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Friday Fun: Sustainable Mobility in the Movies
August 20, 2010 – 10:59 am | 7 Comments

Friday Fun: Sustainable Mobility in the Movies

Hallelujah! It’s Friday.  That means it’s time for another dose of Friday Fun, to send you into your weekend right — with sustainable transport on your mind.
This week, we’re looking at public transport in the movies, …

Bangalore’s Bus Days Boost Ridership
August 19, 2010 – 3:23 pm | 2 Comments

Bangalore’s Bus Days Boost Ridership

Bangalore, India is notorious for its grinding congestion and painful, polluted commutes.  The city’s information technology (IT) boom in the 1990s and early “aughties” led to sprawling, haphazard development and an expanding middle class with …

Brazil’s Green World Cup
August 18, 2010 – 7:02 pm | 10 Comments

Brazil’s Green World Cup

Recently we wrote about Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup and some of the proposed transport infrastructure improvements, including more than 500 kilometers of bus rapid transit (BRT) lines, that will come out of the …

New Study: U.K. Transport Emissions Can Be Cut 76 Percent by 2050
August 18, 2010 – 6:52 pm | 7 Comments

New Study: U.K. Transport Emissions Can Be Cut 76 Percent by 2050

“This project marks a significant break with traditional thinking that regards transport as too hard to deal with when it comes to greenhouse gas reduction.” – Prof. John Whitelegg, co-author of “Towards a Zero Carbon Vision …

Transit and the Monsoon: Can We Harmonize the Two?
August 17, 2010 – 2:34 pm | 3 Comments

Transit and the Monsoon: Can We Harmonize the Two?

Over the past year, we’ve written extensively about the new bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Ahmedabad, India, called Janmarg BRT. The system — India’s first full BRT — was a game-changer in India in …

Living in a Walker’s Paradise?
August 16, 2010 – 3:29 pm | 4 Comments

Living in a Walker’s Paradise?

Some of our perennial readers may remember Walk Score, which we wrote about back in 2007. The website ranks neighborhoods’ walkability on a scale of 0 to 100, based  on a complex, patent-pending, ever improving …

Q&A: Oakland Urban Visionary Discusses City’s New Streetcar Plan
August 13, 2010 – 6:11 pm | 5 Comments

Q&A: Oakland Urban Visionary Discusses City’s New Streetcar Plan

Within five to ten years, Oakland, Calif., has the potential to become a model of urban revitalization and sustainable livability.
It may sound a bit paradoxical — but it’s possible.
The name Oakland still too often conjures …

TheCityFix Picks, August 13: BRT in Tanzania, Transbay Transit Center, Buttery Biodiesel
August 13, 2010 – 5:54 pm | 3 Comments

TheCityFix Picks, August 13: BRT in Tanzania, Transbay Transit Center, Buttery Biodiesel

Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: mobility, quality of life, environment, public space, …

New York City Phases Out Crown Vic Taxicabs
August 12, 2010 – 11:36 am | 3 Comments

New York City Phases Out Crown Vic Taxicabs

What’s the perfect taxicab?
For many New York City cabbies, the answer is easy: the Crown Victoria. For years, Ford’s stretch Crown Victoria — or the Crown Vic, as many drivers endearingly refer to it — …

Is Your City a Smarter City?
August 12, 2010 – 9:48 am | 10 Comments

Is Your City a Smarter City?

The Natural Resources Defense Council’s online resource center, SmarterCities.org,  has named 22 cities “2010 Smarter Cities” for their investment in low-carbon energy and efforts to become more energy efficient and conservation-minded urban spaces.
“Energy” is the first …