The De Facto Sidewalks

Transit agencies serving populations of 200,000 or greater “will expend not less than one percent of the amount the recipient receives each fiscal year under Section 5307 for transit enhancements . . . and will submit an annual report listing projects carried out in the preceding fiscal year with those funds,” according to Section 5307(d)(1)(K).  That’s clear enough: you will spend 1% of your...

Like Peas and Carrots: Co-locating facilities and transit

  For more than 100 Years the Reading Terminal Market has been the grocer, deli, cheese shop, bakery, and so mucyh else to commuters in Philadelphia. Steam Locamotives once stopped overhead but now Reading is served underground by SEPTA. Photo Scheib Shoppers could always tell when the train arrived by the sound of 700,000 pounds of steel laboring to a halt a few dozen feet overhead.  The Reading...