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1. NYT A-1 headline! Number of new single-family homes sold in February was at its lowest point since data was first collected in 1963, but multi-unit sales are up. 2. Lydia DePillis with an example of some abhorrent NIMBYism from DC. 3. Anti-laneway housing propaganda from Vancouver. It looks like some are bucking [...] April 24th, 2011 | Tags: dc, density, setbacks, transit, Vancouver, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
 printable viewLast week commenter Alon Levy criticized the Manhattan Institute’s position on transit unions, and Nicole Gelinas in particular, as being too focused on overall pay levels while neglecting overstaffing. Nicole wrote to me soon after to defend her record on the transit issue, and it does indeed look like she’s addressed the issues that [...] April 22nd, 2011 | Tags: nyc, transit, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments |
printable viewAlon Levy writes in the comments in response to an item in yesterday’s links about a Republican legislator in Texas looking to cut bus drivers’ salaries: Repeating my comment on the Austin Contrarian, and similar comments I’ve made on Second Avenue Sagas: the problem is more staffing than salaries. At New York City [...]
Maybe if the developer was allowed more than two stories, they'd spend more than 10 minutes designing the roof… 1. Hamburg’s newly-revitalized port could get a completely privately-funded cable car line, if the city allows it. 2. Quincy, Mass., a few T stops away from downtown Boston, is getting a new downtown from [...] April 12th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, Boston, BRT, Environment, Hamburg, historic preservation, nyc, portland, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |
printable view1. Private companies are offering to build Hamburg a 3.2-mile cable car line connecting the red light district of St. Pauli with two other tourist destinations. 2. Alex Block links to a video about NJ Transit’s new commuter rail trainsets. Apparently the trains are so heavy because of uniquely American passenger rail safety [...] April 3rd, 2011 | Tags: dc, Germany, LA, NJ, transit | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
printable view1. An excellent Wikipedia article about the old DC streetcars. I wish there were more economics, and I’d also like to know about the state-mandated consolidation that they talk about in the mid-1890s. Also note that streetcar use reached its peak in the mid 1910s – when people talk about interstate highways and [...] February 21st, 2011 | Tags: dc, history, transit, unions | Category: Uncategorized | 13 comments |
printable viewI started reading Fogelson’s Downtown with the intention of learning more about elevated trains, and though I’ve been slightly disappointed in that regard (more to come on that after I finish and attempt a more comprehensive review), he does include a lot of interesting history. I’m posting this more so that I remember [...] January 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Boston, history, japan, nyc, Philadelphia, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 27 comments |
printable viewI didn’t mean for these all (except the last one) to be about DC, but it looks like it turned out that way… 1. Matt Yglesias on lot occupancy rules in DC. I have a feeling, though, that these are more or less irrelevant in the face of other, stricter limits on density. [...] December 24th, 2010 | Tags: China, dc, Iran, terrorism, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments |
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