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Empty Seats, Full Streets: Fixing Manhattan’s Traffic Problem

Tuesday, December 26th, 2017

The rapid growth of app-based ride services such as Uber and Lyft has raised concerns in large U.S. cities such as New York. San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle about their impacts on traffic congestion and public transportation ridership. In New York City, the growth of app-based ride services (often called “Transportation Network Companies,” or TNCs) has raised questions about how anti-congestion plans being developed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio should address TNCs’ contributions to traffic congestion.

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A Complete Streets Evaluation of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish

Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Complete streets in New Orleans: Recommended measures

Complete Streets is a fundamentally different approach to transportation planning, design, and engineering than the status quo of the last half century. It requires that all aspects of decision-making and implementation consider the needs of all people who use a road, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation. Streets are viewed as more than ways to move as many vehicles as possible. They are public spaces that connect and contribute to everything that surrounds them.

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New York City – Unsustainable: Traffic 2018

Friday, December 22nd, 2017

Subway reliability is way down, and the bus system is shedding riders at an alarming rate. And because transit is so unreliable, today New York is accommodating growth in cars, in the form of the tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft vehicles we now find on our streets each day.

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Coastal Vulnerability Assessment: City of St. Augustine, Florida

Thursday, December 21st, 2017
Sea Level Rise increments considered for the assessment - NOAA SLR curves

The City of St. Augustine is one of the three communities involved in the Community Resiliency Initiative Pilot Projects administered through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The overall effort seeks to assess community vulnerability to projected increases in coastal flooding and develop strategies to improve resilience to the associated impacts.

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West Virginia DOT: 50th Anniversary of the Silver Bridge Collapse

Monday, December 18th, 2017

This documentary, “Silver Lining: The Catastrophe that Lead to the Creation of the National Bridge Inspection Standards,” was created to honor the 46 lives lost and acknowledge the program that has saved thousands of lives across the nation.

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Pennsylvania DOT’s Public-Private Partnerships

Friday, December 15th, 2017

PennDOT operates one of the most ambitious and comprehensive public-private partnership (P3) programs in the nation. The featured projects bring value to Pennsylvania by significantly reducing structurally deficient bridges, supporting motorist safety, enhancing mass transit and rail service, and in some cases, generating new revenue to support future investment. –Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on YouTube

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The Fourth Regional Plan: Fixing The Institutions That Are Failing Us

Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
4th Regional Plan - Building Transit Thumb

REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION (RPA) The following is an excerpt of The Fourth Regional Plan: Making the Region Work for All of Us Most of the public institutions that govern the region were established in a different era. Because of this legacy, the region’s 782 municipalities are responsible for critical decisions about land use, property taxes, […]

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Washington, DC: What The Barnes Dance Looks Like

Thursday, December 7th, 2017

A Barnes Dance Intersection (also known as a “pedestrian scramble”) operates differently from a standard traffic signal-controlled intersection and allows pedestrians to cross diagonally while vehicles on all sides of the intersection are stopped at a red signal. In June 2017, DDOT put in place a Barnes Dance at 14th and Irving Street NW, which […]

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Untapped Potential: Opportunities for affordable homes and neighborhoods near transit

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Transit-Oriented Development in NYC Metro - Homes in Parking Lots

Without new affordable homes and walkable neighborhoods, housing markets tighten and costs rise, leading to less disposable income, longer commutes, the need to work longer hours, more stress, and poorer health for the region’s households. This disparity falls most heavily on the region’s lower-income households who, as referenced in RPA’s report Pushed Out, have seen housing costs rise unabated and continue to get pushed further away from central, walkable areas with access to jobs2. But it affects others as well – young families, seniors and anyone who needs affordable housing and doesn’t want to or can’t spend hours a day behind the wheel.

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Back on the Bus: Speeding up Chicago’s Buses

Monday, November 20th, 2017
Chicago Buses - Bus speeds

As Chicago strives to become a more connected, prosperous, and equitable city, elected officials and transit agency leaders must take action to improve bus service. More than half of CTA trips in Chicago are made by bus and it’s one of the most affordable transportation options in many neighborhoods where people can’t easily access the El train. Every day, buses are connecting people to jobs, schools, and other critical services while taking up far less space on the road than private vehicles. While buses continue to play a central role in the city’s transportation system, there are signs that quality bus service is under threat in a changing transportation environment.

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