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Urban design concept of the day

Dedicated lanes

Transit needs a dedicated ROW to move efficiently, but sometimes there isn’t enough space or budget to build underground or elevated tracks, that’s where streetrunning comes in. When you run a line like a tram, lightrail or BRT on the Street it is significantly cheaper to build but slower and less safe with the chance of getting stuck in traffic, hit by a car or by having a car park in front of the vehicle. This can be solved by slightly increasing costs and giving the transit it’s own lane and signal priority as if cars can’t drive where the transit is, then the transit can move at considerably higher speeds. Basically giving transit a dedicated transit lane on a street makes it cheaper to build but still keeps the trains fast and efficient

[The official tumblr of amtrak]

I am going to say it, the thing that people say about how American cities kinda suck is true. But you know what, I still love them, they are where I live and they are improving and I am so glad to live in a time where there is an actual effort to contract and undo the damage done to our cities. We are expanding and building transit for the first time in half a century, more bike lanes are being built that ever, freeway removals are beimg proposed, in general I think almost every major US City will be a better more livable place in 2030 than it was in 2010