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Two Oil Guzzling Albatrosses for the Price of One?
Detroit's customer incentives have had an air of desperation for a while. With Big Three bankruptcy looking more likely every day, some dealers -- like this one in Pembroke Pines, Florida -- are venturing into liquidation sale territory (and then some).
November 24, 2008
Rave Review for Cleveland’s BRT Debut
Cleveland's first venture into Bus Rapid Transit -- a 10-mile route called the Health Line -- was turning heads
before it fully launched, attracting planners from other cities looking
to boost transit ridership. Now that the ribbons have been cut, the
Plain Dealer's Steven Litt hails the finished product:
November 13, 2008
Transit Blamed for Suburban St. Louis Crime
Last week Freakonomics picked up a story from the Riverfront Times
that connects an uptick in shoplifting, fighting and other crimes in
the St. Louis suburbs to a two-year-old expansion of the city's
MetroLink rail system.
October 30, 2008
San Francisco Debuts Car-Free “Sunday Streets”
San Francisco held its inaugural car-free "Sunday Streets" event last weekend. New York Streetsblogger Jen Petersen was there and files this report.
September 5, 2008
Wiki Wednesday: Quartier Vauban, Freiburg, Germany
This week's StreetsWiki feature takes us to the Quartier Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. With an area of 84 acres, the Quartier Vauban is a neighborhood of 5,000 people, designed and built as a sustainable community between 1993 and 2006. Contributor Meg Saggese writes that the Vauban "represents the state of the art in environmental protection in terms of
transportation, alternative energy production, and sustainable
construction techniques."
August 27, 2008
Michigan TV Station: Bikes Are Strange. Buy a Chrysler!
Check out this "news of the weird" item from WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, on last week's DC bike-share debut:
August 25, 2008
Wiki Wednesday: Beijing
All the overhead shots of the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube on NBC's Olympic coverage don't leave much room for views of Beijing's streets. But that's where much of the commotion about smog, absentee athletes and particle masks originates. While the city has taken the unwieldy step of rationing license plates to clear the skies (until the Games leave town, at least), air quality could have been drastically improved by transportation planning with greater foresight.
August 20, 2008
Bike-Share Debuts in Washington D.C.
Public bike-share in the U.S. hit a milestone yesterday when SmartBike DC, the first program of its kind in an American city, launched in full. Coverage in the Washington Post was heavy on the implications for D.C.'s image:
August 14, 2008