All you need is a phoneJak King, the Grandview blogger and activist, tipped me off to another breathtaking innovation of our exciting modern world: “In…
Granville Street BluesRundown Granville Street redone as a new tech hub? This is something of an old story now, having been featured…
Intregrating transit and bikeshareFrom Ron Richings: A useful bit of bikeshare info has been incorporated into Santa Monica’s transit app. Transit users will…
Trees into Street LightsJames Bligh: Just in time for Christmas! The article doesn’t have too many details, but the speculative impacts of this…
Do Driverless Cars Dream of Electric Bikes?From the New York Times Magazine: . The cars now being tested by Google, BMW, Ford and others all see…
Item from Ian: "Government is losing control of its traffic"Ian found this in The Guardian: . “The freeway is only an ephemeral circumstance where all cars congregate together but the…
It's not just taxi companies that should be worried …Transportation consultant Joe Sulmona is looking at the impact of ‘Transportation Network Companies’ (TNC) like Uber. . While mass transit…
Twinning Tweets: Transportation in Two WorldsPeter Ladner sends in two items that nicely contrast. The first from around here, at ElectraMeccanica World Headquarters at 102…
Video: “You Are Not a Lottery Ticket”A PT friend in Seattle, Eli Goldberg, who works in the tech industry there, highly recommends this video by Peter…
The Daily Durning: Aging Boomers in the Age of Motordom An item recommended by the Durning from mother nature network: It won’t be pretty when boomers lose their cars It’s…
Twinning Tweets: Innovative infrastructure for CyclingThese two items just came in together. From Tim Pawsey via Minds: . What better way to use solar panels…
San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Explained A long article (highly abridged here) by Kim-Mai Cutler in TechCrunch from last year that Eli Goldberg thinks is…
A Futurist Looks at Where Cars Are GoingFrom the New York Times: . Eric Larsen heads research in society and technology at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development in…
Greenwave Cycling: The London TouchIt’s not just the Dutch who are using the latest transport technology: . Cycling Superhighways around and through London may…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner