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Showing posts with label long term. Show all posts
Showing posts with label long term. Show all posts
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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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Real Rockaway train service

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As I've written before , the Rockaway Peninsula is one of the least sustainable places in the New York area. This sand bar might be oka...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Governor Cuomo, climate change and transit

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Nathan H. was following my train of thought when I wondered whether a politician - specifically, Governor Andrew Cuomo - could be a "ca...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Transitioning back to slavery?

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I've written about the transition movement before, somewhat skeptically . I'm still skeptical about the movement itself, but I ag...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

100 Years of the Tappan Zee Bridge: A Look Back

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This December 15 will be the hundredth anniversary of the completion of the first Tappan Zee Bridge in 1955. In honor of that occasion, we...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Some consequences of energy depletion

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Many people accept the likelihood of peak oil and climate change , but haven't quite thought through all its implications. Here are fiv...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Maintaining high-rise apartments.

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James Howard Kunstler has a bad feeling about tall buildings. He's not against density: he's said that he thinks a bunch of low-ri...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Hitting the ceiling

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No, I'm not talking about the debt ceiling, I'm not talking about getting angry, and I'm not talking about a real ceiling. I...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

The short term and the long term

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Once again Matt Yglesias puts his finger on an important issue: "The inability to even keep long-term and short-term issues straight i...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Vice in your backyard

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In the comments to my previous post on the overnight gambling bus crash, Jonathan wrote, "I am kind of disappointed in this post; I th...
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Saturday, March 19, 2011

The logic of the overnight gambling bus

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There's been a lot of discussion in the press lately about the spectacular crash of an overnight gambling bus on the Bruckner Expressway...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Our next big goal

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You might have any number of goals for New York City's transportation policy in the near future. Let's say you want to cut somethin...
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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, February 14, 2011

Peak oil, climate change and buses

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Jarrett has a thought-provoking post about the age-old rail versus bus debate. But he buries what I think is the biggest advantage that tr...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Peak oil, climate change and transportation infrastructure

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Here's an idea that's been slowly crystallizing in my mind. I've posted earlier stabs at this idea, but here's my current t...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Yes, we do need to build more....

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Last week, the Urbanophile posted an article called " Yes, we Do Need to Build More Roads ." He expected that a lot of people wou...
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Friday, January 7, 2011

Not all infrastructure is worth replacing

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For weeks now, maybe months, I've been struggling to articulate something, and going through a bunch of false starts, and then moving on...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Westchester-Rockland Pick-a-Mix

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In browsing the Tappan Zee study documents , I occasionally come across a really useful nugget, and the latest one is on Page 7-3 of Chapter...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Learning from the failure of the livery van program

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Earlier this week, Taxi and Limousine Commission Chair David Yassky acknowledged that the Commission's plan to run vans on five abandon...
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

A time for borrowing

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Last week I argued that there are times when it is actually appropriate to borrow: On one level it's very simple: if you will be better...