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Are you suffering from Advanced Car Brain?
Have you ever seen people get into a huff about losing parking spaces for a bike lane? Have you ever seen people loudly complain when the speed limit is lowered on their commute? Have you ever been around when people go on and on about how terrible traffic is while they hop into their vehicle…
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Is the Hyperloop just….Hype?
When it comes to high speed trains in America, the past few years have had some good news, and a whole lot of bad news as well. Acela, the name for Amtrak’s northeastern train line (the only train line in America that can even pretend to be high speed), connecting Boston to DC, recently announced a express…
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What Is Suburban Sprawl?
This is a reposting of an article I’ve made years ago. Enjoy! What’s the most annoying thing about living in the suburbs? If you took a survey, I would bet that most people would point to traffic as the worst result of suburban life. It’s not hard to see why. Americans spend on average 38 hours a…
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Berlin is better than your city at transit (probably.)
When looking at public transportation in the United States, a few choice words come to mind: “inadequate”, “useless”, perhaps “underfunded” too. It is true, that save for a few cities in the US (I’m looking at you New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco etc.), America’s public transit options are extremely limited and unfortunately not…
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Induced demand can be a good thing?!
If you are familiar with the American highway system, then induced demand should definitely be in your vocabulary. It stands for the phenomenon that happens all too often when the highway system is expanded or otherwise “improved”. The system is simple: Step 1. Highway systems are regularly widened to 8, 10, 12, 14 lanes (sometimes…
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The Housing Crisis in San Francisco
You may know that currently, San Francisco is the American city with some of the most expensive housing costs and the highest rents in the country. It’s not all too uncommon the rents within the city are approaching over 3,000 for a one bedroom apartment. Even that seems cheap when you understand that just recently…
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