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Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2026

No new highways

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For many years now we've dealt with extreme weather events. They can be very discouraging, but that's why some of us do climate ad...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Making all the polluters pay

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Some climate advocates have adopted a strategy that they call "Making Polluters Pay." They argue that most carbon pollution is ...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Rules for my neighborhood discussion group

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A photo I downloaded from one of the neighborhood groups when I was a member. I used to belong to neighborhood discussion groups - a Yahoo ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Land trusts, co-ops and imperfect representation

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The site of the Champlain Towers South partial collapse in Surfside, Florida. Photo: National Institute of Standards and Technology. Las...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Cities don't think

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I listen to a few podcasts that cover issues of land use and transportation, and they tend to be heavy with urban planners. I also follow ...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

When to go negative

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Recently I wrote about how, in the nineties and early 2000s, discussions about transit advocacy were short on hope and full of negativity....
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

How we got hope back

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When I first got into transit advocacy it was a lonely place. The dominant narrative here in New York was that the city was a money pit, ...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Attack of the Vertical Suburb

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Recently we've seen a rash of articles that talk about "suburbs in the city," or "suburbanizing the city." Some a...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

What's the real story behind those photos of abandoned dockless bikeshare bikes?

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At this point you've probably seen at least one, maybe several: pictures of "abandoned" or "discarded" dockless bik...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Local knowledge, global bullshit

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In my neighborhood, on a narrow block zoned M-1 next to the Long Island Railroad main line, is a parking lot. A few years ago, the owners o...
Friday, December 16, 2016

What if the MTA is interested in bringing back the trains?

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I’ve always opposed the proposal to convert the Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad into a bike trail, because I think the lan...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Who will save New York City from #SaveNYC?

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A lot of people are alarmed by the language Donald Trump, with its emphasis on “taking back our country” and “making America great again.” ...
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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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Friday, January 29, 2016

Better subway station names

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Back in October, City Council Transportation chair Ydanis Rodriguez argued that some of our identically-named subway stations really are con...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

We need to stop converting streets to one-way

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New York is famous for its livable streets revolution, where Janette Sadik-Khan, with the backing of Mayor Bloomberg, turned the city Depart...
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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Knowing you killed someone is not punishment

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Advocates for safer streets have been pushing back against the use of "accident" to absolve drivers of responsibility for not kil...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Our stratified transportation system

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A lot of people are nervous about the possibility that privately-run electronic taxi-hailing systems like Uber and Lyft could take over func...
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