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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Some Links for Now...

I will have some new postings up next week but here are some links to some great articles to read until then:

Denver Installs first Bike Specific Traffic Signal 

What Comes First: Greenways or Bridges?

Norfolk Tide Exceeds Ridership Estimates

In a Failure of Municipal Ambition, Plans for Detroit Light Rail as Focus Shifts to BRT 

Switzerland: Making "When" Visable

How Frequent is Freedom? 

Thin Slicing Major Transit Planning

Our States Priorities? Billions for Highways

The Non-intuitive Math of the Lake Oswego Streetcar

Five Things We can do without Rebuilding the Tappan Zee Bridge


Related articles
  • Bike Safety in Heavily Traveled Tempe (planetlaurenlizzle.wordpress.com)
  • Norfolk light rail carries 500,000th passenger (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
  • T ridership hits record high (boston.com)
  • Light Rail Expansion Signals an Urbanizing Houston (streetsblog.net)
  • Utah Transit Authority proposes 2012 budget plan ()
  • The Power of Blogs and Social Media in Transportation Policy (streetsblog.net)
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Trucking Savannah GA said...

Thanks a lot for sharing this links, these are very interesting.

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