Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 8, 2025

I used to write yearly about this, focusing on how the sustainable mobility centric city needs snow removal policies that co-equally privilege walking, biking and transit users, not just the motor vehicle parts of roads.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

At the time, my focus was trying to create a shared parking scenario, and to invest in sustainable mobility. Promoting biking, walking, and other sustainable modes is another element of TDM. Often places have "lots of" parking, but it's spread out across multiple properties, and they don't coordinate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

First, Virginia's focus on privatization, which is why the Silver Line was not built by Metro (" Silver Line delays: maybe the real lesson is that contracting out construction to the private sector doesn't always work so well ," 2014). You don't complain about system problems when it opens, but before.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2023

They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. To ride is expensive compared to the regional commuter rail in South Florida and Brightline has had serious problems with crashes with vehicles and pedestrians. Lots of deaths. But it's quite impressive in two ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 26, 2024

Waverly Market Pete Seeger tribute singalong, Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC, 2/1/2014 Sometimes plazas are poorly placed, like Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC, so it often goes unused. DC's Franklin Square is more centrally located, but wasn't designed for such a function. Open Streets Minneapolis Ciclavia, Los Angeles Times photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. Mapping pedestrian, bicycle, transit and car accidents Lots of links within each section. Street design and pavements.

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