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Bloomberg
15-05-2025
- Automotive
- Bloomberg
San Francisco's Newest Park Used to Be a Highway
The Great Highway, once considered to be one of San Francisco's most scenic drives, is now teeming with children, joggers and cyclists. In April, the former two-mile stretch of coastal highway reopened as the city's newest park and was renamed Sunset Dunes. But the transformation — born out of the city's pandemic-era efforts to carve out car-free spaces and approved by voters during the November 2024 elections — did not arrive without controversy. To its critics, Sunset Dunes is another inconvenience for motorists in the city's 'war on cars' — so much so that one official is facing a recall effort over his support of the park, Benjamin Schneider reports. Today on CityLab: How a Highway Became San Francisco's Newest Park
Bloomberg
10-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
The Untapped Potential of America's Rail Infrastructure
High-speed trains, zooming across the landscape at over 200 miles per hour, have long been a Holy Grail for US transportation advocates. Though projects are advancing in California, Nevada and Texas, progress has been arduous. Even in sparsely populated corners of the American West, from-scratch high-speed rail development is expensive, complex and politically fraught. But brand-new bullet trains are not the only way to deliver faster passenger rail service. In regions with lots of older rail infrastructure, like the Northeast and Midwest, the existing tracks are full of untapped potential. A 'Momentum' framework lays out a suite of targeted improvements that could speed travel times on some routes by as much as 30%. Read more from Benjamin Schneider today on CityLab: The Secret Formula for Faster Trains
