Transportation

Megaregions and Megaproblems

As America's metropolitan areas meld into "megaregions", officials and policymakers will need to figure out how to deal with their shared and growing infrastructure problems. Consider the ball rolling.
25 June 2009 - 5:00am

Joining Up Transportation, Housing, and Environmental Policy

Robert Puentes argues that a new federal interagency partnership, debuted before the Senate this week, could provide the federal leadership necessary for a unified vision of transportation, housing, and environmental policy designed to tackle our interrelated economic, energy, and climate challenges.
22 June 2009 - 5:00am

Masterplanning the Architecture of the Near Future

As the population rises, underused and empty spaces are going to fill in. How well the transition works depends on shifts in demographics and infrastructure, as well as architecture. A studio of UCLA architecture students were asked to plot that transition. But before they could be architects, they had to be planners.
18 June 2009 - 5:00am

Make Your Own Bike Lane

A new device called LightLane attaches to the back of your bike and projects a virtual bike lane behind you.
3 July 2009 - 9:00am
H2OVisions

Comparing Subway Fares From Around the World

This post from Treehugger compares subway fares from around the world.
2 July 2009 - 9:00am
Treehugger

Turning Dead Meters Into Bike Racks

With cities switching to new pay kiosks, parking meters are going the way of the dodo- unfortunately for bikers, who use the posts for bike racks. A handful of cities are seeing the possibility in old posts.
2 July 2009 - 6:00am
Streetsblog

Majority of Stimulus Spent on Roads

States are spending the vast majority of federal stimulus money on building or repairing roads and highways, according to a new study.
1 July 2009 - 9:00am
Reuters

Bikes Overtaking Pedestrians in Vancouver

In this video from the City of Vancouver, planners give a tour of the city's system of bike lanes. Bicycling is the fastest growing means of transportation in the city, and cars have actually declined.
1 July 2009 - 5:00am
GVTV

6,000 Parking Spots, 20,000 Cars

That's the ratio on summer weekends downtown in Newport, Rhode Island. A coalition of local businesses, advocates and city officials are brainstorming solutions.
30 June 2009 - 12:00pm
Associated Press

Bike Activist Becomes The Man

What happens when a city hires a former bike activist to become it's mobility coordinator? No surprises, the city becomes more bike friendly.
30 June 2009 - 5:00am
The District

Ways to Retrofit the City

You don't have to tear a city down to make it green, according to this piece from the Boston Globe, which offers some emerging ideas.
29 June 2009 - 2:00pm
The Boston Globe

The Wall Street Tax Shelter That Crashed Your Local Transit Agency

How might an obscure tax shelter called a SILO contributed to the D.C. Metro Red Line crash that killed nine this week?
29 June 2009 - 10:00am
Streetsblog Capitol Hill

Breaking Out of Silos and Across Borders

With interdepartmental cooperation blossoming within the Obama administration, Neal Peirce wonders how things will shake down when policies hit metropolitan regions -- and the municipal borders that can impede and confuse policy.
29 June 2009 - 9:00am
Citiwire

Part Time Lover - Is The Car Just An Affair?

Mon, 06/29/2009 - 08:16

America's so-called “love affair” with the automobile, although cliché, provides a vivid description of how attached we really are to driving.  Public policy, and the historically overwhelming effect of auto industry lobbying, is only partly to blame for the endemic traffic jams and smog of the twentieth century.  Bruce Schaller, a transportation consultant hired by New York City advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, recently demonstrated that urbanites with multiple transportation options still choose to commute by car for rational reasons of privacy, convenience, and speed.  A chart of his, shown below, demonstrates how perplexing this choice is.  Overcoming these reasons is a ser

D.C. Bus Gets Real-Time Locator Application

A new web-based application that tracks the location of Washington D.C.'s Circulator bus has been released.DCist reports.
29 June 2009 - 8:00am
DCist

Ownership of Bus Arrival Data Disputed

The story of how an iPhone application charting public transit arrival times led to as-yet-unanswered questions about who owns this public data -- or whether it can be owned at all.
29 June 2009 - 7:00am
SF Appeal

BART Looking at Vendors to Boost Revenues

The San Francisco Bay Area's BART regional transit system is considering a plan to expand the amount of retailers and vendors it allows within its stations as a way to boost revenue.
27 June 2009 - 9:00am
San Francisco Examiner
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