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Alta Chief: Bike-Share Expansions Unlikely in 2014

By Payton Chung | Jul 17, 2014 | No Comments

Despite continually growing ridership, Alta Bicycle Share-operated bike-share systems across America will probably not be adding bikes or docks this year. The bankruptcy of Montreal-based Public Bike Share Company, known as Bixi, which developed and manufactured the equipment that Alta’s systems use, has disrupted the supply chain that numerous cities were pinning their expansion plans […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Good Riddance, “Level of Service”

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 16, 2014 | No Comments

All the buzz right now is about Arlington, Virginia — the DC suburb has seen its population rise and its car traffic drop since the 1980s. How did they do it? It could be a lesson for Palo Alto, California, which is considering various growth proposals, including one that would invite greater density as long as […]

Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker Bankrolls Free Parking Ballot Initiative in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 15, 2014 | No Comments

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee’s mayoral campaign in 2011. The ballot initiative, which proponents frame as an […]

Re-imagining Parking Spaces as Micro-Apartments

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 14, 2014 | No Comments

Can parking spaces get a second life? A student project in Atlanta helps demonstrate the possibilities in every stall. Students at the Savannah College of Art and Design created three “SCADpads:” 135-square-foot micro-apartments designed to fit in the space defined by a single parking spot. Three prototypes for these modular homes, which cost $40-$60,000 to […]

Why the Federal Funding Emergency Matters for Transportation Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 7, 2014 | No Comments

Why does it matter if state departments of transportation get less money? In light of last week’s news that the U.S. DOT might have to ration its payments to states in the absence of new revenue for the federal transportation program, we posed that question to David Goldberg, communications director at Transportation for America. After all, a […]

Talking Shared Space With Ben Hamilton-Baillie

By Payton Chung | Jul 3, 2014 | No Comments

“Recovering architect” and street design expert Ben Hamilton-Baillie launched a broadside against the rules of traffic engineering during a plenary speech to the Congress for the New Urbanism’s recent annual meeting in Buffalo. Baillie urges widespread adoption of “shared space” — a design concept popularized by Hans Monderman over the past generation in the Netherlands that has […]

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