Category Archives: Transportation

I spent several days in the Lille area in early March. I had been in the city numerous times over the years but had never previously spent a night there. Lille occupies a peculiar place in the French urban hierarchy. … Continue reading →

I spent several days in Lisbon in late January. This was my first trip to Lisbon since 2014. (I had also visited in 1998.) I particularly wanted to take a look at the recreational paths along the Tagus (Tejo) that … Continue reading →

I visited Tempe, Arizona, last week. I wanted to take a look at Tempe’s new streetcar line, which opened in May of this year. I also wanted to explore some other recent urban projects there. The context is important. Tempe … Continue reading →

I’ve been in London twice this summer, in early July and then just last week. In London, as in just about every other big city in the Western world, there has been a serious effort over the last fifty or … Continue reading →

I spent a few days in Ottawa this month. I’d been in the Ottawa area several times over the years, most recently in 2015. Ottawa is not a huge, complicated metropolis in the way that Toronto, for example, is, but … Continue reading →

High-density, pedestrian-oriented residential urban neighborhoods in the United States are rare. If one sets the criteria tightly enough—substantial population density and crowded sidewalks being the most important—the majority of such places are in New York, and even there largely in … Continue reading →

I spent some time on Miami Beach Walk this week for the first time in a couple of years. It was interesting to see that the replacement of the old wooden boardwalk sections with pavers that I mentioned in an … Continue reading →

I visited the new Underline trail when I was in Miami last week. The Underline is supposed to replace and to be a big improvement over the M-Path, the simple trail that was created under or next to the southern … Continue reading →

I made two short trips to Paris this fall. I particularly wanted to take a look at some of the changes in Paris introduced by the administration of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, which, since 2014, has garnered a huge amount of … Continue reading →

Here are four census-tract-level maps showing the “modal split” of journeys to work by workers 16 and over during the 2015/2019 period in the central parts of the New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco areas. All these maps … Continue reading →