Walkable Neighborhoods

Last October, my fiance and I took a trip to Portland… and subsequently fell in love with the city. Portland is an amazing city that deserves dozens of posts about it, but for the sake of time, I at least wanted to share with you an interesting experience we had.
We took a ride on the [...]

I made my first real visit to Cincinnati on a freezing day in mid-January 2003. I had the pleasure of visiting (and getting warm inside) the Union Terminal. Inside, you’ll find a cool children’s museum, a railroad museum, and some beautiful mosaics. The outside of the building is quite impressive as well and is an [...]

Today’s photo is from Sacramento, shot on the K Street Mall about 9 blocks from my apartment. The train pictured is the Sacramento Light Rail and behind it is an arts theater called the Crest Theater. The K Street Mall is a pedestrian and transit only street. Like most American pedestrian malls, it needs some [...]

The barrage of photos from California continues today, this time with a stop in Davis at the Amtrak Station. This station is the first stop west of Sacramento on the Capitol Corridor Amtrak train. It is truly a beautiful station.
Davis is an amazing town and the “Bicycling Capital of America.” There were many bikes [...]

One more reason that I really need to visit Toronto. Can our neighbors to the north please share some political will with our politicians? Thanks!

In a surprise announcement before the fall provincial election, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty unveiled plans Friday to spend $11.5-billion over 12 years on a lengthy list of public-transit projects in [...]

Sacramento was delivered a harsh blow to multi-modal transportation options tonight.
A portion of the Union Pacific Railroad caught fire and sent huge plumes of black smoke into the air. Parts of the elevated railway collapsed, essentially taking out major Amtrak service indefinitely. This particular Amtrak line runs from Chicago to the Bay Area, and [...]

Being in Copenhagen for a week now, I can hop on and off the S-Tog train system without thinking twice. It is great living only a few stops from the Stroget, the huge pedestrian city centre with tons of FABULOUS places to shop. The best part is that I can tote Nicole’s pink bike around [...]

We arrived in Berlin’s new and AMAZING Hauptbahnhof (central train station), which cost 900 million euros to construct. This station was absolutely incredible. It was basically a massive shopping mall/transport hub…..how fun that you can go shoe shopping while waiting for the train! This picture shows just a few of the 5 levels in the [...]

Clocking in at a speed of 250 km/hour (over 150 miles/hour), we took the famous German ICE train from Freiburg to Berlin. The scenic 800 mile trip was much nicer by rail than highway I would say! We had a minor mishap on the journey home though since we got off at the wrong Frankfurt [...]

I’ve noticed a few interesting things here in Freiburg, Germany about making transport-related activities safer for women. In the parking garages are ‘reserved women-only’ parking spots near the elevators with extra lighting. There are only special transit passes for women at night to use the local trams at discounted prices so that they are not [...]