…and non-convertible currencies: money, and the limited road space of our cities. We experience urban congestion, and parking shortages, when road-space is inaccurately priced. As I explored here, it’s as…
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Paris: The Street is Ours!
…have striped this one-way street as two traffic lanes plus a parking/delivery lane on each side; in fact, if I probe my dim memories of living in Paris in 1986,…
Singapore: A Walk with Paul Barter
…front is a parking structure. This high density has a surprising amount of parking given the transit options and the generally high cost of driving. Paul said that the total…
How Can We Study Things in Isolation? They’re Connected!
…or bicycle parking, or road pricing, or parking policy, or urban structure? These things are all connected, they say! Yes, they are all connected. But despite being connected, many planning…
chicago: bus rapid transit moves forward
…composed of four travel lanes, parking lanes, and a median alternating with a turn lane. It’s interesting to read the press materials for this project, because they heavily emphasize the…
for the holidays, a sentimental epilogue
…he’s always a little on edge with all the random bustle of strangers. He also hates parking there, all that pointless circling in concrete parking structures. His mother keeps telling…
dissent of the week: praise for new york city’s bus rapid transit
…and (b) reinforced by even more talk about the urgency of the citywide goals that they are fighting for, block by block, foot by foot, parking space by parking space….
shared housing and shared transportation (guest post by alfred twu)
…weekends. Ashby station neighborhood. Station is blue, parking lot is black. However, the official plan to build 300 units of housing on the station parking lots met significant neighborhood opposition. …
Transit’s Role in “Sprawl Repair”
Posted on November 15, 2010 in Access, Be on the Way, Bus Rapid Transit, Fresno, Los Angeles, Pedestrians, Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), Urban Structure
…Angeles, I spent some time thinking about this issue. The densified sprawl that DPZ envisions will clearly be a place that needs much more effective transit. Parking will be more…
On Pedestrian Malls: Look to Australia
…(not yet routine in Australia). But neither of these is on the pedestrian mall itself. The mall is a short segment running from the main street to the parking lot…