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Bike Rentals in Lyon
My Metro Council colleague Rod Park took these photos while on a family trip to France. “This is a new program Lyon is trying. You rent the bike for 1 euro for each hour after the first half hour which is free. They have about 20 stations city wide. You just pick one up and…
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“Goods and Services” or “Freight”
When I was starting this blog, I got feedback from a number of potential contributors that just talking about “mobility” was a problem, that “access” was the more comprehensive way to look at the issues. I eventually compromised and put both in the tag line for this site. I’m getting a similar education about “freight”.…
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APTA Attributes Increases in Transit Ridership [in part] to Gas Prices
A press release from the American Public Transportation Assocation, released in conjunction with their EXPO 2005, notes sharp increases in transit ridership. The increase is attributed to rising gas prices and new technologies: Many transit system officials attribute this growth to higher gas prices, expansion of services and improved passenger services. Recent years have seen…
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Retrospective on the Seattle Bus Tunnel
Kent Lind passes on this pointer to an article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and asks: “Seattle built a bus tunnel with 1980s federal transit money. Portland built a light rail. Which was smarter?”
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A Geeky but Practical Bicycle Question
Folks who follow this blog know I’m a transportation geek. What folks may not know is that I’m also a geek geek, i.e., my day job is doing Internet technology. So sometimes my travels around the region require that I carry a laptop with me. I have yet to find a way to do this…