Blueprint America: Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. The film debuts...
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Greater City ProvidenceREBOOT: College Hill Transit Sub-Hub Part 2
Tunnel portal at Thayer Street. Photo by Jef Nickerson. REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on GC:PVD where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our...
Jef NickersonWickenden Street overpass demolition to begin this weekend
Photo by Jef Nickerson RIDOT announced today that the old Route 195 bridge over Wickenden Street will begin being dismantled Sunday (01/10) evening. RIDOT expects this work will take approximately one week to complete...
Free holiday parking FAIL
This report from Channel 10 is from before Christmas, but it is worth taking a look at.
What do you think the city’s holiday parking policy should be, should there even be a holiday parking policy?
LightLane
Earlier last year the Light Lane concept was the talk of the Blogosphere. Back then it was only a concept. However, Somerville, Mass. based Altitude, Inc. now has a working prototype as seen in the above video. You can...
Video: D.C. revives the streetcar
Clean Skies looks at streetcars returning to the Nation’s capital.
Building Brown
ProJo takes a look at Brown’s scaled back development plans for Providence. Let’s take a closer look at the actual projects. Creative Arts Center Rendering view from Olive Street, from Building Brown...
Video: Champlain Bridge demo
Yesterday, the Lake Champlain Bridge between Crown Point, NY and Addison, VT was demolished, and the Burlington (VT) Free Press has the video. You may have heard that the bridge was shut down by New York and Vermont...
Boston.com tours abandoned T infrastructure
The Boston Globe takes a tour of some abandoned MBTA infrastructure.
About that changed bus stop ad…
In my rant I pointed out that the ad in the bus shelter on Atwells at the arch had changed from Sunday to today. Sunday: Today: Different ad. Back in January, Bret asked RIPTA who is responsible for snow removal from...
“Where’s the sidewalk rant?” You ask.
Here it is! First of all, I’ll say that sidewalks on Atwells are better this year than in previous years. Saying that however is not saying very much. For example, I had to help push a woman in an electric...
REBOOT: College Hill Transit Sub-Hub
REBOOT is an occasional series of posts on GC:PVD where we identify areas of the city that display poor urbanism and propose ways to improve them. Our interventions may be simple and quite easily realized, or they may...
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood on The Daily Show
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
MIT Copenhagen Wheel
MIT’s retrofit, hybrid, power assist, Copenhagen Wheel is all over the interwebs today, so I’m posting about it here too.
More info here.
Via: Boston.com | The Green Blog
Marketing public transit: Los Angeles
Marketing public transit: Los Angeles LA Metro: Promoting Mass Transit from EMBARQ Network on Vimeo. The City Fix takes a look at Los Angeles’ successful campaign to rebrand and market their transit agency, Metro...
A look at streetcar rail placement
Photo from District (of Columbia) Department of Transportation Facebook page As we get serious around here about getting some streetcars running, we should start looking around at what other cities are doing. No...
StreetFilms at COP15
Tens of thousands of people from nearly every nation on earth have descended on Copenhagen this month for the UN climate summit. As the delegates try to piece together a framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions...
Metro Transit Study
Today, RIPTA released their long awaited Metropolitan Providence Transit Enhancement Study, which looks to improve transit within the Rhode Island urban core centered on Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Warwick...
