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Last week, Jarrett Walker had a great post illuminating the basic reasons for ‘frequency mapping,’ where a transit agency maps out transit routes that meet some threshold for frequent service (such as buses every 10 minutes, or 15 minutes, etc). There are many degrees of frequency and span, but in general, most transit agencies’ service Continue reading Frequency Mapping A streetcar speeds by in Toronto. CC image from Matthew Burpee. Jarrett Walker has a wrap-up post on his debate with Patrick Condon on the need for speed in urban transit. Condon is a professor of sustainability, not a transportation planner or engineer, and his view is that we need to improve the experience of Continue reading The Need for Speed Courtesy of Infrastructurist, Rachel Maddow takes a tour of New York’s Second Ave Subway construction site, seeing a tunnel boring machine and other fun stuff:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about Continue reading Rachel Maddow Digs Deep NoMA Development. CC image from bankbryan. Jarrett Walker’s weekend links post directed me to this article in The Atlantic by Chris Leinberger, asking if we might return to the days when private interests invested in transit as a means to facilitate real estate development. Our own urban history is one of linked transportation and Continue reading Value capture & private transit financing For a nice Saturday morning post, David over at Greater Greater Washington points to a great video from San Francisco, circa 1905. The video is shot from a cable car traveling down Market Street, San Francisco’s great axial street. The clock tower of the Ferry Building terminates the view, all while pedestrians, horses, cars, streetcars, Continue reading Street spaces over 100 years Metro’s definitely seen better days. The Washington Post had a lengthy piece in Sunday’s edition documenting the massive problems facing the system: aging infrastructure, missing leadership, a broken safety culture, amongst others. Metro’s been trimming the fat to balance budgets for a while, and it now looks like they’ve been cutting into the bone and Continue reading A day in the life of Metro CC image from AMagill on Flickr Given Metro’s current and future budgetary issues (and the plethora of ideas to fix them amongst various comment threads at GGW and other places), discussions of profits and priorities are certainly topical. With that in mind, Jarrett Walker has an excellent post up on the fundamental goals of transit Continue reading On profitability and privatization Second Ave Sagas has a great subway-style map of Lost’s fictional universe – in advance of tonight’s season premiere. This is the creation of John Cabrera, who explains it further here. Mass hysteria! Two animal/transit notes: Russian dogs riding the trains: There have long been packs of stray dogs in Moscow’s Metro, but a couple of them have learned to ride the trains – and do so for fun, apparently. (hat tip – Human Transit, Andrew Sullivan) Neuronov says there are some 500 strays that live in the metro Continue reading Dogs and Cats living together…  |
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