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Urban Paths “World” Cup

November 8, 2022 By Salim Furth

Final update: the Milwaukee River Greenway is hereby declared the Best Urban Path in the United States! Sadly, it's among those that I haven't yet visited, a situation I'll need to rectify. I've invited a few Greenway partisans to write a guest post about what makes it the best urban path in America … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bikes, Places & Spaces, Transportation Tagged With: parks and recreation

Getting Hasidim and cars wrong- and what we can learn from this

October 19, 2021 By Michael Lewyn

I am currently reading A Fortress in Brooklyn, a (mostly) fine book about the relationship between Williamsburg's Satmar Hasidim and real estate policy. One chapter discusses Satmar opposition to bike lanes in their neighborhood, and suggests that one cause of this opposition might be that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bikes, Places & Spaces Tagged With: cars

Reading Hayek in Holland

August 19, 2021 By Salim Furth

During a working vacation in the Netherlands, I had the dissonant experience of reading Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom in one of the most comprehensively planned environments on earth. Hayek’s thesis is that central economic planning displaces competitive markets and, when broadly applied, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bikes, corruption, Culture & Books, planning, Travel, World Tagged With: New Urbanism, Urban Planning

Urban Mobility and Innovation with Anthony Ling at Stanford Graduate School of Business

January 28, 2018 By Anthony Ling

I recently gave a talk on the topic of "Urban Mobility and Innovation" at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I am currently studying. I was positively surprised by the turnout for the event as there are currently few formal groups focusing on urban issues at the GSB. The reason I did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bikes, Transportation

Parking In A DC Bike Lane Is Extremely Cost-effective, For Drivers

September 23, 2016 By Jim Pagels

This month, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association (WABA) published an analysis citing traffic ticket data to illustrate the following point: Of the 723,237 parking tickets issued in this 5 month period, only 2,420 were for parking in bike lanes. That’s about 3 out of every 1,000 tickets. That … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bikes, Law, Logistics & Transportation

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