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Straightening Out the Vestigial Kinks in Bus Routes
Just a few months after Houston reorganized its bus network to provide more frequent service where more people can use it -- without increasing the operating budget -- ridership is already on the upswing.
January 11, 2016
Portland Bike-Share Ready to Roll Thanks to $10 Million From Nike
"Huge" is how Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland described the news yesterday that Nike will sponsor Portland's upcoming bike-share system to the tune of $10 million.
January 8, 2016
A Letter-Grade System for Walkable Retail Buildings
What makes a building walkable? Or rather, what kind of buildings make a city walkable?
January 7, 2016
Philly Reduced Its Public Parking Supply and More Spaces Opened Up
If you remove a bunch of parking from the center of a city, you'll get carmageddon, financial ruin, and the complete unraveling of society as we know it -- right? That's what you tend to hear at public meetings when a proposal that would reduce parking comes up, but as this real-life example from Philadelphia shows, there's really nothing to fear.
January 6, 2016
Visualizing LA’s 18.6 Million Parking Spaces as One Enormous Blob
Here's a great visualization of how much land parking spaces consume in our cities, via Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions.
January 5, 2016
Sacramento Freeways and the “Small Town Mindset”
"It’s time to drop the small-town mindset and go for a big fix."
January 4, 2016
Louisville Removes Sidewalk “For Safety”
Louisville is in the middle of a three-year, federally-funded safety initiative to reduce the city's high rate of pedestrian fatalities. Per capita, four times the number of people are killed walking in Louisville than in Washington, DC.
December 22, 2015
America Already Has a Stratified Transportation System
The emergence of app-based taxis and private city bus services has prompted a lot of handwringing about the emergence of a "two-tiered" or "stratified" transportation system.
December 21, 2015
Savannah Weighs Bike Ban in Beloved City Park
Talk about a reductive view of safety. After a couple of unusual incidents where bicyclists collided with pedestrians in Savannah's 30-acre Forsyth Park, the city is now considering outlawing cycling in the park.
December 18, 2015
D.C. to Pilot Protected Intersections as Part of Vision Zero Effort
Yesterday, Washington DC officials released the city's Vision Zero plan [PDF], which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities within the District by 2024. It came with a good deal of analysis highlighting where the most dangerous places in the city are.
December 17, 2015