Posts about United States
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Google paid for NYC data (or not); Chicago removed indemnification
New York’s MTA, a much larger agency than WMATA, apparently was able to negotiate some kind of payment from Google in exchange for providing its transit data for Google Transit Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Transit or traffic for lovers
Arlington v. Virginia; Virginia Railway Expansion; Shoulda coulda woulda; Seattle rejects bag fee; Float to the game; Walkability is money; Twelve feet; College Park wants in. Keep reading…
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New York MTA threatens blogger, asserts copyright over schedule
The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority’s lawyers are going after a local blogger, and attempting to block an iPhone application showing Metro-North railroad schedules. The blog StationStops writes about Metro-North Commuter Railroad service north of New York City, and often criticizes its operations. Its creator, Chris Schoenfeld, also created an iPhone application… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Getting more
Talk and text in Metro stations; Raise our TOD standards; Why don’t more people bike?; Lock ‘em up or build ‘em lanes; Inflating more than the tires; Inclusionary zoning vs just more housing; Parking rules too tough to enforce? Just try anarchy. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In talks
Mount Vernon Square Garden?; A dome or a neighborhood?; Three years of Berliner; More concrete than crystal; New parks, cheap; If parking spaces could vote, they’d be set; Death and life of cute dresses. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Newer, faster, fairer, calmer
New New Carrollton; High-speed VRE; Now a fairer land for peds; Lawyers calmer, slimmer in Reston; Bixi in Boston; Not a free parking space; Strike! BART to shut down Monday; Amtrak ridership off highs. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Forgiven
Metro news; Forgiving vs. self-explaining roads; Manhattan’s “vertical cul-de-sac”; Develop here, not there; Leventhal and Knapp’s own windshield perspective; More progress at 15th and W. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mean streets of Maryland
Cyclist dies at spot slated to become more auto-centric; That’s not all; Behave yourselves!; Watering trees by bike; Amtrak on Google Transit too; Road connectivity dialogue proceeding over DMPED’s objections; Cheh, Graham, Wells safe; Mendelson, Fenty maybe not. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: One more black eye for Metro, and one less?
Ten-car Green Line train, oops; Bus driver not on phone while driving after all?; Some finding driving easier; Transit is far more land efficient; Laser bike lane has working prototype; Roanoke riders in car-sized bikes; City spends $6 million, gets empty garage and vacant lot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: We all need a little calming
Head under la hood; A fancy bridge doesn’t make it green; Breaking out of “two leg perspective”; Speed cameras working; How about in Southeast?; Not a ham sandwich; Our streets belong to drivers. Keep reading…