Guillaume Rischard wrote:
There are many recent developments in New York I wish we’d copied. Ambitiously blanketing the city with open streets was a great idea, and I understand why many of you want to make them permanent. Cities like Ghent do this on a much smaller scale, but they complete the streets with benches...
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Cinnamon Janzer wrote:
While the deployment of electric buses can help mitigate the air quality impacts of public transportation, transit authorities often face budgeting constraints that center cost reduction rather than equity — until now.
University of Utah researcher and associate professor Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, in cooperation with the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), recently develope...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
“There’s an association between ‘recreational’ trails and [leisure or exercise] riding, but the Arlington off-roads multi-purpose trails are very much used by commuters, too,” Monford adds. “We didn’t interview every rider, obviously, but the folks at the DOT made it clear that a large number of workers use the off-road trails [to...
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Rachel Quednau wrote:
Bike infrastructure is one of the most high-return investments a city can make. It allows people to get around town at a very affordable price point while helping residents stay healthy at the same time. And the wear-and-tear bikes create on roads is a tiny fraction of the wear-and-tear caused by cars...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
A lot of cities in this position would have taken the feedback from businesses that their customers and employees were struggling to park nearby and concluded, "We have a parking shortage downtown." Hundreds of cities like Lockport operate municipal parking garages—almost always at a loss, if not in direct revenue then whe...
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
Charles Marohn wrote:
We all intuitively understand that when we experience rain or snow melt on the edges of a watershed, there is a compounding effect that occurs. ... by the time all this water is concentrated into a tributary, it can accumulate to produce a flood.
We've so grasped this concept that we've take...
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James Brasuell wrote:
"But as COVID-19 swept over the country, the City Council acted quickly to scrap payments for bus riders. That would allow all-door boarding — minimizing interaction with the driver — and it would be a boon for beleaguered essential workers who still had to report to work," explains Blumgart. "In 2021, th...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
In what its authors believe to be the first study to quantify the public health benefits of U.S. bicycle sharing systems, epidemiological researchers at Colorado University calculated that on an average year, users of the mode saved the national healthcare system more than $36 million, despite the fact that there are onl...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
It's important to keep our eyes on the big picture: the system of transportation that we have built, in almost all of America post-World War II, is one in which the destinations of our day-to-day lives are too spread out from each other to be accessible by any means other than ...
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