Author: Fani Rachmita

Sebanyak 66 armada bus gandeng Transjakarta tambahan akan dioperasikan September mendatang. Bus tersebut akan dioperasikan pada Koridor 1 (Blok M-Kota) dan Koridor VIII (Lebakbulus-Harmoni).   Kepala BLU Transjakarta, M Akbar mengatakan, saat ini pengadaan bus gandeng tersebut sudah masuk dalam tahap prototipe. Dari 66 armada, sebanyak 51 bus akan digunakan untuk koridor 1 dan 15…

"Americans now walk the least of any industrialized nation in the world," says writer Tom Vanderbilt. To find out why that is, Vanderbilt has been exploring how towns are built, how Americans view walking — and what might be done to get them moving around on their own two feet.

Talking with Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep about what is wrong with Americans' relationship with walking, Vanderbilt says, "The main thing is, we're just not doing enough of it."

"We've engineered walking out of our existence and everyday life," Vanderbilt says. "I even tried to examine the word 'pedestrian,' and it's always had sort of this negative connotation — that it was always better to be on a horse or something, if you could manage it."

In a series of stories for Slate about "The Crisis in American Walking," Vanderbilt writes about pedestrian life in America, from "sidewalk science" to possible ways to make the U.S. less car-centric. And he finds that what started as a push for convenience has become a difficult problem, as many parts of the country are now designed specifically for cars, not pedestrians.

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A city’s reputation is often shaped by how people perceive its center. Take New York in the 1970s. The iconic images of a seedy and downright dangerous Times Square were projected onto the city writ large. So too with Mexico City’s historic center, which contains some of the nation’s most iconic landmarks but had become…