Urban transport - Topics

Should school start times shift to flatten the morning peak? Congestion charging works on paper — so why do so few cities win the referendum? How much of downtown congestion is drivers circling for a parking space? Parking a car in a city costs more per year than the fuel does Are e-scooters a nuisance or the cheapest fix for the last mile? Why taxi deregulation in the 2010s produced fewer cabs on the street at night Light spilling from roads and car parks and what it does to insects What does an hour of gridlock cost a city in lost wages and wasted fuel? Diversion planning: what a bus operator needs before the road closes The vibration and construction damage a new metro tunnel does to buildings above it Why do shared e-scooters end up in rivers and on tram tracks? What happens to a grid network when one bridge closes for a year Congestion charging changed my commute: 20 minutes faster for 15 dollars a day What does a handcart need from a modern city to keep working? The streetcar built the suburb and the car only finished the job Detour index: why some cities are far easier to cross than others A parking space in a city centre costs more per square metre than the flat above it No city survives a single day without its transport system and almost nobody notices until it stops. A congestion charge is only fair to commuters who have an alternative What is the honest track record of e-scooter pilot programmes? How much of a city's nitrogen oxide pollution comes from traffic rather than heating Why 30 km/h is usually survivable for a pedestrian and 50 km/h often is not Tactile paving and audible signals only help while somebody maintains them Should a city ban cars from the centre even if the shops swear they will close? Why do painted bike lanes fail to attract anyone who is not already a confident rider? Do cycle rickshaws still pay their way where labour is cheap and fuel is not? How does a bus interchange absorb two hundred people arriving at once? Why is the last kilometre the most expensive part of an urban delivery? Real-time arrival screens promise two minutes for twenty minutes straight Where is a cargo bike supposed to park in a city designed around car doors? Why adding a lane at a junction makes the merge worse How much delay does one badly timed pedestrian push button add?