Tag: Public Transportation
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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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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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