Month: March 2013

The city as an organism -- it's a common analogy, probably in part because it's so instructive.

From D10 Watch:

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The first private automobile users on early 20th-century American streets were generally accorded no special privileges on the public right-of-way. "The center of the road was reserved for streetcars, and the new automobiles had to move out of the way," as Renee Montagne describes it in the 1996 documentary Taken for a Ride, which chronicles the decline of American public transit over the 20th century.

Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown, continues today with two formidable contenders.

If you live close to a transit station, chances are you’ve weathered the recession better than your friends who don’t.

It can seem like the image of Amtrak as a second-rate mode -- a "Soviet-style monopoly" -- is so firmly ingrained that it's hard to shake. Even as more people choose to ride trains.

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