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"Et si les voitures individuelles pouvaient venir complémenter l'offre de transport en commun dans les zones rurales et péri-urbaines ? C'est le pari de la start-up Ecov qui propose un service à mi-chemin entre l'auto-stop et le covoiturage."

"Armed with a $10 billion transit construction budget, two to six players compete to build a city-wide network consisting of subways, LRTs, high-speed bus routes and bike lanes. On their respective turns, players may choose to plan, build or ride. They also draw TRANSIT CITY cards, which determine the course of the game with a wide range of outcomes that accelerate or impede the creation of the network. With each new line, the $10 billion fund is drawn down, depending on the length and type of the project. The scoring system rewards players for building the right type of transit in the right spot. But if one player opts to invest huge sums on an ineffective transit route, everyone will face the consequences. TRANSIT CITY ends either when the $10 billion has been used up, or when the first player reaches the last stop by amassing 100 points. "

""The whole building is geared towards pedestrians, subway and streetcar riders, and cyclists-there is no space for cars," the company writes in German on a store website. The location is next to a tram stop and a three-minute walk from a subway station; like other parts of the city, it's easily accessible by bike. Anything that customers can't easily carry away will be delivered from a new logistics center farther away (and soon, as with other Ikea stores, those deliveries will happen via electric delivery vans). "Our concept is that parking spaces are not needed, because there are no products to buy that require a car," the website says. The company's stores in other large cities are beginning to take similar approaches; there's a store in Manhattan that serves solely as a showroom. Without the need for parking, the building has room for other uses. "It influenced our design radically," says architect Jakob Dunkl, the owner of Querkraft, the Vienna-based firm that worked on the project, comparing it to another Ikea store in Hamburg that's a similar size, but devotes the top floors to parking. "Instead of two parking floors, we have two hostel floors. And there's a huge roof terrace which is open to the public." The ground level will house retailers from an older building that was displaced by the new construction."

"Tōhoku line train arrives at exactly 8:01, stopping on exactly the corresponding lines, and in seemingly orderly chaos, people stream out of the train and sequentially those standing in line on the platform stream in. Not a sound exists inside the car, except for the pitter-patter shuffling of feet, the quiet "shoop" of the closing doors - only to be interrupted by the trains automatic announcer "次は 大森です。" ("tsugi wa Oomori desu"/"Next is Ōmori") It's after this minute of so-called orderly chaos that I realize (while being squashed between my friends and salarymen) that the entirety of Japan's modern economic and social status rests in its expansive and labyrinth-like transit system, scouring through the cities and countries as arteries on the human body. In the tradition of the samurais of yesterday, Japan's modern blood is forged in steel."

"The Pittsburgh Micromobility Collective will create all-in-one mobility hubs near transit stops, to compete with Uber and Lyft and help commuters go car-free."

"Traffic circles are ubiquitous in France, accepted as safer than traditional intersections. But they have also become an emblem of the country's ailments, from urban sprawl to inequality. France loves its roundabouts. They are ubiquitous throughout the country, including in Abbeville, a city of about 25,000. Credit...Aurelien Breeden/The New York Times By Aurelien Breeden Dec. 25, 2019 ABBEVILLE, France - Every day, about 65,000 vehicles cruise through the center of Abbeville, passing by its Gothic church, City Hall and rows of red brick houses, with many drivers on their way to the English Channel about a dozen miles away. But they never stop for a red light. None exist in this town of about 25,000 people. Instead, drivers bank, swerve and loop their way through traffic circle after traffic circle. Their ubiquity in Abbeville is an extreme example of France's unabashed embrace of the roundabout, found in abundance throughout the country and widely credited for making roads safer and less clogged. Even in Abbeville, on a recent morning, workers in fluorescent orange vests and hard hats were breaking ground on yet another traffic circle, as cars were backed up by the construction. Roundabouts played a central role in the Yellow Vests protests, when demonstrators occupied hundreds of the nation's roundabouts, blocking traffic as a way to demonstrate against a despised fuel tax increase in particular and a growing sense of inequality in general. But France's relationship with them has in some ways soured, their very pervasiveness making them a convenient scapegoat for many of France's ills, real or perceived. Pierre Vermeren, a French historian writing in Le Figaro last year, said roundabouts were a "symbol of ugly France" and the "emblem of French malaise." There are no official statistics, but estimates of the total number of traffic circles in France range from 20,000 to 50,000. In the United States - about 18 times bigger and five

"But urban cycling investments tend to focus on the needs of wealthy riders and neglect lower-income residents and people of color. This happens even though the single biggest group of Americans who bike to work live in households that earn less than $10,000 yearly, and studies in lower-income neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Boston have found that the majority of bicyclists were non-white."

"Les Trophées de la Mobilité en Île-de-France récompensent et valorisent des projets exemplaires réalisés dans le domaine des transports et de la mobilité qui s'inscrivent dans le cadre du Plan de déplacements urbains d'Île-de-France (PDUIF)."

"Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure - the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets"

"CityLab has mapped some of the changes happening on city streets in the U.S. and around the world as of April 3, using data from the National Association of Transportation Officials's Covid-19 Transportation Response Center, a newly launched repository of emergency responses."