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Bus Stop. Hamburg, Germany
What it looks like when a city decides that bus riders can and should have a first-class transportation system.
July 12, 2006
Streetfilms: The Defeat of the Mt. Hood Freeway
In the midst of his reign has New York City's master-builder, Robert Moses proposed building a network of massive expressways through the middle of Portland, Oregon's inner-city core. One part of Moses' plan was to replace a stretch of vibrant, healthy neighborhoods with a 40-foot-deep trench that would have been called the Mount Hood Freeway.
July 5, 2006
Untangling Traffic: Bloomberg’s Forgotten Promise
On July 11, 2001, Republican mayoral candidate Michael Bloomberg issued a policy paper on traffic and transportation. The paper was called "Untangling Traffic" and it's opening sentence exclaimed, "Traffic is a mess!"
June 19, 2006
Slow-Moving Bus Rapid Transit
The Oil Drum has coverage of last night's bus rapid transit forum on the Upper East Side:
April 19, 2006