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Main Street earns good review

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 5, 2007 | Add Comment

A very important day for Portland Main Street was held on Aug. 22, 2007. The Main Street program that economically revitalizes traditional downtowns was reviewed by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA). Main Street is a nationally recognized program led by the National Main Street Center.

Currently, there are 13 Michigan Main Street Cities [...]

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NYC Century Bike Tour

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 5, 2007 | Add Comment
6,000 Cyclists, 5 route options, the #1 best way to see New York City. Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Choose Your Distance, Ride Your Pace: 100, 75, 55, 35 and 15 mile routes.

The Century is your ride—as challenging or relaxing as you choose, but always fun and rewarding. All routes have been carefully designed [...]

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Mixed-Use Development Impacting Neighborhoods

By rdahl@pps.org on Sep 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

A mixed-use development project that is getting mixed-reviews from resident in Grand Junction, CO.

Mixed-use development is springing up on First and Patterson Streets. People who live in the area say they are concerned about the impact it will have on their neighborhood.

Wendy Hoffman says she’s not sure what to think about the [...]

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Video on Urban Planning and Traffic in NY

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 29, 2007 | Add Comment

The Open Planning Project founder Mark Gorton in NY talks with “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz about about history of DOT in NYC, car-free Cental Park, and general transportation policy. It gives a great history of the evolution of transportation thinking and policy in NY over the last 40 years.

Click here to watch the video. [...]

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Secretary Peters Says Bikes “Are Not Transportation”

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 27, 2007 | Add Comment

On PBS’ “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” this week, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters said that instead of raising taxes on gasoline to renew the nation’s sagging infrastructure, Congress should examine its spending priorities — including investments in bike paths and trails, which, Peters said, “are not transportation.”
PBS has the full transcript, [...]

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City Experiments by Adding Color to Bus Lanes

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 20, 2007 | Add Comment

With support from the Federal Highway Administration, New York City will be the first locality in the United States to test painted bus lanes, the city’s Department of Transportation announced today.

Photo: New York City Department of Transportation

As part of a trial period, existing bus lanes on East 57th Street, from [...]

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PPS Training Courses Open for Registration!

By rdahl@pps.org on Aug 15, 2007 | Add Comment

Registration is now open for our two-day public training courses here in NYC:  How to Create Successful Markets, Oct. 12-13 and How to Turn a Place Around, Oct. 18-19

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Melbourne, Australia After a Decade of Focus on Public Spaces

By ksalay@pps.org on Aug 3, 2007 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces Vice President, Ethan Kent, writes about Melbourne’s successful new public space development, Federation Square, and a Placemaking training course that he helped lead, which included many city staff, local developers and “place managers.”

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Paris: Nice To People, Not Nice To Cars

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 31, 2007 | Add Comment

An observer comments on the French capital’s success at making alternate modes of transportation easier and accessible.

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PPS Takes Public Spaces Inventory of Fallon, Nevada

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 17, 2007 | Add Comment

Three urban planners from PPS visited Churchhill County and Fallon, NV, in an effort to inventory and assess local gathering places and destinations around town. 

Phil Myrick, vice president of PPS, and Elena Madison, assistant vice president, presented a list of sites they felt could be better utilized in Fallon. The team, [...]

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Jan Gehl Recommends Banning Cars from Times Square

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 11, 2007 | Add Comment

The New York City Department of Transportation wants to hire as a consultant Jan Gehl, who has helped cities like London and Copenhagen create less congested urban areas by taking back the streets from cars – and giving top priority to pedestrians and bicyclists.

Jan Gehl is a world-renowned Danish architect who wants to [...]

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Bicycle Sharing in NYC

By ksalay@pps.org on Jul 10, 2007 | Add Comment

The Storefront for Art and Architecture is experimenting with a bicycle share program to demonstrate to New Yorkers that bicycling is a viable, and enjoyable, transportation alternative.

Several European cities have successful bicycle sharing programs – Paris will shortly be making 10,000 bikes available from 750 stations across the city through a program called Continue Reading

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