Watch: Rotterdam, A Post-War Central City Moves Beyond the Automobile
Here’s a great new video documenting the progress that Rotterdam is making to become a nicer, more productive place. The city is rapidly expanding and improving it’s cycle network. Currently bicycle mode share is *only* 20%. They are also extending their light rail network and have a magnificent new central rail station with parking for 5,000 bikes.…
27 Comments Sunday reading 10 December 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading! Here’s a neat post with detailed drawings highlighting the differences between Amsterdam and Copenhagen’s cycleways. It concludes with an appropriate dig on the designs in the UK. Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 2), “Amsterdam vs Copenhagen (part 2)“, Nicer cities, liveable places.…
Sunday reading 19 November 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. The City of Toronto recently launched this “pilot project” creating a transit street on King Street. Before, streetcars were mired in traffic.The pilot project pulls most of the traffic out of the corridor by removing through traffic.…
City Boulevard, ’t Goylaan, Utrecht
Hey everyone, I’ve seen the future of transportation in cities and it has nothing to do with driverless cars, connected vehicles or other unproven technology. Instead, it consists of streets that are great places to live, cycle, and walk. The transportation future we want looks like Utrecht.…
Sunday reading 29 October 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are articles and media we’ve collected over the last week. Please add your links in the comments below.
Here’s a great interview with author Peter Walker on the unintended consequences of the cycle helmet law.…
Sunday reading 1 October 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a bunch of interesting things I came across this week and some recommendations from the GA team. From Paris to New York, we’ve matched metro maps against versions that only include fully accessible stations.…
Sunday reading 17 September 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a few of the interesting things that came across my desk this week.
The San Francisco Bay Area housing market is now so munted that it may be contributing to an exodus – “Job losses jolt Bay Area, South Bay, San Francisco“.…
Sunday reading 3 September 2017
Welcome back to Sunday Reading.
First, a quick follow-up story. A few weeks ago I posted a funny/tragic story about how the leaders of a Florida transit agency don’t use their own service. It seems Stuff picked up on the idea and did a local version of it- “How do Auckland Transport’s leaders get to work?“. …
Sunday reading 20 August 2017
Hi, and welcome back to Sunday Reading. A while back someone in the comments section called me out for not including any articles by or about women. Indeed, this is often the case. The urbanism conversation is male defined and dominated.…
Wijkontsluitingsweg
This is another post about my recent trip to the Netherlands. The Netherlands has a standard road classification system with ideally three types of roads: flow roads (motorways), distribution roads (arterials), and local roads (residential roads). This system does not recognise roads with the dual functions of through traffic and destination traffic.…
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