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Henry George stalks Islington
Andy Hull, a councilor just down the road from here in the London borough of Islington, is advocating a land tax (thanks, Liberal Conspiracy). This is one of those excellent old ideas that seem to...
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Impervious surface cover and the virtures of federalism
While we’re on taxes: several counties in Maryland (if your knowledge of American geography is limited, that’s Baltimore and The Wire) will now tax impervious surface cover. That’s rooftops,...
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CO2 and shopping: walking better than web, web better than driving
Home delivery of groceries produces far lower CO2 emissions than driving to the supermarket: Erica Wygonik and Anne Goodchild find this in a recent study of the Seattle area (thanks to Tanya Snyder at...
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Such a linear, ordered, minimalist …. purposeful graffito
Book him, Danno. Anthony Cardenas was arrested by Vallejo police for felony vandalism. … Cardenas is in [jail] for painting one crosswalk and adding cross-hatching to the three official ones…. [jail]...
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Bike Share Map
Here’s a beautiful map showing real-time bike share usage, station by station, in cities around the world. This is the publicly available data. The NSA, of course, tracks individual riders as they ride...
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The carbon dioxide 1%, in one town
Emily Badger in Atlantic Cities: A Small Number of People Are Causing a Huge Share of Our Greenhouse Emissions. The study she’s discussing, by Dominik Saner et al, is here (behind the paywall). This is...
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Map: corporate shuttle routes from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley
- map from Eric Rodenbeck, writing (and mapping) in Wired. Thanks to Louis Suárez-Potts for the link. For many, San Francisco’s transition from center of finance, trade and manufacturing to a new role...
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Going Dutch: more about kids than commuters
Percentage of trips by cycling, UK (blue) vs. Netherlands (orange), by age group. From City Cycling, eds. Pucher & Buehler, 2012, via AsEasyAsRidingABike. update: David Hembrow reminds me of an...
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Going to LA
Click image to enlarge; thanks to John Fleck, via Rabett Run, for this beautiful graphic. Of course it reminds you that the city’s water – Chinatown and all that – is coming from desert rivers that...
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Better cycling infrastructure, or make driving more costly? Yes.
Good cycling infrastructure is extremely important for increasing cycling and for reducing the use of cars in our towns and cities. On main roads, that means protected (segregated) cycle lanes; on side...
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For greener Green Lanes: radical traffic reduction
(Mostly of local interest in a small part of north London) Until September, there will be no through traffic on Wightman Road. Many of those who live on Wightman, or on the Ladder roads which normally...
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Buses vs. cabs on Oxford Street
Sadiq Khan promised during his campaign to pedestrianize Oxford Street. That would mean no buses or taxis (black cabs, which is to say traditional London taxis, not mini-cabs or Uber), which are the...
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Wood Green
The Haringey Council has published a set of ‘preferred options’ for Wood Green redevelopment (I’ll call it the Wood Green Plan, or “the plan”). It contains some good ideas but it stumbles badly in two...
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Green Lanes consultation: deference to traffic
New Green Lanes area traffic consultation is now available. There are some good elements to it, worth supporting, and there are tweaks that are worth proposing. The consulation documents outline some...
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Green Lanes Consultation: Item by Item
Yesterday I blogged about the severe limitations of the Green Lanes Traffic & Transport consultation. There’s a lot in the consultation, however, much of it pretty good, some of it excellent, and...
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But where will the Wood Green traffic go?
Hoisted from comments: In my post on the Wood Green regeneration plan, I said: “There should be no private motor vehicles on Green Lanes between Wood Green and Turnpike Lane… Traffic along Hornsey Park...
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Traffic evaporation: are you serious?
Some reflections on shopping, the school run, filters, and the possibility of actual and significant traffic evaporation. Last night I attended the first of the information sessions for the...
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Too many buses?
(Short answer: no.) Hoisted from comments – in an earlier post I complained that TFL and Haringey Council were making “improvements” at Bruce Grove (that’s in Tottenham, north London) that make things...
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(of strictly local interest) This plan (comment deadline today) is for 1,700 flats, 4,000 square metres of retail / restaurant etc., and 7,500 square meters of office space. 1. Car parking No parking...
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