Wow!

[yakalskovich]

Public transport? In the US?

Somebody please pinch me to prove that I'm awake and not dreaming of a better world where people suddenly see sense...

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[cracicotus.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my professional life.

That was very well said. If we had work, I'd hire you :)

[yakalskovich]

Oooh, thank you! **blushes**

Still, where do we drop that idea off so the right people hear about it? After all, the system exists and works well. The rights sort of people just need to take a look at the VRR* and implement that there. It's not that anybody needs to reinvent the wheel or anything. "Yo, look at that!" at the right point should be enough.-



* The Nazgul, who hails from the Ruhr area, says that VRR secretly means 'Verein raffgieriger Raubritter' but that's only because people, spoiled by having all that as a matter of course, start to grumble at pricing.

[cracicotus.livejournal.com]

It really is common sense, but people are crazy.

Here is a link to the now-officially-adopted transit system map that I've been partially involved in planning for:

http://www.livablecommunitiescoalition.org/uploads/100012_bodycontentfiles/100703.pdf

The thick blue and orange lines exist today. I was involved in envisioning and am now doing detailed design for the green loop around Downtown, which will be S-Bahn technology. The green tram running east west from Bankhead to Ponce Springs is also my idea :)

[yakalskovich]

Wow!!! You are getting Atlanta an S-Bahn. And trams! New trams! That is bloody brilliant!!

Is that project getting stimulus package funding, or is it funded already?

The loop thing is a London type of idea; Munich or Rhein-Main area S-Bahns all orient towards the centre, and the VRR is polycentric anyway. The Detroit/Flint/Ann Arbor area would need a polycentric layout as well, I guess.-

[cracicotus.livejournal.com]

The BeltLine is 70% funded. It's going to take a while to finish the detailed planning though. I think that the only one that is "shovel ready," as they say, is the Peachtree Streetcar (tram).

There's an inaccurate short movie on it here (it has the wrong transit vehicle):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvngF4qUSgg&feature=related

The BeltLine can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGb_P5NCgE0

My own report is below. I wrote, managed, and drew up the SA 2 plan (please note that the version on-line is the draft - I've since fixed the typos). You can see many pictures of Germany in the Final Draft Report Main Body :)

http://www.beltline.org/ResourceLibrary/Planning/tabid/1824/Default.aspx

[yakalskovich]

Ahhh! What I didn't realise is that the Beltline had existed before and has to be woken up and patched, rather than being hewn through rail-unfriendly suburban neighbourhoods and abandoned industrial land.