Washington, D.C.’s Union Station is a major destination for tourists and commuters, with about 29 million people visiting it each year. As a first glimpse of the city for many people traveling by rail or car, Union Station was designed as a grand entryway to the nation’s capital. It’s classical Beaux-Arts architecture influenced other popular [...]
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San Juan, Puerto Rico recently released a new plan to make the city more liveable and walkable. Titled The Walkable City, the plan calls for a redesign of the Isleta district, an island which is home to Old San Juan, the oldest planned city in the Americas. Isleta is separated from mainland Puerto Rico by a [...]
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We’ve been thinking more and more about the connection between transit and parks. One useful resource in this area is the Station Area Planning Manual (pdf) prepared by Reconnecting America for the San Francisco Bay Area a few years ago. The manual is meant to be a guide for local governments as they plan areas [...]
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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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A brief look at the connection of parks and transit. Turns out most of the most visited parks in the United States have mass transit access. (See table below.) And with the exception of Mission Bay, most of the parks below are probably reached by transit in high numbers. Central Park and Prospect Park have [...]
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