Author: cityhikes

• Sunday Parkways, Again

  

  Revisiting a beloved but underfunded open streets program to see if there’s more to be done

  cityhikes

  March 31, 2024

  bike, pedestrian access, place, portland, urban planning, walk

  bike-rides, ciclovia, cycling, infrastructure, open streets, pedestrian, portland, portland sunday parkways, streets, transportation, transportation policy, travel, urbanism, walking

• Staring Into The Void Of Zoning In Madison

  

  Does the West Area Plan go too far? Or not far enough?

  cityhikes

  March 27, 2024

  bike, neighborhood, pedestrian access, place, swimming, transit, urban planning, wisconsin

  affordable-housing, cities, city, city life, density, housing, land use, madison, transit, urban planning, urbanism, walking, wisconsin

• The Suburbanization of Swimming

  

  A ramble about swimming, the suburbs, and what it all means to me

  cityhikes

  February 29, 2024

  car culture, neighborhood, portland, swimming

  health, land use, planning, portland, racism, sports, suburbia, suburbs, swim, swimming, urbanism, wellness

• Oregon High Speed Rail – Branching Out

  

  Little projects go a long way when you’re connecting to a high speed trunk

  cityhikes

  February 12, 2024

  highway, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  corvallis, eugene, high speed rail, hillsboro, mcminnville, newberg, oregon, oregon high speed rail, portland, railroad, salem, transit, urbanism, willamette valley

• Oregon High Speed Rail – The Valley

  

  Would you rather have a train to Eugene in less than an hour or one freeway expansion project?

  cityhikes

  February 6, 2024

  high speed rail, interurban, odot, train, transit, urban planning

  amtrak, cascades, high speed rail, oregon, oregon electric, portland, railroad, southern pacific, transit, urbanism

• A Tale of One Bus Route

  

  The changes to the 17 are bad, but there’s time to stop them

  cityhikes

  January 27, 2024

  lower albina, pedestrian access, transit, trimet, urban planning

  bus, land use, lower albina, oregon, portland, transit, trimet, urbanism

• On Eurocentrism In Urbanism

  

  Good cities are part of the fundamental human experience, not just the European one

  cityhikes

  January 16, 2024

  place, transit, urban planning

  beijing, cities, city, eurocentrism, hangzhou, land use, los angeles, mexico city, native american history, public transit, tenochtitlan, teotihuacan, urban life, urbanism

• Wisconsin High Speed Rail – Creating A System

  

  Or why nationalization is an opportunity for high speed rail

  cityhikes

  January 12, 2024

  Uncategorized

  amtrak, chicago, conrail, midwest, midwest high speed rail, milwaukee, railroad, transit, twin cities, urbanism, wisconsin, wisconsin high speed rail

• The Interstate Highway System Was A Mistake

  

  And Wendover Productions is extremely wrong about it

  cityhikes

  January 10, 2024

  Uncategorized

  critique, cultural values, interstate, oregon, portland, traffic engineering, trains, urbanism, us highway, wendover productions

• Wisconsin High Speed Rail – Giant Steps

  

  What will it take to bring fast trains back to my home?

  cityhikes

  January 7, 2024

  high speed rail, small town, train, transit, wisconsin

  amtrak, high speed rail, madison, milwaukee, railroad, scott walker, talgo, transit, urbanism, wisconsin, wisconsin high speed rail