Transit
Transit gaining traction?
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 | Cities, Planning, Transit, Trends | No Comments
The NYTimes, this weekend reported on better than expected ridership on the Phoenix light rail. The Times points out that the 33,000 average daily riders come primarily from weekend riders looking to get out to the bars and restaurants. This comes as little surprise to me, as many light rail systems, including the one in Denver, far surpassed initial estimates of ridership. This story has played out over and over again in cities like Minneapolis, Houston, and Charlotte. The Overhead has more on these underestimates.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | Planning, Transit | 4 Comments
For the past two weeks, I’ve been traveling a lot for business and pleasure and I realized that I’ve utilized a healthy mix of transportation options: light rail in Minneapolis, planes between Denver and Minneapolis and Philadelphia, commuter rail in Philadelphia, automobiles in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and good old fashioned walking. What has been great about this trip, is that I’ve used each of these methods as part of a transportation system–a network of options. This seems like an obvious observation, but what troubles me is that too many discussions on transportation seem to separate out the various modes (cars, trains, planes and bike/ped) into warring camps.
Google Transit arrives on the iPhone
Monday, November 24th, 2008 | Technology | 1 Comment
I knew it would eventually come, but I didn’t realize how excited I would be to hold transit directions in the palm of my hand! Much of the inconvenience of riding transit is the lack of information. Google and Apple have just broken through the first barrier of inconvenience by bringing pervasive information to transit riders (which is my only means of getting around Denver). In case you haven’t heard, Apple just released version 2.2 of it’s iPhone operating system including updates to the Maps application, enabling transit and walking directions (as well as street view). › Continue reading
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