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The Perils of Parking: Round & Round We Go

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer automobile, BestParking, bicycle, bike, biking, car, cars, commute, commuter, commuting, drive, driving, Lyft, park, Parker, parking, Parking Panda, ParkMe, ParkWhiz, public, SpotOn, traffic, transit, transportation, Uber, walk, walking, Westwood Village, Zipcar

We waste lots of time and fuel and emit lots of greenhouse gases when we are behind the wheel circling around and around the block looking for parking…

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Interview: Stewart Schwartz

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In 1997, Stewart Schwartz founded the Coalition for Smarter Growth to fight sprawl and support public transit and walkable communities in the Washington, DC region. Schwartz is also an attorney and a retired Navy Captain with 24 years of active and reserve duty. He has served with the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, the Land […]

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Amtrak or Bust: Why Isn’t Green Rail Travel Bigger in the U.S.?

Roddy Scheer acela, Amtrak, bullet, Center for Clean Air Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology, high speed, modal, mode, Obama, public, rail, track, tracks, train, trains, transit, transportation

In the spring of 2009, President Obama allocated $8 billion of his stimulus package toward development of more high-speed rail lines across the country, citing the need to reduce both greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on foreign oil.