Annals of Transit – 7An occasional update on items from the Transit City. ______________________________________________________________ . GOOD NEWS, IN A WAY A recent Reason-Rupe poll:…
Collective Views on Active TransportationFrom SFU’s Experiential Education Project: Re:generation – Move our City Ever wonder about Vancouver rail transit in the 1950s?…
The Endless Shovel-ready Project – Vancouver and the Insatiable Auto (3)More quotes from my InRoads article: Governments in North America after the war, buoyed by prosperity, undertook to build all…
The War on the Car – Vancouver and the Insatiable Auto (2)Yes, there was a time when there was a war in the car. More quotes from my InRoads article: ……
Annals of Cycling – 39An occasional update on items from the Velo-city. ___________________________________________________________________ . AMSTERDAM PRE-CHIC A rather fascinating (if overlong) visual portrayal of…
How “Old & Blighted” outperforms “Shiny & New”Charles Marohn has a premise: auto-oriented design produces a lousy return on investment. It’s wasteful – and we can’t afford it. And…
InRoads: Vancouver and the Insatiable Auto (1)Toot, toot – a little bit of personal horn-blowing here. But, honestly, this journal article is the best summary of my thinking on the…
Annals of Motordom – 45An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance. _________________________________________________________ . MOTORDOM ARTICLE OF THE YEAR…
The visual expression of surface parkingThanks to a tweet from Donald Shoup, I came across this in the Skyscraper Pages – an almost artistic rendering…
Best performance by a government agency in 2011And the winner is – TransLink! From January through October, 2011, the number of revenue rides was 192.1 million –…
Best transportation project of 2011: the Medellin EscalatorTom Durning submits, from Transportation Nation: The 12,000 residents of one hilly Medellin neighborhood used to climb the equivalent of…
Best New Urban Visions for 2012Okay, after that downer (below), here’s something upbeat: the boldest, most imaginative ideas for American cities in the coming year,…
Annals of Cycling – 38An occasional update on items from the Velo-city. ___________________________________________________________________ . BEST ITEMS OF THE YEAR In the opinion of Sustainable…
Passerelle of the Month – The Arganzuela Bridge and the Madrid RioLots of links have come in to this front-page story in the New York Times on the Madrid Rio: More…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner