By Linda Roberson Linda is a graduate of the Urban Design program at UC Berkeley and currently works as a consultant in San Francisco. For more information, please email: linda.roberson@gmail.com As interest in the Panama Canal Expansion seems to be growing beyond ports and congressional committees into the worlds of transit planners and urban designers, [...]
Category: Environment & Sustainability
DC Residents – Smart Growth America wants to hear from you!
Smart Growth America, a national NGO dedicated to helping more places have strong neighborhoods and strong economies, is launching a new venture focused on urban living. We want to talk to people who want to talk about how to make it easier, cheaper and more fun to live in the city, and what it would [...]
NYC Event Recap: Earth Day
YPT-NYC celebrated Earth Day by holding a presentation panel with experts in sustainability practices across the transportation industry. Tom Abdallah, Chief Environmental Engineer for the Capital Program Management Department of MTA New York City Transit (NYCT), provided an overview of sustainable practices being employed by NYCT subway environment including outfitting support facilities with solar panels at [...]
SF Bay Touchscreen Transportation Event Recap
Hey YPTers worldwide! Last week in San Francisco we had awesome presenters from the land of touchscreen technology transportation (is this like the new P3? is it T3?) – Jeff Miller from Wheelz, Michael Keating from Scoot and Logan Green from Lyft and Professor Karen Frick from Cal Berkeley. Our T3 specialists are innovating new [...]
NYC Event: Walkable and Healthy Communities
Walkable and Healthy Communities: Tactics and Case Studies When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Where: At The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York NY Sam Schwartz Engineering, the transportation engineering and planning firm, and America Walks, the national pedestrian advocacy organization, have just published a new guide, Steps to [...]