National Links: Should Cities Use Cool Pavements?
Doubts are raised about cool pavements, engineers need more transportation education and other great reads await in this week’s National Links.
Tag Archives: Houston
National Links: Not Everyone Can Afford to Ride the Bus
More than half of people with incomes below the federal poverty line can’t afford to access transit, and why jaywalking laws are outdated and unsafe.
How Houston Reimagined its Transit Network and Increased Ridership
Featured image credit: Laura Bliss, CityLab As a transit-oriented blog reader, you may have heard back in 2015 that Houston’s Metro system changed the route map of its buses overnight after years of careful planning and community feedback. Now going on four years later, what has been the impact on riders and the communities they live in? […]
Chart of the Day: Necessary Road Space per Traffic Mode for Houston Metro Evacuation
Right now, even in Minnesota, all eyes are on the flooding and storm impact in Houston, Texas. Earlier today I read an article about why the Mayor of Houston did not put out a call for an evacuation of the city ahead of the landfall of Hurricane Harvey. It turns out the answer was that […]
National Links: Eminent Domain, Cafe Urbanism, and Company Towns
Every day at The Direct Transfer we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region. […]
Daylight Savings Links! Evolution of Coffee Shops, Beltline Magic, and the Perfect Storm
Every day at The Direct Transfer we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to Streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region. […]