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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 viewStanford's (losing) vision for Roosevelt Island, with requisite acres of green Big news out of New York City: Stanford pulled out of Bloomberg’s applied sciences university “competition” after Cornell got an enormous donation, leaving the upstate university the front runner to build a new campus, likely on Roosevelt Island. This comes with up to $100 [...] December 18th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate, regulation | Category: America's Most Promising Companies, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Pharma & Healthcare, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Taxes & Law, Tech | Comments are closed | printable view"Made in USA"…and don't you forget it! United Streetcar, led by its former lobbyist, Chandra Brown, is ostensibly a manufacturer, though its greatest asset seems to be its ability to win government contractors…. Continue reading at Forbes… December 14th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Innovation & Science, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewThe service the Silicon Valley is paying for but not getting Often when I talk about how high American capital transit costs are compared to those in Europe and East Asia, transit backers get quite defensive, and take it as an attack on transit. This couldn’t be further from my intention. My point isn’t [...] December 11th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Innovation & Science, Intelligent Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewTwitter tells me that earlier tonight, “not-ruling-it-out” possible future mayoral contender (and local smart growth demigod) Tommy Wells held his inaugural book club meeting; the book discussed was Ed Glaeser’s Triumph of the City. DC’s chief planner Harriet Tregoning was also there, and while she’s been relatively good to the cause of density in DC, the kinds [...] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics, real estate, regulation | Category: Business, byline=Stephen Smith, Culture & Books, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel | 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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In Defense Of Land Reclamation: It Ain’t All Palm Islands!
Earlier today Urban Photo Blog tweeted earlier today a link to an article about Hong Kong’s latest land reclamation project, with an obviously sarcastic “because it worked so well in Dubai!” tacked on at the end. Not to pick on Urban Photo Blog – actually, his Twitter account is definitely one of the best I follow [...]