Some cool map-related items:
San Francisco’s Parking Census – with one of those ideas that’s so obvious that no one ever thought of it before, San Francisco has completed the first known census of all the publicly available parking spaces in an American city. The census found 441,541 spaces in the city, just 280,000 of which
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….and other assorted links
Board games: Greater Greater Washington notes that the Feds have filled two of their four slots on the WMATA board, naming Mort Downey and Marcel Acosta to the positions.
Downey is a former executive for the US DOT under the Clinton Administration and is currently a transportation consultant. Acosta is the Executive Director
Continue reading Metro’s new board members set the bar…
CC image from chethan shankar on flickr
Stuff that’s been piling up in my open tabs…
Jarrett Walker takes a look at Seattle, and how the city’s geography of natural chokepoints and barriers aid the city’s transit usage, despite lacking an extensive rail transit system (though it’s getting bigger as we speak).
Transit planning is frustrating in
Continue reading Hump-day late-night link-dump
2010 Census Mug – CC image from flickr
Ryan Avent takes note of some joyous holiday news for the District:
I always love looking through new population estimates from the Census Bureau. New numbers, estimated as of July 2009, have just come out, and it appears the District is just a few hundred people short of
Continue reading 600,000

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