Yale360:
Brad Dokken: Vehicle at Bottom of Lake?→
/Brainerd Dispatch:
Eric Jaffe: The Biggest Highway Boondoggles→
/CityLab:
5 of 12 were highway expansions. More is not better, and often more fails with larger gridlock.
Adam Frank: Disruptive Infrastructure→
/NPR:
First, we'll add new elements to our existing infrastructure. Next, we'll settle on one or two sustainable transportation options that scale (e.g., electric streetcars, ultra-lite rail). Then we'll slowly replace the old, less used transportation infrastructure (e.g., less roads, parking lots, gas stations).
Eric Jaffe: Tear Down the Expressway in Toronto→
/CityLab:
One should tear it down for the opportunity for citizens to be close to the waterfront.
Monica Millsap Rasmussen: Why not Transit?→
/Streets.mn:
Monica gets at another issue of regarding mass transit -- the need for high quality options that push out current users. In many cities mass transit is designed for those who can't afford a car. For mass transit to be more popular to the middle class and thus most politicians, it will require rail and bus use to be dominated by the non-poor. We now subsidize roads for the middle class, likely at a higher cost ($/mile) than rail, bus, or streetcar. Why? Because the preference for suburban (i.e., low-density village of our distant past) life-styles?
Public Transit Rankings→
/Reuben Fischer-Baum, reporting for FiveThirtyEight:
Size matters, ... Look at New York and D.C. Judge them by size, do you?”
How to Elevate the Twin Cities→
/Jay Walljasper, writing for MinnPost:
Yes, a city's strength flows from public transportation. But beware of the dark side. Sprawl, suburbia, lack of transportation options; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did most cities in North America.
9 Reasons the U.S. Ended Up So Much More Car-Dependent Than Europe→
/Ralph Buehler, reporting for The Atlantic Cities:
Nice summary of the likely causes of our auto dependence here in North America.
The Case Against Cars in 1 Utterly Entrancing GIF→
/Derek Thompson, reporting for The Atlantic:
Great Lakes shipping terminal for Bakken oil hits dead end→
/John Upton, reporting for Grist:
It has to go somewhere. Where?