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High Demand for Transit & the Consequence of Little Supply
Submitted by erin.chantry on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 8:01pmWhat happens when you provide something that everyone wants?
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Saving Walkable, Bikeable Streets
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:54amOur friends at Smart Growth America have launched a campaign to "Stop the House Assault on Walkable Neighborhoods."
In an email, SGA's Online Communications Director Alex Dodds writes:
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Highway Spotlight: Minhocão - São Paulo's "Big Worm"
Submitted by Bryant Au on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 2:55pmMinhocão (“The Big Worm”) is an elevated highway running through the heart of São Paulo, Brazil – the largest city in one of the fastest growing countries in the world. Officially Via Elevada Presidente Artur da Costa E Silva, after Brazil's second president, the Minhocão was built in 1971 ... read more »
Who walks to transit and how much?
Submitted by MLewyn on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 5:10pmAt CNU, I picked up a short article written by Lilah Besser and Andrew Dannenberg of the Center for Disease Control on walking to public transit.
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No Freedom For Me
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:19amThe auto lobby likes to claim that automobile dependence means "freedom." But this certainly did not reflect my experience last week. I visited Atlanta (where my parents and siblings live) for a vacation, and lost my drivers' license a couple of days into the vacation. Since my lic... read more »
National Dialogue on Improving Transportation Performance
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 12:41pmCalling CNU Project for Transportation Reformers! Have an idea to contribute to the National Dialogue on Improving Transportation Performance?
Now's the time to do so; participate by clicking here.
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How not to make public transit tourist-friendly
Submitted by MLewyn on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 10:28amAfter CNU, I rode Tri-Rail and Miami-Dade transit to visit a friend in Miami Beach. The Tri-Rail trip was fine; Miami-Dade transit, however, was more of an adventure.
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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 »
Tumlin on parking
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 2:53pmThis afternoon, Jeffrey Tumlin spoke on how to reform parking to reduce the negative results of minimum parking requirements. (If you're not familiar with them, google "Donald Shoup"). Some of his solutions were stuff I've heard before: abolish parking requirements, create residential permit syste... read more »
Driving and the young
Submitted by MLewyn on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 1:06am
I just saw the recent study, "Transportation and the New Generation" put out by NJ PIRG, which seeks to explain why the young are driving less.
Figure 7 contains the results of a poll asking respondents to choose between "smart growth" and "sprawl" environments. 62 perce... read more »