Scooters Quenching Thirst in Chicago’s Transit Deserts
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An pilot program shows that the devices are popular in low-income neighborhoods where transit is scarce.
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Highway Boondoggle: Golden State’s Desert Destruction
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California's $8-billion, 63-mile “High Desert Freeway" north of downtown Los Angeles would lead to more driving and more pollution, along with sprawling desert development.
Akron Sets Out to Dismantle a Giant Road
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Some places just talk about prioritizing transit and walking over highway construction. But Akron, Ohio, is putting its money where its mouth is. The Akron region will spend more money this year to reduce road capacity than to add it, according to Jason Segedy, head of the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study, the regional planning […]
In Cleveland, An Old-School Planning Agency Sees the Light
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Cleveland’s metropolitan planning organization was one of those transportation agencies that had never quite gotten over the Eisenhower era. Sure, it threw some money at the transit agency every year. But for the most part, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) treated its mission as a simple matter of expanding roads to reduce congestion. […]
Senate Offers a More Multi-Modal 2014 Transportation Budget Than the House
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Last week, a House panel envisioned some big cuts to next year’s transportation budget. TIGER and high-speed rail would get nothing, Amtrak would get slashed, and ixnay on all that green “livability” crap. (And that’s practically a quote.) The Senate Appropriations Committee voted this morning on the budget its own transportation subcommittee put together, and the end […]
Can Phoenix Reinvent Itself as a Transit City?
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Perhaps no other city in the country has the reputation for sprawl that Phoenix does, and it is well deserved. This is a city built around the car — until 2008, sprawling suburban housing in Maricopa County was the driving force of the regional economy. Phoenix got a rude awakening in 2008, when the housing […]