Posts tagged San Francisco
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Worried about redrawing school boundaries? Why not try controlled choice zones instead?
DC Councilmembers voiced anxiety about an impending change in school boundaries at a hearing last week. But instead of redrawing boundaries, maybe we should replace them with school choice zones. Three education policy analysts recently penned an op-ed in the Washington Post calling for “controlled choice zones” in parts of DC. They suggested that in… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stadium skepticism
Soccer deal isn’t popular; Geography influences opinion on fares; Plows miss bike lanes; On another waterfront; Lower rents by taxing land; California appealing high-speed rail decision; Protesters target Google buses; What lies beneath London?; Novel solutions for unbearable pollution; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dreams
King’s streets; Can DC rival Silicon Valley?; No roundtable; Eminent domain imminent?; Minneapolis without more parking; Cleveland rocks bicycles; Metered weekend parking a success; LA’s future is Shanghai?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Northern exposure
Snow approaches; Uncertainty for CaBi vendor; The Holocaust and Purple Line; Can San Francisco be affordable?; A busier DCA; Bowser says no to 16th St. bus lane; Car-free in Greenbelt?; Less federal office space in DC; And…; And more…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Go and stop
Automatic train operation coming back?; Putting the brakes on sprawl; New DC Library chief weighs in on MLK; DC gets Trumped; Under their thumb; As goes Lincoln Heights; Trucks and the city; And…. Keep reading…
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Our bus fares aren’t that cheap (if you transfer)
WMATA is considering raising bus fares, with the justification that they’re lower than in other cities. But somehow every time this topic comes up, people forget that there’s a big difference between our bus fares and other cities’: riders transferring between bus and rail pay a lot more. The agency recently put out a survey which, among other things, asked… Keep reading…
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Here are America’s largest bikesharing systems in 2013
American bikesharing boomed in 2013 like never before. Led by huge new systems in New York and Chicago, the total number of bikesharing stations in the US more than doubled, from 835 at the end of 2012 to 1,925 in 2013. 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: Bike hate
Against bikes; A mile in their (cycling) shoes; Tech firms don’t get urbanism; What other people’s parking costs you; How cities can grow up; Alexandria examines moving CSX tracks; Bloomberg focuses on rest of the world; Profit Uber alles?; The fare limit; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Welcome back
Purple Line may impact endangered species; Food trucks receive lotteried spots; Fatal derailment in New York; Bike trains help novices; Finer street grids improve walkability; Germany plans deep emissions cuts; Kolkata cyclists protest ban; And…. Keep reading…