A bit of a slower news day for city and transportation issues. I was sad to read that Toronto had given up on its ideas for a municipal broadband network. I'd really like to see more of these around the country. I'm sick of having to call Comcast every other month to take away bogus charges.
Getting around on two-wheels was a trend picking up speed even before the pandemic made public transportation a stressful gambit. The growing popularity of e-bikes has further added to cycling's appeal. According to U.S. Census data, New York City bike commuters nearly doubled between 2010 and 2019. Washington, D.C. had a 67% uptick, Denver 51% […] Read On
Before the 1960s, if a developer built a community amenity such as a swimming pool, golf course or park, they usually turned it over to a municipal government to administer. In the early 1960s, when Black and Latinx people gained access to public swimming pools and public parks through the Civil Rights movement, developers designed […] Read On
In September of 2019, roughly a dozen workers in Oslo, Norway, broke ground on the world's first zero-emission construction site. They were widening a busy street into a pedestrian zone, using powerful machinery to break and lift slabs of asphalt. Read On
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