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Headline	Author	Published	Section
On the Right Amtrak Amtrak struggles to meet demand as ridership soars		08 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:42 PM on 08 Aug 2008 As commuters continue to look for alternatives to high gas prices, increasing numbers are choo-choo-choosing Amtrak. A record 28 million passengers are expected to ride the train this fiscal year compared to 25.8 million last year. The House and Senate have passed bills that could boost Amtrak's funding by 33 percent, which has Amtrak prez Alex Kummant saying he's "optimistic" about ...
Topics: gas prices, news, placemaking, public transportation, trains, travel (all these topics)

I Wonder How to Wander Google Maps adds walking directions		22 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:40 PM on 22 Jul 2008 Taking another step toward complete indispensability, Google Maps on Tuesday became the first service of its kind to add walking directions. In addition to searches for car and transit travel, pedestrians -- and, hell, Segway-ers too -- can now find the most direct and flat route from Point A to Point B. The function works for trips up to 6.2 miles long, and recognizes that one-way streets only apply to ...
Topics: green living, news, placemaking, tech, travel, websites (all these topics)

Folds-mobile Business travel, Bike Friday, and the Spokane airport	Alan Durning	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Confession: I have long coveted a Bike Friday. What cyclist wouldn't? A folding bike that fits in a suitcase -- and the suitcase becomes a bike trailer! Pedal to the airport or train station, take your luggage out of your trailer, fold your bike into the trailer, check your luggage (including your bike), and at trip's end, reverse the process. Ingenious! So I danced a jig when a founder of the Eugene, Ore.-based company offered to let me try the new Tikit model this ...
Topics: bikes, innovation, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Southern vacation A few random observations before getting back to work	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Well, here I am, back from a nine-day vacation in the South, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, jet lagged, and generally dazed. Rather than wading through the 300 or so emails demanding my attention, how about a few vacation observations? I split my time between big-city Atlanta and the sort of not-quite-rural, not-quite-city, not-quite-suburb nether regions that, it seems to me, don't get enough attention in the kind of lay sociological analysis we enviros are prone to. ...
Topics: Georgia, green living, placemaking, Prius, Tennessee, travel (all these topics)

Farewell, complete walker A valedictory to Colin Fletcher	Charles Komanoff	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
For most of us who care about ecology and the environment, there was some personal experience that brought us there. For me, it was wilderness hiking, beginning 30-plus years ago in the Grand Canyon and continuing across the American West. Two books helped instigate my journeys and those of thousands of fellow adventure-seekers and nature-lovers. The Welshman who wrote them, the intrepid and blessedly individualistic Colin Fletcher, died earlier this month, at 85. ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

When will people on bikes be treated as well as smokers? Bike racks in rain, smokers under cover	JMG	25 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I am pissed. I just learned that my county would rather provide shelter from the weather for its employees who smoke (and drive up healthcare costs) than let those citizen-terrorists on bikes park out of the rain near the county building.So I have to go to the county building today after a lunch meeting. Rather than drive, I hop on my bike and dodge traffic and the shards of cars swept into the so-called "bike lanes." I get to the county building and it's starting to r ...
Topics: bikes, green living, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Tunnels everywhere!	John McGrath	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
First a train tunnel between Africa and Europe, now the Russians want to build the long-dreamt-of tunnel between Russia and Alaska. The tunnel would theoretically carry natural gas, oil, electricity, and fiber-optic wires. The more and better tunnels we have for rail, the more competitive rail will be with less efficient transport systems like air travel. This is better for energy efficiency and therefore the environment. This project still has a lot of problems - ...
Topics: Alaska, green living, placemaking, Russia, travel (all these topics)

Make Me a Map How Wendy Brawer put green on the map	Tim Sprinkle	18 Apr 2006	Arts and Minds
Don't let Wendy Brawer's urban address fool you -- this New Yorker has a soft spot for nature. After all, she's the founder of Modern World Design, an eco-design firm, and has spent the last 11 years at the helm of the Green Map System, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping citizens all over the world document and map their local environmental resources. Wendy Brawer with two Green Map System staffers. Photo: ...
Topics: placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Heaven Help Bus A visit to Iceland spurs dreams of a hydrogen future	Bill McKibben	19 Jul 2005	Soapbox
The loneliness of the long-distance rider. I have seen the future, and it works. The 111 bus rolls quietly up to the Mjodd terminal in eastern Reykjavik at 11:19 a.m., and I climb aboard. For 45 minutes, we cruise through the suburbs and then to the central square downtown, picking up and discharging eight passengers along the way. Fuel cells that would have filled the space of several passenger ...
Topics: hydrogen, Iceland, placemaking, public transportation, travel (all these topics)

Plane Text Advice on driving vs. flying	Umbra Fisk	28 May 2003	Ask Umbra
Hi Umbra, I'm wondering if you have any numbers comparing the fuel efficiency of flying versus driving the average car for the same distance. Also, how does carbon dioxide production compare for the same trip? Steve Loomis, Calif. Dearest Steve, Flight blight? Here's what I can find so far, courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Institute in beautiful Snowmass, Colo. Single-occupancy automobiles produce 0.91 pounds of carbon dioxide per ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

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