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Showing posts with label park-and-ride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label park-and-ride. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Is it worth the parking?

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Joe Cortright had a nice piece recently where he showed that 83% of the amount of driving in cities can be explained by the cost of parking...
Monday, January 27, 2014

New transit and our goals

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It's pretty much a no-brainer that anything that optimizes existing transit use will help us toward our goals. Getting people out of ca...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How many Jakriborgs is that?

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Earlier this year, the Small Streets Blog introduced us to the planned community of Jakriborg, founded in 1990 on 12.5 acres of farmland bet...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Why we shouldn't extend Metro-North on the Hudson Line

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Mid Hudson News reports that Metro-North is still no longer considering extending service to northern Dutchess County. I'm not sure wh...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The missed opportunities of the Northern Branch

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I had to admit that New Jersey Transit isn't planning to pave paradise for the parking lots on the Erie Railroad Northern Branch. They...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

They paved some crap, and put up a parking lot

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There's too much parking in New Jersey Transit's plans to restore passenger service on the Northern Branch of the Erie Railroad. Th...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Mystery models of the Northern Branch

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I'm old enough to remember the days when computers were expensive enough that the only people who could afford one had either a lot of m...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

The transportation-land use cycle, illustrated

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The transportation-land use cycle , illustrated by the Village of Piermont, NY and its environs: The road builders say, "Everyone wan...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

The cost of new riders

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Some nice person Reddited my post on park-and-rides. So far it's only gotten one comment, but that comment is extremely insightful: T...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Park-and-rides and congestion

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One reason I've been talking so much about congestion is that it's key to the thinking that goes into these massive park-and-rides...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Carfree 24/7

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Alon just put their finger on something I've been trying to get at with my posts about park-and-rides : that we want to be planning com...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Transit planners, sprawl and "quality of life"

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In my post on the Law of Transportation Inertia (people in cars tend to stay in cars), Joel Azumah captured the thinking of many transit pl...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Why do transit planners love park-and-rides?

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Park-and-rides are not the answer because of the Law of Mode Inertia : people in cars tend to stay in cars. Parking lots and garages will n...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

People in cars tend to stay in cars

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I've been thinking a lot about park-and rides and mode shift lately in the context of the Northern Branch restoration project , and I...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The problem with the Northern Branch project

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For a months now I've been telling people that the "transit" proposed for the bridge is just sprawl transit , and it's tru...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Slaying the parking dragon

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Streetsblog is reporting that the New York City Economic Development Corporation is trying to build a "vibrant downtown" next to t...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Transportation myopia for commuter rail

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Jeff "Pantograph Trolleypole" Wood has a post questioning the value of building new commuter rail lines, as contrasted with light...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Guest post: the source of the Long Island Bus crisis

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Here is another guest post by regular reader George K. For those of you that don't know, Nassau County officials have been neglecting ...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

A simple solution to the commuter parking crunch

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Today, Ben at Second Avenue Sagas linked to a Wall Street Journal article about the MTA's plans to raise parking fees at its commuter ...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Appreciating sunsets

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Photo: Mhilsenrad / Flickr There's a particular theme I've been noticing more and more lately: strategies that are either praised as...
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