Last week a new bike station opened in Washington, D.C. on prime public space – next to the city’s Union Station. Bike centers are popping up in other cities, with some of the most successful being co-located with parks and trails. We visited the Midtown Bike Center in Minneapolis last month, and biked away incredibly [...]
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The trouble with light rail and subway, some say, is that it only serves a small area around each station, and that vast areas can be left to dependence on cars. Planners consider mass transit service areas around light rail stations and subway stops to be about 1/4 mile — any farther and you’ll see [...]
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We posted last year about Detroit’s new Dequindre Cut trail, and want to again share a piece from Metropolis magazine on this great project. (The article webpage also features some great pictures of the new trail.) The Cut is the type of project that can show the role of parks, trails and other investments in [...]
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There’s more evidence that road closures in parks can be a big success in increasing their usership and improving safety and conditions. Case in point: Kansas City is expanding its closure of Cliff Drive in Kessler Park to vehicles on every weekend throughout the year. This follows a pilot program last May through October to [...]
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This post on ULI’s Ground Floor blog goes into the data showing reductions in vehicle miles traveled, or VMT and increases in transit ridership. Basically, VMT is going down more than transit ridership is growing. Kaid Benfield follows up on Robert Dunphy’s ULI post and makes the point that compact communities can allow people to [...]
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Seattle is working to build a trail along its Lake Union, that will increase connectivity between parks and neighborhoods a stone’s throw from downtown. The effort aims to complete a loop around the lake. An article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer describes that when complete, the result will be the six-mile Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop [...]
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A new report, Active Transportation for America, makes the case for an adequate federal investment in bicycling and walking. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presented the report today at an event in D.C. with Congressman and Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar and Bikes Belong. The findings show that modest increases in bicycling and walking could lead to [...]
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A mini-travelogue on Seattle’s trails and bike network in the Post-Intelligencer recently shows the value of park connectivity — something Olmsted knew the value of and something cities across the country are still trying to achieve. But the coolest things about this ride are the water and the string of parks along the way — [...]
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What does $170,000 in public money, $26,000 in donated funds, 44,000 volunteer hours and a space under a freeway get you between two of Seattle’s most densely populated neighborhoods? A mountain bike park, what else? (Short article in the Seattle Times.) “The space under the freeway and between Seattle’s Eastlake and Capitol Hill neighborhoods was [...]
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Though small, one of the most exciting new trail projects in the country is the Dequindre Cut, a new 1.3 mile urban greenway just outside of downtown Detroit built in a former rail trench that will connect the city’s new Riverwalk to the refurbished Eastern Market, a public market district. Farther, the cut transitions to [...]
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