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Lagos Bus Rapid Transit Handles 25 Percent of All Commuters
Six years after Lagos, Nigeria, launched the first Bus Rapid Transit program in all of Africa, the system handles a whopping 25 percent of all commutes and plays a key role in the city's ongoing effort to reduce stifling vehicle congestion.
September 11, 2014
Two Visions for a Closed DC Freeway, But Only One Shows Any Vision
David Alpert at Greater Greater Washington reports that city traffic engineers and city planners have very different ideas on what to do with a closed freeway segment in southeast DC.
September 10, 2014
It’s OK to Build Transit-Oriented Development Before Transit
Which should come first: transit or transit-oriented development?
September 9, 2014
Miami Highway Builders Try to Sell a New Sprawl Project to the Public
The Miami Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) wants to build a highway extension in the southwest fringes of the city, near the edge of the Everglades, and to do that it needs to ingratiate itself with the public. At an open house to kick off the public-facing phase of the planning process, agency staff were well-prepared and friendly, reports Matthew Toro at Transit Miami. After all, he says, "all good salespeople are."
September 8, 2014
Can Columbus Get Its Sprawl Under Control?
There's a new study out examining the future of Columbus, Ohio, and the results are a little scary. This growing city in central Ohio has an Atlanta-like geography -- no physical barriers on any side. And if current development patterns continue, Chris Bentley at the Architect's Newspaper reports, the region's physical footprint is expected to more than triple by 2050 as population grows by 500,000:
September 5, 2014
Two Keys to Livability in Sweden — Good Suburban Buses and Slow Cars
In a lot of ways, Sweden isn't that different from the Midwestern United States, says Bill Lindeke at Streets.mn. Lindeke recently returned from a trip to his ancestral homeland in Scandinavia, and he reports that cars are just about as common in Sweden as they are in Minnesota, where he lives.
September 4, 2014
There Is No Right to Unimpeded Fast Driving
How do you explain the outrage some drivers feel when they have to slow down for a few seconds for a cyclist or a passing pedestrian? There seems to be an ingrained sense that people outside of cars violate the natural order of things, and the natural order of things is motorists sailing uninhibited to their destinations at high speeds.
September 3, 2014
The Problem With “Infrastructurism”
Have you ever heard someone say that building a new transit line will increase ridership by so many thousands of riders?
September 2, 2014
The Small Indiana City That’s Embracing Livable Streets
With a population of about 60,000 and a formerly industrial economy, Kokomo, Indiana, is not the type of city that recent economic trends have favored.
August 29, 2014
Boosting Transit Ridership With New Stations, Not New Track
Yonah Freemark at the Transport Politic calls them infill stations: new transit stops built in gaps along existing rail lines. Current examples include Assembly Station just outside Boston in Somerville, DC’s NoMa Station, and the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.
August 28, 2014