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Why didn’t I catch onto this whole linking thing earlier? Are these link lists boring for you guys? 1. Human Transit has a great post on “density” and all the different ways to measure it, with a cool picture of sprawling apartment buildings that illustrates why transit use in the Las Vegas metro area [...] September 30th, 2010 | Tags: buses, density, las vegas, links, Moscow, nyc, Oakland, Stephen Smith, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |  printable viewWhen comparing costs of various modes of transit, units measured “per passenger-mile” are very common. It makes sense intuitively – people take trips of varying length, and longer trips are more expensive than shorter trips, so the desire to standardize and compare makes us want to simply divide the trips by their length and [...] September 30th, 2010 | Tags: Stephen Smith, subsidization | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments | printable view
Doug from Weeds uses the endangered dirt shrew to prevent a church from being built Recently I was reading an article about the death-by-delay of an upzoning proposal near a train station in Boston because the property might have been “considered ‘priority habitat’ for rare species, including the eastern box turtle,” and I [...] September 27th, 2010 | Tags: Environment, high speed rail, Stephen Smith, water | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments | printable viewLinks, links, links! 1. The Washington City Paper has a great expose on street food in DC called “Inside D.C.’s Food-Truck Wars” with the subtitle “How some of Washington’s most powerful interests are trying to curb the city’s most popular new cuisine.” 2. Mary Newsom at the Charlotte Observer thinks it’s a bad thing [...] September 25th, 2010 | Tags: buses, congestion pricing, food, private transit, public housing, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith Among liberals in the planning profession today, the story of the Great American Streetcar Conspiracy is widely known. There are more nuanced variants, but it goes something like this: Streetcars were once plentiful and efficient, but then along came a bunch of car and oil companies like General Motors and Standard [...] September 23rd, 2010 | Tags: highways, mass transit, progressivism, Stephen Smith | Category: Uncategorized | 44 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith BLDG blog has a cool post about a book by two architects about “minor development,” or small construction projects that don’t require planning permission – things like sheds, garages, and extensions. It talks about recent legal changes in Europe that have encouraged this sort of development, and has some neat pictures [...] September 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith In response to an article I posted yesterday about protectionism in public transit procurement, frequent commenter Alon Levy left this great comment about the history of rolling stock procurement in the US: What happened in the 1970s was that the rolling stock market shrank, leaving American transit agencies with just a [...] September 18th, 2010 | Tags: mass transit, Stephen Smith | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith In the past few years, a relatively new phenomenon seems to be taking hold in cities across North Jersey: the jitney. Similar to the dollar vans that ply the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, jitneys carry more than a taxi but less than a full-sized bus, and run semi-regular routes that [...] September 17th, 2010 | Tags: buses, jitneys, New Jersey, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable view |
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