Blogosphere: Peak Factors & Intercity Trains, Labor Rules & Commuter Trains, Complete Street Policies, Stroller Share, World's Longest Bus
August 28, 2012
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| 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. |
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Blogosphere: Peak Factors and Intercity Trains Pedestrian Observations In contrast with Reason's fraud, CARRD's Elizabeth Alexis makes a more serious criticism of the XpressWest plan: there is a prominent peak in travel from Southern California to Las Vegas on Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Labor Rules Snarl US Commuter Trains Bloomberg Railroading has, like almost all industries, made great strides in labor productivity since its inception more than two centuries ago. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Happy 50th Minneapolis Skyway Twin Cities Sidewalks Fifty years ago yesterday, the Minneapolis' skyway system was born. It was August 26th 1962, and over the streets of downtown Minneapolis a ribbon was snipped by a small group of people in an unadorned glass and steel structure bridging Marquette Avenue. .. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Complete Streets Policies Spreading Better Cities and Towns Complete Streets policies continue to be popular across the US, despite a provision on the issue being rescinded from the recent federal transportation bill. More than 350 US states, counties, and communities have adopted Complete Streets policies.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Could Stroller Share Work? Greater Greater Washington Tanya Snyder suggests a "stroller-share" system at Streetsblog. She points out that as soon as children get too large to carry long distances, parents simply can't take their kids on a trip around the city on foot or using transit without a stroller... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Possibilities for Windy City BRT Next American City In the nearly four decades since the birth of bus rapid transit - the world's first system, in Curitiba, Brazil, launched in 1974 - the concept of dedicated bus lanes and specialized stations to improve speed and efficiency has gained traction among public transport experts and city officials... Read On |
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Blogosphere: World's Largest Bus Grist This monster of public transportation is actually three buses chained together into a sort of Vehicular Centipede. It's nearly 100 feet long, fits 256 passengers, and - if you believe the institute that developed it - is no harder to drive than a regular 40-footer... Read On |
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Blogosphere: UK Cities, Mayoral Powers, "Tall Poppy" Planetizen This morning over at Atlantic Cities, Richard Florida aptly refuted an opinion piece by Kevin Meagher that appeared in the Guardian last week advocating for doing away with the position of Mayor in London. Florida lays out several strong arguments in favor of a strong elected mayor who can act as an advocate for his or her city... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Hidden Benefits of Schlepping Groceries Streetsblog.net If you don't have a car, then you're probably familiar with the fine art that is grocery shopping on bike or foot - what to buy, what to pass on (jumbo bags of toilet paper, for example). Well, isn't it nice to know that gasoline savings aren't the only reward for your troubles?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Sitting Lightly on the Land Original Green Civil engineers are spending countless millions of dollars and clear-cutting untold trees needlessly because they have forgotten one essential point of sustainable design: Roads and other infrastructure should sit very lightly on the land... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Next Generation of DIY Urbansim The Atlantic Cities Park(ing) Day famously helped people all over the world re-envision the lowly parking spot, encouraging DIY urbanists for one day each fall to transform these spaces in their cities into parks, playgrounds, pop-up cafés - anything other than their intended use... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Is Site Plan or Highway to Blame? Better Cities and Towns A proposed redevelopment of a 240-unit public housing project called Farnum Courts has drawn criticism for an uninspiring site plan. A bigger problem may be its location, cut off from the rest of the city by a limited access highway and rail corridor... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Book Labyrinth Dissolves Into Forest The Atlantic Cities Originally installed in 2010 for the Festival International des Jardins de Metis, the Jardin de la Connaissance (The Garden of Knowledge) is a labyrinth of books situated in the forests of Quebec... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Invisible Cities Joe Urban In the past four weeks the Soap Factory, as part of its Common Room series, has led some fascinating walking tours. Most recent was Invisible Minneapolis, which looked at development plans that never came to be... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Hanging Window Gardens The Atlantic Cities There is hope for urban gardeners everywhere. Paris-based designers Nicolas Barreau and Jules Charbonnet (Barreau&Charbonnet) were recently selected as finalists at the Jardins Jardin competition at Paris' Tuileries Gardens... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Mapping 26 Years of US Drought Per Square Mile The New York Times compiled drought conditions since 1986 for the lower 48 and overlaid the acreage of key crops, including corn, wheat, and soybeans... Read On |
