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Streets for Sojourning
PBOT’s own Denver Igarta recently had the opportunity to visit four European cities on a German Marshall fund fellowship to look at how their street networks function. His take-away? Start by designing local streets as places to be, not to move through. Check out his report (PDF, 2.4M) to learn what makes a great street…
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What Have I Gotten Myself Info?
I’ve accepted the Mayor’s request to assist with the startup of the NW TMA to manage parking in my neighborhood. It was just about 10 years ago that I unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement between my neighborhood association and the business association on a parking plan. So why would I put myself back into…
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$35 Transit Appliance?
I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how relatively easy it was to get our Transit Appliance software stack running on the Raspberry Pi. I’m using the Raspian OS (a variant of Debian) and the Midori web browser (webkit based). I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised, since the ARM11-family processor and 512MB of RAM are substantially…