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Roads with transit? No, thanks The RTID package doesn't give Seattle voters a fair choice	Erica Barnett	30 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Those of us who live in and around Seattle will vote this November on a huge package that's being sold as "roads and transit." Stay with me -- it's complicated but important, and it could have implications for transit projects around the US. Of the $18 billion in the package, about $10 billion will pay for 50 miles of new light rail; the rest will pay for roads projects, including 152 new miles of general-purpose highways (and 74 miles of HOV). Because ou ...
Topics: politics, public transportation, Seattle, urban planning (all these topics)

China to hold no-car day Residents in over 100 Chinese cities urged to walk, bike, or use public transit this Saturday	Adam Browning	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
China, once famed as a bicycling nation, tries to put the genie back in the bottle.
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Schwarzengreener, or Transit Terminator? How green is California?	Jon Rynn	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The State of California just passed a budget that, thanks to Governor Schwarzenegger and the Republicans in the Assembly, removes $1.3 billion from the public transit budget. Yes, this is the same state and governor that passed a cap-and-trade bill that seeks to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020. But so far, the only thing being cut is the one way to get cars off of the roads. But let me tell you about this car-pool lane ... Photo: house.gov You kno ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

A win for buses in L.A. Los Angeles City Council OKs a peak-hour bus-only lane	Eric Mann	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
An update from me and my colleague Francisca Porchas of the Labor/Community Strategy Center: For the first time in L.A., the car capital of the world, a bus-centered public-transportation system has been given priority over the auto -- a big victory for environmental justice and the reduction of auto-based air toxins and greenhouse gases. On Aug. 15, the Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union secured an important environmental and public-health victory at the Los Angel ...
Topics: environmental justice, placemaking, politics, public transportation (all these topics)

Welp, Back to Swimming		29 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 12:07 PM on 29 Aug 2007 Two days after it began, service on the muchly protested Hawaii Superferry has been suspended indefinitely, for environmental-impact and protester-safety reasons. sources:� Associated Press, WTAE TV, Kauai World From the Archives News You Already Knew. Attack of the Helpful Tomatoes. Radiation breeding of plants is way better than it sounds. Feel the Glass Between Your Toes. News Archives
Topics: Hawaii, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Ferry Ferry, Quite Contrary Hawaii's first-ever inter-island ferry service comes under protest		28 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Ferry Ferry, Quite Contrary Hawaii's first-ever inter-island ferry service comes under protest Hawaii's first-ever inter-island passenger ferry service set off this weekend amidst protests that it could harm marine life, spread invasive species, and worsen pollution. The docking of the ferry's second voyage was delayed by a dozen steamed surfers, while hundreds more protesters stood on the island seawall s ...
Topics: Hawaii, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Roads vs. transit Seattle enviros face a Hobson's choice in November	Erica Barnett	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This November, those of us who live in and around Seattle will vote on a $17.7 billion transportation package that would expand light rail (by 50 miles) but also include billions for road expansion -- including roads that will primarily serve sprawling developments to Seattle's south and east, making the package a Hobson's choice for environmentalists. (The state legislature tied the roads and transit votes together last year, on the theory that road supporters will on ...
Topics: cars, placemaking, politics, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

China and the long-distance runner Will bikes or cars win?	Jon Rynn	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
China has an environmental problem. No, I'm not talking about weathering huge dust storms, opening one coal power plant a week, surpassing the U.S. as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, or flooding ecosystems with huge dam projects. I'm talking about something serious: If pollution does not get better in Beijing in time for the 2008 Olympics, the long-distance track events may be canceled. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, 'China's new middle cl ...
Topics: bikes, cars, China, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

How bad is peak oil, really? Would the biosphere care?	Jon Rynn	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Recently we've had a couple of discussions here at Gristmill concerning various aspects of peak oil; that is, the assertion that very soon (if it hasn't happened already) the global supply of oil will peak, and even though demand is going up, supply will start to come down, so prices will skyrocket. It seems to me that some of the contention in these discussions boils down to the question: would it really be so bad if the oil started running out? After all, we would ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, coal, energy, oil, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

The traffic is jammin' Fear of traffic snarls led to easier commutes in Seattle	Clark Williams-Derry	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
We tend to think of traffic as an immutable -- that there's literally nothing we can do in our day-to-day lives to drive less. But Seattle's continued and mostly unexpected free-flowing traffic -- in the midst of a major construction project that some feared would trigger a morass of congestion throughout Puget Sound -- shows that this is simply false. Far from being rigid and incompressible, traffic and travel patterns are surprisingly fluid. Seattle's ex ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, Seattle (all these topics)

So That's What Those Trains Are For Beijing enacts four-day ban on vehicles, pushes public transportation		17 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
So That's What Those Trains Are For Beijing enacts four-day ban on vehicles, pushes public transportation Today marks the start of an experimental four-day vehicle ban in Beijing, China. While the motivation for the scheme is finding ways to clear the air for next year's Olympics, its execution is a lovely reminder that change is possible. Home to 16 million people, Beijing has about 3 million registered ve ...
Topics: China, news, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

NYC subways: One kilowatt-hour per trip Subways are the best	Jon Rynn	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Recently I tracked down an article on the annual electricity use of the New York City subway system: 1.8 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh). To put that in perspective, the entire U.S. economy uses about 4,000 billion kwh annually. According to the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, there were 1.499 billion trips made on the subway in 2006. So it takes a little over 1 kwh to move one person on trips, of varying length, in New York City. That's 4.1 million riders p ...
Topics: New York, New York City, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

As flooding cripples New York City transit system ... Only cyclists and walkers remain calm	Maywa Montenegro	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
At around 4:30am today, a powerful storm swept through New York City and surrounding areas, dumping nearly two inches of rain over Central Park in just one hour before spinning into 'tornado-like' gusts in Brooklyn. The downpour was over soon enough, but the sudden surge of water flooded our subway system, causing every major line to be shut down. Service on buses and trains into the city was either suspended or delayed, right in the midst of rush hour on a swe ...
Topics: New York, New York City, public transportation, severe weather (all these topics)

SpotBus The next generation of riding transit	Eric de Place	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Riding transit just got way, way, easier. A new website called SpotBus is wildly better than existing online trip planners. For one thing, you can enter destinations like a normal person -- 'Ballard,' or 'Ikea,' or 'ferry,' or whatever -- not some arcane intersection. It's so much faster and more intuitive that it feels like giving up your old gimcrack five-disc CD changer for an iPod. It only works in the Puget Sound area, but there's no reason something similar co ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, public transportation, websites (all these topics)

Coach buses provide long-distance, low-emission convenience Greyhound gets some competition from Megabus.com	Gar Lipow	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Buses, on average, get low passenger miles per gallon in the U.S., because they stop often and don't use most of their capacity. Coach buses -- providing prebooked travel between cities -- don't suffer from these limitations. Megabus.com, a new niche player in this market, provides cheap, comfortable travel between nearby cities with travel time comparable to driving or taking commuter airlines (in a very small portion of the U.S.). Efficiency is 184 passenger miles ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Heath Row London airport owner seeks injunction against weeklong climate protest		02 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Heath Row London airport owner seeks injunction against weeklong climate protest We've got juicy legal goings-on from London, and while it's probably not true that all involved are wearing long, white wigs, we like to picture it that way. Here's the deal: in mid-August, an estimated 5,000 protesters will descend on London's Heathrow Airport for a weeklong Camp for Climate Action. BAA, the ...
Topics: climate, grassroots activism, London, news, public transportation (all these topics)

Congestion pricing saves more than it costs Bloomberg�s law: Environment equals economic growth	Grist	28 Jul 2007	Gristmill
This guest essay comes from Steven Cohen and Jacob Victor. Steven Cohen is executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and director of its Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs. Jacob Victor is an intern at Columbia's Earth Institute. After overcoming numerous obstacles in Albany, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial congestion-pricing plan finally appear ...
Topics: cars, green living, New York, New York City, placemaking, politics, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

Jam Plan Is Toast NYC mayor's traffic-reducing proposal shot down, for now		18 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Jam Plan Is Toast NYC mayor's traffic-reducing proposal shot down, for now New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion-fee proposal, reportedly down to the wire on Monday, is now just down, period. The plan would have charged a fee for Manhattan-bound vehicles during peak hours, but the state Senate adjourned without voting on the measure after Democrats made it clear that th ...
Topics: New York City, news, placemaking, public transportation, urban planning (all these topics)

No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
No Rush Hour New York hems and haws over Manhattan congestion fees Today is a make-or-break, do-or-die, fish-or-cut-bait, poo-or-get-off-the-pot, we-wish-we-could-think-of-more-hyphenated-clich�s day for New York, as state legislators, Governor Eliot Spitzer, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrestle over Bloomberg' ...
Topics: climate, health, innovation, New York City, news, placemaking, politics, public transportation, state politics, urban planning (all these topics)

Fighting transit racism: Building the environmental movement on the buses of L.A. A perspective from Eric Mann	Eric Mann	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A Latina woman addresses the board of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). She is part of a crowd of 1,500 people opposing the agency's proposed bus-fare increases. She holds her 3-year-old child up to the board and says, 'What would you like me to do? Take the clothes off his back or the food out of his mouth?' L.A., with 10 million people and 7 million cars on the road, is the freeway capital of the U.S. For more than 14 years, the MTA on o ...
Topics: environmental justice, Los Angeles, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Sure it's 100 in the shade, but man, nice plane! While planet burns, Boeing scores a PR victory	JMG	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
At the gym, in between hearing an EMT talk about the heat stroke issues he expects tomorrow, I marveled at how awful news programs were today, devoting huge chunks of time to talking up Boeing's new 'Dreamliner' jet, which the blow-drieds say will consume 20 percent less fuel per mile. I even heard one blow say 'eventually reducing the cost of air travel.' Man, talk about delusional. (Oh, and I know I'm not supposed to connect things like our craze for jet travel and high ...
Topics: air travel, climate, ecological footprint, green living, music, placemaking, public transportation (all these topics)

Rocking the Cradle of Democracy Energy debate leads to unprecedented government shutdown in Pennsylvania		10 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Rocking the Cradle of Democracy Energy debate leads to unprecedented government shutdown in Pennsylvania More than 24,000 state workers in Pennsylvania are back on the job today, after a fierce debate over budget issues -- including transportation and clean energy -- led Gov. Ed Rendell (D) to enact an unprecedented partial government shutdown yesterday. At a late-night ...
Topics: energy, news, Pennsylvania, public transportation, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

It's sexy to Texxi Can text messaging solve some of our cities' climate & traffic challenges?	Erik Hoffner	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
A story in the new Plenty magazine gives details on a cab company that's giving the late-night clubbing crowd of Liverpool great green service with the magic of text messages: It's a solution any 14-year-old would love: The challenges of foreign oil dependency, global warming, and gridlock are not so big that you can't text-message your way out of them. The Texxi text-dispatchers arrange carpool cab rides based on who's texting from where and their desired desti ...
Topics: placemaking, public transportation, tech, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Yellow Jersey Optional City of Paris to begin bike-sharing program		15 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Yellow Jersey Optional City of Paris to begin bike-sharing program Ah, Paris. The sex tape! The jail time! Wait, wait ... wrong Paris. Ahem. The croissants! The berets! The phallic tower! And now: the free bikes! By mid-July, 10,648 bicycles will show up in 750 stations across The City of Love, allowing riders to pick them up and drop them off at a different destination. By 2008, the city hopes to provide nearly twice ...
Topics: bikes, France, public transportation (all these topics)

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: public transportation, placemaking (all these topics)

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