Similarly, in order to place a bicycle on the vertical rack, the user must pedal until an empty retractable hanger is at a reachable point and lock their bicycle into the system, eliminating the need to carry bicycle locks and chains... Read On 

House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica (R-FL) has finally come out explicitly in favor of privatizing the Northeast Corridor and letting private consortia bid for high-speed rail construction... Read On 

Pretty sharp ad from the Nissan folks here -- it's probably the best "green" TV ad yet produced. Why? It effectively points out just how anachronistic the gas-powered internal combustion engine is. ... Read On 

In May 2011, the Mississippi River has obliged the Army Corps of Engineers to deliberately flood part of the surrounding rural territory, in order to prevent a higher disaster in larger urban settlements. They alleviated the main course of the river by inundating automatically Missouri farms and acres of fertile land at the Lower Mississippi delta... Read On 

Low population densities are often cited as the reason why high-speed rail would never work in the United States. While it's true that typical American metropolitan areas sprawl far and wide, many larger cities are still relatively dense, and a surprising number of our states are as dense as some European nations... Read On 

Months after regional and national officials agree to a huge plan for improving suburb-to-suburb connections, final decisions are made on future stations for Paris' future supermetro. Completion of the initial project is planned for 2025... Read On 

It will likely take new road tolls and congestion charges and other revenue tools to help deliver "the biggest transit deal in North America, or perhaps the world," says the man hired to pave the path toward the $4 billion Sheppard Subway... Read On 

Keeping San Francisco from becoming a forest of skyscrapers once dominated conversations about development in The City. Opposition to such "Manhattanization" was a platform that environmentalists, neighborhood groups and outright foes of development used to block construction projects... Read On