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Showing posts with label rail-trails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rail-trails. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2015

The MTA is not interested

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One cornerstone of the arguments for the Queensway rail-trail is that the MTA isn’t interested in restoring passenger rail service. Queensw...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

When bike paths are not transportation

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I've written before about the capacity of bike paths to move large numbers of people. A dedicated bike path performs this function best...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

Five rail-trails we'd like to see reactivated

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Last month, the (Greater) Detroit Free Press told us of a section of trail the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (near Marquette ) that had once b...
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Monday, January 21, 2013

Guest Post: How sending the R train to Howard Beach can help the G go to Forest Hills

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By Capt. Subway The controversy over what to do with the 3.5-mile long abandoned northern section of the defunct LIRR Rockaway Line betwee...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Gay men, zoning and the High Line's real source of power

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You probably already know how annoyed I get by all the people who want "our very own High Line" for whatever little town they liv...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Walking down country lanes

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This is an expanded version of a post from January 11, 2009. In many parts of the world it's common for people to walk a lot. Sometim...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Political realities

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I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know for sure why the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's Kate Slevin said , "we're n...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Why not a longer "Tappan Zee High Line"?

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Everyone knows I've got serious misgivings about the rails-to-trails movement, especially when people pull the rails out of perfectly f...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

A new High Line for Chicago

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Paris has the Promenade Plantée. New York has the High Line. Lebanon, New Hampshire has the Northern Trail. Soon Chicago will have its ow...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The glamour of the High Line

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If you're from a city like Chicago , Philadelphia , Jersey City or Saint Louis - or possibly San Francisco or Wilmington, California ...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

The Bridge Route

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In the comments to my last post about the lack of redundancy on the Northeast Corridor, Adam missed part of the point: The main problem wit...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Strange Doings on the Atlanta Beltline

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Thanks to RailNews.net, I came across this blog entry at Creative Loafing. Apparently there's a plan to connect several old train righ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Failing Railbanks

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At this point I think everyone understands the basics of the main mechanism underlying the current financial crisis: financial institutions ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

The Rail Bank and (mis)Trust

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Banking operates on trust; many of them used to have the word in their names. When you deposit money in a bank, you expect it to be there i...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Towards a Million Fattie March

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I first heard about Fat March in the magazine of the Rails to Trails Conservancy , to which I am a contributor. The RTC (no, not that RTC...