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Routemaster 7 Mar 2013 | 07:57 pm
One of the occasional pleasures of the job is hobnobbing with the movers and shakers (preferably they do more of the former) of the transport world, like Leon Daniels, Managing Director of Surface T...
Visible Enforcement 7 Mar 2013 | 07:44 pm
watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uvYxXBMqEOM Via Urban Demographics.
The Brain-Sucking Tendency of Left Turns 7 Mar 2013 | 07:40 pm
From the Edmonton Journal: “The study, which included collaborators from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Baycrest in Toronto, involved 16 healthy volunteers; men and women aged 20 to 30, with se...
A Short History of Traffic Engineering 30 Jan 2013 | 05:34 am
Via Copenhagenize.
America’s Unlikely Hub of Bike Sharing 16 Jan 2013 | 06:40 am
Over at Slate I analyze how Washington D.C. managed to get first past the post with the country’s biggest and best bike share system. “If you had been handed, a decade ago, a map of the U.S. and asked...
The Single Most Important Item in the Global Economy 16 Aug 2012 | 04:41 am
Pallets, my boy. Pallets.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up 11 Apr 2012 | 01:20 am
From the comments: I did ride my bike to the gym this morning and thus only did 5 minutes on the treadmill to warm up before lifting! If I’d driven, I’d have jogged for 10 minutes.
Whatever Happened to Walking? 11 Apr 2012 | 01:19 am
Starting today in Slate, I take a four-part look at walking, the “forgotten transportation mode,” in America and elsewhere. Simply by going out for a walk, I had become a strange being, studied by en...
About That Moment of Silence… 5 Apr 2012 | 12:50 pm
While certainly sympathetic to the idea expressed by the image above, I was thinking it a bit too high-mindedly smug, too facetious, more of a sentiment than a reality, a phrase great for a t-shirt or...
Can Parking Lots Be Great? 4 Apr 2012 | 09:17 am
My latest Slate column is up, and via Eran Ben-Joseph’s book Re-thinking a Lot, considers the humble surface parking lot. The parking lot is one of those forms so visible that we no longer see it (or...
