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I go to Kyoto once a year. I get lost in Kyoto once a year. Kyoto makes no sense to me. I'm more of a Tokyo girl. Give me a handful of subway lines and trains to navigate and I'm fine. Give me just two and I'm lost.
Cities are hubs of human interaction, and the urban experience can be enhanced by authentic participation in the dynamics of a place and transitions to nearby venues.
By Aaron Mehta, iWatch News reporter A veteran transportation lobbyist is ho...
Once a big idea is vetted -- whether in an authoritarian or democratic way -- what assures its success? Most particularly, what if, from Day One, the vision pushes comfort zones of the achievable; politically, legally or monetarily?
Two investigations show the governor has wasted excess tax dollars on high-priced consultants to replace cheaper engineers that were lost to budget cuts and has proposed to spend billions on highway boondoggles that make no sense for Wisconsin.
Today we got a first look at the draft legislation to reauthorize our federal transportation programs. And it's great news for our transportation infrastructure nationwide.
Since 1970, taxpayers have spent some $500 billion subsidizing transit, including building rail transit lines in more than 20 urban areas. Yet the number of transit trips taken by the average urban resident has remained virtually unchanged.
Given the mobility challenge older and disabled riders face, they should be the city's fiercest supporters of the rapid public transit solutions like the Wilshire BRT will provide.
By slashing programs like Pell Grants and YouthBuild, the Ryan budget would knock the legs out from under the next generation, denying them the skills and tools they need to be the leaders of tomorrow.
Portland has captured the imagination of a new generation of city-oriented populists.
Whether it's living in communities that offer employment opportunities or having access to good public transit, one of the smartest things we can do to help families burdened by high prices at the gas pump is to help them get from where they live to where they work.
What often gets lost in the national conversation is that the best way for the whole country to weather a rise in gas prices is to use more alternative transportation.
If the United States ignores an opportunity to reshape its economic geography with high-speed trains, it's likely to get left behind.
It is important to all Angelenos that Metro choose the best location for the Wilshire subway station in Century City. And along comes a campaign of lies and half-truths to hold up the train.
What if a zoning code is no longer cohesive, or impedes rather than accomplishes societal goals? Let's remember to reassess -- with simplicity in mind -- and recall the first principles of shelter and the wheel.
As individuals, we each have options to drive less that can make our families safer.
