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Nov 20
The Future of Intercity Passenger Transport : Early this week, the OECD’s International Transport Forum held a conference in Madrid on the Future of Interurban Passenger Transport....
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Nov 19
Short of Money? Call in Federal Regulators : In 2006, the National Transportation Safety Board found that 298 subway cars in the Washington Metrorail system are “vulnerable to catastrophic telescoping damage” and should be replaced or reinforced...
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Nov 18
The Compact City Myth : Can smart growth — compact development combined with alternatives to the automobile — play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions?...
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Nov 17
The Antiplanner’s Library: Climate-Constrained Transportation : Smart-growth advocates say we must reduce the growth of driving to meet greenhouse-reduction targets, because otherwise driving growth will exceed the per-mile reductions in emissions that result from...
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Nov 16
The Movement to Driverless Cars : The idea of driverless cars is beginning to catch on. An intermediate step, road trains, is being planned in various parts of Europe....
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Nov 13
The Kelo Conceit : It is hard not to gloat over the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s infamous Kelo decision....
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Nov 12
A MagLev for Pittsburgh? : Why is it that certain technologies inspire such religious passion in people?...
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Nov 11
Back in the Air Again : Today the Antiplanner is making a quick round trip to Boise to speak at an Idaho Freedom Foundation luncheon about streetcars. The event will take place at the Old Spaghetti Factory at 610 W....
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Nov 10
More Transit Data : Recently, the Federal Transit Administration added Historical Data Files to the National Transit Database....
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Nov 9
Boston Transit System Near Collapse : “The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority [MBTA] is in danger of collapsing under its own operating expenses and debt obligations, to the point that it can’t even pay for repairs that are vital...
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Nov 6
Smart Growth at the Polls : National news reports of last Tuesday’s election focused on the New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races and the congressional race in upstate New York....
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Nov 4
Employment Up, Transit Ridership Down : Transit ridership has fallen in 2009, which the American Public Transportation Association blames mainly on the recession....
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Nov 3
The Ultimate Transportation Antiplanning Book : This is a bit premature, but booksellers such as Amazon and reviewers such as the Globe and Mail have already let the cat out of the bag....
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Nov 2
Great Example of Government Planning : Oregon Governor Kunlongoski wanted to give tax breaks to companies building windmills....
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Nov 2
Stuck in the 1960s : Each year, about one out of 40 households receive a letter from the Census Bureau demanding that they fill out an American Community Survey asking such nosy questions as how much money each person in...
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Oct 30
The Importance of Cars; The Irrelevance of Transit : A new study published by the Cascade Policy Institute provides more evidence that the automobile is a key part of the nation’s economy....
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Oct 29
Corporatizing Transit : Apple Computer has agreed to spend nearly $4 million fixing up a run-down subway station and bus turnaround lane next to a planned Apple Store in Chicago....
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Oct 28
The 2008 Transit Data Are Here! : The Antiplanner is a data junkie....
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Oct 27
The Definition of Failure: Houston’s Light Rail : At one of the Antiplanner’s presentations in Houston, a member of the audience representing the Citizens’ Transportation Coalition propsed that Houston’s light rail was a success....
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Oct 27
U.S. High-Speed Rail Network : When Obama endorsed the Federal Railroad Administration’s 8,600-mile high-speed rail plan, the Antiplanner predicted that rail advocates would not be satisfied with such a small system....
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