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Showing posts with label glamour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glamour. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The symbolism of congestion pricing

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Since Governor Hochul announced her "indefinite pause" on congestion pricing on June 7, I've been one of several people who p...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Our third world airport

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I remember when Joe Biden remarked that LaGuardia Airport felt like the Third World to him. I remember thinking, "What the fuck is thi...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Driving to the walkway

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Among the many crazy things about the new Tappan Zee Bridge, one of the craziest is the way that some environmentalists seem to melt into so...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Imagining desire lines

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You've seen them: lines where the grass is worn down, the evidence that enough people have walked a particular route as to kill the gras...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Light rail in New York City?

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Last week I talked about the practical differences between light rail, streetcars, subways and commuter rail. We have light rail right acr...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Where does this bus go?

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"Where does this bus go?" "Where do you want to go?" If I know my readership, most of you have had that conversation....
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Listening - skeptically - to NIMBYs

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So Kaid Benfield's post " Mitigating the environmental paradox of smart growth: softening urban density " got the snazzier tit...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Gay men, zoning and the High Line's real source of power

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You probably already know how annoyed I get by all the people who want "our very own High Line" for whatever little town they liv...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Selling transit with Glamour or Value, or both

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Ever since April of 2009, when Human Transit blogger Jarrett Walker posted a review of Darrin Nordahl's book My Kind of Transit , the t...
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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Saving the Manhattan Terminal

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A transit advocate looks at abandoned transit infrastructure and thinks, "Imagine if we reactivated that!" Certain other people (...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Aspirational marketing in black communities

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On Friday I was talking about cycle chic that sends an affirmational message: "You can be just as chic as you are ... on a bike!"...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

The value of cycle chic

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The concept of "cycle chic" has been controversial almost from the moment it started. Libby Maxim, "Biker Chick" of Wes...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The glamour of the High Line

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If you're from a city like Chicago , Philadelphia , Jersey City or Saint Louis - or possibly San Francisco or Wilmington, California ...
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Friday, March 4, 2011

Obama's rail strategy

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In 2009, the President announced that the stimulus package would include eight billion dollars for high speed rail construction. Since then...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

A gift from Randal O'Toole?

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So I was having this Twitter exchange with Virginia Postrel, whose work I've found very helpful in the past. It started with a column ...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Twas ever thus...

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R. Crumb Planetizen recently linked to a Times article about an odd development battle in Jersey City. There is an old Pennsylvania Railr...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

The value of glamour

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I just discovered that a couple weeks ago Cyclelicious ran a summary of my series on glamour and transit . But Engineer Scotty's discu...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Glamour and honesty

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In my last post , I echoed Ben Kabak's criticism of Commissioner Sadik-Khan for the use of the term "surface subway." I think...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

How the "surface subway" can hurt the real subway

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A year and a half ago I called Aaron Naparstek out for using the phrase "surface subway" to describe bus rapid transit. Now the ...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The key to successful ferry service

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Last Friday, Times City Critic Ariel Kaminer and Second Avenue Sagas blogger Ben Kabak both hopped ferries and filed reports on their exp...
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