Blogosphere: Light Rail & Racial Justice, Car Sharing Impact, Traffic Fatality & Poverty, Complete Streets For All, Bike Share Parking
May 16, 2012
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Blogosphere: Light Rail and Racial Justice
Sightline Daily
Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically...
Read On Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions DC Streetsblog
The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It…
Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically...
Read On Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions DC Streetsblog
The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It…
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: Invention Of Jaywalking, SF Livable Streets, Poverty & Road Hazards, Equitable Transit, LA Development Reform
April 25, 2012
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Blogosphere: The Invention of Jaywalking
Atlantic Cities
It happened again the other night. This time, the driver of a Jaguar traveling down 42nd Street in Manhattan struck another car and lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk and striking several pedestrians...
Read On Blogosphere: RIP 2012 Federal Transportation Bill? Transportation Issues Daily
We may well look back upon this day as the one in which we realized once and for all that no…
It happened again the other night. This time, the driver of a Jaguar traveling down 42nd Street in Manhattan struck another car and lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk and striking several pedestrians...
Read On Blogosphere: RIP 2012 Federal Transportation Bill? Transportation Issues Daily
We may well look back upon this day as the one in which we realized once and for all that no…
News: Pedestrian Habits, Biking In Mexico, LA Vs. Beverly Hills, Defending ARC Decision, SF Losing Diversity, Urban Solar Farm
April 12, 2012
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National: The Peculiar Habits of the Pedestrian
Slate (Part 2 of Walking Series)
What does famed urbanist William "Holly" Whyte have in common with David Simon's award-winning television series The Wire? They both understood the importance of street corners...
Read On Bay Area: BRT Key in Re-imagining El Camino Real Santa Clara Weekly
Would you rather spend an afternoon strolling the Champs…
What does famed urbanist William "Holly" Whyte have in common with David Simon's award-winning television series The Wire? They both understood the importance of street corners...
Read On Bay Area: BRT Key in Re-imagining El Camino Real Santa Clara Weekly
Would you rather spend an afternoon strolling the Champs…
Blogosphere: Seattle Parking Minimums & Kids, Low Density Subsidized Market, Denver Equity Atlas, Stories Of Urban Poor, Stars Above Cities
April 11, 2012
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Blogosphere: Abolishing Parking Mins Won't Hurt Kids
The Atlantic Cities
Allow me to join the chorus of befuddlement at this Seattle Times editorial railing against a proposal to eliminate the city's minimum parking requirements for new developments located within a quarter-mile of mass transit...
Read On Blogosphere: What Future Do We Want? Crosscut
Paula Hammond, Washington state Transportation Department…
Allow me to join the chorus of befuddlement at this Seattle Times editorial railing against a proposal to eliminate the city's minimum parking requirements for new developments located within a quarter-mile of mass transit...
Read On Blogosphere: What Future Do We Want? Crosscut
Paula Hammond, Washington state Transportation Department…
Blogosphere: Road Diet Benefits, Tampa Streetcar Stimulus, Freeway Mistakes, 12 Step Sprawl Recovery, Helsinki Townhouses
March 6, 2012
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Blogosphere: Road Diet Reduces Collisions
Seattle Bike Blog
Changes to Nickerson St in 2010 have resulted in a 23 percent drop in collisions, the city reported during a press conference today...
Read On Commentary: Tampa Streetcar Set Out to Rev Economy Atlanta Journal Constitution
Tampa's current streetcar system opened in 2002. By 1994, when Mayor Dick Greco was elected, plans were under way and…
Changes to Nickerson St in 2010 have resulted in a 23 percent drop in collisions, the city reported during a press conference today...
Read On Commentary: Tampa Streetcar Set Out to Rev Economy Atlanta Journal Constitution
Tampa's current streetcar system opened in 2002. By 1994, when Mayor Dick Greco was elected, plans were under way and…
Blogosphere: SF Bike Share, HSR As Growth Engine, Rail & Walk Score, Breaking Zoning Codes, Urban Animals
March 1, 2012
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Blogosphere: SF Bike Share for Short Trips
SF Streetsblog
San Franciscans are burning with curiosity about the imminent arrival of bike-share this summer. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center yesterday, participants wanted to know details like where the stations will be located and what color the bikes will be...
Read On Blogosphere: HSR Essential for…
San Franciscans are burning with curiosity about the imminent arrival of bike-share this summer. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Center yesterday, participants wanted to know details like where the stations will be located and what color the bikes will be...
Read On Blogosphere: HSR Essential for…
News: Las Vegas Monorail Lessons, Nonprofit Transit, Houston Walkability, Housing Discrimination, Renting Foreclosures, Urban Tree Decline
February 28, 2012
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Las Vegas: Why the Bus System Passed Monorail
M Live
Imagine if you will a city seeking to expand its transit options. A group of private business interest purpose building a privately-funded rail line designed to connect key attractions along the city's main thoroughfare...
Read On Research: Potential for Nonprofit Transit TRB TRID
Virtually all US transit operations are managed and funded by a public agency. In Europe,…
Imagine if you will a city seeking to expand its transit options. A group of private business interest purpose building a privately-funded rail line designed to connect key attractions along the city's main thoroughfare...
Read On Research: Potential for Nonprofit Transit TRB TRID
Virtually all US transit operations are managed and funded by a public agency. In Europe,…
Blogosphere: Bike Lane Spoils Movie, Transpo Bill Veto Threat, New Starts Funding, Inconspicuous Density, Earthscraper
February 15, 2012
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Editorial: Green Bike Lane Scaring Films Away
Los Angeles Times (via Streetsblog LA)
Los Angeles has a bike plan, and it's a fine idea. We have quite enough cars and quite enough drivers, thank you very much, and the counter-stereotypical truth is that we also have thousands and thousands of bicyclists who would gladly leave the car in the garage...
Los Angeles has a bike plan, and it's a fine idea. We have quite enough cars and quite enough drivers, thank you very much, and the counter-stereotypical truth is that we also have thousands and thousands of bicyclists who would gladly leave the car in the garage...
Blogosphere: Sprawl Transit, Augo-Based Mobility, Transit Tax Benefit, Locating 2020 Jobs, Urban Beekeeping, World's First Sustainable City
February 9, 2012
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Blogosphere: Problem with the Northern Branch Project
Cap'n Transit
For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit, and it's true. There wouldn't even be a stop in Nyack; if commuter rail is chosen the nearest station would be near the Palisades Mall in West Nyack..
Read On Blogosphere: Cox - Low Income Folks Get to Work New Geography
For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit, and it's true. There wouldn't even be a stop in Nyack; if commuter rail is chosen the nearest station would be near the Palisades Mall in West Nyack..
Read On Blogosphere: Cox - Low Income Folks Get to Work New Geography






