Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
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Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Some version of this condition exists in most American cities. In downtown Chicago, curbside parking costs one-thirteenth as much as off-street parking.40 The outcome of this market inefficiency is not just congestion and all its attendant woes—pollution, time wasted, slow emergency response—but also reduced revenue to area businesses. This counter
... See moreAn advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport. Enrique Peñalosa
MANHATTAN AS MECCA If—in America—dense, transit-served cities are better, then New York is the best. This is the clear and convincing message of David Owen’s Green Metropolis, certainly the most important environmental text of the past decade. This book deserves a bit more of our attention, so profound is the revolution in thinking that it represen
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