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As cities demand more efficient transit systems, Steven Dale argues for thinking off the road and outside the subway, and suggests that Cable-Propelled Transit could be our answer.
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Rachel Abrams breaks down the actors, information and knowledge behind the routine experience of taking a NYC taxi, and explains how design thinking can benefit urban systems.
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Steven Jones lives 12 blocks from the Queens County border, in Cambria Heights — “the edge.” Even though it takes him longer than most to get into the city, he still leaves earlier than he needs to. He told us that he leaves at the crack of dawn to cut down on stress and the number of encounters with fellow commuters.
I don't know about you, but I've been hearing a lot of people wondering what's so special about the L train and the 34th Street crosstown bus that allows these transit routes to make known the ETA of the next train or bus? And then, just when civic-minded tech developers take matters in their own hands and push schedules onto the mobile devices of riders, they get the smack-down from...
08 27 09 • by Cassim Shepard • communication, move, news, open source, recap, technology, transit, web 2.0
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Vishaan Chakrabarti walks through one of the city's favorite spaces. His reflections range from design details to regional economics to the relationship between infrastructure and density.
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Riding the subway in New York is an exercise in cognitive dissonance: jammed together with strangers, most of us respect the unwritten edict to feign isolation in a space that forces interaction. We read, twiddle our thumbs or our phones, listen to music. The pretense is necessary: the anonymous, slack-faced trance frees us
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Urban Omnibus and The Infrastructurist talk to the founder of Zipcar and GoLoco about everything from mesh networks to taxi stands to why "infrastructure is destiny."
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While it’s exciting that Broadway’s redesign is busy shouting to New York City what was whispered to Kevin Costner’s character in Field of Dreams: “If you build it, they will come,” what’s more thrilling from a transportation perspective is that the redesign might also be convincing people of the inverse: If you take it away…
New York City's plan to close Times Square to vehicles looks like a triumph. The chaise-lounges [or chaises-longues, depending on whom you ask - Ed.] the city dropped at the Crossroads of the World on May 24th have stayed popular throughout the week, like day-glo brigadiers in a…
05 28 09 • by Alec Appelbaum • atlantic yards, broadway, manhattan, move, opinion, planning, public space, street, transit
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Lisa Chamberlain explores the Forum for Urban Design's interdisciplinary design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City.
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