Transit still dominated by automobility and automobile-centricity

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1. If you drive to transit, you defeat a lot of the advantages of transit. Transit systems can’t afford to build unlimited parking at stations. What needs to happen is the creation of bus shuttles/routing to take…

Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: It’s economics stupid…

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Gas mileage aside, the Sequoia Limited remains a powerful and comfortable SUV. (Toyota photo) Caption from the Boston Globe story, “Sequoia SUV is ready for heavy duty,” from last month(!!!!).(A take off on the saying…

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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: The Purple Line fight continues

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From the Action Committee for Transit:STATE FINDS FLAWS IN BUS ALTERNATIVE TO PURPLE LINEDeep flaws in the bus route alternative to the Purple Line backed by the Town of Chevy Chase are revealed in a new letter from…

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Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: Rethinking proof of concept for streetcars in DC

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Portland Streetcar- 2Originally uploaded by urbanista_1One of the biggest problems to overcome with regard to the widespread adoption of streetcars in DC is the issue of overhead wires. Currently, federal law bans…

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Best cities in the world

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According to “Copenhagen, probably the best city in the world,” from the Independent, researchers at the London magazine Monocle find that Copenhagen is the most livable city in the world. It’s also the best design…

A World Class City Sets Priorities… and funds priorities first

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Mr. DC UnitedOriginally uploaded by UnitedMania.com(Victor McFarlane, a very successful and committed to urban areas financier-developer, owns DC United. Flickr photo by UnitedMania.)I love Councilmember Mary Cheh’s…

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