginia Beach's Second Chance for Rail Virginian Pilot
People in Virginia Beach have been talking about light rail since the 1970s. In 1999, the last time they were asked whether to bring it to the city, about 42,000 voters said no. ..
Out this week, the satirical newspaper The Onion has collected a host of stories dedicated to transit and transportation. Some of these you may have seen before, but many are new to us...
Read On Editorial: Virginia Beach's Second Chance for Rail Virginian Pilot
People in Virginia Beach have been talking about light rail since the 1970s. In 1999, the last time they were asked whether to bring it to the city, about 42,000 voters said no. ..
Blogosphere: Logic Of Buses, Transit Patent Trolls, NY Rent Control, Floating Cities, Romney Smart Growth Model
April 24, 2012
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Blogosphere: The Magic of Streetcars, Logic of Buses
Streets.mn
The City of Minneapolis is promoting Streetcars in a number of corridors, including one in North along Broadway to compensate for the rerouting of Bottineau LRT to avoid North. Promoters of Minneapolis Streetcars, including Mayor R.T. Rybak, are engaged in magical thinking in their assertion that streetcars will have transformative effects...
Read On Blogosphere: More on the Patent Trolls Atlantic…
The City of Minneapolis is promoting Streetcars in a number of corridors, including one in North along Broadway to compensate for the rerouting of Bottineau LRT to avoid North. Promoters of Minneapolis Streetcars, including Mayor R.T. Rybak, are engaged in magical thinking in their assertion that streetcars will have transformative effects...
Read On Blogosphere: More on the Patent Trolls Atlantic…
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