(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) The Federal Highway Administration is telling New York to replace a quarter of a million street signs to conform to national standards. It all comes down to readability. The FHA argues that the additional milliseconds it takes to discern what a sign says, keeping eyes off the road, amount to a safety risk….
(San Francisco – Casey Miner, KALW News) A huge inspiration for new transportation projects – and the Bay Area has a lot of big ones in the works right now – is efficiency. How much more efficient is the Oakland Airport Connector, the BRT or High Speed Rail going to be than what we have…
(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) (Updated) New York yesterday changed its zoning regulations to clarify that yes, car-share cars can park in private garages. But Dr. Rachel Weinberger, a parking expert at the University of Pennsylvania, says, despite the city’s glowing words about car-share, this plan might not really encourage people to give up their cars…
(Golden, CO — Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) Here in the Western suburbs of Denver, where the suburbs meet the Rocky foothills, libertarianism reigns. Jefferson County is a classic swing county, one that has voted for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, where well-educated professionals look to Denver for work and the soaring mountains to…
World traffic deaths falling in developed nations–like in Denmark, which, in 2009, posted the lowest number of traffic fatalities since 1932. (Detroit News) Transportation leaders gather in DC to trade ideas on how to bring big projects to fruition. (WAMU) The MTA says that eliminating discounts on tickets purchased via mail or web is not…
(Andrea Bernstein, Transportation Nation) A number of communities around the country, including Palo Alto, CA and Hoboken, NJ, have created special on-street parking for car shares, often by auctioning off the spots. New York City isn’t going that far, but it’s getting into the act (or a version thereof) by rewriting its 1961 zoning resolution…
(Kate Hinds, Transportation Nation) For 25 years, the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report has been the gold standard in traffic congestion rankings. It now has some competition from a group that has released its own report–with glaringly different findings. “Driven Apart: How sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making…
(Alex Goldmark, Transportation Nation) Amtrak released a plan for high speed rail travel along the North East corridor Tuesday. It’s an aspirational vision designed to show Congress (and travelers) what’s possible. The vision: by 2040, up to four trains an hour would zip off in both directions from downtown stations, reaching top speeds of 220…
(Matt Dellinger, Transportation Nation) – I did a double take in downtown Indianapolis. Was that grass where there once was concrete? It was! And what a difference it made. The transformation of car lanes into people-friendly park space has become a familiar sight in pedestrian-driven New York City and San Francisco, but the sight is…
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