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Crossing the Lines: A Good Problem for the El
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Monday, June 22, 2015. A Good Problem for the El. The Market-Frankford Line has a capacity issue. It's crowded during rush hour. And its crowding isn't just in Center City, it's end-to-end. Many people use the el to connect to the NHSL, 101 and 102 trolleys, and buses points west at 69th St., and buses points northeast at Frankford and Arrot. Convert to automatic train control (ATC). There's a lot of unused space between the el'...
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Crossing the Lines: Philadelphia2050
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Philadelphia2050 is one of the key ideas underlining this blog. The need for transportation infrastructure investment is urgent, and Philadelphia2050 is a roadmap there for our little part of the Northeast. It is also the crown jewel of my planning efforts so far. The gist of Philadelphia2050 is:. Aggressive expansion of the heavy rail network into three interwoven sub-networks, built by and large with a north-south focus. The L...
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Crossing the Lines: Basics
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Briefly, space can be assigned in a passive. It When this activization process fails, passive space goes unused. But to activate a passive space, there must be a critical mass of activity surrounding it. Even large parks are activated in such a manner: witness Central Park, Fairmount Park, Hyde Park, or Balboa Park. Enclosure is thus an act of definition. Both physically and mentally. I have now dedicated two. A good school, not...
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Crossing the Lines: The Great Plains of North Philadelphia
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. The Great Plains of North Philadelphia. Aka the Logan Triangle). GroJLart has on Naked Philly. A feature about the ruins of the Logan Triangle, a region of subsiding land due to poor fill over the now-turned-into-a-sewer Wingohocking Creek. This area came to be because the dwellings there were simply made uninhabitable. Hunting Park right next to it? And a larger issue- how would you market it?
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Crossing the Lines: August 2015
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Friday, August 7, 2015. Looking At High Speed in the Keystone Corridor. Is a quiet giant. A simple, more-or-less hourly regional train, it only takes an hour to get from Philadelphia to Lancaster and a bit more to Harrisburg. It also adds extra hourly trains on the most-heavily-traveled intercity railroad in North America: the Northeast Corridor between Philadelphia and New York. As it stands, with more operating funds (i.e&...
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Crossing the Lines: September 2014
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Monday, September 29, 2014. Kansas City Can Do It Better. This post started as a fork from the previous post, The Streetcar Fiasco. Let us recall, for reference, Width, and the Perception of Width. And Multiway Boulevards, Transit Avenues. Kansas City Streetcar render. Kansas City's Main Street is only 80 feet wide - 10 feet narrower. The narrowest a street can be and still have full light rail is a mere 70 feet. A second option...
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Crossing the Lines: Looking at SEPTA
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Monday, January 16, 2012. Lately, Alon Levy of Pedestrian Observations has been taking a long, hard look. At the MBTA commuter rail operation. This analysis will start along the lower Delaware and work more-or-less clockwise. 1 The Wilmington-Newark Line. Happens to be one of the three commuter rail lines that also utilizes high-speed designated lines. Since SEPTA has not. 2 The Airport Line. This also offers a new service parad...
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Crossing the Lines: Ten Pieces of Train Equipment That Need to Be Street Legal In America
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Ten Pieces of Train Equipment That Need to Be Street Legal In America. Metaphorically speaking, to a certain degree, of course. But this short list includes a couple of locos, coaches, EMUs, and DMUs, none of which are currently allowed to mix with American mainline freight traffic. Given this equipment's global ubiquity, this points to a failure of the American. 9 Bombardier VLocity 160. Australian o...
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Crossing the Lines: July 2015
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Friday, July 31, 2015. Cross Harbor Rail Tunnel: Changing the Traffic Patterns in New York? The Cross-Harbor Freight Tunnel. This isn't really enough of a justification to drive an $11 billion investment. But something else is. To understand what is, though, first we must look at NS' and CSX's current Northeastern mainlines and traffic patterns. Linking the Northeastern Markets. Conrail, the phoenix of the old Northeastern rail ...
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Crossing the Lines: May 2015
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Crossing the Lines: Site, Urban, Environmental, and Transportation Planning. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Quick Note On PATH. Found this AP wire today: http:/ www.philly.com/philly/business/transportation/304536631.html. Mayor Zimmer is right not to be happy, and to be suspicious of PATH's stated motives. Decreasing the frequency from six minutes to seven does indeed decrease. In other words, this move will not increase capacity. In fact, it will only make the capacity problem worse. Saturday, May 2, 2015.
