Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel. Professor Joseph Schweiterman of DePaul University is rare in that he tracks this form of transportation and he wrote about it for MSNBC News (" Thanksgiving is a stressful time to travel. Why it may get worse for these passengers. ").
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MAY 13, 2024
Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " Route 7 BRT proposal communicates the reality that the DC area doesn't adequately conduct transportation planning at the metropolitan-scale ," 2016 -- " Reviving DC area bus service: and a counterpoint to the recent Washington City Paper article ," 2019 From the article: With additional (..)
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Human Transit
JANUARY 27, 2022
My friend Professor Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir is Chile’s new Minister of Transport. He is a Bus Rapid Transit expert and an eloquent advocate for sustainable and just transport planning, and is also one of the nicest people I know. When the system was turned on in January 2007, some parts of it hadn’t come together.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 3, 2023
Paris was a pioneer when it introduced e-scooters, or trottinettes, in 2018 as the city’s authorities sought to promote non-polluting forms of urban transport. The city was a pioneer in public bike-rental schemes when it launched Vélib’ in 2007, beating London by five years.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
DECEMBER 21, 2022
The state is an oil producer, and has at least five oil refineries, so it is super committed to a gasoline-centric land use and transportation planning paradigm. In fact, two of the top ten car dealership groups are based here, one sold for $3.2 billion (although they have dealerships in states other than Utah).
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2023
Transit adjacency is a plus for employee transportation. But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In Pedestrians will have to play dodgeball with cars as they make their way past the building. Medaglia was tasked by its then owner, Ascension Health, with closing or selling it.
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