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Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled

By Ben Fried | Jul 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Until recently, VMT had been rising steeply in the U.S. In the second installment of our serialized tour through StreetsWiki, we turn to DianaD’s entry on Vehicle-Miles Traveled: Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) is the total number of miles driven by all residential vehicles within a given time period and geographic area. We’re seeing more about VMT […]

Print This

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 23, 2008 | No Comments

Thanks to Anil Makhijani, the Open Planning Project’s crack web developer, it’s now a whole lot easier to print a Streetsblog story. Click the little printer icon below. You’ll get a web page formatted 8.5 x 11 with all of the links annotated at the bottom as footnotes. Check it out.

Rising Demand for Transit Could Be a “Turning Point”

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 17, 2008 | No Comments

CNN broadcast yesterday a relatively in-depth piece on U.S. cities scrambling to meet rising demand for mass transit. With a fight over billions of dollars of federal transportation funding set to heat up immediately after the swearing-in of the next president, this may very well be the most important transportation policy story of the next […]

Rising Fuel Costs and Ridership Strain Local Transit Systems Nationwide

By Ben Fried | Jul 17, 2008 | No Comments

A Bus Stop in Santa Barbara Transit agencies all over the country are nearing a state of emergency. At the same time that rising gas prices are leading more Americans to opt for buses and trains, transit operators are being forced to cut service and raise fares due to budget shortfalls. In Minneapolis, the local […]

Happy Birthday, Vélib

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2008 | No Comments

Here’s another transportation policy success story from France. The Vélib bike-sharing system celebrates its one-year anniversary today. In April, Streetfilms’ Elizabeth Press was in Paris to learn more about it. Here is her video and report: On July 15, 2007 Paris debuted the world’s largest self-service "bicycle transit system" called Vélib outdoing previously designed bike […]

French Trains Turn $1.75B Profit, Leave American Rail in the Dust

By Ben Fried | Jul 16, 2008 | 3 Comments

The Guardian reports that SNCF, France’s national rail company, is taking advantage of a boom in ridership to make aggressive plans for expansion. While SNCF positions itself to help ease the impact of high fuel prices on the French public, what are American leaders preparing to do? Drilling offshore and taking a few hits from […]

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