Tag: Public Transportation - Page 9
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May Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
Spring finally sprung this month in Istanbul, after what seemed like a long, wet winter. On the green
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A Radical Proposal: Restore Atrophied US Rail System to 1920's Levels
Who said North America's trains are slow? Take the Montreal Limited: Departing from New York's Grand Central Station in the late evening, it arrives in Montreal's Windsor Station early in the morning. With plenty of time to get a good
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Top Ten Twitterers to Follow for Cars and Transportation
Find out some of the best Twitterers to follow in the realm of transportation, who will keep you updated on the greenest ways of getting from here to there.@GreenCarCongres Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress twitters out the latest blog posts from the
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Is High Speed Rail the Answer?
Image credit: CleanTechnica Is Enthusiasm for High Speed Rail Just Another Speed Addiction? The world is a confusing place - no sooner do the governments of the world finally start taking high speed rail seriously as an alternative to aviation, and the
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What the Heck is a Zozo?!
StreetFilms' Search for the Zozo Now what are Clarence and friends up to now? StreetFilms have confused us before with Cycling Sasquatches and Purple Traffic-Calming Wizards. Now it appears they are on the trail of a mythical creature called the Zozo -
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Fantastic People-Friendly Urban Planning in London (Video)
StreetFilms Explores Design for London's Vision for Livable Streets StreetFilms does it again! No sooner had we announced that they, along with their partner projects StreetsBlog and the Livable Streets Initiative, were winners of the Best
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Cash for Clunkers Debate Continues - Details Needed
There are currently four bills in Congress focused on stimulating car sales by allowing people to trade an old car for a new one. There's been lots of buzz, but not so many
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Istanbul Public Transit Proves Up to the Task
Extraordinary circumstances can bring out the best in people--and in transportation systems. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area,
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Constructal Theory: 5 Designs Shaping the Future of Sustainable Engineering
photo Jenny Downing@Flickr What Is Constructal Design and Can It Save The World? Take a look at a leaf, like the one above. Notice the elegant branching pattern of the veins. This is a constructal design. If you were to look at a river from an airplane,
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Solo EV: New Electric Bus by Optare
Photo: Optare Electric Buses Are Coming Slowly But Surely Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is great, but most of those buses are still running on plain old diesel. Diesel-electric hybrid buses are starting to become more popular and they're an improvement, but
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Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit: 2.3 Million Passengers a Day
Bus stop in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo: Flickr, CC 75% of Population Commutes to Work Via Bus Curitiba, in Brazil, has about the same population as Phoenix in the US. In Phoenix, about 1% of people take the bus to get to work, which that number if 75% in
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March Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
The 5th World Water Forum held two weeks ago in Istanbul dominated the
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Delhi Metro Rail's Green Efforts Expand: Solar Power System Installed, Emissions Reductions Certified
photo: Delhi Metro Rail Delhi Metro Rail can stick two green feathers in its cap: Its sizeable emissions reductions over the past four years which qualify for UN carbon credits have been independently certified, and has recently installed a new solar
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San Francisco Company Starts Green Commuter Service for High End Travelers
It's hard to get a high-end person out of their Lexus and onto a city bus or the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). But in an effort to green even these commuters, Bauer's Intelligent Transportation is expanding their luxury commuter service that appeals to
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Seattle's Streetcar: Modern, Efficient, Mass Transit (Video)
StreetFilms Visits Flagship Light Rail Project Lloyd celebrated the return of the streetcar in America back in 2007, even though the Feds tend to favor Bus Rapid Transit over light rail. Now the good folks at StreetFilms are out to spread the word about
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U.S. Public Transit Ridership in 2008: Highest Level in 52 years!
Photo: Flickr, CC 10,700,000,000 Trips! A recent report by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reveals some very interesting numbers. "Despite falling gas prices and an economic recession, increasing numbers of Americans took 10.7
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Google Maps 500% Greener Than Last Year
Well, at least that's how Google frames it in their latest blog post on the improvements made in the past year on Google Maps and getting transit directions. And we have to agree - they've done a lot of really cool things to help folks get around in a
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Accolades for an Aegean City
Almost 3,500 years of urban history have made Izmir into the city it is today--sprawling, built-up, and traffic-clogged. Not a place you'd expect to see
