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Infrastructure or Bust: Facing Reality (Part 1)
This is Part 1 of a two-part series assessing America’s infrastructural integrity and the outlying factors impeding policy change. Although the Beltway has been abuzz about sequestration and the...
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Infrastructure or Bust: Assessing Blame (Part 2)
This is part 2 of a two-part series assessing America’s infrastructural integrity and the outlying factors impeding policy change. Who is most directly to blame for the presently unsustainable, and...
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A Better Way To Travel: Why Isn’t the U.S. Investing In High-Speed Trains?
Thanksgiving is a holiday that encourages thoughtful reflection about the various aspects of our life for which we are grateful. It is also a holiday of travel, annually reinforcing a glaring weakness...
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Transport in the City of Tomorrow
Imagine, for a second, all of the 1.4 million cars in New York City were on the road. Given the 6,000 miles of road in the city, a back-of-the-envelope calculation shows they would barely be able to...
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Parking Policy in the Smartphone City
Driving in large cities is rarely pleasant. Roads can be so congested that traveling a single block takes several minutes and, after enduring all the other difficulties, finding a convenient parking...
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The Case for Qatar
Doha’s West Bay district pictured in 2015. Since Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup in December of 2010, the small Gulf nation has been the target of a hailstorm of criticism from abroad...
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Little School on the Prairie: The Overlooked Plight of Rural Education
That America’s public education system is characterized by extreme inequality does not come as a surprise to many. Yet when most people think of educational inequality, they think of inner-city...
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Urban Sprawl’s Poster Child Grows Up
Atlanta’s public transportation system, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. In the 1990s, urban development expert Christopher Leinberger dubbed Atlanta the poster child for urban sprawl,...
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America’s Crumbling Infrastructure System
Months ago, thousands of college students in the Greater Boston area—I among them— returned to school on the Sunday after Thanksgiving break. Living only an hour away from Boston, my family was...
View ArticleNew Designs on the Block
American politicians enjoy declaring unwinnable wars on nouns. The ’60s bore witness to the war on poverty, the ’70s saw Reagan wage the war on drugs, and the ’00s have seen the rise of a war on...
View ArticlePocketbook Protests: Small Price Changes that Trigger Mass Protests
Sometimes it is the tiniest spark that lights the largest fires. Small pocketbook items have become the catalysts for large-scale protest movements around the globe in the past months. A four-cent...
View ArticleWithout Seatbelts, With Masks: School Buses during COVID-19
You can’t be a student if you can’t get to school. Despite long-standing state commitments to provide transportation to and from school, regardless of income or ZIP code, children still have trouble...
View ArticleGetting Back on Track
In the United States, public transit has struggled to gain the same political support it has garnered in the rest of the developed world. New infrastructure and increasing rail ridership seemed to be...
View ArticleBlocking (then Building) a Metro for Bogotá
Infrastructure projects usually take years, if not decades, to build. The case of the Bogotá metro, though, puts even the biggest megaprojects to shame: From its original conception in 1942 to the...
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