Kea Wilson wrote:

Urban highways are a fixture of city life in the U.S. — but much of the time cities don’t control them. They are the creatures of higher levels of government. The downtowns of many major cities, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, are bisected by large overpasses that were built using state an...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

The city of Cleveland and real estate firm Bedrock, owned by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, have "announced a partnership with the goal of revamping the Cuyahoga riverfront near Tower City Center" that aims "to connect downtown residents and visitors to the riverfront with an approach focused on sustainability, equity, and accessibility....
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Todd Litman wrote:

The EU co-funded cities.multimodal project brought together cities, NGOs, universities, and other expert partners to facilitate the use of sustainable mobility solutions for residents in the Baltic Sea Region. 

The project published three documents, including a "Planner's Guide to Sustainable Urban Mobility Management" and a "Toolbox for Mobility Management." These documents share knowledge on how t...
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Clarence Eckerson Jr. wrote:

Last month, I journeyed to Montréal, a city I have visited many times in the last three decades, to see how much progress it has made in reining in the car culture, creating more livable communities, encouraging cycling, making roadways safer and, most important, bringing back freedom to inhabitants long oppresse...
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Sandy Smith wrote:

Oddly enough, the carless apartment community now rising on 17 acres next to a light-rail station there is called Culdesac. Set to open in 2022, the $170 million Culdesac Tempe is being billed by its developer, also called Culdesac, as “the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S.” Residents wh...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

There is much for urbanists to critique about Florida's master-planned community the Villages–currently "the fastest-growing metropolitan statistical area in the country." But one thing the Imagineer-designed retirement community got right, argues Alissa Walker, is their enthusiastic support of golf carts as a transportation mode.

"Those golf carts, in fact, make a lo...
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Charles Marohn wrote:

In the work that Urban3 has done modeling the financial productivity of different places, there is one correlation that stands out above all others. Wherever development patterns are most productive, wherever the highest value per acre is measured, those are the places where people will be found outside of a motor vehicle...
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Kea Wilson wrote:

After interviewing more than a hundred Washington state residents with mobility challenges who can’t or don’t use a car, researchers at the Disability Rights Washington found that respondents “overwhelmingly” cited “the poor condition or absence of sidewalks” as the biggest barrier to getting where they needed to go, followed closely by problem...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:

What happens when you expand a congested road?

There are actually two different effects that get lumped together under the heading "induced demand." 

Effect 1: In the near term, expanding a road causes drivers to alter their travel patterns to use it more.

Effect 2: In the medium to long term, expandin...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

"Every recent survey reports that the rush-hour commute is, to most of the drivers who endure it, the most difficult and unpleasant part of their day," writes Alan Ehrenhalt. "It is also the most alienating." Yet "[i]t shouldn’t be forgotten that the solo commute is a creation of the 20th century. I...
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