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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Public transit	David Roberts	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
For over two weeks I've been meaning to link to this post on public transit from Michael O'Hare and say something interesting about it. So as not to delay it indefinitely, I'm dropping the "say something interesting about it" requirement. Just go read it.
Topics: placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Part of the solution It's not part of the precipitate, it's part of the solution!	JMG	02 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Free public transit.
Topics: placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

In case you mistook Schwarzenegger for a green	Gar Lipow	25 May 2007	Gristmill
Ahnold cuts transit funding. (via Michael O'Hare)
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Banner day for B.C. Lots of good stuff north of the border	Clark Williams-Derry	25 May 2007	Gristmill
The Vancouver Sun has the scoop. First, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, just released a draft "eco-density" plan that sounds, at least to my ears, like exactly the right way to deal with the city's expected population increase: curbing sprawl by concentrating new housing in compact, transit-friendly neighborhoods: Vancouver should put high-density housing next to its major parks and along every one of its major streets, suggests the first d ...
Topics: Canada, placemaking, public transportation, sprawl, urban planning, Vancouver (all these topics)

The Bronx Is Up and the Battery's Under the Hood New York City will convert entire taxi fleet to hybrids		23 May 2007	Daily Grist
The Bronx Is Up and the Battery's Under the Hood New York City will convert entire taxi fleet to hybrids The big yellow taxis of the Big Apple will all be hybrids by 2012 under a plan announced yesterday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The city has been testing 375 hybrid cabs for 18 months, and will soon begin converting its 13,000-vehicle fleet. "It will be the largest, cleanest fleet of taxis an ...
Topics: New York City, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Gas price roundup Do gas prices affect behavior or not?	Clark Williams-Derry	18 May 2007	Gristmill
Despite record-setting gas prices, U.S. drivers haven't changed their gas-guzzling habits, says AP. Not only are we consuming as much as we always have, new vehicle sales seem to be tilting even more in favor of trucks than cars. But wait, USA Today disagrees. They say that drivers are, in fact, starting to cut back on how much they drive -- a clear sign that higher gas prices are starting to bite. Who's right? Who cares! Either way, the consumer respons ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, cars, green living, oil, energy, Vancouver, gas prices (all these topics)

HopStop	David Roberts	16 May 2007	Gristmill
Not long ago, our own JMG lamented the fact that online map services don't include transit-oriented directions. Well, lookee here: HopStop, your city transit guide. OK, it's only for NYC, but still, sounds pretty cool: HopStop is your city transit guide. We provide door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. You can also search for places to eat, drink, sleep and see in the City Guide. With HopStop you can: - Send directions by e-mail ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, New York City (all these topics)

Is the SkyTrain the limit? Making public transit work	Clark Williams-Derry	15 May 2007	Gristmill
Greater Vancouver leads the Northwest in transit ridership, with somewhere between two and three times as many annual bus and train rides per person as Portland and Seattle. So the obvious question: How come? Why does Vancouver do so much better in transit statistics than its southern neighbors?If you're from Seattle, the "obvious" answer might seem to be Vancouver's SkyTrain light rail system, which carries about 66 million passengers each year. Se ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, Portland, public transportation, Seattle, Vancouver (all these topics)

Medal to the pedal People-powered transit makes you happy	Clark Williams-Derry	08 May 2007	Gristmill
Transportation uber-geek Todd Litman looked at studies of people's satisfaction with their commutes (PDF). The results: transit isn't all that popular, compared with a car commute: The leftmost bar represents a car-only commute; you can see that it gets higher satisfaction ratings (the green part) and lower dissatisfaction (the orange) than both transit and car+transit commutes, which are the next two bars. (Despite the popularity of park-and-rides, ther ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

People know how to get out of cars It's like riding a bike ...	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
What happens when a major urban freeway burns down? Chaos, right? Gridlock! Except not: Traffic congestion was down Monday and Tuesday. The amount of time drivers were stuck in traffic moving slower than 60 mph was down 8 percent around the entire Bay Area, according to Caltrans data. Congestion on Oakland freeways, meanwhile, was down by more than 50 percent, the data showed. ... BART ridership, meanwhile, spiked dramatically, hitting an all-time record on Tu ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

A refreshing change of pace: sensible policy Imagine: charging polluters to encourage the others!	JMG	29 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Sam Smith, publisher of the estimable e-letter The Progressive Review, is perhaps the ultimate pragmatic environmentalist, with a sharp eye for what works and a sharper ability to deflate the pompous and overly-self-loving. He is often the sole commenter picking up on policy proposals and practices that a less parochial media less obsessed with infotainment would be interested in -- such as the success of congestion charges in London's central district, implemented by Mayor 'Re ...
Topics: placemaking, cars, United Kingdom, greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, green living, London, public transportation (all these topics)

High-speed rail transit in the Midwest It can be done	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
ModeShift has an intriguing post on a proposed regional high-speed rail transit system for the Midwest. Here's the wow bit: In essence, for the same cost as building less than 120 miles of new Interstate freeway, the Midwest could design, construct, and operate a 21st Century passenger rail network that would make the region's transportation system competitive with that of western Europe. Moreover, the feasibility study predicted that the system would generate so mu ...
Topics: public transportation, placemaking (all these topics)

Bullets flying in Brazil? A bullet train, that is	Ron Steenblik	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
According to this article, Brazil's transport ministry is considering whether to tender bids for a high-speed train linking S�o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Once (OK, if) the bullet train goes into operation, travel time would be just under an hour and a half, compared with the five hours it currently takes to drive between the two cities. Initial studies for the project estimate a total investment of US$6 billion would be required. That's about how much the U.S. feder ...
Topics: Brazil, energy, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

We Just Ran This Story So We Could Say 'Chunnel' Eurostar will reduce emissions, offset the rest		18 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
We Just Ran This Story So We Could Say "Chunnel" Eurostar will reduce emissions, offset the rest Of trains, planes, and automobiles, locomotives already have the best rep for carbon emissions -- but one operator is on track to boost the bar higher. Eurostar, which shuttles commuters under the English Channel, plans to reduce CO2 emissions 25 percent per traveler ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, news, placemaking, public transportation, United Kingdom (all these topics)

The pro-enviro solution that dare not speak its name Trains are the forgotten mode of transport, at least in the U.S.	JMG	06 Apr 2007	Gristmill
'Because if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down their throats.' Take electrified rail, for instance. Here's a sad report from Dean Baker of The American Prospect, one of the best reporters going today: I was shocked to discover in a conversation with a congressional staffer that rebuilding the country's train system is a topic that is strictly verboten on Capitol Hill. I was reminded of this when I read that a French train had set a new speed record of 35 ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Next Stop, Wonderment Last year, U.S. saw highest public-transit ridership since 1957		13 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Next Stop, Wonderment Last year, U.S. saw highest public-transit ridership since 1957 Hooray for sky-high gas prices! Thanks to the manipulative maneuverings of Big Oil, public transit ridership in the U.S. is on the rise too. A report from the American Public Transportation Association says miffed tank-fillers and others took 10 billion mass-transit trips last year -- 2.9 percent more than in 2005, 28 percent more ...
Topics: news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: Cary Moon She prefers a 'people's waterfront'	David Roberts	12 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Seattle is facing a difficult decision: what to do with a crumbling highway that serves as a major north-south corridor through the city? Below, we hear from Cary Moon. Cary is a landscape and urban designer and co-founder of the People's Waterfront Coalition. The PWC's No-Highway option won second prize in a national design competition sponsored by Metropolis magazine, called 'Next Generation: Big Idea.' ----- Faced with a maddening choice between two miserable hi ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: Erica C. Barnett She says no and hell no	David Roberts	11 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Seattle is facing a difficult decision: what to do with a crumbling highway that serves as a major north-south corridor through the city? Below, we hear from Erica C. Barnett. Erica is the senior news writer for Seattle's alternative newsweekly, The Stranger, where she covers City Hall and transportation, writes a weekly politics column, and serves on the paper's editorial board. She also has a blog. ----- Voters in Seattle are being asked to take up-or-down ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Seattle's difficult decision: A mini-series Because local transportation choices aren't local any more	David Roberts	11 Mar 2007	Gristmill
As Bradley noted below, the citizens of Seattle face a dilemma. The Alaskan Way Viaduct -- an elevated highway that enters Seattle on its west flank, offering stunning views (to drivers) of the city and the waterfront -- is falling apart. There's real danger that an earthquake, or just Father Time, could send it tumbling down, along with lots of cars. Nobody wants that. That's where the consensus ends. The question is: what should we do about it? In some sense th ...
Topics: local politics, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

On Track Betting A journey on China's controversial new train to Tibet	Erica Gies	23 Feb 2007	Main Dish
Each night, the Qinghai-Tibet train leaves Beijing at 9:30. A mere 48 hours later, it rolls into Lhasa, 2,525 miles away. Waiting to depart from Beijing. Photos: Erica Gies Shortly after 9 p.m. one warm night last fall, my travel companion and I raced through the sprawling West Beijing train station, weaving our way through a crush of humanity sitting on newspapers and bits of cardboard, eating cups ...
Topics: China, placemaking, public transportation, Tibet (all these topics)

Carpools Rush In On carpooling to a reunion	Umbra Fisk	14 Aug 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, You have told us, in no uncertain terms, that traveling by train is better ecologically than traveling by car. Several members of my family plan to carpool to an upcoming family reunion 600 miles away. I have considered trying to talk them into taking the train instead, but face the following problem: It would cost about $130 each, round-trip, and involve inconvenient hours guaranteed to annoy the elder generation. ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

A commute point	Sarah van Schagen	06 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Tomorrow is Commute Another Way Day! In Maine, at least (anyone know of this happening elsewhere?), this is an annual event to promote carpools, vanpools, public transit, biking, walking, pogo-sticking, and other eco-friendly alternatives to that long, lonely slog to and from the 9-to-5. According to the CAWD website: Last year, more than 500 employers and 5,000 commuters got involved statewide, helping to reduce traffic congestion and auto emissions by eliminatin ...
Topics: Maine, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Why don't more people carpool or take public transit? Is convenience the drug that salves commuting guilt?	Chris Schults	13 Mar 2006	Gristmill
I sometimes catch the bus at the busy Fremont intersection of 34th and Fremont here in Seattle. I'd estimate that at least 90 percent of the vehicles heading west over the Fremont Bridge have one occupant. This, of course, frustrates me to no end. Here are all these people heading in the same general direction, at the same time. I've often wanted to stand on the side of the road with a sign that reads, 'Your car seats four, why are you driving alone?' So, why are ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

Personal Rapid Transit	Chris Schults	02 Mar 2006	Gristmill
I've oftened wished the bus would 'appear' when I arrive at the bus stop. Such daydreaming often led to ideas about somehow combining personal vehicles and public transit. As usual, mine is not an original idea, as Jeremy Faludi over at WC points out: Wouldn't it be nice to have a bus waiting for you every time you walked up to a stop? And wouldn't it be nice if the bus just went to your destination, without stopping anywhere else in between? The main reason people ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

The Wheel Deal On bicycle commuting	Umbra Fisk	28 Sep 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My question regards my daily half-hour (each way) bicycle commute through fairly heavy city traffic. I've been wondering if the benefits (exercise, sunshine, free and fast transport) are outweighed by the negatives (primarily breathing in diesel and other exhaust, but I'd also throw in the risk of almost getting run over, despite the cheap thrills). I am fortunate enough that my alternative would be to take the subway, not ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, bikes, green living, health, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

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