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Celebrate Swan Island Transportation Tomorrow
From the Swan Island Transportation Management Association (TMA): Big improvements are coming in the next few months to Swan Island – pedestrian and bicycle access projects that will make getting to and around the Island safer and more fun. Over the next several months, the Going to the River project will improve pedestrian and bike…
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Monomodal Fixation Disorder
All of us who have an interest in promoting transportation alternatives have encountered people afflicted with what I like to call “Monomodal Fixation Disorder.” Let’s just call it MFD for short. These poor souls not only prefer to use a single mode for all travel, but more importantly seek to impose their preferences on everyone…
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Walking the Talk
It has not gone unnoticed (it’s even been discussed on this blog) that Metro, which promotes transportation choices, has a very large parking structure attached to their building. Employees have always (at least as long as I’ve had any involvement with Metro) been required to pay for that parking if they want to use it.…
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Are We At “Peak Travel”?
This article conjectures that we may be…
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VMT Explained
Via the Carsharing.US Blog: Great presentation (PDF, 1.9M) explaining theoretical models for Vehicle Miles Traveled and doing a good job of reconciling recent changes in VMT.