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Transportation is a system
Looking at transportation as a system, I have some concerns. 5 minute read.
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The Invisible Pedestrian
Drivers kill thousands of people on our streets every year, pedestrians and cyclists that the drivers “did not see”. Why are these people invisible, and how do we fix it?
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You’re never going to have a flying car.
I remember excitedly reading “Popular Science” as a kid and seeing the cover adorned with the flying cars that were promised in “just a few years”. That was 30 years ago and those flying cars never really left the drawing board. […]
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Cars are ruining us: an economic analysis
The USA should be the wealthiest country in the world. But the reality for most Americans is very different – the last 50 years of economic prosperity has somehow passed us by. The answer to “somehow” is that car infrastructure is 2X-3X more expensive to maintain than any other modern transportation alternative, and we have […]
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The price of poor investments
When I look around this old house I see the results of decades of poor investments. Windowpanes that were literally falling out of the windows, years of ignored water damage, and so many neglected gardens. Since we’ve managed the house it was necessary to: Plus many smaller projects that we haven’t gotten to like A/C, […]