It showed that barely a third of voters supported the tunnel, but even fewer people supported Mr. McGinn's preference, the boulevard and transit idea.
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While city officials decided against that, a serious setback for bus rapid-transit proponents, the city's Transportation Department has begun meeting with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about the issue of speeding up bus service, and both agencies say they are seriously considering some bus rapid-transit ideas for the first time.
The Twin Cities metropolitan council, appointed by Mr. Ventura, has hired Peter Calthorpe, the California architect who is the spiritual father of the "transit village" idea, to help design traditional town centers for suburbs that lie in the path of new transportation projects being built there.
Brookner's artistic chain transits from idea to material, to cultural, to universal -- all interpreted as a code of interlocking relations which phases continually between organic and human-altered structures on all levels.
Among the ideas, transit officials said, are lengthening some bus stops so that more buses can fit on crowded routes.
In Mr. Grabar's view, the ornamental dynamic -- in which a few basic, familiar repeated forms are juxtaposed and rearranged as a visual transit to complex ideas -- is a universal phenomenon.
Not coincidentally, with the needle moving on mass transit and new ideas about public space in LA gaining ground, the City Planning Commission will vote this Thursday (March 25th) on the Food and Flowers Freedom Act.
Yorke wrote "Airbag" about the illusion of safety offered by modern transit, and "the idea that whenever you go out on the road you could be killed".
He then embraced the ideas of transit cop Jack Maple and helped launch CompStat, the city's data-driven crime-fighting system.
Still, many people do not want to ride the bus, and that's where a third model comes in — this one a nonprofit that re-envisions the accepted ideas of transit for the elderly and disabled.
