Posts tagged Argentina
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Why we don’t have world class BRT in the US, explained with one picture
Bus rapid transit lines in the United States badly lag the world’s most high-quality systems. This photo from Buenos Aires shows why: No US city is willing to dedicate so much street space to buses. Keep reading…
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Sidewalk snow clearing Hall of Shame
Around the city and region, a lot of sidewalks are clear, and a lot aren’t. Where they aren’t, in many cases the snow is now packed down into a sheet of ice, making walking very treacherous. I asked readers to send in photos and reports of the problem areas along their commutes. Steve Mothershead, who walks along Martin Luther King Avenue, SE to the Anacostia Metro in… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saving the city
Self-policing DC; Best design of the year?; Shaw and Anacostia sites ready for development; Pay-to-play meter deal; Defense of streetcar in Arlington; Urbanism from scratch; 1 car = 10 bikes; 11-year BRT timeline; Utah’s transit gem. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Higher (power, costs, buildings)
Pope likes transit (not gay marriage); Wait longer for College Park CaBi; Do height right; Working overtime; Population boom continues more quietly; Bad review for new map; Mixed uses stop crime. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Approval and rejection
Tysons pushes forward; Uber taxi app illegal in New York; Bethesda neighbors fear Bikeshare; LivingSocial’s Metro deal cost nothing; Cell phones wait on Metro; Alexandria wins rights to alley; DC’s murder rate has tumbled; Cities of canines; And…. Keep reading…