Category: Links

Riders greet one of San Francisco Muni's Boat Trams at Market and 4th in San Francisco on January 29, 2020. The Boat Tram, which operates on a limited basis, made a special appearance to commemorate the closure of lower Market Street to private automobiles. Photo: Henry Pan
Riders greet one of San Francisco Muni's Boat Trams at Market and 4th in San Francisco on January 29, 2020. The Boat Tram, which operates on a limited basis, made a special appearance to commemorate the closure of lower Market Street to private automobiles. Photo: Henry Pan

National Links: Single Stairs, Tram Trains, Colored Crosswalks

• November 10, 2025

Cities rethink stairs, trains, and malls: housing reforms, tram-train innovation, rainbow crosswalk fights, and climate-ready malls headline this urbanism roundup.

manually operated signalling tower, this is one of the later ones. By this time they had dispensed with signs and flags and were using lights exclusively,

National Links: Signal Timing

• October 10, 2025

Cities face transit delays, housing-linked sleep issues, climate and air challenges, halted Phoenix growth over water rights, and renewed BRT expansion.

Bicycles parked at café, Shoreview, mn
People increasingly want to live around others who want a similar healthy lifestyle. They want local eateries that do well serving a variety of quality healthier portion-appropriate food options rather than a token healthy option among huge servings of unhealthy heart killing gook and giant donuts (reasonably small sweets are quite welcomed though). One realtor once told me that there’s nothing that sells Shoreview like a customer seeing lots of people walking and bicycling on Shoreview's paths. More recently another said “lots of bikes parked outside of a local café is turn-on for prospective residents while a place filled with overweight people eating large portions of unhealthy food is a turn-off”.

National Links: Care Infrastructure

• October 6, 2025

Care infrastructure, income and access, and unexpected variations in language and distance are all touched on in this week’s National Links.

Equal Earth projection of global map. Imagery is a derivative of NASA’s Blue Marble summer month composite with oceans lightened to enhance legibility and contrast.
By Strebe - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72769307

National Links: Equal Projection

• September 25, 2025

An updated global map projection, using ancient technologies to combat rising temperatures, rainbow crosswalk outside of Pulse Night Club removed twice and more stories.