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| | ยป Metropolitan Seattle plans to offer its voters the chance to fund a large new transit expansion program. But are the projects chosen for initial funding the right ones? Building a regional fixed-...
| | pedestrianobservations.com
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| | Five years ago, I wrote a blog post about frequency-ridership spirals, mentioning as a side comment that the impact of mass transit frequency on ridership can be lumped together with the trip time. I'd like to develop this point here, and talk about how it affects various kinds of public transportation, including intercity trains. The...
| | humantransit.org
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| | In December, Alex Steffen wrote a provocative article at Worldchanging proposing that Seattle aim to become North America's first carbon-neutral city. I'm not an expert on carbon-neutrality as a whole, but I can certainly comment on the transport dimensions of it. Here are some reasons to bet on Seattle, in particular, as a place that [...]
| | seattletransitblog.com
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| This post is the second in a series, adapted from an article I wrote for my blog, Transportation Matters, a Pacific Northwest-flavored blog that discusses railway planning, urban planning, and rela...