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2026 28

  1. The Origin of Premodern Western Cities
  2. The Country is the Natural Unit of Policy Analysis
  3. Electrification Costs and Confounders
  4. The Failure of Bus Grids at the Scale of Los Angeles
  5. Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Station
  6. Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development
  7. Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England
  8. Quick Note on Ridership Estimation and the STOPS Model
  9. IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook
  10. Secondary Stops in Cities on Intercity Rail
  11. Quick Note: Cars and Suburbs Commoditize Location
  12. Meme Weeding: Regular Funding
  13. Quick Note on Subway Operating Costs
  14. Devolution Best Practices
  15. The RPA Publishes Bad Report Against Through-Running
  16. How Much Community Outreach Does the Urban Institute Think Italy and Turkey Do?
  17. Learning from Many Places is Better than Learning from One
  18. Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen
  19. EU, Germany to Accelerate Rail Investment in Response to Iran War
  20. Quick Note: Commuter Rail and Urban Bus Hubs
  21. Why IBX Shouldn’t Connect to LaGuardia
  22. Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars
  23. There’s no Such Thing as Overtourism
  24. Against Land Value Capture
  25. Against Free Buses
  26. A Better Billion and the Cost Model versus the 125th Street Subway Extension
  27. British Construction Costs and Centralization
  28. Fare Practices

2025 39

  1. Quick Note: The Importance of Penn Station Access West to Through-Running
  2. It’s not the Baumol Effect
  3. New York Isn’t Special
  4. High Speed Rail-Airport Links
  5. High-Speed Rail is not for Tourists
  6. Why is Janno Lieber Constantly Blaming Other People for Problems?
  7. Reverse-Branching on Commuter Rail
  8. The Invention of the Traditional System of Project Delivery
  9. Transit-Oriented Development and Rail Capacity
  10. High-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator Applet
  11. Timetable Padding Practices
  12. Reasons and Explanations
  13. How One Bad Project Can Poison the Entire Mode
  14. Did the Netherlands Ever Need 300 km/h Trains?
  15. Can Ridership Surges Disrupt Small, Frequent Driverless Metros?
  16. The Hamburg-Hanover High-Speed Line
  17. Cross-Border Rail and the EU’s Learned Helplessness
  18. Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon
  19. Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Station Design is Incompetent
  20. S-Bahn and RER Ridership is Urban
  21. Quick Note: RER and S-Bahn Line Length
  22. The Danbury Branch and Rail Modernization
  23. The Northeast Corridor Report is Out
  24. Against State of Good Repair
  25. The Problems of not Killing Penn Expansion and of Tariffs
  26. New York Mayoral Race Thrown Wide Open as Cuomo is Prosecuted, Adams Removed
  27. Quick Note: Report on Electrification and Medium-Speed Rail Upgrades
  28. Open BRT
  29. Tokyo Construction Costs
  30. Cos Cob Bridge Replacement
  31. YIMBY First, Building Reform Second
  32. 16-Car Trains on the Northeast Corridor
  33. Northeast Corridor Profits and Amtrak Losses
  34. Amtrak’s Failure
  35. Privatization is not an Alternative to the State
  36. Quick Note: Rural Drivers Aren’t Being Oppressed
  37. Building for Wealth, and Point Access Blocks
  38. Quick Note: the Experience of Train Stations
  39. Large Cars are a Positional Good

2024 81

  1. Quick Note: High-Speed Rail and Decarbonization
  2. One- and Two-Dimensional Rail Networks
  3. Public Transportation and Crime are not About Each Other
  4. Consultant Slop and Europe’s Decision not to Build High-Speed Rail
  5. Meme Weeding: Costs and Office Productivity
  6. Quick Note: Commuter Rail Rolling Stock Costs
  7. Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralization
  8. Commuter Rail to Staten Island
  9. Quick Note: Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams Want New York to Be Worse at Building Infrastructure
  10. We Have Northeast Corridor Runtimes
  11. Our Rolling Stock Database Draft is Out
  12. Kathy Hochul Can Only Solve Problems She Created
  13. Help Us Write More Construction Cost Cases
  14. TGV Imitators: Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Right Places
  15. Why Texas High-Speed Rail is Stuck
  16. Transit Advocacy and (Lack of) Ideology in New York
  17. Amtrak Doubles Down on False Claims About Regional Rail History to Attack Through-Running
  18. Taxes are not About Urbanism
  19. Mass Transit on Orbital Boulevards
  20. InnoTrans is Souring Me on On-Rail Competition
  21. Quick Note on Capital City Income Premiums
  22. The MTA Capital Plan Falsifies Subway History
  23. Public Transportation and Gig Workers
  24. Quick Note: Flushing’s Growth and Through-Running
  25. Costing Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail
  26. The Northeast Corridor Should not Host Diesel Through-Service
  27. More on American Incuriosity, New York Regional Rail Edition, Part 2: Station Dwell Times
  28. Tradeoffs in Reliability and Shutdowns
  29. More on American Incuriosity, New York Regional Rail Edition, Part 1: European History
  30. Why New York-New Haven Trains Crawl
  31. New York Has Too Few Subway Countdown Clocks
  32. The Meaning of Construction Costs Per Rider
  33. More American Station Construction Extravaganza
  34. What it Means That Miri Regev Wants to Cancel Congestion Pricing
  35. Northeast Corridor Realignment Webtool
  36. Project 2025 and Public Transportation
  37. Quick Preliminary Notes on Rolling Stock Costs
  38. Reports on High-Speed Rail and the Northeast Corridor
  39. Germany and Summer Maintenance
  40. Why is Kathy Hochul Against Masks on the Subway?
  41. Anglosphere Costs and Inequality
  42. Meme Weeding: High Wages and Baumol’s Cost Disease
  43. Standardizing the Right Way
  44. Quick Note on Respecting the Civil Service
  45. Hochul Suspends Congestion Pricing
  46. Red Hook-Manhattan Buses
  47. Scheduling Trains in New Jersey with the Gateway Project
  48. Stop Spacing on Crosstown Routes
  49. Militarized and Other New Capital Cities
  50. Bus Stop Consolidation and Blocks
  51. Fares on High-Speed Trains
  52. American Myths of European Poverty
  53. The Politics of QueensLink
  54. The Future of Congestion Pricing in New York
  55. Quick Note: What the Hell is Going on in San Jose?
  56. Subway Expansion and Bus Redesign
  57. Frequency in Units of Distance
  58. Frequency is Relative
  59. What is Incrementalism, Anyway?
  60. Trucking and Grocery Prices
  61. Venture Capital Firms Shift to Green Infrastructure
  62. Local and Intercity Rail are Complements
  63. The United States Has Too Few Road Tunnels
  64. Subway-Intercity Rail Connections
  65. Intercity Trains and Long Island
  66. Trains on the Moon
  67. How Residential is a Residential Neighborhood?
  68. Land Use Around the Interborough Express
  69. Is There Room for Optimism About New York Construction Costs?
  70. Northeast Corridor Travel Markets and Fares
  71. Serving Metro-North Fordham Station
  72. New York-New Haven Trains in an Hour
  73. On Worshiping Foreign Systems
  74. Costs Per Rider and Willingness to Build
  75. Public Transit Subsidies and Efficiency
  76. Security Theater on Metros
  77. Worthless Canadian Initiative
  78. The Need for Ample Zoning Capacity
  79. Quick Note: Different Anti-Growth Green Advocacies
  80. Eurostar Security Theater and French Station Size
  81. Small Metros Aren’t Lean, They’re Underbuilt

2023 87

  1. Cost-Plus Contracting is Good
  2. Janno Lieber Lies to New York About Costs and Regulations
  3. The United States Learned Little from Obama-Era Rail Investment
  4. The MTA Sticks to Its Oversize Stations
  5. Quick Note: New Neighborhoods are Residential
  6. Quick Note: Anti-Green Identity Politics
  7. Curves in Fast Zones
  8. Reverse- and Through-Commute Trends
  9. Commuter Suburbs and Express and Local Trains
  10. The Northeast Corridor Rail Grants
  11. We Gave a Talk About New York Commuter Rail Modernization
  12. I’m Giving a Talk in New York About Commuter Rail
  13. Conspiracies and 15-Minute Cities
  14. Setting Speed Zones
  15. Boston Meetup and Consultants Supervising Consultants
  16. I’m Giving a Talk About Regional Rail in Boston
  17. The MTA 20 Year Needs Assessment Reminds Us They Can’t Build
  18. High Speed 2 is (Partly) Canceled Due to High Costs
  19. On Hierarchy and the Civil Service
  20. Our Webinar, and Penn Reconstruction
  21. Different Models of Partial Through-Running
  22. I’m Giving a Webinar Talk About Penn Station
  23. Penn Station Followup with Blueprints
  24. Rail Reactivation in Suburbs vs. Rural Areas
  25. Penn Station 3D Model
  26. Don’t Romanticize Traditional Cities that Never Existed
  27. Mineta Shows How not to Reduce Construction Costs
  28. Britain Remade’s Report on Construction Costs
  29. The Importance of Tangibles
  30. Quick Note on Ecotourism and Climate
  31. Connecticut Pays Double for Substandard Trains
  32. Pete Buttigieg, Bent Flyvbjerg, and My Pessimism About American Costs
  33. Urbanism for non-Tourists
  34. Quick Note: Andy Byford and Through-Running
  35. How to Ensure You Won’t Have Public Transportation
  36. Deutsche Bahn’s Europabahn Study
  37. The Hudson Tunnel Project is Funded!
  38. The LIRR and East Side Access
  39. Urban NIMBYism and Climate Apartheid
  40. Why Commuters Prefer Origin to Destination Transfers
  41. Build Paris-Frankfurt High-Speed Rail
  42. Why Does TGV Ridership Overperform Models?
  43. The Regional Connector and Network Coherence
  44. Assume Normal Costs: An Update
  45. How Fast is Necessary?
  46. Large Urban Terminals are Unnecessary
  47. Can Intercity Trains into Boston Enter from Springfield?
  48. Through-Running and American Rail Activism
  49. Quick Note: Heavy Touch and Control
  50. The Origins of Los Angeles’s Car Culture and Weak Center
  51. Quick Note: Los Angeles Spends $50,000 Per Bus Shelter
  52. CNBC Video on Construction Costs
  53. Local Elected Representation is Bad
  54. I Gave a Followup Talk at TransitCon
  55. Meme Weeding: Polarization
  56. Quick Note: New Jersey Highway Widening Alternatives
  57. More on Consultants
  58. More Sanity Checks on My High-Speed Rail Model
  59. Eastern European High-Speed Rail
  60. Doing Projects Right and Doing the Right Project
  61. President Navalny Announces Metro Expansion to Accommodate Migrants From Viipuri and Královec
  62. Generational Investment and Politicized Delay
  63. New York’s MTA Hates Transparency
  64. Berlin’s U-Bahn Expansion Plan
  65. Amtrak Releases Bad Scranton Rail Study
  66. No, the Anglosphere isn’t Especially NIMBY
  67. New York Can’t Build, LaGuardia Rail Edition
  68. The Issue of Curiosity
  69. We Gave a Talk About Our Construction Costs Report
  70. I’m Giving a Talk in New York on 3/3
  71. The Issue of Consultants
  72. The RENFE Scandal and Responsibility
  73. Cost and Quality
  74. The Transit Lobby and Fares
  75. How Failed Leaders Can Look Like Doers
  76. Quick Note: Catalunya Station
  77. Anne Hidalgo Hates Paris
  78. Our Construction Costs Reports are Out!
  79. FDP and Vice Signaling
  80. Quick Note: High Speed 2 and Euston
  81. Free Public Transport, Fare Integration, and Capacity
  82. Our Construction Costs Report
  83. Push and Pull Factors and Measuring Modal Shift
  84. Paris-Berlin Trains, But no Infrastructure
  85. Bad Public Transit in the Third World
  86. High Costs are not About Precarity
  87. Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores

2022 89

  1. The Four Quadrants of Cities for Transit Revival
  2. Schedule Planners as a Resource
  3. Midwestern Urban Geography and High-Speed Rail
  4. TransitCenter’s Commuter Rail Proposal
  5. The Official Brooklyn Bus Redesign is Out
  6. Stop Imitating the High Line
  7. Quick Note on Los Angeles and Chicago Density and Modal Split
  8. What Does It Mean to Run the State Like a Business?
  9. It’s Easy to Waste Money
  10. Who Through-Running is For
  11. Berlin Greens Know the Price of Everything and Value of Nothing
  12. Philadelphia and High-Speed Rail Bypasses (Hoisted from Social Media)
  13. High-Speed Rail Doesn’t Depend on Megaregions
  14. Quick Note on My New York Trip
  15. Quick Note on Transit Expansion and Development
  16. How Sandbagged Costs Become Real
  17. I Gave Two Talks About Construction Costs Yesterday
  18. I Gave a Talk About Through-Running
  19. The Transit Costs Project Conclusion is Out!
  20. S-Bahn Frequency and Job Centralization
  21. Annoying Announcements
  22. One- and Two-Seat Rides
  23. Who Learns from Who?
  24. More on Six-Minute Service in New York
  25. Subway Expansion to Kingsborough Community College
  26. Eno’s Project Delivery Webinar
  27. Quick Note: What’s a Megaproject?
  28. IBX Cannot be a Tram
  29. Meme Weeding: Rich West, Poor East
  30. The Sweden Cost Report is Launched!
  31. Deinterlining and Schedule Robustness
  32. The Nine-Euro Ticket
  33. Nordic Costs and Institutional Knowledge
  34. The Baboon Rule
  35. When Different Capital Investments Compete and When They Don’t
  36. Negative Exceptionalism and Fake Self-Criticism
  37. Growth Without Urbanization
  38. How Tunneling in New York is Easier Than Elsewhere
  39. Penn Station Expansion is Based on Fraud
  40. Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail
  41. Quick Note: Why Not Fly?
  42. Vancouver, Stockholm, and the Suburban Metro Model
  43. In-Motion Charging is not for Trains
  44. Suburban Metros and S-Bahns
  45. New York Commuter Rail Rolling Stock Needs
  46. What Does Pete Buttigieg Think the US has to Teach the World?
  47. Quick Note: Bureaucratic Legalism in the United States
  48. Public Transportation in the Southeastern Margin of Brooklyn
  49. Adversarial Legalism and Accessibility
  50. How Washington Should Spend $10 Billion
  51. No New Washington Union Station, Please
  52. How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?
  53. Watch Our Webinar on Construction Costs Tomorrow
  54. Intercity Rail Frequency and the Perils of Market Segmentation
  55. The Northeastern United States Wants to Set Tens of Billions on Fire Again
  56. German Rail Traffic Surges
  57. Systemic Investments in the New York City Subway
  58. Why We Adjust Costs for PPP
  59. Tails on Commuter Rail
  60. Quick Note: How to Incentivize Transit-Oriented Development
  61. Trains are not Planes
  62. How Comparisons are Judged
  63. Consolidating Stops with Irregular Spacing
  64. Quick Note: Learning from the Past and the Present
  65. The Solution to Failed Process isn’t More Process
  66. Quick Note: Regional Rail and the Massachusetts State Legislature
  67. Providence Should Use In-Motion Charging for Buses
  68. EU Reaches Deal for Eastern European Infrastructure Investment
  69. How to Spend Money on Public Transport Better
  70. How to Waste Money on Public Transportation
  71. No Federal Aid to Transit Operations, Please
  72. Free Public Transport: Why Now of All Times?
  73. The Green Line Extension
  74. The G Train
  75. How High-Speed and Regional Rail are Intertwined
  76. Quick Note: the LaGuardia Transit Connector
  77. Penn Station Tracks
  78. Leapfrogging
  79. What’s going on in Czechia?
  80. Radial Metro Design on Rivers
  81. Why is Princeton Trying to Downgrade the Dinky?
  82. Notes on Accessibility and Chronic Pain
  83. Quick Note: I Gave a Talk About High-Speed Rail Practices
  84. Quick Note: California Gets Electrification Wrong
  85. How Tramway Networks Look
  86. The Interborough Study
  87. New York Publishes a Bad Benchmarking Report
  88. Platform Edge Doors
  89. The New Triboro/Interboro Plan

2021 94

  1. Institutional Issues: Who is Entrusted to Learn?
  2. Institutional Issues: Coordination
  3. Institutional Issues: Dealing with Technological and Social Change
  4. Institutional Issues: Proactive and Reactive Regulations
  5. Institutional Issues: Transparency
  6. Institutional Issues: Professional Oversight
  7. Institutional Issues: Procurement
  8. Microapartments for Students
  9. Get Rid of Failed Leaders, Publicly
  10. The TransitMatters Rail Electrification Report
  11. Early Commitment
  12. Intercity Rail Routes into Boston
  13. The Scope and Future of Our Project on Costs
  14. Consensus and Costs
  15. Quick Update on Where We are on New York Costs
  16. Express Rail Tunnels and Regional Rail Capacity
  17. Rapid Transit as an Amenity
  18. Cost- and Project-Centric Plans
  19. I Voted, but There’s no YIMBY Politics in Germany
  20. Good Practices for State Planning and Local Public Transportation
  21. Paris, World Capital of Expensive Regional Trains
  22. The Other People’s Money Problem
  23. Mixing High- and Low-Speed Trains
  24. What’s Frustrating About Bus Redesigns
  25. We Ran a Conference About Rail Modernization (Again)
  26. Modernizing Rail, and a Note on Gender
  27. Do Costs Run Over or Are They Underestimated?
  28. What Berlin Should Be Building
  29. Quick Note: Do Costs Ever Go Down?
  30. Quick Note: Waste and Missed Projects
  31. Regional Rail and Subway Maintenance
  32. New Leadership for New York City Transit and the MTA
  33. Why It’s Important to Remove Failed Leaders
  34. How to Build High-Speed Rail with Money the United States Has
  35. Modernizing Rail 2021 Announcement
  36. Leisure Travel by Public Transit
  37. The Leakage Problem
  38. Quick Note: PPP Adjustments
  39. Commuter Rail Express Service Best Practices
  40. The Invention of Bad Railroad Timetables
  41. Infrastructure, Stimulus, and Jobs
  42. Convert Street Parking to Outdoor Seating
  43. Stimulus and Non-Critical Projects
  44. Meme Weeding: Polycentricity and High-Speed Rail
  45. Are the FRA and European Operators Sabotaging Texas Central?
  46. Consultants and Railroaders Turn New Haven Line Investment Into Shelf Art
  47. Quick Note: Deterioration of Speed
  48. Data is Overrated
  49. Best Practices Civil Service
  50. What City of Neighborhoods?
  51. The Different National Traditions of Building High-Speed Rail
  52. Hire In-House, Don’t Use Consultants
  53. Labor and New York Bus and Subway Frequency
  54. High-Speed Rail Costs and Presentation
  55. Australian Construction Costs
  56. Randal O’Toole Gets High-Speed Rail Wrong
  57. Amtrak’s Continued Ignorance
  58. I Gave a Talk About Canadian Construction Costs
  59. Not Everything is Like Rail Transport
  60. The United States Needs to Learn How to Learn
  61. Sanity-Checking My HSR Ridership Model
  62. Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends
  63. American Commuter Rail and Job Access
  64. High-Speed Rail and Connecting Transit
  65. Streaming the Biden Infrastructure Plan
  66. Modeling High-Speed Rail for Germany
  67. European Urbanism and High-Speed Rail
  68. Zoomers Day Trip to Bielefeld on the ICE
  69. Queens Buses and Regional Rail
  70. High-Speed Rail and the Pacific Northwest
  71. New York Regional Rail (not S-Bahn)
  72. High-Speed Rail Followup
  73. Streaming High-Speed Rail Crayoning
  74. Marketing Public Transport is Unlike Marketing Cars
  75. Streaming Crayoning
  76. Followup on New York Regional Rail and the Hempstead Line
  77. The Hempstead Line
  78. Austerity is Inefficient
  79. Cut-and-Cover is Underrated
  80. Pulses (Hoisted from Comments)
  81. Density and Rail Transport (Hoisted from Social Media)
  82. How to Get Rich Off Low Construction Costs
  83. No Cafe Cars, Please
  84. The Need to Remove Bad Management
  85. I Gave a Talk at Transit Con
  86. Fare Control and Construction Costs
  87. KWCIMBY
  88. High Costs are not About Scarcity
  89. More on Eno and Construction Costs
  90. Poor Rich Countries and Isomorphic Mimicry
  91. Sorry Eno, the US Really Has a Construction Cost Premium
  92. Friends Don’t Let Friends Build PPPs
  93. Electronics Before Concrete, not Instead of Concrete
  94. Streets Before Trust

2020 103

  1. Is Remote Work Viable?
  2. Quick Note: Consumption and Production Theories of Berlin
  3. Costs Matter: Some Examples
  4. Metcalfe’s Law for High-Speed Rail, Redux
  5. What Suburban Poverty? Redux
  6. Boston Construction Cost Webinar Tomorrow
  7. What Suburban Poverty?
  8. When Should Cities Separate Short- and Long-Range Commuter Rail?
  9. Who Should Bear the Risk in Infrastructure Projects?
  10. Regional Rail for Non-Work Trips
  11. Building Depth and Window Space
  12. More on Station Costs
  13. The German Way of Building Rapid Transit
  14. Governance in Rich Liberal American Cities
  15. Surplus Extraction
  16. More on Consultants and Design-Build
  17. Tram-Trains
  18. What is Neoliberalism, Anyway?
  19. Stadtbahn Systems
  20. Some Examples of Falling Costs
  21. Job Sprawl as Deurbanization
  22. Urbanization in Europe and East Asia
  23. Quick Note: What is This for?
  24. Corona and Europe’s Idiocy
  25. High-Speed Rail and Cities
  26. Public Transportation in Megacities
  27. Cities With Underbuilt Public Transportation
  28. Low- and Medium-Cost Countries
  29. Integrated Timed Transfer Schedules for Buses
  30. Learning Worst Industry Practices
  31. Hong Kong Construction Costs
  32. The Costs of Subways and Els
  33. More on Suburban Circles
  34. The Limit of Circles in the Suburbs
  35. Transit Costs Website
  36. Meme Weeding: Climate Resilience
  37. Recession and Efficiency
  38. Overlapping Circles
  39. Eliminate Local Government
  40. New York as a Six-Minute City
  41. Quick Note: Timed Orbital Buses
  42. You Do Not Owe Staying to a Failed City
  43. The Limits of Regional Rail
  44. Case Selection
  45. The US Leads the Way in High Costs
  46. Incrementalism in Infrastructure
  47. Pedestrianizing Streets in New York
  48. Construction Costs in the Arab World
  49. School Transit-Oriented Development
  50. Density and Subway Stop Spacing
  51. We Ran a Conference About Rail Modernization
  52. More on the Deutschlandtakt
  53. The French Way of Building Rapid Transit
  54. Modernizing Rail Unconference
  55. Construction Costs, Inflation, and Developing Countries
  56. Transportation Renaissance
  57. YIMBY and Production Theory
  58. The Problem of Infrastructure Profits
  59. Managerialism and Civil Service
  60. The Politics of Taking Out the Garbage
  61. A Bigger City is a Better City
  62. The RER Paris Needs
  63. Who is Being Empowered?
  64. Is the United States Giving Up on Public Transportation?
  65. Resist the Urge to Start Small
  66. How Climate Change is Like War
  67. Predictions
  68. New York Ignores Best Practices for Cleaning
  69. Some Notes About Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail
  70. Construction Costs in China: Preliminary Notes
  71. Holidays by Train
  72. Some Data on New York City Subway Ridership in the Covid-19 Crisis
  73. Speed Zones on Railroads
  74. The Subway is Probably not Why New York is a Disaster Zone
  75. Coronavirus and Cities
  76. Train and Bus Cleaning
  77. Incoming Gantz-Led Government to Invest in Israel’s Infrastructure
  78. Mixing and Matching
  79. Europe and Asia are not Liberal or Conservative America
  80. New York is Shrinking
  81. This is not World War Two
  82. Eurail?
  83. Who Do You Learn From?
  84. Public Transport and Infectious Diseases
  85. What Europe Can Learn From Asia
  86. Gap Fillers
  87. Quick Note: Queer Urbanism
  88. How to Do Coordinated Public Transport Planning
  89. Our Project
  90. MAGA Trains
  91. Freight Rapid Transit
  92. China Won’t Save You
  93. Metcalfe’s Law for High-Speed Rail
  94. New England High- and Low-Speed Rail
  95. The Importance of Decarbonizing Transport
  96. Germany and Nuclear Power
  97. Turnover and the TGV
  98. Empire State High- and Low-Speed Rail
  99. International Links: a Revision
  100. Transfers from Infrequent to Frequent Vehicles
  101. Cops on Public Transportation
  102. The Different Travel Markets for Regional Rail
  103. Why Do Public Transportation Commuters Outearn Car Commuters in Some American Cities?

2019 105

  1. Queens Bus Redesign
  2. Outlying S-Bahn Tunnels
  3. Off-Peak Public Transport Usage
  4. On Envying Canada
  5. The Greta Effect
  6. The Brooklyn Bus Redesign is Out!
  7. Quick Note: What is Culture, Anyway?
  8. What I Mean When I Say Cities Have no Transit
  9. I’m Giving a Talk About Construction Costs Tomorrow
  10. Little Things That Matter: Jerk
  11. Fare Regulations
  12. I Gave a Talk About Transportation in Connecticut
  13. I Gave a Talk About Construction Costs
  14. What Does Private Affluence, Public Squalor Mean?
  15. Urban Freeways and Rapid Transit
  16. Fare Evasion
  17. Mauerfall
  18. What is the Anglosphere, Anyway?
  19. Construction Costs are National
  20. When Reliability Matters Above All Else
  21. New York City Zoning and Subway Capacity
  22. Numerology in Transportation
  23. How Fast New York Regional Rail Could Be Part 3
  24. How Fast New York Regional Rail Could Be Part 2
  25. How Fast New York Regional Rail Could Be
  26. High-Speed Rail in Small, Dense Countries
  27. The Hazards of Federal Subsidies for Operations
  28. How Come Carbon Taxes are Good for the Economy?
  29. Paint the Trains in Themes
  30. High-Speed Rail for Germany and Capacity Issues
  31. Small is not Resilient
  32. New York Rolling Stock Costs are Skyrocketing
  33. Cars-and-Trains Urbanism
  34. Circumferential Lines and Express Service
  35. The Case for a High Carbon Tax
  36. The Future is not Retro
  37. Metro-North Doesn’t Know Best Industry Practices
  38. Stuttgart 21’s Impending Capacity Problems and Timed Connections
  39. Megaregions, Redux
  40. S-Bahn and RegionalBahn
  41. The High-Speed Rail Germany Needs
  42. Why I Write About Rail Costs, not the Cost of Other Things
  43. Why You Should Complete High-Speed Lines
  44. Urban Stereotypes and the Real Nation
  45. Deutschlandtakt and Country Size
  46. What is Light Rail, Anyway?
  47. Massachusetts Sandbags Rail Electrification
  48. New Report on Construction Costs Misses the Mark
  49. Little Things That Matter: Interchange Siting
  50. Free Public Transportation
  51. Costs are Rising, US Highway Edition
  52. West Station is an Overbuilt Mess
  53. Climate Urgency
  54. Costs are Rising
  55. Scooters
  56. Assume Nordic Costs: London Edition
  57. Teacher Housing and the Rot
  58. Job Centralization in the City
  59. The Private Sector’s Role in Transit Innovation
  60. Trip Chaining, Redux
  61. Overnight Public Transit
  62. Public Transportation and Active Planning
  63. Bronx Bus Redesign
  64. Assume Nordic Costs
  65. Informed Voting and the Democratic Deficit
  66. The NTSB Wants American Trains to Be Less Safe
  67. Positive and Negative Interactions
  68. Amtrak is Blocking MBTA Electrification
  69. The Importance of Radial Urban Rail
  70. Optimization
  71. Construction Costs in the Nordic Countries
  72. Circles
  73. What Berlin is Building is Not What It Needs to Build
  74. Stop Spacing and Route Spacing
  75. How Ambitious is Mayor de Blasio’s Bus Plan?
  76. Little Things That Matter: Bus Shelter
  77. Growth and Environmentalism
  78. Shut Down the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
  79. European Union to Coordinate Carbon Tax, Infrastructure Investment
  80. Prudence Theater
  81. Battery-Electric Buses: New Flyer
  82. Quick Note: the Importance of Long-Term Planning
  83. Park-and-Rides (Hoisted from Comments)
  84. The Boundary Between the Transit City and Auto-Oriented Suburbia
  85. Stroads and Strails
  86. Construction Costs: Metro Accessibility
  87. American Construction Costs and National Stereotypes
  88. Corey Johnson’s Report on City Control of the Subway
  89. Why American Costs Are So High (Work-in-Progress)
  90. Frequency-Ridership Spirals
  91. 30-30-30 is Feasible
  92. Leaving Paris for Berlin
  93. The British Way of Building Rapid Transit
  94. The California HSR Bombshell, Redux
  95. High-Speed Rail for the Eastern United States
  96. Fix the Slowest Speed Zones
  97. The Rhine-Neckar Region
  98. The Fish Rots from the Head
  99. Where Line 2 Should Go Depends on Where Line 1 Goes
  100. The Soviet Bloc Way of Building Rapid Transit
  101. Technology and Public Transit
  102. Cross-Platform Transfers
  103. Public Transit is Greener Than It Seems
  104. Meme Weeding: Unions and Construction Costs
  105. Air Travel in 2018’s America and High-Speed Rail

2018 99

  1. Difficult Urban Geography Part 2: Hilly Topography
  2. When Transit Serves the Poor Better Than the Rich
  3. The Red-Blue Connector and the Importance of Connectivity
  4. Amtrak Uses Climate Adaptation as an Excuse to Waste More Money
  5. What Does “On Demand” Mean, Anyway?
  6. Difficult Urban Geography Part 1: Narrow Streets
  7. Urban Transit Vs. Commuter Transit
  8. In-Motion Charging
  9. Green New Deal
  10. New York City Subway Expansion Proposal
  11. No Pelosi-Trump Infrastructure Deal, Please
  12. FRA Reform is Here!
  13. The American Way of Building Rapid Transit
  14. Transit-Oriented Suburbs
  15. Meme Weeding: Los Angeles Density
  16. Celebrate Birthdays, not Holidays
  17. Sunnyside Junction, Redux
  18. Sometimes, Bus Stop Consolidation is Inappropriate
  19. The Value of Outside Advice
  20. How Transit and Green Tech Make Economic Geography More Local
  21. Rapid Transit on the LIRR
  22. Quick Note: What We Can Learn from Russian Construction Costs
  23. How to Design Rail Service to Connect to Buses Better
  24. Port Authority’s LaGuardia Rail Link Study
  25. Heterogeneity of Preferences
  26. Transit Versus Other Transportation Alternatives
  27. Trust and Environmentalism
  28. Phased Implementation of Bus Redesign
  29. Brooklyn Bus Redesign Version 1.2
  30. The Mines
  31. YIMBYTown 2018
  32. Our Brooklyn Bus Redesign
  33. High-Speed Rail in India
  34. Is Missing Middle Really Missing?
  35. Sioux City: Straightening Buses and Getting Route-Length Right
  36. Cities and Cultural Cringe
  37. Cities and Cultural Theory
  38. Overbuilding for Future Capacity
  39. The Dynamics of Bus Bunching
  40. Fare Payment Without the Stasi
  41. Bus Stop Spacing and Network Legibility
  42. Radial Metro Networks for Portions of Cities
  43. Development-Oriented Transit, Redux
  44. Guidelines for Driverless Buses
  45. The Role of Local Expertise in Construction Costs
  46. The Formula for Frequent Transit Networks
  47. How YIMBY Reflects New York’s Priorities
  48. I Saw a Stampede on the Metro
  49. Bus Branching
  50. Where are Transportation and Housing Politics Going?
  51. Why is Tramlink So Weak?
  52. Why Are Canadian Construction Costs So High?
  53. Gentrifier Stereotypes
  54. The Value of Modern EMUs
  55. Focus on What’s Common to Good Transit Cities, not on Differences
  56. Massachusetts Sandbags the North-South Rail Link
  57. Reverse-Branching Does not Save You the Transfer
  58. How Deinterlining Can Improve New York City Transit
  59. Process for the Sake of Process
  60. Which Older Lines Should Express Rail Have Transfers to?
  61. Zoning and Commercialization
  62. Little Things That Matter: Circulation at Transfer Stations
  63. Why Free Trade in Rolling Stock is Good
  64. Construction Costs: Electrification
  65. Construction Costs: Signaling
  66. Consumption Theory and Gentrification
  67. Why is Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 So Expensive?
  68. Rapid Transit in Low-Density Boomtowns
  69. Do Rich and Poor People Work in Different Neighborhoods?
  70. When are Express Trains Warranted? Part 2: Subways
  71. The MTA’s Bus Redesign Plan
  72. When are Express Trains Warranted? Part 1: Regional Rail
  73. Buses in Brooklyn: Frequency is Freedom, but 15 Minutes isn’t Frequency
  74. I Gave a Pair of Talks in the Bay Area About Regional Rail
  75. Joe Lhota Admits Defrauding the Public About Costs
  76. New York-Area Governments to Form a Coordinated Transportation Planning Agency
  77. Job Sprawl in the US vs. Europe
  78. More on Weekend Service Changes and Redundancy
  79. Off-Peak Subway Service in New York
  80. Construction Costs and Experience
  81. Missed Connections
  82. The MTA Genius Challenge is as Bad as Expected
  83. New Hudson Tunnels Are Canceled. Again.
  84. Urbanism and Standards of Respectability
  85. Boston Regional Rail
  86. Why Northeast Corridor Privatization is Doomed to Failure
  87. Transit and Scale Variance Part 3: Grids
  88. What the Spinetta Axe Reveals About Cost Control
  89. Reforming Pensions
  90. The RPA Construction Cost Report
  91. The Subway in New York is not at Capacity
  92. Civil Service, Racism, and Cost Control
  93. Construction Costs: Metro Stations
  94. Base Train Service is Cheap, Peak Train Service is Expensive
  95. Grand Paris Express Cost Overruns: Organization Before Electronics Before Concrete
  96. Transit and Scale Variance Part 2: Soviet Triangles
  97. High-Speed Rail from New Rochelle to Greens Farms: Impacts, Opportunities, and Analysis
  98. Transit and Scale Variance Part 1: Bus Networks
  99. Don’t Run Bilevels

2017 48

  1. Quick Note: U-Shaped Lines
  2. What Washington Metro Should Build
  3. RPA Fourth Regional Plan: LaGuardia Airport and the Astoria Line
  4. Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring
  5. RPA Fourth Regional Plan: the Third Avenue Trunk Line
  6. Agency Turf Battles and Construction Costs
  7. The RPA’s Fourth Regional Plan
  8. Suburban Transit-Oriented Development
  9. I Gave a Talk About Regional Rail
  10. There’s More Redundancy Than You Think
  11. Fix DeKalb Avenue
  12. Little Things That Matter: Vertical Circulation
  13. Neighborhoods With Excess Capacity
  14. Suspended Railways
  15. Fare Integration
  16. When Buses are a Poor Guide to Corridor Demand, Redux
  17. Future Los Angeles Metro Investments
  18. Meme Weeding: Land Value Capture
  19. Climate Apartheid
  20. Anti-Infill on Surface Transit
  21. Infrastructure for Mature Cities
  22. More Things that are not Why New York’s Construction Costs are High
  23. Commuter Rail Infill Stops
  24. Branching and Transfer Breaking
  25. Faster-than-Conventional Rail: Where Could It Work?
  26. The Lagos Metro
  27. A Marshall Plan for Third-World Infrastructure?
  28. Line Spacing, and Intersections Without Transfers (Hoisted from Comments)
  29. My Patreon is Live
  30. Modeling Jitney-Bus Competition
  31. Quick Note: What a Few Pictures Tell Us About BRT
  32. Core Connectors and In-Between Neighborhoods, Redux
  33. Rapid Transit in the Third World
  34. I Almost Worked for Hyperloop One
  35. New York’s MTA Genius Challenge
  36. What Elites Do Instead of Providing Services, Redux
  37. The Yamanote Line: a Ring or a Radial?
  38. Cities Should not Encourage Home Ownership
  39. Slotting Intercity Trains on Regional Lines
  40. Too Many Branches, Too Few Trunks
  41. Fragile Chinese Democracy to Invest in Anti-Pollution Measures
  42. New York Regional Rail: Scheduling Trains of Different Speeds
  43. Amtrak Defrauds the Public on Gateway Benefits
  44. Where is Electrification Warranted?
  45. What the RER A vs. C Contrast Means for New York Regional Rail
  46. This is My Work Now
  47. Express Airport Connectors are a Scourge of Public Transit
  48. Boston NightBus: Planning Around Timed Connections

2016 26

  1. Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 to Cost $6 Billion
  2. Scope Creep is the New Black
  3. Excuses for High Construction Costs
  4. Hyperloop Freight is a Joke
  5. Sewer Socialism, or Sewer Neo-Liberalism?
  6. When Buses are a Poor Guide to Corridor Demand
  7. The Northern Branch Extension is a Waste
  8. Train Weight and Safety
  9. Safer Streets: Design is Better Than Enforcement
  10. When Through-Running Is Inappropriate
  11. Amtrak’s Rolling Stock Order: Followup
  12. Buses Versus Trams: Low-Floor Boarding
  13. Mixing Circumferential and Radial Transit in the Other Direction
  14. Northeast Corridor, 95% Cheaper: Frankford Junction
  15. What are the Strong Tramway Corridors?
  16. Public Transit Unions
  17. Greenbelts Help Cars
  18. A Theory of Zoning and Local Decisionmaking
  19. The RPA Continues to Push for the Flawed Crossboro Plan
  20. Select Bus Service Problems
  21. Quick Note: A Hypothesis About Airport Connectors
  22. Several European Countries to Follow Norway’s Lead, Ban Fuel-Powered Cars
  23. Train Operator Labor Efficiency
  24. De Blasio Versus Good Transit
  25. Why Costs Matter
  26. Modeling Anchoring

2015 33

  1. Transfer Penalties and the Community Process
  2. New York’s Subway Frequency Guidelines are the Wrong Approach
  3. Hyperloop Costs
  4. When There’s Nothing Left To Burn, You Have To Set Money On Fire
  5. Public Rapid Transit and Private Taxis
  6. Local and Global Knowledge
  7. LIRR Scheduling
  8. Amtrak Pays More Than Double for High-Speed Trains
  9. Cities and Immigration
  10. NEC Future: Moving Sideways
  11. Third-World Train Speeds
  12. What’s Going on with Hudson Tunnel Cost Overruns?
  13. Why Labor Efficiency is Important
  14. New Theme Warning
  15. Penn Station Elimination Followup
  16. Eliminate Penn Station
  17. On Penn Station South
  18. When Nationwide Electrification is Called For
  19. Transit-Oriented Airports
  20. Bergenline Avenue and New Hudson Tunnels
  21. Redundancy is Overrated
  22. The Utica Subway
  23. Quick Note: MBTA Electrification
  24. Homeowner’s Bill of Rights to Preempt State and Local Zoning Laws
  25. Metro Systems by Ridership Per Kilometer
  26. The Ultimate Authoritarian Anti-Urbanism
  27. What Happened to the RPA?
  28. Ferries
  29. The Wrong Kind of Branching
  30. North-South Rail Link Diagram
  31. Authoritarian Leaders and Agenda Setting
  32. Who Rides Commuter Rail?
  33. Mixing Circumferential and Radial Transit

2014 25

  1. New York Regional Rail: the Central Segments
  2. Quick Note: High Third-World Construction Cost Examples
  3. Why Avoiding Stereotypes is Important (Hoisted from Comments)
  4. What is the MTA Reinventing, Anyway?
  5. Height Limits: Still a Bad Idea
  6. Toward a Tel Aviv S-Bahn
  7. The NITBY Problem
  8. Pedestrian Observations from Central Stockholm
  9. Dispersing Expensive Centers: Edge City Version
  10. Putting Rail Lines in Highway Medians
  11. Dispersal of Urban Networks is Bad
  12. Zoning and Market Pricing of Housing
  13. Coordinated Planning and High-Speed Rail
  14. Difficult Transit
  15. California HSR Should Not Have Been Funded This Way
  16. Brief Personal Update
  17. What Elites Do Instead of Providing Services
  18. Airport Connectors
  19. Suburban Geography and Transit Modes
  20. State Boundaries and the Northeast (Hoisted from Comments)
  21. Underrated Transit Projects
  22. New York Finds Massive Savings in Transit Construction
  23. Transit Observations from Philadelphia
  24. Empire High-Speed Rail
  25. Metro-North-Everything Compatibility

2013 25

  1. The Metro-North Accident and Train Control
  2. Sometimes, Half a Line is as Good as No Line
  3. The Difference Between Bus and Subway Alignments
  4. Who Regional Rail is For
  5. More on Vancouver’s Obsession With Filling Buses (Hoisted from Comments)
  6. Monorail Construction Costs
  7. Is Low-Cost Intercity Rail Possible?
  8. Loopy Ideas Are Fine, If You’re an Entrepreneur
  9. Tel Aviv Needs a Subway, Done Right
  10. Quick Note: Why Quinn is Unfit to be Mayor
  11. Quick Note: More on Urban Absolutism
  12. Are Express Trains Worth It?
  13. Large-Diameter TBMs
  14. Who are the Opponents of Transportation Alternatives?
  15. Comparative Subway Construction Costs, Revised
  16. Quick Note: Why the Focus on Penn Station?
  17. Can HSR Connect Hartford and Providence?
  18. The Different Cities We Inhabit
  19. Infrastructure and Democracy
  20. New Hudson Tunnels
  21. The Problem with Anchoring
  22. UN and Rail Operators Propose International Vacuum Train Network
  23. Linear Compression: How HSR is Like Rapid Transit
  24. SkyTrain and UBC
  25. The Magic Triangle: Infrastructure-Timetable-Rolling Stock

2012 81

  1. C-Shaped Lines
  2. Asymmetric Mode Choice
  3. Construction Costs and Perceptions
  4. Branching
  5. Transit and Place
  6. How Residential Blocks Act As Barriers
  7. Intercity Buses and Trains
  8. Relative Costs of Transit Construction
  9. Immigration Choice
  10. Nobody Likes Riding North American Commuter Rail
  11. Capital-Centric Countries and Regions
  12. Sanity Checks on HSR Ridership
  13. Carolyn Maloney’s International HSR Proposal
  14. Quick Note: Are Freeways Safer?
  15. Are Forecasts Improving?
  16. Peak Factors and Intercity Trains
  17. Reason Releases Fraudulent Report Criticizing XpressWest
  18. Are Larger Planes Feasible?
  19. High-Speed Rail’s Role in Decongesting Airports
  20. Vancouver’s Busiest Buses
  21. HSR Routes: Triangles and Ys
  22. Connecting New Jersey to Manhattan, Redux
  23. Quick Note: Vancouver’s Transit Revival
  24. Low- and Medium-Hanging Fruit
  25. Troll Rail Projects
  26. Washington Union Station
  27. Pedestrian Observations from Vancouver: Street Width and Building Height
  28. The Value of New York-Boston
  29. Northeast Corridor: Dealing With Capacity
  30. Surreptitious Cost Escalations and Spurious Cost Savings
  31. The CAHSR-SNCF Bombshell
  32. Northeast Corridor HSR, 90% Cheaper
  33. Cost Bundling
  34. The Recession Won’t Last Forever
  35. Plan B for HSR
  36. The Urban Geography of Park-and-Rides
  37. Core Connectors and In-Between Neighborhoods
  38. Pedestrian Observations from New Haven
  39. Commuter Rail Ridership Distribution
  40. Providence: Busy Versus Frequent Buses
  41. Regional Rail for New York: What Can Be Done Now
  42. Followup on the Providence Regional Rail Shuttle
  43. Netroots Nation and How the 99% Talk Hurts Consensus
  44. Commuter Rail, Urban Infill Stations, and Shuttle Train Rapid Transit
  45. Quick Note: 77 Cents on the Dollar
  46. Spreading Population Around
  47. Destination Centralization
  48. Bus and Rail Mantras
  49. High- and Low-Speed Rail Coordination
  50. The Cost of Heavy Freight Trains
  51. Where Should Streetcar Corridors Be?
  52. Quick Note: How Much Tunnels Really Cost
  53. What’s a Subway/El?
  54. One-Way Pairs: the Bad and the Ugly
  55. Amtrak Expects 10 Billion Passengers
  56. Transportation-Development Symbiosis
  57. Quick Note: Good News Week
  58. The Growing and the Forgotten
  59. Train Weights, Bilevel Version
  60. Surreptitious Underfunding
  61. Table of Train Weights
  62. FRA Rules Are Not Just Buff Strength
  63. Providence: The Quiet Revival
  64. Commuter Rail Stop Distribution
  65. Park and Rides, and Good Planning
  66. Macrodestinations and Microdestinations
  67. Trip Chaining
  68. More on Cost Comparisons
  69. Bad Defunding
  70. Why Long Island Should Get An HSR Spur
  71. Formal Announcement
  72. High-Speed Rail Should Serve Providence
  73. MBTA Mode Shares
  74. The Limits of Clockface Scheduling
  75. Improving the MBTA: Electronics and Concrete
  76. Improving the MBTA: Regional vs. Intercity Service
  77. Improving the MBTA
  78. Update on the Grapevine (Hoisted from Comments)
  79. Little Things That Matter: Railroad Junctions
  80. When Should HSR Serve New Urban Stations?
  81. Transit Alternatives to the Tappan Zee Widening

2011 156

  1. Why Moynihan Station Has Negative Transportation Value
  2. Commuter Rail Speed (Hoisted from Comments)
  3. Consensus and Astroturf
  4. Staten Island Rapid Transit
  5. Quick Note: Don’t Overlearn From a Case of Success
  6. Cost Concerns, Reasonable and Otherwise
  7. Connecting New Jersey to Lower Manhattan
  8. The Rockaway Cutoff
  9. Quick Note: No More Track Maps
  10. What’s the Infrastructure’s Highest Value?
  11. Regional Rail to Lower Manhattan
  12. Megaregional Change
  13. An HSR Country is a Centralized Country
  14. Consensus and Policing
  15. Different Kinds of Centralization (Hoisted from Comments)
  16. A Transit City is a Centralized City
  17. New York-New Rochelle Metro-North-HSR Compatibility
  18. New Rochelle-Penn Station Regional Rail
  19. More Track Maps
  20. Compromising with Agency Turf
  21. Trust (Hoisted from Comments)
  22. Do Not Compare NEC with HSR Ridership
  23. Quick Note: What Does Profitability Mean?
  24. The CAHSR Bombshell
  25. Transfer Penalty Followup
  26. Why the 7 to Secaucus Won’t Work
  27. Electrification and Carbon Emissions
  28. Highways and Cost Control
  29. Making Elevated Rail Work
  30. Managed Diversity
  31. Cities and Multiple Equilibria
  32. FRA Stonewalling
  33. The Tappan Zee Replacement’s Outrageous Cost
  34. Consensus and Vision
  35. Congestion, Freeways, and Size, Redux
  36. Congestion and Size
  37. Defrauding the Public on European Rail Profits
  38. Aesthetics and Usability
  39. Skewed North Shore BRT/LRT Proposal (Hoisted from Comments)
  40. Disappointment 2050
  41. Quick Note: California HSR Could Save $4 Billion on the Grapevine
  42. Quick Note: ACS 2010
  43. Suburbanization of Poverty: What’s New?
  44. Pedestrian Observations from Central London
  45. Travel Time to Work
  46. The Option of Profitable Transit
  47. Passenger-Miles Are Overrated
  48. Who’s Migrating to the Sunbelt?
  49. Quick Note: Comfort
  50. Selective Application of Smeed’s Law
  51. Obama Proposes $4 Billion for HSR
  52. The Rail-Trail Scam
  53. Consensus and Immigration
  54. Democratic Versus Elite Consensus
  55. Consensus and Cities
  56. Followup on the Providence Line and Woonsocket Trains
  57. Quick Note: Amtrak’s Rolling Stock Shortage
  58. Pedestrian Observations from Barbados: Followup to Caribbean Car Ownership
  59. Special Interests and the General Interest
  60. California High-Speed Rail Alignment Questions
  61. Amtrak’s Role in Regulatory Reform
  62. The FRA Doesn’t Need Reform – It Needs A Revolution
  63. Blackstone River Regional Rail
  64. Quick Note: Zombie Myths About Amtrak And Profitability
  65. Construction Costs, Third World Edition
  66. MBTA-HSR Compatibility
  67. Why Smartphones’ Effect On Transit Is Overrated
  68. Every Time You Justify Infrastructure on Competitiveness Grounds, A Kitten Dies
  69. Cost Overruns: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Bent Flyvbjerg
  70. Quick Note: The Hong Kong MTR is Profitable
  71. National Low-Speed Rail Network Proposal
  72. EMUs Versus Locomotives
  73. California HSR: Where Now?
  74. Buy America is a Scam
  75. Providence’s Underused BRT
  76. Categories
  77. Where Did You Grow Up?
  78. Organized Labor and the Housing Protest
  79. Affordable Housing
  80. Shoddy Study Claims Light Rail Increased Congestion in Paris (Hoisted from Comments)
  81. Austerity and State Support for Transit
  82. Quick Note: Barcelona Rail Tunnel
  83. Tel Aviv Protesters’ Demands
  84. Racism and Accidents
  85. Followup on the FRA and Amtrak
  86. Rent Control
  87. Uncompetitive Transit
  88. Housing Protest Ongoing in Tel Aviv
  89. Quick Note on Food Transportation
  90. Short-Term Versus Long-Term Transit Problems
  91. Thoughts on Carmageddon
  92. Peak Driving
  93. Carbon Costs May Be Far Higher Than Previously Thought
  94. Rumors of the Death of HSR Greatly Exaggerated
  95. Airport Access vs. City Access
  96. The Mother of All Interest Conflicts
  97. 24/7 Rapid Transit
  98. Quick Note: Are HSR Transfers Acceptable?
  99. Quick Note: Road Boondoggles
  100. Sunnyside Yards Redevelopment
  101. Sunnyside Junction Proposal
  102. Is Technical Activism Necessary?
  103. Premium Cost, Substandard Quality Locomotives
  104. Boosters’ Romanticism
  105. Planned Cities
  106. Sprawl is Auto-Oriented
  107. Politicals vs. Technicals: the Primary Division of Transit Activists
  108. Why Density Requires Height
  109. Why Transit Should be in the Fast Lane
  110. Good Industry Practices Thread
  111. Organization and Electronics vs. Concrete in Washington
  112. Bad US Rail Practices, and What It Means for FRA Regulations
  113. Bad FRA Regulations
  114. International Links Underperform
  115. Yes, Amtrak is Indeed Mismanaged
  116. Mica Introduces NEC Privatization Bill
  117. Written in Concrete
  118. Quick Note: Safe Streets, Safe Cities
  119. Urbanism, Gentrification, and Romanticism
  120. Boston South Station’s Supposed Capacity Limit
  121. City Schools
  122. Quick Note: Moving, and Mode Choice
  123. Urbanism and Restaurants (Hoisted from Comments)
  124. Staten Island’s Closed BRT Disaster
  125. Quick Note on Cities Where Transit Share is Increasing
  126. Agency Turf Accidentally Leads to Good Results
  127. High-Speed Rail Operator Profit
  128. Development-Oriented Transit
  129. Quick Note: Midwest HSR Study
  130. Pedestrian Observations from Providence in Summer
  131. Comparative Rail Safety
  132. On Privatization
  133. Little Things That Matter: Stoplight Phasing
  134. Quick Note on High-Speed Rail and Flying
  135. The Problem is the FRA, not Amtrak
  136. Quick Note on Air Pollution
  137. Whither BRT?
  138. Brookings Folly
  139. Pedestrian Observations from Athens, GA
  140. Fatality Numbers vs. Safety
  141. Reform vs. Reformism
  142. New York-Area Track Maps
  143. More on Density
  144. How Dense is Too Dense?
  145. Philadelphia Link, or Organization Before Concrete
  146. High Costs Should not be an Excuse to Downgrade Projects
  147. Suburban TOD
  148. More on Driving vs. Transit Costs
  149. Overperforming Rail Lines
  150. US Rail Construction Costs
  151. Frequent New York City Buses
  152. Hi
  153. Yes, Transit is Green
  154. How much does driving cost?
  155. New York Provincialism, and the MTA’s Flawed Smartcard Report
  156. New York’s Awful Grade Separation