Inflation Adjusted Fill Up
I found a buyer for my car and I’ll be saying goodbye to a good friend who stole a lot of money from me. Parking in Boston, just like any other city, is expensive and it’s not just the parking; the tickets, registration renewals, and gas take their toll on a newly minted undergraduate living … Continue reading
Build This, Not That (NY/NJ)
Serving in an executive capacity in the public sector (or private sector, for that matter) is essentially about making choices that a majority will disagree with. Defunding schools for lack of adequate test scores will enrage parents while pleasing fiscal disciplinarians; the previous an unquiet majority and the latter a sometimes obfuscating din. Governor Chris … Continue reading
Bikes for the Rest of Us
Boston is set to move one step closer to Amsterdam (no this article isn’t about the recent state Supreme Court decision) by launching a fledgling bike-sharing program set to open this summer (bike sharing began, but has faltered, in Amsterdam, however 40% of the population use bikes as their primary mode of transportation). Eric Moskowitz … Continue reading
Tower in the Stars
Co-Op City is a good northern boundary for New York City. It’s the first set of real skyscrapers you see driving on Interstate 95 south from New England; they’re sort of a concrete and steel set of Cairn stones leftover from a different age of architecture and urban planning. Most people see the grouping of … Continue reading
Radilarious | Detroit: Rails Over Everything
Slightly late, but this video came via one of Radial’s coworkers. There are definitely some kudos in order for the level of effort for a noble cause, but to be honest, light rail isn’t what is going to save Detroit, a city that just lost 25% of its population. Light rail, for all its efficiency … Continue reading
Radilarious | Detroit: Rails Over Everything
Slightly late, but this video came via one of Radial’s coworkers. There are definitely some kudos in order for the level of effort for a noble cause, but to be honest, light rail isn’t what is going to save Detroit, a city that just lost 25% of its population. Light rail, for all its efficiency … Continue reading
Devil's Advocate | In Defense of Sprawl
Contemporary urban planning literature and thinking is geared towards defeating “sprawl”*, an innocuous word that means different things to different people. For our purposes it is a 4 letters long. Sprawl —specifically urban sprawl— refers to a natural phenomena associated with sequential advances in technology: reduced temporal and fiscal transportation costs, simple and instant communication, … Continue reading
Devil’s Advocate | In Defense of Sprawl
Contemporary urban planning literature and thinking is geared towards defeating “sprawl”*, an innocuous word that means different things to different people. For our purposes it is a 4 letters long. Sprawl —specifically urban sprawl— refers to a natural phenomena associated with sequential advances in technology: reduced temporal and fiscal transportation costs, simple and instant communication, … Continue reading
Gov. Scott Rejects High Speed Rail Money
This just in from the Huffington Post: Governor Rick Scott (R) of Florida has rejected the last efforts of President Obama and USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood to inject billions of dollars for a fledgling high speed rail program. Gov. Scott cited cost overruns as a serious concern to the seed money as $2.4 billion only … Continue reading
City/Subway
Most of the time here at Radials we focus on discrete issues facing transportation and urban planning, but from time to time the abstract becomes important and fascinating. I’d like to take some time and deal with the mercurial aspects of mass transit because while riding in a aluminum box with 50 strangers may seem … Continue reading
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