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Escapades on Lebanon’s North Yungas Road
Submitted by wajdighoussoub on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 4:06pmThis road offers a classical example of urban planning gone wrong and a real life illustration of the intricate relationship between the evolution of road infrastructure and that of society as a whole.
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The Problem With Traffic Lights
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 11:56amI had always thought that traffic lights calmed traffic. But last week at the Partners for Smart Growth conference in Kansas City, I learned that at least sometimes, there was a better alternative. Some of us went on a tour of the city's Westside neighborhood. The neighborhoo... read more »
Compact Cities Have Fewer Car Deaths
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 9:49amWhen traffic engineers widen roads and build new roads, they often cite "safety" as an argument. Under this theory, the widest, straightest, fastest roads are the safest. If this were true, car-oriented cities dominated by such roads would be safer than more compact, transit-oriented cit... read more »
how walking became a crime
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 4:14pmI just heard an amazing set of presentations by Eric Dumbaugh and Peter Norton (author of a new book, Fighting Traffic). Dumbaugh begin with a statistical table listing causes of pedestrians being killed by cars; nearly every cause somehow showed pedestrians at fault (e.g. jaywalking, pedestr... read more »
What I remember most about CNU 17
Submitted by MLewyn on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 12:20am*The tours. Boulder's success in building a prosperous, pedestrian-friendly downtown and its utter failure in promoting affordable housing.
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Paris Urban Bike Sharing System Now Coming to London
Submitted by hollanderd18 on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 4:20pmThe highly successful, 'super-smart' Velib urban bike sharing system implemented in Paris last summer is now coming to London, with over 15,000 bikes and 1,000 stations.
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EPA Urban Transportation Design Study in Governing Magazine
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 4:46pmA study compared how well old-city street layouts handled traffic versus modern approaches. The results set off a firestorm.
From Governing Magazine
By ALEX MARSHALL
When I drive my neighborhood streets of Brooklyn, which were laid out more than a century ago in a grid style, it’s obvious: These c... read more »
Ask CNU: Low-traffic New Urbanism
Submitted by paytonc on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 1:00pmToday in Ask CNU, Sue from Durango asks, "has anyone quantified the impact that New Urbanism can have on reducing traffic around me?"
It's rare -- but possible -- for new development to actually reduce the amount of traffic on the streets surrounding it; after all, it is still new development. Howev... read more »