Nothing more needs to be said. Click on the picture below:
Photo header reads: Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.
Photo courtesy of Juan Jose. Thanks to Tim for emailing me this picture.
The New York Times recently ran an editorial outlining how Paris, France has aimed to cut car traffic within the city by 40% by 2020. Here’s some of their tactics, some of which should be considered by Richmond in our effort to re-create our downtown:
Improve transit:
Increase and improve routes
Make transit cheaper
Make transit easier to [...]
The TD ran a story today on Chinese students who are spending a month at VCU. The students are all keeping blogs, which are a rich mine for discovering others’ impressions of our city.
VCU has links to all their blogs, but as far as I can tell, there’s no aggregator- which means you have [...]
The recent design charrette has provided a little controversy for our city and for engaged bloggers. Should downtown convert its street grid from one-way to two-way streets? Divergent views are already emerging.
Explaining and defending the charrette’s recommendation of a two-way street conversion downtown is Buttermilk & Molasses. John’s post “THE DOWNTOWN PLAN: [...]
VDOT and the Virginia Capital Trail Foundation are building a 55 mile bike & pedestrian trail linking Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Richmond - the current and former capitals of Virginia.
Parts of the trail are already open in James City County: see photos here.
Current discussions are ongoing regarding [...]
The Capital Region Airport Commission, which operates Richmond International Airport, has been leasing land it owns to Henrico Co. for use as a park-and-ride lot for use by bus and carpool commuters. The lease has been $1 per year since 1984, according to the TD.
The FAA, however, has a rule barring below-market leases. [...]
Apparently a new restaurant in Church Hill (25th and M) is being held hostage by our society’s addiction to cars. According to church hill people’s news, Que Pasa- a Cuban, S. American, and Puerto Rican restaurant all rolled into one- is simply awaiting a Certificate of Occupancy before it can open. The holdup? [...]
Will Richmond ever do this:
Photo: Separated Bike Lanes
Ever since my Tuesday post about how much I hate cars, I’ve been intrigued by this idea of complete streets that I discovered while researching for that post. The basic idea is that streets should be built for cars, pedestrians, bicycles, and transit. Revolutionary, eh? [...]
“Henrico’s traffic planners figure that, as a general rule of thumb, the average residence produces the equivalent of 10 vehicular trips per day.”*
Photo: Traffic on I-64.
In the interest of full blogger disclosure, I’ll admit my bias up front: I hate cars - they cause pollution, fatness, and death. I’ve never understood people’s fascination [...]
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