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Column The Seventh Generation: GOP Aims to Shut Out Poor by Rep. Nydia Velazquez Feature Public Housing Tenants Confront Degegulation Strengthening Resident Capacity in New York City by Victor Bach and Sara Hovde Lessons from New Zealand by Jacqueline Leavitt Commentary It’s Housing, Not Public Housing by Timothy Ross It’s not the Housing, It’s the […]
Asphalt Nation How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back by Jane Holtz Kay New York: Random House, 1997.US $32.95 Review by James Miraglia Imagine if 120 or so people died in a horrendous plane crash today. Then imagine 120 people lost their lives every single day of the year […]
by Patricia Nolan In 1993, St. Louis launched its 18-mile regional light rail system, named MetroLink, which has since become a tremendous success. MetroLink’s 31-vehicle fleet transports as many as 100,000 people per day to and from all of the region’s major centers along the 18-stop MetroLink route. Following MetroLink’s quick success, the Bi-State Development […]
by John Anner “What this fight is really about,” James Morris says suddenly, in the middle of a discussion about transportation policy in Milwaukee, “is a city-versus-suburb thing. What the central city needs and what the suburbs want are two different things.” Morris is the lead organizer for the Central City Transit Task Force, an […]
by Lisa Schreibman Federal rules require public involvement in transportation planning. So far, it looks like we have another participation game and the big decisions are still made in a closet. The 1991 amendments to the federal surface transportation program, known as the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, (ISTEA), were to have changed the transportation […]
Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker A growing number of planning experts realize that current trends in transportation are unsustainable. Like an addictive drug, a transportation policy oriented around the private automobile dictates urban policies in a way that can seem deceptively sensible. In the short term, automobile-oriented land-use patterns encourage economic segregation […]
by Jon Orcutt The transportation system most South Africans face today is a mixture of patched-up, third-rate public transport inherited from apartheid and a chaotic, unregulated minibus-taxi system that is a source of swelling public complaint. But political transformation in South Africa has opened the door for equitable and sustainable transportation policies. New government policies […]
The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti On Saturday, July 12th of this year, I was performing my daily jogging ritual in Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s great green space, when I came across a biker laid out on the park roadway. She had been hit by a van using the roadway as a shortcut. The van had […]
Column The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti Feature Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City by Jon Orcutt Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker Are We There Yet? Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA? by Lisa Schreibman Making Tracks for Justice The Campaign for Fair Transportation and Economic Development in Milwaukee by John […]
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