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James Rojas Takes His Interactive Modeling Projects to the United Nations

By James Rojas | Apr 2, 2010 | No Comments

The whole world got to plan and learn from Rojas’ interactive modeling project. It was a privilege and honor for my artwork to represent the United States at the United Nation Habitat organized World Urban Forum (WUF) in Brazil. The theme of the fifth biannual conference was The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban […]

Miami, Sacramento, Boston Transit Projects Still Seeking Federal Approval

By Elana Schor | Feb 3, 2010 | 3 Comments

Amid the good vibes yesterday over new federal funding agreements for transit projects in New York City, Oakland, Hartford, and other metro areas, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) also offered a spell of bad news to a few local proposals that are still working to meet the agency’s standards for aid. An extension of Miami’s […]

Now the Times Is Just Rubbing It In

By Damien Newton | Feb 1, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo: Times Here at LA Streetsblog, we spend a lot of time looking at some of the bicycle and pedestrian designs from around the world and going "why not us?" Budapest. Copehnagen. Beijing. Heck, even Tempe and Baltimore are doing better when it comes to supporting cyclists. Well, thanks to the Times, we have a […]

To Tame the World’s Most Dangerous Traffic, New Delhi Turns to Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Jan 27, 2010 | 1 Comment

(Photo: DaveBleasdale via Flickr) Delhi, home to over 12 million people and the seat of India’s national government, is widely considered to have the most dangerous traffic in the world. As The Guardian wrote recently, traffic safety in Delhi basically consists of "good horns, good brakes, good luck." Nationally, crashes in India killed more than […]

In Texas, One Newspaper Laments the Highway Lanes Not Built

By Elana Schor | Jan 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Transportation Enhancements program, which requires states to set aside 10 percent of their federal transport money for new bicycle and pedestrian facilities, among other projects, turns 19 years old this year. But you’d almost never know it after reading Saturday’s Fort Worth Star-Telegram, in which the paper tallies — with no shortage of alarm […]

Feds. Look at Miami HOT Lanes and See Good News for Transit

By Elana Schor | Jan 22, 2010 | No Comments

Miami’s conversion of HOV lane space to new high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes as part of the federal Urban Partnership program, which also prompted New York City’s congestion pricing push, is cutting travel times for local transit and boosting use — but overall bus ridership in the corridor has stayed static, according to a new report […]

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