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Category Archives: USA
Faces of Transportation Equity in the USA: Troy Buchanan
Posted in Conference, equity, Fairness, USA, YouTube
Faces of Transportation Equity in the USA: Quig Komorrah
Posted in Conference, Discriminatory, equity, Injustice, Poverty, USA, YouTube
Faces of Transportation Equity in the USA: Roger Shope
Faces of Transportation Equity in the USA: Mahasin Abdul-Salaam
Posted in Discriminatory, equity, Poverty, USA, YouTube
The Battle for the Street: Who won? Who lost? What next?
[Have a look at this good historical piece by Christopher Gray which appeared in today’s New York Times under their Streetscapes/Traffic Wars rubric.]
IN the future, perhaps our time will be known as the first decade of the Bicycle Wars, with righteous armies fighting over traffic lanes, bike paths and sidewalks, indeed over the very purpose of the streets themselves. Like many wars, it’s a question of territory, and the pedestrian has been losing for years. Continue reading
Posted in behavior, cyclists, New York Times, pedestrian, Safety, shared space, Space, USA
Learning from each other: Four Cities, Four Ways
Every time I go into a city that is struggling with its transportation/environment situation, I have the feeling that it would be a great thing for them to develop for themselves a “sharing and learning film” along these lines. Perhaps one day . . .
In the beginning was New York City and its historic transportation mess:
Streetfilms, the sharp media end of the innovative www.streetsblog.org program out of New York City, has recently put on line for free download a full feature version of a documentary originally produced in 2006 as part of the New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign. The film, “Contested Streets: Breaking New York City Gridlock“, explores the history and culture of New York City streets from pre-automobile times to present. Even now, five years later, it gets its important points across.
What percent of your city’s street space is allocated to non-car uses
The pie chart you will find just below graphically illustrates the state of street space allocation today in New York City, after four years of hard work on a committed local effort by city government and many associations to free street space for pedestrians, bikes and buses. All that for less than one half of one percent of the public space given over to cars. So here is our question this morning: Do things look any better in your city in 2011? We invite your reports and comments. Continue reading
What’s a life worth?
Gladwyn d’Souza comments from California an article that has just appeared in the New York Times on this subject. “The United States Environmental Protections Agency, EPA, should really be discussing the allocation of risk. A large curb radius for example transfers risk from the speeding driver to the pedestrian. The issue is that speed and convenience embody an energy bill whose consequences are not repatriated on the basis of least harm to public safety. While the consequences are local, an injury on your street corner, the impact under NAFTA, etc., of comparative or qualitative instead of preventive risk assessment is habitat destructive. . . . ” Continue reading
Posted in Economic instruments, Health, policy, Safe Streets, Safety, USA
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
The author of this careful and quite extensive book review of the battle for America’s streets is Karthik Rao-Cavale, a graduate student at Rutgers University and an associate editor of our sister publication, India Streets. He writes: “This review was originally written for a class I am taking with Prof. John Pucher here at Rutgers University. I am putting up this review here even though the book reviewed talks mainly about the United States, because I feel that the lessons learned are most immediately applicable to developing world. It is a lengthy read, but I hope you will enjoy it.”
Posted in book report, Cars, pedestrian, public space, traffic, traffic engineering, USA