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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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