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The Perversity of American Subsidies
by Dom Nozzi It is perverse that the US government so heavily subsidizes and provides for a form of travel (car travel) that is largely or fully responsible for… About 45,000 deaths (not to mention the injuries) per year … Continue reading
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Transforming Rochester New York by Transforming the Inner Loop Highway
by Dom Nozzi Rochester New York is considering the rectification of a colossal blunder the City committed in its past. The City is considering converting its “Inner Loop” grade-separated highway into a more livable, humanized boulevard. For several decades, … Continue reading
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Will the “Sustainability Transportation Analysis & Rating System” Help Us Stop Ruining Ourselves?
by Dom Nozzi Recently, a colleague of mine expressed a great deal of enthusiasm over a new transportation planning tool known as “Sustainable Transportation Analysis & Rating System” (STARS). He felt it would greatly improve long-range transportation planning. That instead … Continue reading
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Increasing Bicycling: It Is Not About Installing More Bike Lanes
By Dom Nozzi, AICP To increase the amount of bicycling, most all of us are convinced that the place to start is to install more bike lanes. More bike paths. More bike parking. Isn’t it obvious? It turns out … Continue reading
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Plan B: What I Plan to Do If Collapse Seems Certain
By Dom Nozzi There is a growing number of books published in recent years that expect significant turbulence or collapse for transportation/government/society/economics in the US in the near future. A few of the books I’ve recently read on this grim … Continue reading
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We Have Met the Enemy
By Dom Nozzi I went to the Florida Dept of Transportation meeting a few years ago at the University of Florida Conference Center on SW 34th Street in Gainesville FL. The meeting agenda was to discuss plans for road modifications … Continue reading
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Why are American Cyclists so afraid of Motorists?
By Dom Nozzi Why are so many American bicyclists are so paranoid about motor vehicles — particularly compared to bicyclists in western Europe? I’d speculate that the comparatively high fear of American cyclists has to do with the fact that … Continue reading
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Small Speeds and Small Sizes
By Dom Nozzi Several decades ago, as cars were first emerging in America, there was a large backlash against the growing car menace, and there was a very strong and nearly successful push to require all new cars to be … Continue reading
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Reducing Greenhouse Gases
By Dom Nozzi What tactics can we use to reduce greenhouse gases? I prefer the efficiency of pricing as a lever to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) objectives, rather than land use policies (such as resolving to create mixed uses and … Continue reading
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Town Center Design and On-Street Parking
By Dom Nozzi In a healthy town center, there are three design imperatives: Pedestrians. Low speeds. Modest dimensions for streets, destination distances and building setbacks. In town centers, in nearly all cases, residential single-family, residential multi-family, commercial and civic uses should … Continue reading
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