Generally, you’d think that people who break the law have what’s coming to them. If a person jaywalking gets hit by a car, tragic as it may be, you may think the accident is automaticallytheirfault. Indeed, they should not have been jaywalking in the first place. You may think the...
Pedestrian Hit By Car While Walking Dog… I was walking my dog yesterday when I was hit by a car. When I had started my walk there was a light sprinkle. At… Hit by Car While Walking in a Parking Lot… I was hit by a moving car while walking in a parking lot. I was walking ...
Police in Durango, Colorado havecharged a pair of football players from the local college as co-defendantsin an alleged drunken hit-and-run that took the life of a firefighter; the two are accused of helping a third man flee the scene, leaving his car behind with the victim still lodged ...
Currently there are attempts to expropriate a lot of housing owned by big private companies as well as attempts to ban (most) car travel inside the Ringbahn making their way thru various stages of the referendum process and the “mobility law” originated as a referendum in favor of bikes wh...
On a regional train that presumably runs way more frequently than every half hour, you don’t reeeeeeally need to hit a multiple of the hour, unless it’s for onward connections. In Boston we’re proposing such connections to buses at key town centers like Lowell, Haverhill, Worcester, ...
At the Manhattan end, the route would either loop just far enough north to hit the Fulton Street subway complex, or through-run. Fulton is necessary because the Wall Street stations are inaccessible, and is generally useful for the connection to World Trade Center. Beyond that, one option is...
Also to be clear the pre-COVID ridership projection for the Elizabeth line was ~200m a year as far as I recall – which approximately they have hit in year one. But given that was a presumably a very conservative estimate one would presumably have expected ridership to be somewhat higher ...
income touched by those high marginal rates is pure neoliberalism. As is very low corporate tax rates while loading up regressive taxes like TVA, VAT, GST that hit the poor much more than the wealthy (though this is not really neoliberal and more a matter of practical collection of taxes)....
Conversely, a compromise that demands HSR die-hards give something up might be to build that regional rail line through the center of Des Moines, then start extending it until you hit Omaha, and then – after we’ve run out of higher priority corridors and built a sufficient demand for it...
Yesterday, I tweeted this proposal for a high-speed rail network for the eastern half of the United States: I'd like to go over what the map means and address questions that have appeared on Twitter. The color scheme Red denotes high-speed lines, with a