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Cities Reap Rewards for Decking Highways with Parks

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 11, 2007 | 2 Comments

U.S. cities are increasingly putting freeway segments underground and covering them with parkland. Whether called a lid, deck, bridge or tunnel, there are already some 20 highway parks in the country, several under construction — most notably, the Rose Kennedy Greenway park atop Boston’s Big Dig — and at least a dozen more in the [...]

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The Social Life: Join Us at the Next PPS Happy Hour, January 11th

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

Everyone is invited to the next PPS Happy Hour: The Social Life.

WHEN & WHAT TIME: Thursday, January 11, 6pm

SMALL URBAN SPACE: The Edge Bar (95 E 3rd Street between 1 and 2 Avenues), New York City

SOCIABILITY: Drinks and Games–billiards and darts!

We hope to see you there!

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San Francisco’s Successful Freeway Replacement Story

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

In the 15 months since it opened, San Francisco’s Octavia Boulevard has been hailed as a model for other cities. It has been honored at the local and national level, including an award last month from the American Planning Association.

But here’s the real measure of success: The thoroughfare that replaced the elevated Central [...]

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: PPS in Dubai

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 8, 2007 | Add Comment

PPS staff members Fred Kent, Cynthia Nikitin and Ethan Kent traveled to Dubai to train a group of the city’s leading real estate developers in Placemaking.  The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has experienced explosive growth in recent years, emerging as the region’s financial and cultural capital. Ethan explores the transportation situation [...]

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PPS Client Wins Grand Award

By ksalay@pps.org on Jan 4, 2007 | Add Comment

Congratulations to the San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets, co-recipient of the 2006 Grand Award, given by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco.

The Coalition of neighborhood activists successfully transformed a dangerous 6-lane arterial into a traffic-calmed street with wide medians, safe pedestrian crossings, and bike lanes. PPS worked with the Coalition to [...]

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A Week Without a Car in San Francisco

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 28, 2006 | Add Comment

A reporter for the Contra Costa Times spends a week without a car in the San Francisco Bay Area, weighing the pros and cons of public transport.

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Chicago Cracks Down on Dangerous Drivers

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 20, 2006 | Add Comment

Chicago DOT announced that this spring, traffic officers will pose as pedestrians, as part of an effort to crack down on drivers who endanger pedestrians.

Also as a part of Mayor Daley’s Safe Streets for Chicago plan, the city will be installing various safety measures, such as bulb-outs, elevated crosswalks, and pedestrian refuges in hazardous [...]

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Noise Pollution May Prompt Highway Cover-up in Oak Park, IL

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 19, 2006 | Add Comment

Highways are unwelcome, noisy, polluting neighbors to people who live near them. They’re so imposing that it’s hard to imagine making one disappear. But that’s exactly what Oak Park, IL, might do.  A group is proposing to turn 1 1/2 miles of an expressway into a tunnel, with a 60 acre park on top.

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Plans for a Walkable Minneapolis

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 18, 2006 | Add Comment

A newly formed non-profit group is focusing on developing a network of pedestrian-friendly routes in downtown Minneapolis.

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Have TODS Reached the Mainstream?

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 12, 2006 | Add Comment

“With the Wall Street Journal weighing in on transit-oriented development, has the movement that ties intensive, mixed land uses to transportation activity nodes finally reached the mainstream?” Asks Planetizen.

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Fair- and Foul-weather Cities Can Become Safer and Easier for Bicyclists

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 8, 2006 | Add Comment

“Chicago can be stiflingly hot during the summer and rain-chilled in the spring, and its wind-whipped winters are the stuff of legend. So when the subject is “bicycle commuting,” Chicago is not the first city that springs to mind. But it’s becoming a hot bike-to-work town. In the next decade, it plans to expand its [...]

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Interstate Bridge in Atlanta Remade into Pedestrian-friendly Mini-park

By ksalay@pps.org on Dec 7, 2006 | Add Comment

“Atlanta’s newest park is planted in quite a place: 17 feet above Downtown Connector motorists.

There is nothing else like it in the state, say Georgia Department of Transportation officials. The Fifth Street Bridge, officially finished today, has more than tripled in size as it spans I-75/I-85 downtown, giving the feel of a garden rather [...]

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