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Enormous viaducts like this are one reason for the project's ballooning cost estimates Well, the other shoe has finally dropped: the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group is recommending that the state legislature not authorize the issue of $2.7 billion in bonds to begin paying for the state’s planned $98.5 billion high-speed rail line…. Continue [...] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |  printable viewnycsubway.org has an amazing trove of transit history, and I just got done reading “The Impact of the IRT on New York City” by Clifton Hood, on the effects of New York‘s first subway rapid transit line, first opened in 1904. There’s so much in it to recommend, but one of the interesting themes is [...] November 25th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, Economics, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewI'On Village, South Carolina About three years ago Adam wrote about the the story of I’On Village, a New Urbanist development build about a decade ago five miles outside of Charleston, and the difficulties that Vince Graham faced trying to build it. For one, the project had to be scaled down in some [...] November 15th, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Autos, Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design | Comments are closed | printable viewA lot of words have been written about how horribly FRA safety regulations cripple US main line passenger railway budgets (and you should read them!), but it’s also important to remember that even as a safety regulator, the FRA fails. You have to see it to believe it:
… Continue reading at [...] November 7th, 2011 | Tags: energy, regulation | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Green Tech, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Travel, Vehicles, video | Comments are closed | printable viewNo, but really – fly California. On Tuesday, the California High-Speed Rail Authority laid down their cards in the form of a new “business plan” for the proposed line, and its cards are not good – the system is now projected to cost $98 billion in year-of-expenditure dollars, which, taking into account inflation, is [...] November 4th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics | Category: Autos, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable view |
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Italy’s Austerity Plan Spurs Transport Deregulation
There’s been a lot of handwringing by American lefties over the austerity plans that Germany is asking indebted eurozone governments like Italy and Greece to implement in exchange for bailouts, but many aspects of the plans – especially labor market deregulation – are long overdue no matter which side if the aisle you sit on [...]