Google Transit might not save the world, but I think it’s still a distinct possibility. Combined with bicycles, who knows?
All hyperbole aside, Google Transit is an exquisite tool. It offers transit riders - get this - a dignified way to get travel information. Bet you’ve never seen that word around here before. (Previous post on [...]
I can hardly wait to have this bike and walk paradise plopped down in my own backyard:
Unfortunate name there, sister. I say you continue to do what every other BRT proponent in the world does - don’t give the people what they want, give them what they deserve.
So says Eric Britton, international man of mystery, and one of the world’s leading sustainable practices innovators. He often talks about the New Mobility Agenda. We often see Eric in the Velib videos that continue to pour out of Paris.
The e2 series (’E-squared’) is a PBS series, now in its third season, documenting sustainable practices [...]
This is an absolutely extraordinary story out of Chicago — the open theft of hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly more, in broad daylight (ref).
LA Streetsblog covers the story uncritically.
75 years. Everyone who did the deal with be dead, rich, or both by the time this deal expires. And it’s the taxpayers who will bear [...]
It’s something we wondered about, and it seems like folks are working on it, so that’s good.
Given the size of the expected Inauguration crowds, though….I dunno….I’m a bit…leery.
I saw (and used) bike valet at Outside Lands - it was ridiculous - so many bikes. I mean, it was awesome, but it was ridiculous. For a [...]
Streetsblog San Francisco is one step closer. And presumably, so too is San Francisco BRT.
My enthusiasm for Streetsblog over the past couple of months has been greatly tempered by my distaste for BRT. Streetsblog is probably the strongest proponent of BRT that I know of. As an organization, their love of bus rapid transit is [...]
So says, Anne Lusk, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, when talking about the new study inversely linking active transportation and obesity:
“What I found most exciting about this excellent research is the applicability,” she said. “The issue then becomes should we improve our transit, walking or bicycling opportunities simultaneously or should we [...]
Google Maps is one of the most powerful tools we transit advocates have to get people out of their cars and onto transit. Many Bay Area transit agencies are already participating, and more are soon to follow.
Not all agencies are as enlightened, however.
WMATA in Washington, DC is putting their petty concerns above the taxpayers of [...]
I scan the headlines for hit-and-runs involving pedestrian and cyclist victims and I usually report on them if they happen in the Bay Area. But I feel like we need to do more - something to attack the problem a bit more systematically - or more immediately. Of course, we’re all pushing for more appropriate [...]
I’m a huge fan of Google Transit - I think it would be fair to say I’m now, officially, a fanboy. Of course, I use it whenever I decide to leave the bike at home, but I have a feeling other people use it, too.
In terms of ease of use, I believe it is better [...]
