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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 viewEarlier 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 [...] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: energy, real estate | Category: Best Places for Business and Careers, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Fact & Comment, Green Tech, Human Ingenuity, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, video, Wall Street, World Affairs | 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 viewLondon’s Shard tower, soon to be the tallest in Europe, is, financially speaking, a bit puzzling. Europe is in the midst of an economic crisis, and London’s Southwark, across from the skyscraper-crazed City of London, is gentrifying, but not the safest place for a massive real estate investment. The developers have yet to sign a [...] December 31st, 2011 | Tags: energy, real estate | Category: Arts & Entertainment, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, World Affairs | 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 viewIt has often been suggested that one of the reasons that American subway construction is so expensive is that our laws are too friendly to NIMBYs. That is to say, contractors will be paid to engineer expensive, long-term solutions to avoid short-term disruptions to neighbors during construction. The most prominent example is avoiding cut-and-cover subway [...] December 18th, 2011 | Tags: energy, politics | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Fact & Comment, Law, Logistics & Transportation, Places & Spaces, Policy | 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 [...]