Transportation

• Self driving buses are sloooooow
• The origin of Washington DC Metro’s 26 train per hour rules
• Design competition for new Port Authority bus terminal at an impasse
• The boundaries that divide our transit systems
• Metra Electric is special, and it doesn’t fit into the paradigm that RTA and Metra have tried to fit it into for the last 35 years

Random

• The tragic story of Sheffield’s Park Hill bridge

New York

• The lingering effects of NYC’s racist city planning

Public policy

• We paved over farmland to build the suburbs; now those neighborhoods are off-limits to development
• A Palo Alto Planning Commissioner Leaves Town—and Starts a Furor
• Palo Alto mayor Patrick Burt fires back at housing critics
• Anti-Development Initiative Gains Backing of Leonardo DiCaprio, Other Hollywood Celebs
• How construction unions helped kill Gov. Brown’s plan to fight the housing crisis
• Reclaiming Sewer Reformism