Blogosphere: Bikeshare Leader, HSR In Canada, NY Suburbs & NYC Transit, Paving Over History, London SkyCycle
September 7, 2012
More News & Resources:
| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
| TRANSPORT |
|
Blogosphere: Which Bikeshare Has Most Members? Greater Greater Washington The Federal Highway Administration has released a report with a lot of interesting information on the country's bike sharing networks, including previously-unavailable statistics on the numbers of annual members. .. Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Maloney's HSR Proposal to Canada Pedestrian Observations Carolyn Maloney, the Congresswoman representing Manhattan's East Side, gave an interview to the Globe and Mail in which she called for high-speed rail between New York and Canadian cities... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Will New York's Suburbs Kill NYC Transit Huffington Post In honor of the back-to-work season, let's send some positive thoughts toward the New York mass transit system. You may not remember the days when the subways sucked, but there was a long, dark, dreary period back in the 1970s and '80s when nothing was reliable... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Highway Would Pave History at Manassas Greater Greater Washington In July 1861, the Union and Confederacy met at Manassas (Bull Run) in the first great clash of armies in the Civil War. On August 28-30, 1862, the armies clashed in the Second Battle of Manassas... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Ridership Numbers Before and After Lines Metro The Source One of the most persistent criticisms of Metro by critics in recent times is that the agency is spending too much money on building new rail lines and that rail lines do nothing to grow public transit ridership. In particular, some people and groups have complained that new rail lines have triggered the elimination or consolidation of certain bus lines... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: London's Futuristic Bike Network Idea Grist A London architect is trying to convince the mayor that the way to expand the city's bike infrastructure is not on the streets but in the air. His firm calls the idea SkyCycle, and it looks totally awesome, like a cross between the High Line and the credits of Futurama... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: German Approach to Regional Rail Systemic Failure By the late 1980's, Germany's regional railroads were in dismal shape. They suffered many of the problems we face in the US - antiquated locomotive-hauled trains, and inefficient operating practices... Read On |
| URBANISM | HOUSING | CITIES | ENVIRONMENT |
|
Blogosphere: A Formula For Change Otis White Is there a way, before starting out on a change process, to know how much change the community will accept? Not really, because, as in card games, luck and your skill as a player will have a major bearing... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Development Opportunity North of Pearl Next American City Every city has its share of space dedicated to the business of commercial trucking: Desolate stretches of land, usually at the city's periphery, filled with little else but garages, warehouses and vast parking lots... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Building Urban Resilience The Atlantic Cities Disasters happen - from floods to fires to earthquakes, natural and unnatural catastrophes have always and will always strike cities. That these extreme events take place is less important than how well cities are able to withstand and bounce back from these inevitable and unfortunate events... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Growth in Walkable Urban Areas Greater Greater Washington In recent years, apartment and office towers have sprouted up around Greater Washington, in inner-city neighborhoods and suburban town centers alike... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Brief Notes on a Trip to Philly Urbanophile I've always said that Philadelphia is the biggest city in America you wouldn't notice disappearing. With six million people, it's the sixth largest metro in America... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: How People Sense the City Pop Up City What is it about that smell? Maybe it's not a smell you crave, but maybe it is one that you love, one that you breathe in fully to remind yourself where you are. Or perhaps it is a smell that you love to hate... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Digging Into Form Based Urban Planning Urban Finland It's been far too long since my previous post, but I assure you this is not because I would have lost my interest in blogging. It's just that I haven't really found the time to write anything during summer... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Mapping Suburbanization of Poverty The Polis Blog One of the fundamental issues in American urbanism is the changing geography of poverty. American cities are famous around the world for having abandoned large portions of the central core, largely unthinkable in Europe and much of the world... Read On |
|
Blogosphere: Can Charlotte Rise Again? The Atlantic Cities In 2014, work on a $5.25 billion project to double the size of the Panama Canal should at last be completed. When it's done, the world's largest cargo vessels - known as post-Panamax ships - will finally be able to pass through it... Read On |
