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Pretty. It’s in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Walker is my favorite transportation blogger. This is a review of his new book. Pretty good read.
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Refutation of the necessity of having a car, in photographic form.
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Tyler Cowen — an economist at George Mason and a blogger at Marginal Revolution — explains why the paradigm that requires free parking is bad economics and worse policy. A good introductory read on the topic for people who may hear that and think, “What? But we need free parking!”
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What the American Midwest can learn from Germany about high-speed and freight rail coexistence.
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Q. Asked to allocate a billion dollars in funds on anything that falls under the rubric of urban affairs, what would you prioritize?
Better buses! It’s rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities.
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Good pro-con summary of some proposed transit solutions for Metro Detroit.
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