Wednesday, January 16, 2019

How did Charlotte’s big bike-ped trail run out of money?

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Not for recreation only: The Little Sugar Creek Greenway beside Kings Drive in Midtown makes a convenient route for shoppers. The Cros...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Time to have that uncomfortable talk. I mean about parking.

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A Walmart in east Charlotte offers a gracious plenty of parking. Photo: Google Maps satellite view It’s a question without easy answers...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Charlotte fantasies, past and future

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UNC Charlotte design student presents plans imagining a transit-oriented neighborhood, North Park. Photo: Mary Newsom It w...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Do women pay a transportation ‘pink tax’?

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This is a quick note, following my previous post, “ Cities for woman: Transit and gendered spaces, ” which raised the question of whether c...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Cities for women? Transit and gendered spaces

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Bus route changes that force longer walks, especially at night, can be particularly discouraging to female transit passengers. Photo: Ch...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Waiting for the creek to rise

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Now demolished, the Midtown Sundries building was in a floodplain and flooded regularly. Photo courtesy Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Wa...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Should affordable housing be treated as basic city infrastructure?

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Here's an interesting piece in The Washington Post today that should be provoking some discussion among people concerned with housing a...