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Showing posts with label symbolic rituals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symbolic rituals. Show all posts
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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Friday, February 19, 2016

A Century of Subway Scolding

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Jessica Hester had a great post detailing how we've been trying to alternately shame and cajole people into being respectful and not ta...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

It's time to stop saying "gentrification"

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Gentrification is a bad word, because it blames the wrong people. Don't talk about "gentrification" or "gentrifiers....
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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Moynihan Bus Rapid Transit Station!

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Ben Kabak tweeted about a new proposal from something called Woods Bagot to open up Penn Station to sunlight by removing the theater under...
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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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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

The transportation hypocrisy of civil libertarians

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It was in the news yesterday that the Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak employee over $800,000 over twenty years for confident...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Inequality: disease or symptom?

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Do you want to see real inequality? Do you want to see well-fed people, satisfied smiles on their faces, walking past lines of hungry peopl...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

The Eighth Borough

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Map: mapsof.net Some things that have been called the sixth borough of New York City: Philadelphia Governor's Island The New York Ci...
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Monday, September 2, 2013

Take the Chinatown Van to the U.S. Open

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There were some chuckles on my Twitter feed over the Times article about U.S. Open champion tennis players getting stuck in traffic as the...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

"Why would they take the glass encasing off of a bus stop?"

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I've written before about the Republican mayoral candidates' responses to a debate question about bus frequency, and their notions ...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

Rockland County is not being short-changed by the MTA

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Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef has been complaining for years that his county pays more to the Metropolitan Transportation Autho...
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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Thursday, October 25, 2012

What's so great about low farebox recovery?

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I just want to take a minute to talk about the ... strange statement that came out of the Straphangers Campaign last week, in response to th...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

Queue myopia

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Benjamen Walker has a new radio documentary out for the BBC ( MP3 ), all about waiting on line. It's definitely worth a listen. I especi...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Greenwashing with recreation

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I got pretty annoyed this weekend listening to Lieutenant Governor Duffy blathering on to Alan Chartock about how Governor Cuomo loves the ...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

The limits of kvetchocracy

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Earlier this year it was big news when the City released a map , and summary reports of complaint calls to its 311 telephone system. Deput...
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Your Guide to New York State's Judicial Nomination Process

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As I mentioned recently, there were two bizarre judicial rulings in the New York State Supreme Court setting back transportation reform. On...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

In your half of road...

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I remember when I visited Massachusetts for the first time as a teenager. I stepped into a crosswalk with no traffic light and prepared to ...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Community boards would stifle transit innovation

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Recently I expressed doubt that the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority could create an innovative bus service like the Koreana ...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Man's parking-lot inhumanity to man

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A few months ago I was so caught up in my tablet (probably writing a blog post) that I forgot to ring the bell to get off the bus, and it sa...
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