Posts in the 'Integrated Transport' category
Why Will We Wait? Our Seemingly Infinite Patience With Long Commutes
Why Will We Wait? Our Seemingly Infinite Patience With Long Commutes
I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July and long weekend. I know I did. There are a bunch of people, though, who I can’t imagine enjoyed their holiday. Take a look at the Post’s Get There blog’s coverage ...
World's Fair 2010: "Better Cities, Better Lives"
World's Fair 2010: "Better Cities, Better Lives"
Via NAC, I see that Shanghai, which is hosting the 2010 World Expo, has declared its theme to be Better City, Better Life. The mostly unnavigable site even has a whole page outlining what this theme means, highlighting the economic ...
Urban Renewal By Any Other Name
Urban Renewal By Any Other Name
To start off your morning, one of those posts where the only response is “read the whole thing”: the NRDC’s Karl Benfield on the current vogue for shrinking cities. It’s even got Joni Mitchell lyrics to kick the post off. ...
Streetcars Made in the U.S.A.
Streetcars Made in the U.S.A.
American streetcar manufacturer Oregon Iron Works turned to European company Skoda to get ideas for its new 10 T3 Streetcar Prototype, which will be open to the public this summer. Photo by United Streetcar. Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray ...
Gender and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance
Gender and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance
There’s been an absolutely fantastic debate going on online today about the gender gap in urban cycling. This NYT City Room post started off the debate. It notes that in the U.S., men make 3x as many trips by bike ...
Mobility-Driven Companies Shake Up the Bikesharing Market
Mobility-Driven Companies Shake Up the Bikesharing Market
It seems that D.C.’s 10,000+ SmartBike members may have to wait some time for the District’s promised ten-fold expansion. ClearChannel Outdoor, the advertising giant that operates SmartBike, has little interest to expand the pilot, according to news last week from ...
The French Get Funny for Car-Sharing
The French Get Funny for Car-Sharing
Originally posted by Noah Kazis at TheCityFix DC. World Streets shares this very funny French ad for a car-sharing company. The translation of their slogan is “It’s almost your car.” In another ad, the same man is eating a messy ...
Mobility-Driven Companies Shake Up the Bikesharing Market
Mobility-Driven Companies Shake Up the Bikesharing Market
Originally posted at TheCityFix DC. Montreal’s Public Bike System (PBS), also known as “Bixi,” provides a competitive alternative to the bikes-for-advertising business model. Photo by amlibrarian. It seems that D.C.’s 10,000+ SmartBike members may have to wait some time for ...
It's Very Strange When the Newspaper Prints Good News
It's Very Strange When the Newspaper Prints Good News
At last week’s priority bus conference, the keynote speaker, Roy Kienitz, the Undersecretary for Policy at the US Department of Transportation, began his remarks by describing his reaction to the ease with which the Obama Administration increased CAFE standards in ...
Fairfax County Mulling Becoming Fairfax City
Fairfax County Mulling Becoming Fairfax City
In what might be today’s biggest regional transportation news or might be an empty piece of political posturing, Fairfax County is considering becoming a city. According to the Post, the goal behind becoming a city would be to control local ...
The Street Food Solution
The Street Food Solution
I’m told that D.C. is a very walkable city. I hear this all the time in fact. And in one way, it’s true. Distances are relatively short, sidewalks are broad and so on. But that only makes it a good ...
DDOT to Permit Valet Spaces
DDOT to Permit Valet Spaces
The Examiner is reporting that DDOT has established a new set of guidelines for providing valet parking from on-street parking spaces. Where there was previously no organized permitting system, now businesses may rent 20 feet of street for 50 cents ...
Virginia is the New California
Virginia is the New California
This past weekend turned out to have an Asian food in Fairfax County theme. On Saturday, the 24-hour Korean barbecue joint Honey Pig Gooldaegee in Annandale and on Sunday a trip to the Eden Center, the Vietnamese mall in Falls ...
18-Storey Building Planned for Bethesda
18-Storey Building Planned for Bethesda
In re the great height restrictions debate: this is what happens when you don’t allow tall buildings in the District. In addition to demands for building certain numbers of units which can be distributed up or out, there is also ...
Who Saved the Electric Car?
Who Saved the Electric Car?
Via BeyondDC’s newsfeed, I see that Baltimore may be introducing an electric car-sharing program. This is a great idea. You often hear about how the reason electric cars will never be popular is that they’ll require an entirely new energy ...
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