For City’s Transportation Chief, Kudos and Criticism

a profile of NYC transport commisioner Janette Sadik-Khan

On best practices for bikesharing.

Verrrrry Judge Dredd.

This is not a superhighway.

A nuanced, passionate, comprehensively-researched, fairly incredible piece on urban roadway remediation and systemic flow from John Tolva. Frankly, I'm still absorbing the full richness of it, but even a third of the way through I can tell you this is kind of a jackpot link.

Good news. More like this, please. And if fares are standardized...surely a Metrocard would work smashingly as a form of payment, no?

Bruno Marzloff - intelligent critique and extension of Georges Amar's thought, and my own.

"Techniques, estimates and implications."

'Bout time.

And about time, as well...

They haven't quite solved the I-must-look-like-a-dork problem, but this is a few steps in the right direction. Price is obviously an issue, and while I'm willing to bet that goes away if anything like this ever achieves scale, it's possibly instructive to note that Segway never did. Dorkosity, demand and price are inherently linked for things like this.

Didn't we go through all this already?

TK

Note, particularly, the vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-building strategies.

Nothing earthshaking here, but a nice roundup of all of the sensors and sources involved in plotting optimal routes. IMO, this stuff will come into its own not when embedded in a privately-owned vehicle, but when adaptive to & portable between all the different contexts of a transmodal mobility system. Also: ROBOT MUST DIE. I *hate* cutesy anthropomorphic interfaces with a scarcely-conceivable passion.

"80 percent of the initial 20,600 bicycles stolen or damaged": Compare to the considerable success of Barcelona's technically all-but-identical Bicing system. A perfect case study in the locally differential adoption of technologies; namechecks Bruno Marzloff.

Via Steph. I'd be very interested to understand just what JCDecaux thinks they're doing here.

Smart commentary on cars and vehicular design in general. Plenty to chew on, dis/agree with and engage here.

Just getting to this now. Sigh.

Randy does a great job here. I'd *love* to see this updated to reflect emergent modes...and vertical transport as well.

Via Nicolas.

An American imitator/competitor to Vélib. About time. Fuck Clear Channel, too, on GP.

It is *so* not about the rolling stock, however sexxxy, if the political support is not there. Given what the Republicans have done to Amtrak over the last thirty years, this article is just plain irresponsible.