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Showing posts with label transit for all. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transit for all. Show all posts
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

The chickens come home to roost

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I think that's a nice evocative metaphor, even though it seems like you'd want the chickens coming home to roost. Then you get eggs...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Muddle-headed transit advocates

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Every so often we get a new study that examines some aspect of transit politics and comes up with counterintuitive results. This is general...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Poor people with cars

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In the comments on my last post, Joel writes : I know that the image of NJ drivers are BMW driving upper middle class yuppies. However, I ha...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Why 181st Street matters

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I've long argued that the concept of "BRT" attempting to mimic subway lines is an inefficient and counterproductive strategy. ...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

A very frequent bus network for Queens

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Jarrett's been posting a lot about frequent bus network maps, so he finally convinced me to spend a few hours putting one together for ...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Good for all and good for some

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In my last post I said that large projects could be divided into things that benefit everyone and things that benefit only some people. Th...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Anchoring the cascade

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Image from Klein et al. (1997) We know that jitney service can be profitable , as illustrated by the graph above, but that it requires a cer...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Competition is about relative value

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I find Yonah Freemark's blog The Transport Politic to be very informative, and his more thoughtful pieces at sites like Next American C...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The supposed independence of cars

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In the comments to my last post , Streetsblog commenter Ian Bicking stopped by to play the role of apologist for Joel Kotkin. I'd like ...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

What's driving Joel Kotkin?

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A common reaction that transit advocates have to Joel Kotkin - and also to the arguments by Wendell Cox and friends that use liberal langua...
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Monday, March 8, 2010

The best bang for the subsidy buck

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In a recent post , I wrote that we would expect transit patronage to expand if: (a) transit is more efficient at providing access for subsid...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Transit riders shouldn't have to sacrifice

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All around the country it's a time of budget cuts. Some, like the New York State Legislature and Governor, are unwilling to prioritize a...
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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Separating transit from charity

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In the past I've talked about the consumer surplus : the fact that there are plenty of people who would be willing to pay a lot more tha...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The anti-transit shell game

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Jarrett Walker brings this to our attention : Rupert Murdoch Leonard Asper's National Post is trying to bring in the pageviews with a n...
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Why we have government funding

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Under Koch, Cuomo and Reagan we saw a reduction in public investment in infrastructure and services: our deteriorating parks, streets and su...
Thursday, November 26, 2009

Rob Hopkins's Urban Challenge

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Last month I discussed my suspicions that the transition movement may be just the same old back-to-the-land movement with renewed energy fr...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Spatial, narrative and habit navigation

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I may be covering things that have already been discussed, but this is something I haven't seen elsewhere before, so if you have, please...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Sticks, carrots and sugarlumps

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Today, Streetsblog.net featured a post that relates to what I've been writing recently about the Magic Formula for Profitable Transit....
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