suburbs thread

yeah that's right

two iatee-bait articles on the same page of today's NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/us/san-francisco-buses-are-slow-but-just-try-eliminating-a-stop.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/us/san-francisco-hopes-to-find-out-whos-parking-where.html

yeah when I lived in sf I would just walk everywhere unless the weather was bad or the distance was like 3+ miles. it's a pretty frustrating city w/r/t public transit, buses *and* muni are slow as hell. iirc studies show that people will walk ~.25 miles for a station, sf could rip out plenty. that other dude has a point in that there's a lot of low hanging fruit when it comes to speeding up buses without getting rid of stops but that doesn't mean we can't do both. the blog human transit is pretty good on this subject.

Convenient bump. I was just going to post this interview Cities Are Making Us More Human

It goes over some well covered territory (cities are better fro the environment, they encourage creativity, they are good for health, good for economy) but it still interesting.

'cities are making us more human' in 'the european' magazine