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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Loop Roads or Bust

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It's been open season on long term capital improvements for fixed guideway transit.  First there's Minnesota Republicans looking to ...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

How to Free the Market and Reduce VMT - Austin's West Campus

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When I lived in Austin I ate dinner and lunch every day at a place called the University Towers. Rather than paying $10 a meal at the athle...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

BART to Livermore a Horrible Idea

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There I said it, BART to Livermore is a bad idea. Even if we could make the line downtown less expensive, it would still get minimal riders...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011

50 Years for a System?

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The Twin Cities finally signed its full funding grant agreement (FFGA) with the FTA for the Central Corridor. This just 7 years after the c...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Transit to Empty Fields

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In the United States we haven't been able to talk a lot about transit creating new neighborhoods whole cloth since the early 20th centur...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Planners Using Twitter

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As many of you know I tweet as @theoverheadwire. Same planning stuff with a bit of personal mish mash. It's interesting to see how we ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

No More Commuter Rail Starts

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If there is one thing we've learned over the last few decades, suburban political forces are a drain on cities. For everyone wants to b...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Lego Train Has Automatic Opening Doors

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From the cool department at Brothers Brick . I like legos, I like trains, and I like them together.
Monday, March 28, 2011

Bay Area TOD Policy Might Work

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We've had lots of discussions about freeway running light rail and transit and some folks say its ok as long as the major nodes are conn...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Density Lobby Uncovered!

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So according to Joel Kotkin (only go to the link if you have to), the Density Lobby is made up of the following nefarious groups: Then ther...
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