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The major of Rome is on Flickr!

Posted in 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , , on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just discovered that Mr. Gianni Alemanno, Major of Rome, is on Flickr. Here we see his set about te opening of the new BRT in Rome. Good to see that more and more politicians are entering the blogosphere!

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New BRT under construction in Rome

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, E - Reportages, tagged , , , , on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Wandering around the web, I discovered today a good news from Rome: A brand new BRT opening in the south-east of the city. The new infrastructure will start from ANAGNINA subway station and extend further east, passing through Cinecittà Est and Tor Vergata. All details of this infrastructure are here (PDF). (image: Roma Metropolitane) Almost [...]

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New Urbanism vs. Suburbanism

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, tagged , , on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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the whistle stop train tour

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, 3 - events, A - News, tagged , , on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Following the same route that Abraham Lincoln rode 150 years ago, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden made their way to the inauguration on a whistle stop train tour that wove its way from Philadelphia through Delaware and Maryland on its way to Washington. “To the [...]

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Tysons Corner turns into a downtown

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.1 - housing, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.1 - walking, 2.2 - cycling, 2.3 - public transports, 2.4 - cars, A - News, B - Trends, D - reflections, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“From ancient times, what made a city a city was how it functioned, not how it looked. And this is especially true today, for we have not built a single old-style downtown from raw dirt in seventy-five years.” (Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, Chapter 2) This is how Joel Garreau described [...]

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New bus network in Lausanne

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(image: wikimedia commons) From Sunday december 14,  the new bus network will be operational in Lausanne.  The main changes will be: Lines 5,6 and 45 will be suppressed or re-routed in oder to avoid superopsitions with the metro, Lines 4,6 and 15 will be merged into the new lines 4 and 6, New line 21 [...]

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New shopping area opens in downtown Lausanne

Posted in 1 - spaces, 1.2 - workplaces, 1.3 - third places (bars and cafés), 1.4 - public spaces, 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, tagged , , , , , , , on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On November 26th, a new shopping area has opened in the Flon area in downtown Lausanne. The new complex includes a supermarket (Migros) and some smaller shops, and is located close to Lausanne-Flon subway station (lines M1, M2 and LEB), making it a perfect example of Transit-Oriented-Development. With the opening of the new complex, Flon [...]

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luxury trains come back to Italy

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, B - Trends, tagged , , , on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

(source image: flickr) Luxury trains have come back to Italy. in 2005, SeaTrain has renewed some trains from italian companies FCU and Vesuviana and turned them into Roma Express and Napoli Express. (source image: flickr) Rome Express runs from Civitavecchia Harbour to Rome S. Pietro Railway station, leaving passengers in the very heart of Rome, [...]

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Lausanne Metro line 2, before the reconstruction works

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, tagged , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For all who wonder how Lausanne Metro line 2 was before the works, here it is:

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Lausanne metro line 2: finally open!

Posted in 2 - transports, 2.3 - public transports, A - News, E - Reportages, tagged , on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning, Lausanne Metro line 2 has finally open to the public. To celebrate the event, here are some photos of the line: Lausanne-Flon: signs pointing to the platforms Lausanne-Flon: altough they belong to different companies, all the lines converging in Lausanne-Flon are announced with similar signs. Lausanne-Flon. Lausanne Metro’s colors scheme: Blue – Yellow [...]

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