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Scrapping viaducts like this would make California HSR cheaper, faster to build, and easier to maintain, without a loss in quality The recent peer review report recommending that California delay construction on the first segment of its high-speed rail project has caused a bit of consternation in the transit twittosphere. Blogger The Overhead Wire [...] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: energy, politics, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Tech, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |  printable viewAre America's private railroading glory days gone forever? The folks at Freakonomics have asked me to contribute to a “Quorum” on Amtrak and whether it can ever be profitable. Maybe I was a sucker, but it looks like I hewed closer to the question that some of the other contributors…. Continue reading at [...] January 5th, 2012 | Tags: energy, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewEnormous 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 viewCornell-Technion has released another “fly-over” video, this one focused on the interior. But it does shed a bit more light on what the development will look like from the ground, and it ain’t pretty – the campus will be laid out in a fairly Corbusian plan, replete with lots of concrete plazas and grassy knolls [...] December 22nd, 2011 | Tags: politics, real estate, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Op/Ed, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Tech, Vehicles | Comments are closed | printable viewThe sky's the limit for Dumbo! Last night I wrote a blog post about tech development in New York City, arguing that before the city pours money into a science campus for Cornell on Roosevelt Island, its planners should make more room for entrepreneurs in existing tech hubs like Union Square and Dumbo. …
December 20th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: America's Most Promising Companies, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Social Media, Style & Design, Tech, Techonomy | 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 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 [...]