Tom Vanderbilt succinctly explains the circular thinking of modern traffic safety engineers.
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On unequal access at the post office
A trip to the post office last night showed me just how far we have to go toward accommodating all residents, of all ages and abilities, in the Greatest City in the World.
Does America need its states?
The United States is naturally organized economically, culturally, and historically around cities and metro areas, yet politically it's organized into states. When 90% of the national economy is in urban areas, do states' anti-urban policies work to the detriment of the national and, ironically, state economies?
Why electric cars aren’t a silver bullet
The world seems to think that electric cars are the magical solution to all the woes caused by overdependence on personal automobiles. But, as Planetizen's Brent Toderian points out, that's just not true. (And I would posit that the same arguments can be made about looking at self-driving cars as a panacea.)
Obama administration submits transportation bill to Congress
The Obama administration has submitted a four-year transportation proposal to Congress which, among other things, improves the highway/transit funding split to 75/25, allocates nearly $5 billion annually for high-speed rail, and plugs the hole in the almost-out-of-money Highway Trust Fund.
Why does everyone hate SLC’s new courthouse?
Why does everyone hate Salt Lake City's new federal courthouse? Everyone, that is, except the self-congratulating architectural community.
Train math
When I wanted to find out exactly how much of Greater New York's rail network I had ridden, I searched the internet for information on how big the network actually is—and discovered that no one seems to know. So I added it up. Myself. (And discovered that I've ridden 72% of it.)
Correcting my number
As it turns out, I was about 10 miles off in my calculation of the total route miles covered by the New York City region's rail network.
My quest to ride the New York City region’s entire passenger rail network
I have a new (and, some would say, unsurprising) goal: to ride all 1,370 miles of passenger rail currently in service in the New York City region. That means the entire rail networks operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New Jersey Transit, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
How transit pays for the automobile’s sins
A writer at Streetsblog USA points out the inconsistency of building inefficient car-centric transportation systems and land-use patterns and then accusing transit of being inefficient when it fills in the gaps (and wide gaps they are).
Dustin Tyler Joyce 