Tag: Public Transportation - Page 4
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London Public Transit Directions Now Available on Google Maps
Google has recently announced that its Google Maps service will provide real-time transit updates, a great way to make public transportation more convenient and efficient for millions of commuters. This service has now been launched for
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Building More Roads Leads to More Traffic
Here at TreeHugger, we talk quite a bit about the causes and problems with roads and traffic, and we've seen how effective congestion pricing can be. Here's one more study showing that more roads are not the answer to our
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense forest. The organisers of RAF also set an example of how
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Be Kind to Your Fellow Commuters
Public transport is great. When it's good it is fast, easy, stress-free, you can get a seat and withdraw into your own world. And when it's bad: rude, nasty, pushy, smelly, etc. etc.
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Google Maps Now Offers Real-Time Transit Updates
Photo: Google Only Available in Some Cities for Now... But More to Come Google's been keeping busy lately, keeping many irons in the fire. I just wrote about their $280M investment in residential solar, but they're also trying to make mass transit more
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Take a Safari Through Queens, NYC With Guided Podcast Tours
Queens, New York City, is the country's most ethnically diverse county. And it's not just among the human populations that you find a lot of diversity: the borough also counts a wide variety of
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How a Paris Suburb Went from Impoverished City to Green Powerhouse
In the last few months, I've written a lot about how Paris has been going green. But now, I'm turning my attention to a much-lesser known French urban center: Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. Fifteen years
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Ask Pablo: The Argument For Hybrid Taxi Cabs
Image Source: Mike Lee Dear Pablo: We're a San Francisco-based cab company and we use hybrids exclusively. In trying to decide between buying Toyota Prius or Ford Fusion cars, some of our company members want the comfort and luxury of the Fusion over
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Take a Seat on a Bench Made from 5,000 Recycled Metrocards
In New York's subways, you see a lot of discarded Metrocards. It's sad, not only because most people drop them on the floor rather than in a trash can, but because the cards are rechargeable, and there's no good
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Why We Should Be Thankful For $5 Gas
Photo credit: basykes/Creative Commons This guest post was written by Beth Buczynski, a writer for Care2 Causes. Oil prices have been climbing steadily since the beginning of the year, and as some gas stations prepare to dust off the ominous number
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Paris Takes on an Ambitious Bid to Remake Its Center, Les Halles
In terms of urban design and sustainability, Paris has been a real role model in the last few years. With simultaneous projects to remake its river banks as green
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6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk Honoring NYC's Fallen Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Today, families, friends, residents and bicycle advocates participated in the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk for New Yorkers who have been killed by cars while
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To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH
Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, is already one of the country's most bike-friendly cities. Fewer than half of its residents use a car to get around, and
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BRT Keeps Going In Latin America: Construction Of First Line Begins In Buenos Aires
Ever since Jaime Lerner used it to radically transform transit in Curitiba, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems have spread all over the world. Why wouldn't them? They work similar to subway networks but above the ground, and cost a
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Congested Tehran Lauded For Transit Improvements
Smog-choked, traffic-clogged Tehran may seem an unlikely candidate for an environmental honor, but the Iranian capital's aggressive recent moves to improve its public-transit
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Can Political Opposition to Transit/Rail/Bikes be Explained by the Rural/Urban Divide?
Image: The Transport Politic All Politics is Local Without getting into partisan politics (that way lies madness), it's fairly easy to conclude that in the U.S., one of the two main parties has been more opposed to things like transit, bike
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Should High-Speed Rail Route Move to Save One Tree?
While the prospect of high-speed rail being taken seriously in the US gets many folks excited, these schemes aren't without their detractors—even within the environmental community. George Monbiot's book Heat famously panned high-speed rail for
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Istanbul Residents Vote On Two Ugly Tram Designs
Sigh. Just when I was feeling optimistic about the latest developments with Istanbul's public transportation system, the municipality goes and announces that it's
