Not much I hate more than an oversized SUV and this tweet and the paper it links to should get a good conversation going about why. Heavier cars are safer for their drivers, but far deadlier for everyone else. This paper find that for every...
transportation
One major problem with American public transportation is the incredibly high cost of construction. Another is the spread out nature of American cities. How does one create functional public transportation.
Near the junction of the 400 to Buckhead, the 401 highway divides and splits during afternoon rush-hour traffic which slows and builds up so that vehicles and cars back-up as.
On January 14, 1895, trolley workers in Brooklyn walk off the job. The largest and most violent strike in Brooklyn's history to that point, it was in many ways a typical story of the Gilded Age where employers and the state combined to crush the...
Interesting essay on the connections between recent Black Lives Matter protests that block freeways and the long-term relationship between transportation networks and race. Transportation, however, has long been central to.
The big subway systems of New York, Washington, and Boston are just getting worse and worse. Cities and states are struggling to keep up the maintenance. Commuters are getting frustrated..
This is a really interesting article on Houston. Probably the most car-centric city and certainly the most anti-zoning, given that it doesn't have any, city in the nation, Houston is an urban planning disaster. But there are interesting trends taking place there: Houston’s expansion is...
Atrios is right. Self-driving vehicles ain't going to happen, at least not in the United States. Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype.
Yglesias is making a lot of sense here. With interest rates this low, the nation should just borrow the money to rebuild its infrastructure and not worry about some existential.
Uber, like the cowboy socialists of the West, talk all about private, individualized effort that makes America great. And like those cowboy socialists, Uber also relies on the government for everything, effectively socializing their business model on the rest of us while doing everything possible...
Corporations and their lackey politicians love state-level regulation. They usually frame this as hating federal regulation, but that's not quite true. They do have federal regulation because the federal government.
You might think that compared to where you live, New York has a pretty good public transportation system. And by some metrics, that's probably true. But New York needs a.