I’ve been following a number of related transportation issues: the congestion of suburbs (especially Atlanta), the toll on our economy if energy prices and spending continue to rise, and the general feelings about transit. The AJC has a fascinating piece…
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Savannah area gas prices near $3.36 per gallon average, likely to fall further
I’ve started doing periodic updates regarding gas prices. Spikes in gas prices have clear negative impacts on economic conditions. Declining prices don’t necessarily spur economic growth, but they certainly are welcome news for cash-strapped consumers. According to GasBuddy.com, the average…
Four years after recession began, Americans still driving less
The number of vehicle miles driven is one bit of data from the 2007 to 2009 recession and subsequent slow recovery that has been especially interesting to me. As Calculated Risk notes, we’ve now gone a record 44 months with…
Savannah area gas prices below $3.50 per gallon
I keep expecting gas prices at the pump to fall even more than they have — and I think the chart below suggests the likelihood of another drop of 5-10% in gas prices. According to GasBuddy.com, the average pump price…
How long will cars last? How long should they last?
Auto sales fell off a cliff during the recession from 2007 to 2009. Sales rebounded temporarily with the Cash For Clunkers program in 2009 before falling again. But long-term trends suggest that auto sales will pick up. Either that, or…
Charleston City Paper on becoming more bicycle friendly
Interesting piece from the Charleston City Paper that might have some logical extensions to Savannah: Nine ways to make Charleston a bicycle-friendly city. There’s considerable emphasis in the piece on the success of the wide bike lane for the Arthur…
Well, about those lower gas prices we should be getting . . .
The price of crude has a noisy relationship with prices at the pump, but they clearly correlate to some degree. A couple of weeks ago, I was expecting gas prices in Savannah to slip to $3.30 or less per gallon…
AJC: Atlanta gets first electric car charging station
I’ve been tracking various developments in the world of “green”, sustainability, and transportation generally. So of obvious note from the AJC: Electric car charging station unveiled. From the piece: Atlanta is streamlining its tough permitting procedures to encourage apartment owners,…
More thoughts on the detrimental effects of large urban parking lots
In my City Talk column today in the Savannah Morning News, I write about the depressing news that the large vacant lot at the corner of Drayton and Charlton appears destined to be a surface parking lot for the nearby…
Minimizing the delays caused by left turns — a key to improving traffic flow
A few days ago I posted about Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt’s thoughts about the ineffectiveness of warning signs on streets. Earlier this month in Slate, Vanderbilt wrote a fascinating piece about diverging diamond interchanges: Don’t Turn Left! A new kind…
“Traffic” author Tom Vanderbilt on those dangerous “Children at Play” signs
I write a lot about the interactions of pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and various other modes of transportation here in Savannah. Earlier today, in preparation for my Tuesday column, I rode my bike to take pictures of surface parking lots on…
I was wrong: no change in 2012 TSPLOST referendum date, failure seems likely statewide
I had been working under the assumption that Governor Deal would successfully persuade some reluctant Georgia lawmakers to move the date of next year’s referendums on regional transportation sales taxes (the so-called TSPLOST) from the summer primary to the November…
Americans drove less in June; trucking down in July
I love good graphs and straightforward data. And that’s what Calculated Risk served up today with a post about the June decline in total vehicle miles driven in the U.S. and with a post about the decline in a key…
Here it is: the new Georgia license plate
It’s been a long, arduous process — and now we have a winner. Governor Nathan Deal chose today from three finalists, none of which I liked. And he picked the one that I like least. It seems he just chose…