MetroDilettante

Car-Free traveling, photography and public transit musings. Living in Baltimore.

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Downtown Seattle over Downtown Vancouver and Downtown Baltimore.

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Adding lanes to solve traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to solve obesity.

-Glen Hiemstra

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Trump Moves to Immediately Gut Transit Expansion and TIGER Funding

Waiting for fiscal year 2018 isn’t fast enough for the Trump administration to cut transit funding. The White House wants to slash transit expansion and TIGER grants immediately.

A disaster for cities. "The budget outline that Donald Trump rolled out earlier this month would be a disaster for transit and cities. And the situation is even worse than we thought. At risk, starting in fiscal year 2018, are $2.3 billion annually for transit expansion projects –jeopardizing plans in cities including Indianapolis, Seattle, and Atlanta that recently voted to tax themselves to fund transit — as well as $500 million a year in TIGER funds — which has funded dozens of multi-modal projects, including the Indianapolis Cultural Trail and Chicago’s Divvy bike share."

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Manhattan over cities series 1 -Los Angeles -Paris -Philadelphia

Made using MAPfrappe

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My plan for the next time in NYC. Plotted a course to walk the entire length of Brooklyn.

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How 77 Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'

Mass transit agencies around the world face the same conundrum: How to make what amounts to four straight lines distinctive.

"The universal symbol for a city’s Metro system is a big “M.” If you see one, wherever you are, you know what to do. It’s like the world got together and agreed on a Bat Signal for mass transportation. But transit agencies also go to some great lengths to render the letter in a way that’s uniquely theirs. With the help of the Metrobits blog we’ve identified at least 77 different M logo designs that are currently (or were recently) in use—gathered here in no special order (and listed in full at the bottom of this post). Considering that an M consists of a mere four straight lines, the group is a pretty impressive feast of diversity."

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Somewhere near Toronto.

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DC SmarTrip Card. Works in Baltimore too!

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My last trip was to Calgary and the most distinctive thing I remember is how polite the bus driver was to a person who missed the previous bus. He offered to catch up to the other bus so the guy could hop on (it was on a different route).

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Living in a city that is constantly shit on by people who don't live in it yet benefit from it can be tough. Espically when they complain about it.

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Summer days

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Fewer people in Virginia are driving to work alone, Virginians want more bus, train, and bike options throughout the state, and there's a link between the number of transit options a person has and their quality of life. These takeaways, and more, come from a recently-released survey of Virginia's residents.

As many in Northern Virginia know, once you get a taste of public transit it’s hard to go back to cars. 

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The rapid expansion of Shanghai’s metro from 1994-2014 is astounding to see.

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Light rail service center baltimore

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"Last week, Maryland governor Larry Hogan announced the state will not move forward with the Baltimore Red Line. He argued building it would be too expensive, particularly the tunnel that would have run through downtown. Was the tunnel necessary?" Yes.

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If we designed homes like we do #cities

Via James Ham ‏@evolvingcities