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The 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 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 view |
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The Lord Gave To NYC Tech Start-Ups And Universities, And The Lord Hath Taken Away
Stanford'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 [...]