Category: Modes

  • Streetcars go to the White House

    Well, at least to the White House web site. I suspect this is the first time that video from a gathering I was at made it to such an august location on the internet… goose bumps over the “vision thing”.

  • A performance-based comparison of different transit technologies

    A table summarizing the performance of several different bus and rail transit services around the world.

  • Would Curbside Inter-city Bus Service Fly Here?

    I saw an interesting article in Business Week over the weekend, about Megabus, the largest of a set of companys providing city-to-city bus service in the mid-West and on the East Coast (similar in some ways to the “Chinatown buses” that go between New York and Boston). It’s an interesting model, based on low prices…

  • Bike Parking Disconnect

    I spent some fun time this afternoon at the Pedal Nation bike show at the Convention Center. I had noted some tweets yesterday about overflowing bike parking outside, even though event parking had been added. Here’s what I found today, outside the front door and inside the parking structure where bike parking is also provided:…

  • KBOO Bike Show: Going National

    Listen to the show (mp3, 25.4MB) Michelle and Tori talk with a range of cycling leaders from around the country including: Randy Neufield, National advocate with the SRAM Cycling Fund Timothy Papandreou, Deputy Director of Transportation Planning for the Sustainable Streets Division of San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Agency Charles Gandy, Mobility Coordinator, City of Long…