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Showing posts with label what if. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what if. Show all posts
Sunday, July 24, 2016

A way among the tube socks

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I am not a Bicycle Advocate, and I don't believe that Bikeshare is Transit. But I'm now convinced that the combination of bike share...
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Un-constraining our imagination

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There are a lot of things that constrain what we can do to change transit. Ultimately, we can do very little by ourselves, so everything re...
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Thursday, August 6, 2015

What if Amtrak cared about its Hartford riders?

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Welcome to another installment of our "What if?" series, where we ask what would happen if the people who ran our transit system t...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Carmageddon vs. Bridgegate

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The New Jersey Department of Transportation will shut down two lanes of the Pulaski Skyway on Saturday, and recently Sarah Gonzalez was on W...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

We can't depend on the Northeast Corridor

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The big news this weekend is the major derailment and crash on the New Haven line between Fairfield and Bridgeport yesterday. The National...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Priority bus lanes on the Pulaski Skyway

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Last month I told you how much the Pulaski Skyway degrades our urban environment just by carrying 30,000 cars into Manhattan, and observed ...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

A bus bridge to the Rockaways

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As I wrote before, the best thing for the Rockaways is not to rebuild so much infrastructure-intensive development there; that means no mor...
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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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Friday, November 9, 2012

What you need for a good bus bridge

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It's my hope that New Yorkers will remember three events from the recovery from Hurricane Sandy. The first is the gridlock and chaos th...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

The disaster of New Jersey's emergency transit plan

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New Jersey's transportation infrastructure is in crisis. New Jersey Transit told Businessweek that 257 rail cars and 65 engines (23% a...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

If the MTA doesn't want to take you to work...

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I've got so much to say in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that I'm posting twice in one night. In my last post I didn't incl...
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Can we get an Emergency Express Bus network?

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We now know that most of the tunnels under the East River were flooded by Hurricane Sandy, including subway tunnels, and that there is flood...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

So much for the Red Hook Tunnel Bus

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Ben Kabak is reporting that the Manhattan-bound Smith/9th Street platform will finally be closed, from January 10 through Spring 2012, and ...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Jamaica Cutover: What if?

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That's right, folks, it's time for another installment of What If? , where we look at some boneheaded move and ask, "What if th...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Black swans over Long Island

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Last week Planet Money had a great "Deep Read" with economist Nassim Taleb. Taleb's major point is that when you're vuln...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

How not to do fare collection

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Recently, the Daily News has been looking at fare-beating, starting with two pieces by Pete Donohue on March 17 and March 18 . Earlier th...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

More craziness, this time in Pittsburgh

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I've only been to Pittsburgh, but I had a really good time. It definitely fulfills the Tourism Department's slogan, "Pittsburg...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Niantic Bridge gets stuck...

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The Day has the story . Fortunately, it was in the position where it disrupted boat traffic (mostly recreational) not train traffic. Anyon...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Being proactive about the Niantic River Bridge

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Following up on last year's replacement of the Thames River Bridge in Connecticut, Amtrak has received $105 million in stimulus funds t...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Redundancy and the Northeast Corridor

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In my last post , I talked about the value of redundancy in transit networks. Connecting this back to our goals, I think this speaks more t...
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