Category: Public Transportation
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Are you suffering from Advanced Car Brain?
Have you ever seen people get into a huff about losing parking spaces for a bike lane? Have you ever seen people loudly complain when the speed limit is lowered on their commute? Have you ever been around when people go on and on about how terrible traffic is while they hop into their vehicle…
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Is the Hyperloop just….Hype?
When it comes to high speed trains in America, the past few years have had some good news, and a whole lot of bad news as well. Acela, the name for Amtrak’s northeastern train line (the only train line in America that can even pretend to be high speed), connecting Boston to DC, recently announced a express…
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Berlin is better than your city at transit (probably.)
When looking at public transportation in the United States, a few choice words come to mind: “inadequate”, “useless”, perhaps “underfunded” too. It is true, that save for a few cities in the US (I’m looking at you New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco etc.), America’s public transit options are extremely limited and unfortunately not…
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Cape Coral: At Street Level
At Street Level is a series of posts talking about individual cities unique and often bizarre built environment and what that actually means for the people who live there. If you’ve ever heard anyone casually bringing up Cape Coral in conversation, you might not find it all that interesting. It’s a smallish city (for Florida),…
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Induced demand can be a good thing?!
If you are familiar with the American highway system, then induced demand should definitely be in your vocabulary. It stands for the phenomenon that happens all too often when the highway system is expanded or otherwise “improved”. The system is simple: Step 1. Highway systems are regularly widened to 8, 10, 12, 14 lanes (sometimes…
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Could Autonomous Vehicles Ruin Everything?
Self-Driving cars, (AKA Autonomous vehicles) have enormous and potentially revolutionizing implications on our work, leisure and economic sectors of our lives. But their effects on urban development and planning are quite disquieting. These types of vehicles can obviate the need for well planned urbanism and actually make poor planning and sprawl more common than ever…
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