In a nice phrase, the western writer Wallace Stegner called the Mountain West the "native home of hope." However, for a while now at least parts of the region are also going to need another virtue as well: patience....
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Straight to the point: There are a panoply of choices to be made when investing in public transportation, but there is never an excuse for minimizing the negative environmental effects of a transit vehicle.....
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Stimulus funding was on nobody's mind in 2006, when Landscape Forms hatched the program description for Metro40, a transit-oriented collection of street furniture, by BMW Group DesignworksUSA, that went on sale last month....
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While in Copenhagen to film the Danish capital's world-beating bike infrastructure, Streetfilms' Elizabeth Press caught up with urban planner extraordinaire Jan Gehl for a brief, canal-side chat. In this clip, Gehl explains how cycling and transit fit within the city's sustainability agenda, and why "unnecessary transportation" threatens the global climate....

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My post on the Sun's Community of Interest blog:
Kevin Libin has apparently never heard of an electric trolley bus.  Otherwise he wouldn't have written a story that advises "Save the Environment: Don't Take Transit."...
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The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation received final approval Monday night from the D.C. Zoning Commission to move forward with its plans to transform the landscape of a Northeast Washington neighborhood by building a multimillion-dollar, transit-oriented development in Fort Totten. ..
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Everyone should know how to respond to stories like this, because they'll keep coming.  From Kevin Libin at Canada's National Post, an article called 'Save the Environment: Don't Take Transit."  It quotes the usual suspects, but it still needs a clear response:...
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Busy bus stops and rail stations have long been magnets for business, attracting eateries, stores and services to places where critical masses of transit riders congregate. Now a few savvy merchants are setting up shop in 21st century transit facilities - suburban park-and-ride lots...

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