Archive for January, 1970
PORTLAND’S BIG STREETCAR PLANS. 75 miles of new tracks. Wow.
CARS: NOT COOL, REALLY EXPENSIVE!. Seattle Transit Blog explains more.
SEATTLE STREETCAR NETWORK: A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE.That’s the subject of the next Transportation Choices Coalition Friday Forum. Check it out: The South Lake Union Streetcar line opened to great fanfare in December of 2007. Now the Mayor and City…
HURRAY FOR FALLING HOME PRICES! David Brewster’s great take on the recent news: The lamentations about affordability are mostly just pious hand wringing, usually by people who are secretly pleased at how much their home values have been going up….
FACTORIES IN SEATTLE. They’re finding it hard to stay around, or at least to stay quiet about not staying around.
NEW YORK STEPS CLOSER TO CONGESTION PRICING. Seattle should keep moving in that direction too.
CURITIBA, BRAZIL IS KICKING OUR ASS. The city utilizes a system of bus lines that range from neighborhood shuttles to high-speed transit lanes. The city’s whole transit system relies only on buses, which travel as fast as subways but cost…
SIERRA CLUB DEMANDS BETTER OF SOUND TRANSIT. Carless in Seattle has the scoop.
LET’S GET WONKY: MULTIFAMILY HOUSING DO-OVER. This is important, actually. Little else the city does over the next several years will equally affect our built environment.
ATLANTA ISN’T KICKING OUR ASS. At least one other city in the country is moving as indecisively as ours. Via Planetizen.