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Bicycle facilities in Paris
I have spent the end of November in Paris. Of 2 weeks of my visit I’ve been riding a bike for 10 days: to explore the city, to get where I was going, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening,...
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The return of the tram
Tramway as a form of public transport appeared in Paris in 1855 when French inventor Alphonse Loubat (the man who invented grooved rail) built on of the first horse-drawn lines. As the technology...
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Congested in the head
Yekaterinburg town hall published a transportation development plan for the next 3 years. The plan consists of 30 projects of which 28 are road building and widening and only 2 are devoted to public...
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Bicycle facilities in Paris
I have spent the end of November in Paris. Of 2 weeks of my visit I’ve been riding a bike for 10 days: to explore the city, to get where I was going, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening,...
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The return of the tram
Tramway as a form of public transport appeared in Paris in 1855 when French inventor Alphonse Loubat (the man who invented grooved rail) built on of the first horse-drawn lines. As the technology moved...
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Congested in the head
Yekaterinburg town hall published a transportation development plan for the next 3 years. The plan consists of 30 projects of which 28 are road building and widening and only 2 are devoted to public...
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Dutch-style bicycle paths for Yekaterinburg
Bolshakova street is a west-east corridor in the southern part of Yekaterinburg’s central district. Potentially it can be a very important bicycle route as it is the only way in the foreseeable future...
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Endangered species
In Yekaterinburg (as well as in other Russian cities) town planners have have forgotten how to build urban streets. It’s a pity, given that the public space of the city mainly consists of streets and...
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What is wrong with the new tramway line to Akademicheskiy?
Yekaterinburg from the windows of Academicheski neighborhood. Image courtesy of: Vladimir Zadumin Early in November a news report appeared on the official site of Yekateriburg city hall about a...
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Just feel the difference
How ill-conceived parking policies ruin the pedestrian realm of the city In my November post on street design I have pointed at certain features of modern Russian architecture that undermine the...
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