Tag: <span>transportation</span>

Don’t be Afraid of What You Know: Leadership in Atlanta’s Transportation Mosaic

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” – Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities The built environment often does not meet the needs of all community members, so intertwined are the physical and social dimensions …

S’MARTA Choices for an Uncertain Future

I was fortunate to be able to attend the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) annual conference and Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center in October of 2017. Hailed as the largest transit conference in the United States, it only made sense that the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Atlanta’s …

Lessons in Transit: Don’t Burn Your Bridges

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA, is the public transportation agency in Atlanta, Georgia. Every day, MARTA transports 432,900 riders in metropolitan Atlanta across the city. The Authority currently provides heavy rail, bus, and paratransit transportation in 3 of the 39 counties that make up Atlanta’s metropolitan statistical …

What does the future of sustainable transport look like in Lagos?

By: Kasope Aleshinloye This blog is cross-posted from The City Fix. View the original article here. Kasope Aleshinloye is a first-year graduate student at Bard Center for Environmental Policy (CEP).  Lagos – the largest city and commercial capital of Nigeria – has traditionally struggled with a lack of reliable mass …

Fly Over Country Bid’s Adieu

About a month ago, I completed my internship at the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago. I really loved my time at CNT; from day one I was treated as a member of a team and not as an intern. I worked with people of varying backgrounds and from different …

Life in “The Middle”

About a month has passed since I began working at the Center for Neighborhood Technology  (CNT) in Chicago. Beginning in 1978, CNT has been promoting urban sustainability, “the more effective use of existing resources and community assets to improve the health of natural systems and the wealth of people, today …