The People On OUP’s Priorities
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 15th, 2008 at 5:00 pmEzra points to a suggestions page for what the Office of Urban Policy should do. It’s pretty interesting to see which projects people favor more…
Posts Tagged ‘transportation’
Transit Stimulus
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pmMatthew Yglesias proposes a transit stimulus:
Mass transit ridership hits new record .
Of course mass transit systems generally receive a lot of funding from…
The Worst Idea on Infrastructure Spending Ever.
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 4th, 2008 at 9:28 amThis article on Clusterstock is easily the stupidest thing I have seen on the Internet about infrastructure spending.
Every single sentence is replete with idiocy,…
Inside Transportation And Out
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 1st, 2008 at 10:07 amAthena writes in response to Kay’s post on high-speed rails:
I think both local transit and connecting transit are important to invest in, but I…
Is California’s High-speed Rail Initiative Elitist?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 24th, 2008 at 11:33 amLast week, Campus Progress ran a piece by Next American City urban leaders fellow Ben Adler that argued Proposition 1A, the ballot initiative that invests…
Green Lanes
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pmI’ve really been on an unusually large urbanism craze this week. Don’t get me wrong: I like it, I just don’t usually think about it…
Prioritize The Cities
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 11th, 2008 at 5:30 pmPresident-elect Obama has proposed an Office of Urban Planning, something I’m really excited about. America is no longer an agrarian society and the structure of…
There’s a Reason They Call it “High Speed”
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 28th, 2008 at 12:24 pmBoth Ezra Klein and Kevin Drum are weighing in on a possible high speed rail connecting L.A. to San Francisco. Kevin argues that it wouldn’t…
Condominiums Should Be the New “House With a Picket Fence”
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 27th, 2008 at 10:06 amAs I write this I’m watching a mother and her daughter walk into our condominium building. Like me, the building is their home, but unlike…
Free Bike? No, It’s Not Being Offered By a Creepy Guy in a Van
By Tristan Fowler - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 amHow’s this for innovation? Colleges and universities are giving away free bikes so students don’t bring their carbon-spewing, planet-killing cars to campus. The University of…
(Not) Debating Our Transportation System
By Andrew Bielak - Oct 8th, 2008 at 2:48 pmBarack Obama and John McCain worked hard last night to draw sharp distinctions on their plans for domestic recovery, offering largely contrasting visions for job…
High Stakes on a Plane
By Nick Sifuentes - Aug 29th, 2008 at 11:52 amAnybody who reads the Consumerist or, hell, even CNN.com knows that airlines have been stiffing their customers for awhile now. But this egregious little gem…
Full Steam Ahead, L.A.!
By Nick Sifuentes - Aug 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pmA week ago, I wrote about Measure R, Los Angeles’ ambitious plan to extend its Purple Line subway from downtown to Santa Monica and the…
Los Angeles: Building a Freeway to the 20th Century
By Nick Sifuentes - Aug 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am(Courtesy flickr photostream: daspadger)
It’s not exactly news that most Americans are trying to cut back on fuel consumption these days. In places like Washington,…
