This blog is about getting from point A to point B (and sometimes includes topics in between). This mostly includes issues around transportation mobility, policy, and impacts.
Sometimes it can be a challenge to get uphill. But here are two worthy solutions. The first is an innovative bicycle lift in Trondheim, Norway. The second is the 4th Street Elevator in Dubuque, Iowa, one of the remaining funiculars still in use in the U.S. Message to transportation planners: we need more of both of these modes of transport. Getting uphill should be fun! Ah ha -- that's why it's called a funicular.
It's curtains for Broadway. Effective Monday, the iconic thoroughfare is officially closed to motor vehicles in two key sections of midtown - Herald Square and Times Square. See Story...