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Budnick v. Anderson on “Talk of the Nation” This Afternoon

By Aaron Naparstek | Aug 26, 2008 | 22 Comments

Transportation Alternatives’ Noah Budnick will be on NPR’s "Talk of the Nation" this afternoon at 3 p.m. EST. He’ll be debating Rob Anderson, the one-man wrecking crew who filed the 2006 environmental impact law suit that stopped San Francisco from building out its citywide bicycle network. I don’t think "Talk of the Nation" is available […]

More Park(ing) Day: San Fran Rolls Out the Parkcycle

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 27, 2007 | 15 Comments

I was pretty sure that New York City had San Francisco beat for this year’s Park(ing) Day, what, with the children’s reading hour and the on-street gymnasium in Brooklyn; Staten Island and Queens getting in on the act; and German tourists frolicking on the sod in front of the MoMA (all captured by StreetFilms, […]

Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 21, 2007 | 12 Comments

Park(ing) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, May 6, 2006. The sign says, "Public space reclamation in progress." Today is International Park(ing) Day, the day when urban dwellers all around the world reclaim on-street parking spaces for purposes more creative and life-affirming than private motor vehicle storage. If you found a bunch of kids playing in an […]

Dude, Where’s My Bike Lane?

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 5, 2007 | 8 Comments

Here is another clever video from San Francisco; this one chronicles the case of the missing bike lane. I think it is safe to say that gas stations and bike lanes don’t mix.

Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

Thanks all for reading and commenting on our non-motorized honeymoon travel series (see parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). Below is a table Susan put together to briefly summarize some of our observations on the cities we visited. Transit Bike Accesibity Amtrak Station Street life and art Chicago Loop El made all connections we […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 3: Three More Cities

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 22, 2007 | 30 Comments

Part 3 in a series on rail and transit-only travel across the United States focuses on the final three cities of our journey. Part 2 looked at the first three and Part 1 presented an overview of our travel. San Francisco Fully restored streetcars, cable cars, buses with and without pantographs, submerged and at-grade light rail, a […]

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