Posts tagged Walk Score
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Which city’s rail system has the best Walk Score?
Last week, David Klion computed the Walk Score for all Washington Metro stops. How does Metro stack up to the other heavy rail systems in the United States? The answers may surprise you. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Irrational conduct on roads
Ur doing it wrong, traffic engineers; Bikes should defer to irrational drivers; BART has farecard cheating problem; How walkable is your VA or MD city?; Why is urbanism liberal?; Revisiting the flawed Urban Mobility Report; Bus driver recovers ghost bike. Keep reading…
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WalkScore now includes Transit Score
WalkScore, the web site that ranks the walkability of a location based on the accessibility of nearby amenities, has added some new features. First, the WalkScore number itself is becoming more accurate with new tweaks such as measuring actual as opposed to as-the-crow-flies distances and incorporating pedestrian friendliness metrics such as intersection density and block… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What a mess
Seat hogs rejoice; Murder is sooo 1991; As the crow flew; Stay right for cars; Cities of God and man; Atlanta express buses face shutdown; Fare hikes and the federal benefit; Third time’s the charm. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Unexpected sight
No pants!; They’ll never know; Open the doors!; Congestion fares; No free bags at Wal-Mart; No new parking, says Baltimore; Make Rockville affordable; Walkability is money. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Delays due to broken systems
Why no breakfast links today?; Montgomery traffic signals go out; Metro communication systems go out; Pay for park parking if you don’t park in the park; Transit Score; And…; “Roads” now includes transit?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not easy being green
More soccer please; Latest delinquent landlord in Shaw: NPS; Another suburban office building is “greenest”; Even energy-saving features sometimes don’t; USPS assumes customers drive; Walking is Green(belt); Yellow over Green. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Full of hot air
Subway air-powered art; How’s your track doing?; Country lane or hazard to children? Both?; No room for books between the parking lots; Shaw rejoices; Gaithersburg fairly progressive after all; Roundabouts for Maryland, too?; Best cities for singles are walkable. Keep reading…
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Transit mashups & me on Kojo tomorrow
Tomorrow at noon, I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show’s “Tech Tuesday” to talk about transit mashups like Google Transit and other innovative ways government agencies are improving public access to information by letting private companies and individual “garage developers” innovate in ways we couldn’t imagine in advance. Keep reading…
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Walk Score launches maps for DC and others
Walk Score just launched walkability maps and rankings for the 40 largest U.S. cities. Washington, DC ranks 7th (between Seattle and… Long Beach?!?!) Baltimore is #12. Keep reading…