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The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 1957

#chicago #los angeles #el capitan #train #1957 #atsf

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#r/transit #lunar railroad

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God I love urban design

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CityNerd: Let’s Decommission I-94

Looking at how I-94 wrecked Minneapolis-St. Paul and how there are positive proposals to transform it into a multimodal urban boulevard.

#urbanism #minneapolis #st. paul #minnesota #I-94 #citynerd #Youtube

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Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

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Why skyscraper cladding and windows crack and fall off!

#architecture #skyscrapers #windows breaking #falling debris #Stewart Hicks #chicago #Youtube

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The bicycle paradise that Atlanta planned and ignored

A 1973 publication titled "The Bicycle" was commissioned by the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), the Georgia Department of Transportation, and MARTA. It was the nation’s first regional bikeway plan. Seriously, it really was. And it would have been right here in Atlanta -- if it had been built.

In 1977, the City of Atlanta produced an actual, detailed plan would’ve produced a biker’s paradise, influenced by that publication (the image above is from that plan).

The city's stated intention was to: “provide bike paths within the rights-of-way of major streets and highways when such streets are improved or newly constructed.”

It also called for the development of “bicycle lanes in coordination with the construction of MARTA line segments.”

If the city had implemented the plan, by 1992 Atlanta would have had a reputation as a cyclist’s paradise.

I don't know the specific reasons why it never happened -- not beyond the basic inertia that seems to chronically vex cities like Atlanta, which suffer from decades of car-centric thinking.

My aim is not to make people sad about what never happened, by the way.

What I want is to send a warning: there is no shortage of great ideas for improving Atlanta's urbanism; what we have is a shortage of boldness within our leadership when it comes to implementation of the plans, and standing up to the resistance from people who fear changes to the status quo.

Watch out for that inertia.

Info source, Joe Hurley's great post here:

https://www.threadatl.org/2018/08/15/atlantas-second-chance-to-build-bikeways-and-complete-streets/

#atlanta #urbanism #transportation #urban planning #bicycle infrastructure #bike lanes

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A Bridge Too Far

Immediately after the Key Bridge collapse, I wrote the following: Congress needs to pass $$ for the Key Bridge rebuild ASAP. The longer it waits, the more likely some insane r-w conspiracy develops about how “bridges are DEI” and suddenly the funds are being tied to burning Pride books or something.  Sigh.  This week, Pennsylvania GOP Representative Dan Meuser slammed President Biden for calling on Congress to fully fund the response to the Baltimore collapse. Meuser insisted it’s “outrageous” that Biden wants to fund repairs in their “entirety,” and even demanded that some of this money must be taken from “ridiculous EV expenditures.” [....] Some GOP lawmakers are already treating future funding of the Baltimore response as a future concession on their part. Representative Jeff Duncan says Congress should not spend “one more dime” of additional infrastructure money before a border wall is built, as if the need for disaster relief can be used to extort Democrats into funding MAGA priorities in return. [....] It gets still worse. Some right-wing media personalities are floating whackjob theories blaming the collision on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, on our supposedly open borders, and other MAGA preoccupations. Some “online influencers” and GOP politicians indulged in trivializing nitwit speculation and targeted Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with other assorted hateful smears. Some predictions are too obvious to get credit for nailing. (H/T)  via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/kZ8JNwD

#baltimore #dan meuser #infrastructure #jeff duncan #maryland #pete buttigieg #transportation #urbanism #key bridge #congress

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Two, three and five seaters. La bicyclette. Sa construction et sa forme. 1899.

Internet Archive

#bicycle #bicycles #design #transportation #bicycle built for two #tandem bike #trandem bike #the goodies

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Like this post if you have been on a train

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This is for You leaflet (Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive, 1977).

#transportation #subway #glasgow underground

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Revisiting Independence

This is a follow-up to Cars and Independence, which has a received a lot of both positive and negative attention. In response to some of the criticism, I wanted to clarify my point so that people are less likely to dismiss it due to misinterpretation.

#independence #car dependency #freedom #transportation #walkability #humanscaled #comics #art #urbanism #architecture

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Sóller, Mallorca (Balearic Islands).

Video by aufilduglobe on Instagram.

#sóller #mallorca #train #tram #urbanism #carfree cities

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#economics #travel #high speed rail

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Angie McMonigal Photography-6830-Edit by Angie McMonigal https://flic.kr/p/f6reP6

#chicago #cta #loop #el #transportation