…these choices are harder because the SFMTA faces severe resource constraints. It still faces a labor shortage and has lost much of its income from fares and parking revenues, not…
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Basics: Making Public Transit “Seamless”
Posted on May 19, 2022 in
…of its transit, it is more likely to exercise those other functions in ways that support transit rather than undermine it. San Francisco’s recent decision to combine traffic and parking…
Basics: On Ferries
Posted on May 7, 2023 in
…at a ferry terminal for everything you’d want at a transit node, including terminals for connecting transit, transit-oriented development, and (if you must) commuter parking. To overcome these limitations, a…
Basics: Sorting Out Rail-Bus Differences
Posted on May 7, 2023 in
…especially if the lane is adjacent to on-street parking. People stop in the lane to make deliveries, get into and out of taxis, and parallel-park. Accidents and breakdowns happen. If…
Chapter 3 from the First Edition of Human Transit, as Edited in 2023
Posted on July 30, 2023 in
…about streetcars. It’s not just a historically dense city. The creation of today’s city center mobility system also involved a range of difficult decisions around managing parking and traffic. A…
Video of My UCLA Event: Great Questions!
…microtransit well? Where can it work?” (Triggers my hardware store analogy.) 48:20 Jacob asks about the importance of pricing of parking and driving, which leads into a riff lanes on…
Las Vegas: A Ride on Elon’s “Vegas Loop” Did Not Change My Mind
…jacket, and some people standing around. Walking out, I gazed back at the station. It looks exactly like three Uber Teslas lined up at a curb in a parking structure,…
Pope Francis on the Problem of Cars in Cities
…the level of pollution, and consuming enormous quantities of non-renewable energy. This makes it necessary to build more roads and parking areas which spoil the urban landscape. Many specialists agree…
California Legalizes Life Near Public Transit
Castro Valley BART station, surrounded by parking and low-rise residential. Zoning such low densities around rapid transit is no longer legal under SB 79. OK, the headline is a little…
Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living
…embracing zoning reform, investing in alternative transportation infrastructure, lowering parking requirements for development, and encouraging mixed land uses, including in residential neighborhoods. I wish they had dropped the word “infrastructure,”…