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How might we keep the lights on, water flowing, and natural world vaguely intact? It starts with grabbing innovative ideas/examples to help kick down our limits and inspire a more sustainable world. We implement with rigorous science backed by hard data.
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PIRatE Lab
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"The episode begins with Stephen Dubner talking to parking guru Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA and author of the landmark book The High Cost of Free Parking. In a famous Times op-ed, Shoup argued that as much as one-third of urban congestion is caused by people cruising for curb parking. But, as Shoup tells Dubner, there ain’t no such thing as a free parking spot."
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Everyone searching for a parking space has at one time felt that there are not enough spaces where and when you need them...did you know that their are at least 3 surface lot parking spaces for every car in the United States (not including garages, driveways, etc)? With 250 million passenger vehicles for 316 million people, that means there are 800 million surface lot parking spaces (that account for only 60-70% of our parking needs). Parking then is a much bigger issue that we want to believe; this is one of the reasons why IKEA is starting to rethinking their construction model that historically has been designed around huge parking lots. 
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SustaiVideo by Michael Naphan It's the roadway of the future! Feel inspired? Help us bring this project to the next step: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I've seen this idea before, but it looks like with a little creative marketing and an entertaining video many more folks are finally checking out the idea. The possibilities are (almost) limitless.
Normally I am someone who worries about the harm roadways can cause. Here we have an example of how a liability can become an asset.
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From the very beginning, Colorado Boulevard was all about the car.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
If we can do this in car-crazed Los Angeles, folks can do this anywhere. More walkable, livable streets.
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By Lewis Lehe and Matthew Green Who doesn't love sitting in traffic? Especially when there's no apparent reason for it: no crashes, no tolls, no flaming
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Why congested freeways are not that efficient and cause the freakish "eveybody stops, but there is no accident" situation that drives everyone insane.
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Roadside shrubbery and grass soak up a lot of carbon, and with better management it could soak up a lot more.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Road edges can be seen as something other than an weedy zone that spreads negative impacts and invaders.
Interesting idea.
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From
gizmodo
Whether you're a commuter or a leisure rider, when you head out on your bicycle you want to be safe. That could mean wearing a helmet, making sure your bike's tuned up, or avoiding the streets where the most bicycle crashes happen. That last part just got a little easier, thanks to these data-derived maps by You Are Here.
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After countless delays, cost overruns, gridlock gripes from Tesla's Elon Musk and a phenomenon known as "Carmageddon," officials Friday will finally unveil on the 405 Freeway the nation's longest continuous carpool lane.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Wow...it only took a billion dollars, a decade of active planning/construction (on top of our twenty previous years of discussions), unions screaming for the "high paying jobs" the construction would provide, beyond aggravated motorists, etc., etc.
Who says we can't do overpriced, car-centric, gasoline-centric, dated-before-it-launches transportation planning?
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"When you combine a street and a road, you get a STROAD, one of the most dangerous and unproductive human environments. To get more for our transportation dollar, America needs an active policy of converting STROADs to productive streets or high capacity roadways."
François Lanthier's curator insight,
January 31, 2014 2:19 PM
The Stroad - an unfortunate phenomenon... NYC is taking action to minimize its' STROADS... more cities should do the same. |
