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Labels: branding-identity, design method, transit marketing
posted by Richard Layman @ 4:07 PM&Permanent Link
I am an urban/commercial district revitalization and transportation/mobility advocate and consultant. I was a principal in BicyclePASS, a bicycle facilities systems integration firm, based in Washington, DC. Now I'm in Salt Lake City for family reasons. Urban economic competitiveness is dependent on efficient transit and mixed use, compact places. Therefore, I end up writing a lot about mobility and urban design. I still own a house in DC, so I write a lot about Washington, DC issues. I try to write so that "universal lessons" are evident in the entries, regardless of the place.
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7 Comments:
The ones in Lyon look incredible! I want this for DC so bad.
http://www.alstom.com/Global/Transport/Resources/Images/News%20and%20Events/Press%20releases/tramway_lyon_rame-inaugration.jpg
wow. Pretty hip. I wish that DC and WMATA would think about this.
And MTA, and Baltimore/MTA in terms of trying to come up with new generation vehicles for the light rail already existing.
(The guys from Hamburg jokingly called the Baltimore LR vehicles "heavy rail." Although I don't mind the LR service, even though it doesn't go to a lot of places that people want to go to--going through the Jones Falls area is cool.)
It also relates to that blog entry I did on transit systems as an element of civic infrastructure, not just value engineered conveyances...
That design is hideous, not hip. Really? Look at some other photos, and most of those figures look like big-lipped blackface caricatures. Then again, it's France. They love that "exotic" stuff. And they're even in the fabric of the seats. Not good, and its not going to age well. Trying too hard to make something cool usually just comes off as stupid, and this is a good example.
While I am not going to disagree with you, it is indicative of a willingness to take chances with design, and to be edgy. That is a big difference say between Montpellier or this city, versus systems in the US>
you make a good point- that sometimes chances must be taken in order to arrive at the best designs..just so long as the failures are eliminated eventually so that we do not have to live with them forever...or that some future HPRB comes along and declares all mistakes to be sacrosanct..this is when it gets out of hand
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