A recent report by the Straphangers Campaign included a sobering figure: the MTA has a debt greater than the debt of 30 nations. But I wondered: what if we compared the MTA's debt to global GDPs. The answer is perhaps even more surprising.
WordPress prepared an annual report for this site, with a few interesting insights on the past year. I decided to go ahead and make it public, for what it's worth. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, … Continue reading 2014 on dtj.nyc/dtjoyce.com in review
Thanksgiving proclamations issued by George Washington in 1789 and by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 continue to remind us of all we have to be grateful for.
Very quick—and potentially crazy—thought. A simple question, without getting into all the details and emotions of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson: Why is it that most (all?) police officers in the United States carry guns in the first place? The first time I realized that perhaps police officers didn't have to carry guns was on … Continue reading Why do police officers carry guns in the first place?
I haven't been blogging recently, but I've been adding lots of new content elsewhere.
You can now follow me on Instagram.
Last Friday, The United States Conference of Mayors issued a major economic report on the contributions of urban areas to the national economy—and I got to play a small but important role in its release.
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.
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).
On a cold, wet, windy night on the last day of winter, I stood up for my rights as a nonsmoker—and those of my two small children. But it's unclear whether the law is behind me.
Dustin Tyler Joyce 