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Showing posts with label comfort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comfort. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Windows on the Van Wyck

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A few weeks ago I went for a walk in Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills. I got off the train at Jamaica-Van Wyck, the first time I’d ever used...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

The safety and comfort of ridesharing

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"It’s so 2015," Vogue writer Karley Sciortino's friend said to her in Los Angeles last year. "This girl I know just fucke...
Friday, April 15, 2016

The majestic equality of subway gropers

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In February Emma Fitzsimmons reported on a recent rise in crimes against women on the subways. On Wednesday, in a thoughtful guest post f...
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Friday, March 25, 2016

Transportation values are arbitrary - somewhat

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This has been sitting in my queue for years, possibly in response to this post by Engineer Scotty , and tonight I realized it was pretty muc...
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Friday, February 19, 2016

A Century of Subway Scolding

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Jessica Hester had a great post detailing how we've been trying to alternately shame and cajole people into being respectful and not ta...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

The Uberpool/Lyftline experience

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I wrote last year about how the current challenge for transit in cities is not building ridership but making room on transit for all the peo...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Can the trains really handle weekend passenger loads?

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The Daily News had a good piece on subway overcrowding yesterday, featuring some odd comments by MTA officials. Much as I appreciate the ...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

The new short game in transit advocacy

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In my last post I focused on the difference between playing a long game in transit advocacy, which requires thinking strategically about wha...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Crossing the Yards

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One of the arguments given by proponents of decking the Sunnyside Yards is that Sunnyside is cut off from Astoria and Long Island City by t...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Infilling the subways

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Commenter threestationsquare pointed out that I made an error in the chart I posted about overcrowded subways. He also noted that it's...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Our overloaded subways

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As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, there are times when building new transit is not warranted. In particular, it is a waste of resources to...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Ten things Trottenberg can do for pedestrians

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Back in 2009, when Janette Sadik-Khan had only been New York City Transportation Commissioner for a year, I offered five things that she co...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Abusing the sidewalk

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Good sidewalks and crosswalks are at least as important to our goals as transit. Trips are rarely transit door to door, and the rest of the...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Getting around the Meadowlands

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If you've spent enough time in New Jersey, you know that it actually has some really nice, walkable, pretty towns, and some hip urban ne...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Luxury bus to Bethesda

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There's a big difference in comfort between trains and buses. Jarrett Walker acknowledges an intrinsic advantage of steel-wheeled vehi...
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Saturday, May 25, 2013

A safe, comfortable bus network

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Recently I drew your attention to Kimberly Matus's story about being groped on a downtown 2 train, and the fact that the only way she c...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Stuck on the subway

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Today the Times published a good article by Kimberly Matus telling the story of how she was groped on a crowded subway train. In that part...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Exploring the Death Valley of Commute Options

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Recently I argued that there was a "Death Valley of Commute Options" between transit and driving, If you're sick of the crow...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

The Death Valley of Commute Options

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On Friday I observed how for a trip from New York to Washington, DC, there are a variety of transit options , from Chinatown bus up to chart...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Civilized walks

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Last week I wrote about two self-propelled travel memoirs, and how the travelers seem to have spent almost as much time being driven around...
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