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Reactions to Bicycle Planning: Beyond the Backlash
I missed the post on Streetsblog when this first came out (thanks to @groxie for tweeting it and catching my attention). A group of students at Hunter College produced a report: “Beyond the Backlash: Equity and Participation in Bicycle Planning” (PDF, 10.6M). The report resonates quite a bit with issues here in Portland: Better infrastructure…
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Dissent of the Day: Bikes vs transit?
As mentioned in the comments for the Monomodal fixation disorder article, Jarrett Walker at Human Transit did a followup article on the subject. In the responses to that article, Human Transit commentor Eric Fischer said something quite interesting: For some bike people, the issue is that they fear being hit by large, fast, heavy vehicles…
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How Much Do Businesses Depend on Auto Traffic? Less than They Think
Via Streetsblog: A study in Vancouver, B.C. found that merchants perceived that a much higher percentage of customers arrive via auto than actually do. Obviously this will vary tremendously by type of business (Jiffy Lube probably doesn’t get much walk-in business), but this matches my own experience in doing neighborhood transportation advocacy. Merchants tend to…
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The interfaces between different transit agencies
Travelling between transit agencies, especially for trips located within a metro area, can be an inconvenient experience for many reasons. Timetables may not be aligned, fare policies may be hostile (requiring additional tickets as one crosses the agency boundary), different agencies often run vastly different equipment, and interchange points are often on the periphery of…
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How important are new riders to transit, and how hard should the region work to attract them?
A discussion of the importance of new ridership to TriMet, and how hard the region should work to woo them.