Over the weekend that silly pinko rag the Wall Street Journal ran a long article looking at suburban “retrofitting”– the process of going back a trying to figure out how to make the ‘burbs look and act less like ‘burbs Read more ›

There’s more good news on the roads front, as congestion continues to decline–albeit slowly–in US cities. A new report from the Texas Transportation Institute finds that in 2007 Americans wasted an average of 36.1 hours stuck in traffic, down from Read more ›

[SButtonZ button="digg"] Transportation funds from the stimulus bill are being spent stupidly, it seems. The $35 billion dedicated to roads, bridges and transit could be creating many more jobs and doing a lot more to improve the country’s infrastructure. Smart Read more ›

[SButtonZ button="digg"] When the New York Times does something big and ambitious you’re kind of required to mention it or you seem like you live under a rock. It would be like ignoring Carlos Slim at cocktail party or something. Read more ›

[SButtonZ button="digg"] Sometimes the media is just really annoying. That’s a common observation, and I’m a member of the tribe, but still. Case in point: If you happened to see a headline this morning about a new study that examines Read more ›

It’s amazing how little public discussion there’s been of making the US Midwest–but especially Michigan–an international center of railcar making. Politicians have no problem trying to start a mini Silicon Valley in every state of the union (which is only Read more ›

[SButtonZ button="digg"] Ray LaHood is over in Spain, snooping around their high speed train system for ideas. Today he took a jaunt on the AVE from Madrid to Zaragosa and then hung around in a railway control center with the Read more ›

It’s difficult to be someone who spends much time thinking about transportation policy in the country and not nurse some level of fascination with Ray LaHood. The guy is just so damn… well, let’s review the evidence. The New York Read more ›

A lot of people seem to be thinking about the unintended consequences of laws designed to make us safer on the roads, whether as cyclists or drivers. Today Good magazine asks, “Do bike helmet laws do more harm than good?” Read more ›

For some environmentally minded folks, Earth Day is an occasion to fret over like how much recycled material is in our socks or whether to run our dishwashers at 3 a.m. or 3 p.m. But, as probably even the fretters Read more ›

[SButtonZ button="digg"] Today, President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood <a rhef=”http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/A-Vision-for-High-Speed-Rail/“>released a vision</a> for high-speed rail in the United States, the first such administration-endorsed rail strategy in American history. The plan attempts to outline a Read more ›

Felix Rohatyn, the financier who helped save New York City from going broke in the 1970s and the author of a new book about public spending, did a turn on CNBC this morning to discuss Obama’s stimulus program. The $800 Read more ›