…parking in downtown Portland might be too cheap: Let’s kill off downtown Portland once and for all Jack up the cost of parking down there even higher. Jarrett, old buddy…
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Learning, Again, From Las Vegas
…standard car-based fantasy: each hotel/casino complex was its own unrelated composition, situated up to 1/4 mile from the street behind a vast parking lot. Today, the parking has been moved…
Streetcars: An Inconvenient Truth
Posted on July 3, 2009 in Mobility, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Streetcars (Trams), Technophilia
…buses, the 8-Market ran in the right (outside) lane, where it had the usual interference from parallel-parking movements, right-turning cars, etc. Some of its stops were pullouts (a designated gap…
Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?
…a driverless car owner. It reduces the number of cars someone needs to own, and reduces pressure on inner city parking, but would cause an explosive growth in vehicle trips, and…
email of the week: transit to business parks
…many transit issues, the real answers start by understanding the geometry and math problem that business parks present. Disincentives to driving are very low, due to abundant parking and site…
cycling the last mile: an exchange with kyle “one red paper clip” mcdonald
…where bikeshare and bike-parking styles of access are needed most is in lower-density development. This is where transit agencies that are focused on maximum ridership and sustainability benefits for the…
jane jacobs on transportation: my take
…effects. Each needed but compromised revolution – market-based parking, congestion pricing, major transit, complete streets, road diets – will take due credit for this attrition, but it will really happen…
san francisco: winning speed and reliability battles
Posted on April 3, 2012 in Branding, Frequent Networks, On-Time Performance, Rail Transit, San Francisco, Seattle, Stop Spacing, Streetcars (Trams)
…of on-street parking, you’re more likely to break through the “big agency attacks struggling small business” frame if you’re defending the entire city’s transit system. Remember: a line is…
outtake: on endearing-but-useless transit
…2). It can easily be faster than driving (demand 3), and is certainly cheaper given the high cost of big-city parking (demand 4). It is probably weakest in demand 5…
information requests: the copyedit edition
…to mean “delay in a traffic lane adjacent to a curb or parking lane caused by events such as delivery trucks and taxis stopping for customers, cars engaged in parallel…