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TheCityFix Picks, March 12: China’s Ambitious High-Speed Rail Plans, Burgeoning Bike Culture, Apps for Transport Problems

Megan McConville — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:41:07 +0000

Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we’ll run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: mobility, quality of life, environment, public ...

Moving through the Recession, Part 4: Can We Sustain the Biking Boom?

Megan McConville — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:36:43 +0000

This is the fourth installment of TheCityFix’s series Moving through the Recession, which explores how the worldwide economic slowdown has impacted transportation systems and users locally, nationally and internationally. Parts 1, 2 and ...

Special Correspondent: IBM Works to Enhance Public Transport in Nigeria

Drew Alt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:44:49 +0000

It’s 4:00 p.m. on a Wednesday and I am sitting shirtless at a hotel in southeastern Nigeria. I am not at the office because electricity from the grid was no longer and there was no ...

Google Maps Now Includes Bicycling Directions

Erica Schlaikjer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:58 +0000

Google Maps now has directions for cyclists! In 2005, Google started offering directions for car drivers, then two years later, it added transit routes. The map navigation expanded to pedestrians in 2008. We’ve already written about ...

Fuel Tax Increase Necessary to Cut Transportation Emissions

Megan McConville — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:00 +0000

Raising the price of gas to $7 per gallon may be necessary to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent, says a new report from Harvard’s ...

“Let’s Move” Toward a National Model of Active Community Design

Megan McConville — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:09:14 +0000

Four weeks ago, TheCityFix covered the launch of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, noting the omission of an active community design component. As we speak, the Task Force on Childhood Obesity is developing the ...

Five Months of Ahmedabad’s Janmarg: Setting the Standard for BRT in India

Megan McConville — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:17:28 +0000

Ahmedabad has set a new standard for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in India. That was the consensus at a recent capacity-building workshop educating other city officials about the planning and implementation of the local ...

Recognizing a Woman’s Role in Sustainable Transport

Erica Schlaikjer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:16:12 +0000

Today is International Women’s Day, a celebration observed since 1911 to recognize the economic, political and social achievements of women around the world. Eric Britton at World Streets wrote a commemorative piece on how ...

TheCityFix Picks, Mar. 5: Olympics Transport Legacy, Obese Cities, BRT in NYC

Megan McConville — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:15:11 +0000

Welcome back to TheCityFix Picks, our series highlighting the newsy and noteworthy of the past week. Each Friday, we run down the headlines falling under TheCityFix’s five themes: mobility, quality of life, environment, public space, ...

Bus Strikes Paralyze Bogotá – and Show Transit’s Importance

Megan McConville — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:39:49 +0000

Bogotanos are suffering through their fifth straight day of bus strikes. About 16,000 owners of traditional buses (i.e. not the vehicles from bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio) went on strike Monday at the urging of ...