For regular work days, I think 10 minutes is awesome:
Trains will arrive every 10 minutes from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.; all other hours, every 20 minutes.
I actually don’t think it should be any less than that. I think I’d be happy with 15 minute intervals - maybe run more during rush hours and fewer [...]
Just stating the obvious — speeding buses are not good for cyclists. Buses are dangerous to humans — we need to phase them out.
Streetcars are not a big problem, relatively speaking, because cyclists and pedestrians have a pretty good idea of where streetcars are going to be - on the rails - so we just [...]
It seems fashionable these days for the federal government to appoint ‘czars’ of various kinds - drugs, war, whatever. BikePortland mentions a so-called ‘river czar‘.
There is no more effective way for us citizens to relinquish control over public resources than to cede them to a ‘czar’ - a ruler, emperor, dictator, etc. As citizens, we [...]
Motorbikes in bike lanes is obviously bad for cyclists and pedestrians.
Mayor Boris says he is doing this to relieve congestion, and part of the reason London is still congested is because buses take up too much room, and they’re not being utilized. Would-be cyclists are also afraid of them, as they should be. If you [...]
Building on a bunch of the previous posts, I wanted to offer what I think is one of the ways we can look at how to restore livability to our cities. It’s called The Double WhammyTM.
It means, in effect, doing exactly the opposite of what the auto industry, and GM in particular, did so many [...]
That’s what this blog says. If that’s true - and I’ve no idea - we could roll out streetcars on Geary, keep running the regular buses, then grow from there however we wanted. Maybe get some big, nice-looking trams. That increases the capacity of the corridor dramatically, gives us bikers and walkers a lot more [...]
Here are some notes from the London episode of this great series. The episode title is ‘London: The Price of Traffic’ - it’s definitely worth your time. My own thoughts are in red:
London learned how to do decongestion pricing from Trondheim
Decongestion charge worked initially….then congestion went back up
why? well, lots of space was reallocated back [...]
We mentioned that London was set to get rid of those monster buses, but I thought I’d push out one more piece of data on that matter:
Bendy buses cause more than twice as many injuries as any other bus, according to official figures seen by the Standard.
More than 90 pedestrians and cyclists were injured by [...]
Pedicabs are great for a whole bunch of reasons, but institutional bias against them will remain strong - and taxis won’t like the idea of competition.
The main reason I dig pedicabs is because they’re a direct replacement for motorized traffic. But I’m also happy because they do real work - they highlight utility cycling - [...]
We know GM got rid of the streetcars, and we know about white flight to the suburbs, but I wonder how much worse urban decay could have been made by the tearing out of all the streetcars. Reading phrases like this about streetcars and urban decay is pretty common:
The streetcar line was shut down in [...]
