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Tag Archives: freeways
Arizona DOT ponders paving over paradise
Are they NUTS? Among the alternatives being considered by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for future Interstate 11 (I-11) are two (2) options that would loop it west of Tucson through the stunningly gorgeous Avra Valley. Who in … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, archaeology, cities, civics, civility, commerce, economic development, environment, geography, Geology, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, light pollution, Maps, Mexico, nature, planning, pollution, shipping, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, topography, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged Arizona, Avra Valley, expressways, freeways, Future I-11, highways, interstate, Interstate 11, maps, Pima County, Sonoran Desert, Tucson
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Ann Arbor’s new “FlexRoute” dynamic shoulder lanes
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) recently opened flexroute lanes along a nine mile segment of US 23 north of Ann Arbor. This was done as a cost saving alternative ($92 million) to three-laning the freeway ($400 million) through this … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Cars, cities, economic development, geography, infrastructure, Maps, planning, rail, spatial design, Statistics, technology, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged active traffic management, dynamic shoulder lanes, flex lanes, FlexRoute US 23, freeways, highways, MDOT
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Putting Humpty Dumpty Cities back together again
Some may wonder what in the world this nursery rhyme has to do with cities. Well, it’s essentially a metaphor for those cities that were devastated by freeway construction in the 1950s through 1980s. Much in the way Humpty … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative transportation, Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, downtown, economic gardening, geography, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, revitalization, spatial design, sustainability, transportation, urban planning
Tagged Canada, cities, freeways, highways, Humpty Dumpty, land use, planning, revitalization, spatial design, transportation, urban planning, urban renewal, USA
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The age of the aerotropolis beltway
In the midst of reading John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay’s definitive and thoroughly interesting book entitled Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, I began to ponder some of the surface transportation ramifications of this megatrend. In particular, those impacts taking … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, Cars, cities, civics, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, density, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, entrepreneurship, fair trade, geography, globalization, government, land use, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, skylines, spatial design, sprawl, technology, Trade, transportation, Travel, urban planning, writing, zoning
Tagged aerotropolis, air travel, airport planning, airports, beltways, books, cars, cities, commerce, economic development, freeways, geography, Greg Lindsay, highways, Interstates, John Kasada, land use, planning, publications, ring roads, spatial design, sprawl, trade, transportation, transportation planning, travel, urban planning, writing
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Saying goodbye to Kokoslowmotion
If you happen to have grown up in Indiana or pass through the central part of the state from time to time, you have no doubt driven the U.S. 31 bypass around Kokomo. You may also recall that today, the … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Alternative energy, architecture, bicycling, Cars, cities, civility, climate change, Communications, culture, density, economic development, Economy, energy, environment, geography, history, humanity, land use, North America, placemaking, planning, politics, pollution, product design, rail, spatial design, sprawl, States, sustainability, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning
Tagged Beach Boys, cars, expressways, freeways, highways, Indiana, kokomo, livability, parkways, planning, sustainability, transportation, travel
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Healing the scars left by cars
While individual car ownership has created many negative impacts on cities, the two that tend to be the most noticeable to me are the once-thriving neighborhoods that were carved up and divided by freeway networks and those downtown cores that … Continue reading
Posted in cities, culture, environment, history, land use, planning, revitalization, transit, transportation
Tagged cities, freeways, land use, transportation
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