Posts tagged Boston
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Breakfast links: Bikes, cars, hate and crime
Parking dispute turns into arrow shooting; Charges coming for Oxon Hill crash; Bike hate in the B’s; Private trolleys once again?; WMATA back in the hole; Ride On back on, parking fees off; Pro-transit on the purple route. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs change, state DOTs don’t
Not your parents’ suburbs; VDOT is hot, Halsey is cold; Fix Metro funding, and not by pulling it; Transportation Row?; Cost of killing Holden: $4.3 million; Paris “reconquering the Seine”; NYC and Boston like to share; Do cities need more density?. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Spaces and trees
Space that’s green but little else; Give the kids some space; Trees please; The Gaithers-somewhat-less-bungled; NYC trying bus cameras; We need a good Amtrak; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links and deep thoughts
Airport carts analogous to cars?; Boston vs. DC or resident vs. driver?; Park all evening but not for free; Two tracks, phew; Clunkers policy a clunker; Crash victim speaks; Sarles speaks, acts. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shape of the neighborhood
Modern and eastern; Housing very complex; New bike laws in Maryland; Listen to bloggers; Housing and transportation costs around Boston; Railroads are good for roads; In other news. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: So many events and links, so little time
Next American Party; Channel 4 blames the pedestrians; Why does government hate cities?; Broad Run garage a white elephant?; Perkins’ parking picks; Sprawler to run planning?; Rent control for Montgomery?. Keep reading…
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Boston adds key bus routes to rail map
Like Portland and Los Angeles, and in the same vein as the “12 minute map,” Boston’s MBTA has (via produced a map that points out key bus routes in addition to the familiar rail and BRT routes. These maps fill a useful gap between a transit agency’s full system map, which often includes bus routes that have limited hours or days of operation, and its rapid… Keep reading…
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Boston Google Transit agreement is more balanced
In our ongoing effort to analyze why WMATA still is not part of Google Transit, we’ve obtained a number of other cities’ Google agreements through FOIA requests. The latest to come through is Boston’s MBTA (PDF). Keep reading…
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Early morning links: More openness elsewhere
MBTA releases bus location feeds; UK may mandate open transit data; Post’s Halsey cares what cyclists think; “Temporary urbanism”; Arlington approves parking plan; No trees, no town center for UMD; Plastic = higher taxi tips. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hitting a wall
Free transit if you develop an app; Put the jobs near the people; Why-Mart?; Distracted reporter driving; Don’t be chicken; Klingle all the way; Two mayors on parking. Keep reading…