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Woman Ticketed For Crossing Street Too Slowly

By ngrossman@pps.org on Apr 18, 2006 | 2 Comments

This is not a joke. In Sunland, CA, an 82-year-old woman was fined $114 for failing to cross the five-lane Foothill Boulevard before the signal turned to Don’t Walk.

While the police claim that she entered the crosswalk after the light changed, she maintains the signal was green when she began walking, and that she [...]

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PPS goes to Elmira

By ngrossman@pps.org on Apr 18, 2006 | Add Comment

Next Wednesday, PPS’s Andy Wiley-Schwartz will deliver the keynote address at the Elmira, NY Downtown Development annual meeting. His talk will kick off PPS’s work on the Railroad Avenue Promenade project. Over the next several months, PPS will be working with the citizens of Elmira to develop placemaking ideas for the area underneath this downtown [...]

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New Roads Mean More than Pavement

By stsay@pps.org on Apr 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Toni Gold’s latest column in the Hartford Courant raises the bar for a new road policy to put public money to better use.

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New Road Policy Means More Than Pavement

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 17, 2006 | Add Comment

Toni Gold, a Senior Associate of PPS, addresses what Connecticut’s new transportation policy should look like;

“A new roads policy would accept the fact that we have hit the wall in building our way out of traffic congestion because of the reality of induced traffic. This means that as roads are widened, more traffic is [...]

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Bikes Connecting Bogota and the South Bronx

By kziegenfuss@pps.org on Apr 17, 2006 | Add Comment

An interview with Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Columbia, and Majora Carter, Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, on how bikes are connecting the South Bronx with the capital of Colombia and creating more livable cities.

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Bikes Connecting Bogota and the South Bronx

By ngrossman@pps.org on Apr 17, 2006 | Add Comment

An interview with Enrique Penaloso, former Mayor of Bogota, Columbia, and Majora Carter, Executive Director/Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, on how bikes are connecting the South Bronx with the capital of Columbia and creating more livable cities.

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Georgia Tries to Improve Deadly Road for Walkers

By ksalay@pps.org on Apr 13, 2006 | 1 Comment

As immigrants without cars settle in suburban neighborhoods, simply crossing the street to buy groceries is becoming a life-and-death activity.

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Corridors and Clay

By stsay@pps.org on Apr 11, 2006 | Add Comment

To make citizens think about their streets, give them hard facts. Or clay buildings. Metropolis Magazine covers the Living Streets Project.

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Coolest Subway Map Ever

By ngrossman@pps.org on Mar 24, 2006 | Add Comment

(via Starts and Fits)

This is a great Google Maps mashup showing the subway system overlaid on the real NYC street map.

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Coolest Subway Map Ever

By ngrossman@pps.org on Mar 24, 2006 | Add Comment

(via Starts and Fits)

This is a great Google Maps mashup showing the subway system overlaid on the real NYC street map.

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Upcoming PPS Training Courses

By ngrossman@pps.org on Mar 21, 2006 | Add Comment

Project for Public Spaces invites you to its popular “How to Create Successful Public Markets” workshop on May 11-12, 2006 and “How to Turn a Place Around” workshop on May 4-5, 2006 in New York City.

HOW TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL MARKETS
www.pps.org/info/ppsnews/markets_training_course

Is a two-day workshop led by our own public [...]

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Pedestrian Mall Removal Breathes New Life into Downtown Raleigh

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

Downtown Raleigh is rumbling back to life at last. With each new hole in the ground, the sound is building to a roar. The city counts nearly $1 billion in public and private investment either under way downtown or starting soon.

So what happened? Was it the decision to rip out the Fayetteville Street Mall, [...]

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