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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 [...] September 30th, 2010 | Tags: buses, density, las vegas, links, Moscow, nyc, Oakland, Stephen Smith, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | One comment |
 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 [...] September 25th, 2010 | Tags: buses, congestion pricing, food, private transit, public housing, Stephen Smith, zoning | 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 [...] September 17th, 2010 | Tags: buses, jitneys, New Jersey, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewBack a couple years ago, I noted an Econtalk podcast with Russell Roberts and Duke University Professor Mike Munger on the private bus system in Santiago, Chile. This week’s episode starts with Munger’s update on the Santiago transportation system after visiting for three weeks and spending a lot of time traveling the city’s buses [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: buses, Economics, econtalk, munger, private transit, public transit, Russell Roberts, santiago, traffic, transit | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Transit activists have been bemoaning recent cuts in the MTA’s bus routes throughout New York City, but the cuts may have a silver lining, in particular for market urbanists: they may usher in the return of private buses to the streets of New York City. Private buses (and subways, and [...] August 16th, 2010 | Tags: buses, nyc, privatization, Stephen Smith, unions | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments |
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