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Using Facebook to Fight Dangerous Driving in Delhi
August 2, 2010 – 3:46 pm | 10 Comments

Using Facebook to Fight Dangerous Driving in Delhi

With just 5,000 traffic officers in a city of 12 million people, Delhi Traffic Police are enlisting the help of Facebook to crack down on traffic violations, as reported in The New York Times today.
The …

Access for All: Transport for the Disabled Poor
August 2, 2010 – 11:45 am | 7 Comments

Access for All: Transport for the Disabled Poor

This is part of TheCityFix’s series, “Access for All,” about how we can use sustainable transportation development to ensure increased accessibility for poor city dwellers, particularly in developing countries.
Ten to 12 percent of the …

Friday Fun: Swaying To and Fro, on the Subway
July 30, 2010 – 9:27 am | One Comment

Friday Fun: Swaying To and Fro, on the Subway

To get you pumped about public transit this weekend, here are some subway songs and dances.
Now if only we could find videos of quality acts like this on BRT!
All-girl dance crew on the Paris subway:

New Work Out Plan: Take Public Transit
July 29, 2010 – 1:52 pm | 11 Comments

New Work Out Plan: Take Public Transit

63.7% of the D.C. region’s workers who are over 16 drive by themselves to the office.  But now, Arlington, Virginia, is reaching out to its lonesome single-occupancy vehicle drivers in a public campaign to make …

Life in the Bike Lane: New York City
July 28, 2010 – 5:24 pm | 6 Comments

Life in the Bike Lane: New York City

As WNYC highlighted on Thursday, cycling is the fastest-growing way to get around New York City.  In 2008, the city added a record 90 miles of bike lanes — bringing the total to 420 miles …

Mayoral Bike to Work Day?
July 27, 2010 – 10:48 am | 5 Comments

Mayoral Bike to Work Day?

Last weekend, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa experienced firsthand why city cyclists are constantly complaining about disrespectful drivers on the streets.
Villaraigosa, who began to actively promote biking in L.A. after attending the Copenhagen climate conference …

New York Subway Getting Wired
July 27, 2010 – 9:15 am | 16 Comments

New York Subway Getting Wired

New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has been testing Wi-Fi technology and cellular service in its subway system for a few years now. And back in 2007, the city made a deal with Transit …

Transport and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
July 26, 2010 – 5:21 pm | 10 Comments

Transport and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

ast week, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released its first Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The report, “Acting On The Future: Breaking The Intergenerational Cycle Of Inequality” (PDF in …

Friday Fun: People on Public Transit Illustrated
July 23, 2010 – 3:08 pm | 4 Comments

Friday Fun: People on Public Transit Illustrated

In case you haven’t seen it, Flickr has a fantastic public group called People on Public Transit; it features – you guessed it — people riding public transit all around the world.
But illustrations of people on public …

London Shifts into Bike-Share Gear
July 23, 2010 – 10:38 am | 9 Comments

London Shifts into Bike-Share Gear

Just after officially opening two of twelve planned “Barclay’s Cycle Superhighways,” London is now just days away from launching its new bike share system. The system, called Barclay’s Cycle Hire (at this point, the sponsor …