Transportation Innovations from Across the USA

Monday, January 25, 2010

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    Bike sharing in Washington, DC (Sally M/flickr)

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  • “ It’s convenient and I actually say its hyper convenient. A bike share station is every 300 meters throughout a city. That means that for every transit station, you might have three, four, five bike share stations and you literally come up to a station, you swipe a card and you take a bike.
    — Nicole Freedman, head of bike share at the Boston Redevelopment Authority

Takeaway correspondent Andrea Bernstein is just back from a conference in Washington of 10,000 transportation professionals from across the country. There, she learned how cities around the country are introducing novel ideas for transport, trying to make them mainstream. We hear about "Hot Lanes," "Bike Shares," and whether or not some cities may be looking at letting rich people buy their way out of traffic congestion.

Andrea is covering transportation and sustainability for The Takeaway.

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Andrea Bernstein

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Jerry from Miami, FL

Your report did not mention Miami. An express lane has been constructed on I095 which is a pay lane (actually 2 lanes) as described but, car pools and Hybrids ride for free. So its not just a rich people's lane.

Jan. 25 2010 01:41 PM
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