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Showing posts with label false dichotomies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label false dichotomies. Show all posts
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Ten things to remember about public and private transportation

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With a bunch of articles in the news recently about private intercity bus service, it's important to keep in mind several points: ...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

There is no neutral transportation budget arbiter

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Recently I had another Twitter argument with a transit budget hawk. You know, about how slow and expensive the MTA has been at delivering ...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Who will save New York City from #SaveNYC?

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A lot of people are alarmed by the language Donald Trump, with its emphasis on “taking back our country” and “making America great again.” ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2015

Our stratified transportation system

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A lot of people are nervous about the possibility that privately-run electronic taxi-hailing systems like Uber and Lyft could take over func...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Coming downstairs, bump, bump, bump

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Last year, a number of people noted that recently there had been a significant drop in vehicle miles traveled across the country. At a mini...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

I am Monoculture, Destroyer of Worlds

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There's an idea going around that "gentrification" imposes a monoculture on the neighborhoods it touches. In a whirlwind of de...
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Private or public what?

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Recently with Uber, Lyft and even Leap, here has been a lot of discussion of public versus private transit. The stark opposition that some ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Transit vs. e-hailing and transit vs. cars

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Recently I wrote about some discussion from Timothy B. Lee and Chris Plano about the possibility that "ride-hailing could actually be ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

No, e-carpooling will not replace fixed-route buses

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A lot of people have been talking about "microtransit" lately - sometimes meaning shared e-hailing services like Uberpool and Lyft...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

Autonomous cars in the advanced city

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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, said this to Yonah Freemark last month: Would you prefer what we have today, [where] only poor people use...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Who's getting out of the way of the buses?

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The Transit Workers' Union Local 100 has been campaigning against New York's recently enacted Right of Way law, which gives the pol...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

The long game in transit advocacy

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While I generally appreciate other transit activists, I’ve criticized plenty of them in the past. Recently I’ve figured out what it is that...
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Monday, April 6, 2015

They can't go back to Ohio

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One of the nastiest aspects of NIMBYism in New York City is the scapegoating of people who moved here from somewhere else. For years I'...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

Never trust a transit advocate

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I’ve been fighting for better transit for over twenty years now, and one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is this: never trust a t...
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Friday, September 12, 2014

Did you bring enough housing for everybody?

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When I was a kid, one of the things the teachers told us was that if you bring snacks or candy, you have to bring enough for everyone. If y...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The light is better on the poor door

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I was listening to Tanya Snyder and Jeff Wood treating the latest “poor door” outrage with some well-deserved skepticism. Jeff mentioned ...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Five migrations in gentrification

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In a recent post I noted that the demand driving up rents and prices ("gentrification") in big cities like New York, San Francisc...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Unpacking gentrification

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Transit advocates, pedestrian advocates, urbanists and in general all the people who are trying to improve the quality of life in cities nee...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

It's time to extend the N train to LaGuardia

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Twenty years ago, Astoria leaders blocked a plan to extend the elevated train line that serves their neighborhood. The proposal would have ...
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