Reinventing Transport

In this segment I try to connect you with recent items relevant to reinventing urban transport.  From a public domain image at Wikimedia commons Robin Chase suggests a cap-and-trade approach to residential parking permits. An idea with potential I think. Charting Transport provides fascinating graphical analysis of journey-to-work mode shares in Melbourne. Cycling in Singapore blog highlights fruits of the slow shift towards more positive bicycle policy in Singapore (bike paths aimed at local, low-speed bicycle users but I worry about their quality and design). Human Transit marvels at the new Paris commitment to giving buses priority and space in the streets, even narrow ones. New York Times reports on the Guangzhou BRT. Great quotes from ITDP folks. The BRT was reported to have set a new BRT record of 800,000 trips a day. Hat tips Streetsblog and Transport News . Tokyo by Bike discusses confusion over Japan's bicycle laws. Twice . Copenhagenize warns of the dang...

Connecting you with web destinations that caught my eye recently.  From a public domain image at Wikimedia commons CityFix Mumbai on transport and the gathering monsoon season in an Indian megacity A wonderful Streetfilm on the Cycle Chic movement which has grown from the Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog Nate Berg at Planetizen on Johannesburg 'Persecution of the Pedestrian Majority' Transit (Klang Valley) analyses Malaysian objectives for public transport in the Kuala Lumpur region ( under the National Key Result Area ( NKRA ) targets) Econoblogger Felix Salmon hosts a fascinating debate on congestion pricing (with a New York focus) The Infrastructurist on a hi-tech corporate effort to help Ho Chi Minh City with its traffic problems The CityFix on South Africa's public transport improvements leading up to the football World Cup The CityFix again on NyayaBhoomi, a Delhi-based NGO that works for a better auto-rickshaw system in Delhi Coming event on ...