Rachel Quednau wrote:
Bike infrastructure is one of the most high-return investments a city can make. It allows people to get around town at a very affordable price point while helping residents stay healthy at the same time. And the wear-and-tear bikes create on roads is a tiny fraction of the wear-and-tear caused by cars...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
A lot of cities in this position would have taken the feedback from businesses that their customers and employees were struggling to park nearby and concluded, "We have a parking shortage downtown." Hundreds of cities like Lockport operate municipal parking garages—almost always at a loss, if not in direct revenue then whe...
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Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
Charles Marohn wrote:
We all intuitively understand that when we experience rain or snow melt on the edges of a watershed, there is a compounding effect that occurs. ... by the time all this water is concentrated into a tributary, it can accumulate to produce a flood.
We've so grasped this concept that we've take...
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James Brasuell wrote:
"But as COVID-19 swept over the country, the City Council acted quickly to scrap payments for bus riders. That would allow all-door boarding — minimizing interaction with the driver — and it would be a boon for beleaguered essential workers who still had to report to work," explains Blumgart. "In 2021, th...
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Kea Wilson wrote:
In what its authors believe to be the first study to quantify the public health benefits of U.S. bicycle sharing systems, epidemiological researchers at Colorado University calculated that on an average year, users of the mode saved the national healthcare system more than $36 million, despite the fact that there are onl...
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Daniel Herriges wrote:
It's important to keep our eyes on the big picture: the system of transportation that we have built, in almost all of America post-World War II, is one in which the destinations of our day-to-day lives are too spread out from each other to be accessible by any means other than ...
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Christian MilNeil wrote:
A new statistical analysis of ridership data from the Bluebikes system suggests that the new Commonwealth Avenue protected bike lanes, which were finished in 2019, increased bike traffic by at least 80 percent relative to the paint-only bike lane that existed before the construction project began.
In a new paper published thi...
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The Antiplanner wrote:
If transit agencies really wanted to reduce their environmental footprints, they should buy smaller buses. They don’t come close to filling the buses they have: the standard 64-passenger (with standees) transit bus carried an average of just 9 passengers in 2019, a number that will probably fall below 5 in 2020. Tha...
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Sarah Davis wrote:
In 2017, BikeWalkKC was awarded a grant to work with communities in Kansas City to make bottom-up change happen. Partnering with a local children’s hospital, they identified two locations for quick-build projects to see how people, both in vehicles and on foot, would respond. The groups painted temporary bump-outs and crosswalks a...
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