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The Inherent Trickiness of Predicting the Future of Travel Behavior
Gone are the days when traffic engineers could confidently predict traffic volumes would rise in an upward trajectory into infinity. In America, miles driven per capita has dropped to the levels of the mid-1990s.
November 8, 2013
Do Your City’s Streets Make Room for People Too? A Handy Visual Test
A big problem with designing cities around cars is that motor vehicles are big and bulky and take up a ton of space. And the more space you give to cars, the greater the pressure to cede even more territory -- to park vehicles and transport all the additional people who no longer find it appealing to walk, bike, or take transit in a more spread-out city.
November 7, 2013
No Charges for Driver Who Was “Too Short” to See the Pedestrian He Killed
They say if you want to kill someone in America, do it in a car. You'll never get charged.
November 6, 2013
How TSA Regulations Undermine Amtrak in California
Network blog Systemic Failure ought to write a book about how federal regulations undermine train travel in the U.S. It would be a long one.
November 5, 2013
Delaware Drops “Share the Road”
Following a push from cyclists around the state, Delaware has agreed to stop using "share the road" signs. Beginning immediately, the DOT will use signs that convey less ambiguous messages confirming cyclists' right to the streets.
November 4, 2013
Denver Tech Companies’ Number 1 Demand: Bike Lanes
First Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously threatened to steal Seattle's tech workers with protected bike lanes. Then Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn fired back saying the city would use protected bike lanes to keep them there.
November 1, 2013
El Paso Congressman Holds Town Hall Meetings on the Bus
Congressman Beto O'Rourke takes constituent outreach seriously. Not satisfied that he was reaching a broad enough segment of his El Paso constituents with traditional town-hall meetings, the freshman Democrat has taken up an unorthodox approach: holding discussions on local buses.
October 30, 2013
Do Regional Plans Matter If They Have No Teeth?
Charlotte is one of 29 regions around the country that is undergoing a major regional planning effort thanks to a Sustainable Communities Planning grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
October 29, 2013
How Does Communications Technology Reshape Cities?
In the 1960s sci-fi vision of the future, people moved around in flying cars, or better yet, got "beamed" from one place to another instantaneously. But the futurists of that generation got it wrong. The most influential technological breakthroughs are happening in the field of communications, not transportation.
October 28, 2013