Christian MilNeil wrote:
A new statistical analysis of ridership data from the Bluebikes system suggests that the new Commonwealth Avenue protected bike lanes, which were finished in 2019, increased bike traffic by at least 80 percent relative to the paint-only bike lane that existed before the construction project began.
In a new paper published thi...
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The Antiplanner wrote:
If transit agencies really wanted to reduce their environmental footprints, they should buy smaller buses. They don’t come close to filling the buses they have: the standard 64-passenger (with standees) transit bus carried an average of just 9 passengers in 2019, a number that will probably fall below 5 in 2020. Tha...
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Sarah Davis wrote:
In 2017, BikeWalkKC was awarded a grant to work with communities in Kansas City to make bottom-up change happen. Partnering with a local children’s hospital, they identified two locations for quick-build projects to see how people, both in vehicles and on foot, would respond. The groups painted temporary bump-outs and crosswalks a...
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Richard Dion wrote:
Biking during the pandemic has not only been a welcome reprieve from public transport, but it has also demonstrated its considerable health, environmental, and time benefits. A steady increase over the years has been met with a tidal wave of interest in just months. Biking’s traditional benefits aside, surface thickness is perhap...
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Nicole A. Murray wrote:
Pedestrianization, congestion pricing, dedicated bus and bike lanes, parking maximums, and transit-oriented development dominate the headlines when it comes to reducing the number of cars in cities. Presumptive mayor Eric Adams even tweeted on Saturday in support of congestion pricing. But there is one unsung tactic that reduces the number o...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:
The choice between driving and using other modes of transit, Noor writes, "creates an inherent paradox. If more people decide that driving is quicker, there will be more traffic, clogging streets and making trips longer. The longest trips across town, the authors found, were the ones taken when every single resident trie...
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Roger Rudick wrote:
The near total dominance of cars and car infrastructure in American cities aren’t just killing us directly in crashes, it’s harming us every day through less obvious health effects. “It puts people in a constant state of stress,” said Melissa Bruntlett, co-author of Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars i...
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Todd Litman wrote:
This is a good time to critically reexamine transportation planning documents. Transportation planning is undergoing a paradigm shift that is changing the way we define problems and evaluate potential solutions. The old paradigm was mobility-based, which assumed that our goal is simply to maximize travel speeds. A new paradigm is more comprehensive...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
Pittsburgh just became the first U.S. community where every resident can feasibly and affordably trade their private cars for an app.
Today, the Steel City will launch its long-awaited Move PGH pilot, which is being touted as the first comprehensive “mobility as a service” (MaaS) app in United States history. Under th...
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ichael Podgers wrote:
We envision a boulevard that runs along the western edge of the parkland instead of through the green space. We want a multimodal road (again, not a highway) with mixed-traffic lanes reduced from the current eight to two in each direction. We want to see gold standard Bus Rapid Transit built tha...
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