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Monthly archive for September, 2009
2009 Was Supposed To Be An Exciting Year In Transportation :(
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
According to our friends the pundits, Congress has three big legislative priorities for the foreseeable future: Health care, climate and creating regulations that will tame those rapacious risk-takers on Wall Street. Noticeably–and sadly–absent from that list is a new transportation Read more ›
If Obama Had To Create 3 Million Jobs In A Pinch–Like FDR Did–Could He?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
This chart, which has been bouncing the around the internet the last few days, is a sharp reminder that all this “green shoots!” talk is still very preliminary. As is, in fact, the idea that the financial crisis is behind Read more ›
Would $5 Gallon Gasoline Cause Commuters To Change Their Ways?
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
We’ve frequently bounced around the question of what level of gas prices would start to meaningfully change Americans’ driving behavior. It seemed like we started to get an answer last summer, when pump prices were topping $4. The financial calculus Read more ›
The Daily Dig – Cracked Eyebar Edition
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
. The Bay Bridge in SF, which sees 260,000 vehicles daily, is closed this morning after inspectors discovered a cracked support (specifically, an eyebar) over the weekend. Officials are expecting delays and a record day for area transit ridership. More Read more ›
Suburbs of the Imagination
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Artist Ross Racine creates fictional suburbs. He describes his work–”drawn freehand directly on the computer and printed with an inkjet printer”–as a “a comment on the fears as well as the dreams expressed in suburban culture.” What’s eerie is that Read more ›
Priority Number Two: Sewer Guru Says It’s Time To Get Down To Business
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
This is one of our favorite interviews we’ve ever done, and yet it got only a fraction of the views that our others have gotten. So here’s an encore of British author Rose George talking shit. -Ed. Rose George never Read more ›
