What If We Advocated For E-Scooter Ownership Instead Of Scooter Share?
The path to E-Scooter legitimacy lies in the shedding of the shared model in favor of personal ownership
Conversations Surrounding Our Urban Environments
The path to E-Scooter legitimacy lies in the shedding of the shared model in favor of personal ownership
Social distancing or not, Sunday Morning bike adventures allow us to see what it’s like to ride in a world without cars
When considering whether electric scooters are environmentally friendly, we must make the distinction between scooter share and scooter ownership
Public transit is better for our communities and our environment. But for me and other like me, it’s simply more fun.
A side-by-side comparison between Amtrak and the airlines on a weekend trip between Rochester, New York and New York City
High speed rail is a hot button topic yet again in Upstate New York. Here are the points most people don’t get about this divisive issue
As an American culture, we romanticize the speed and power of cars, trucks and SUVs while downplaying the responsibility we have when piloting these machines
Earbuds and smartphones may be allowing more Americans the ability to take some of their comfort with them as they move through an urban world of nuance and unpredictability.
Real “change” doesn’t come from a stationary bike in your living room, it’s the the whole-self transformation that occurs when you start biking for transportation
Sadly, a lack of funding too often negates our ability to serve a population that chooses transit AND one that relies on it.
Crosswalks are the places where drivers should always be reminded that they are piloting heavy machinery that shares space with a living world
When pushing a crosswalk button puts a pedestrian in danger of being hit by a speeding car, the design has failed
The draw of cities and their visual power is in their Layers of Urbanity, a sort of “kid in a candy store” effect that inspires us to see limitless possibilities
The average driver sees other motorists and cyclists as video-game-like obstacles that need to be overcome in order to advance in a game of speed and power
Young people love to stay connected to their digital worlds. Transit has a chance to capitalize on this fact and make our cities better in the process