Originally published on Green Building Elements. The greatly underestimated public bus shelter is the latest subject of a creative solar power makeover. When winners of a new competition were announced on June 30, 2016, an innovative new set of designs entered the high-tech highway to solar-powered shelters. With solar-powered glow-in-the-dark … [continued]
Carrying on with these “link bombs,” here’s one dedicated to bike & transit news (and views): Bicycling Bike Commuting 101 Bicycle Infrastructure Fail(s) Bogotá Gets Two-Way Bike Lane On Important Street How Bikesharing Can Gain Popularity Bikesharing A Commuter’s Business Bikeshare Transit Act Introduced to Help Fund Bikeshare Projects The Ultimate Indicator of a Bicycle-Friendly City Meet The Affordable, … [continued]
To accompany the HUGE electric vehicle news roundup I just published, if you are interested in clean transport in general, here are some cool bike and transit stories: Why Do People Hate Cyclists? At the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning conference, several researchers shared their work examining why people hate bicyclists … [continued]
More fun clean transportation news for your reading pleasure: Protected Lanes Key To Increasing Urban Bike Usage, 7 Times More Potent A new nationwide US survey has found that protected bike lanes equipped with physical barriers can have a major impact upon the usage of bicycles by residents, due to the … [continued]
Here’s some more clean transport fun. In this daily share, we’ve got Tesla stories (of course), some other EV stories, bike & pedestrian stories, and a BRT story. Enjoy! (As always, click the subheadings to read the full titles.) Oprah Buys A Tesla Model S Shit’s getting real now (as they … [continued]
More clean transport readin’ fer ya: Tesla Tesla + Marvin Gaye Get Down 😀 Tesla Named Forbes’ Most Innovative Company Decoding Tesla’s Secret Formula Tesla Software Version 7.0 With Autopilot Mercedes Is Saying Goodbye To Tesla Beast Mode Tesla Model S (Gotta See) Tesla Model S For Just $42,900?! Driving Tesla vs ICE Cars Survey: Tesla As Primary Car? … [continued]
How we move about — to work, to play, for health needs, etc. — contributes to economic well-being as well as personal health (or lack thereof). People in record numbers are now choosing public transit services. Health as a way of life — instead of something we work on once in a while — is … [continued]
Mass transit offers many benefits, and millennials are more supportive than previous generations of renewable energy and shifts in transportation. However, we are still far from the ridership percentages our country had long ago, before we got involved so profoundly with automobiles. Feeling engaged and positively connected to cool images of public transport might … [continued]
Automobile traffic produces air pollution, chokes cities, and wastes time. Mass transit is one of the best options for change. Many of us would ride mass transit if it was readily available. But I think many more would be inclined to ride if the metro offered internet access. Extra Wi-Fi time instead of … [continued]
Here’s another ingenious and practical infrastructure story from our mentor in all things bicycle and mass transit, Copenhagen. Safety is not a small issue with bicyclists and pedestrians. Copenhagen has many bus stops and cycle tracks with a lot of bicyclists and pedestrians, which provides the need to really integrate them … [continued]
