Huh?! 4 Cases Of How Tearing Down A Highway Can Relieve Traffic Jams (And...
Remember a few years ago when millions of our fellow Americans started gorging on bacon and cheeseburgers in order to lose weight? The Atkins diet fad was an odd moment in our culture and probably one...
View ArticleAbandoned Subway Stations Around The World (Photo Gallery)
A few weeks ago, we looked at some of America’s great train stations lost to the wrecking ball. In long hours of photo research on that story, we happened across quite a few pictures of abandoned...
View ArticleWhy Glaeser Got It Wrong: Re-Running The Numbers On High Speed Rail
Over the past month, economist Ed Glaeser has explored the benefits of high-speed rail inan occasional series over at the New York Times website. To put it mildly, his reception in the blogosphere has...
View ArticleThe Unstoppable Value of the Small-Town Movie Theater
We spend a lot of time here at Infrastructurist discussing big urban centers. We do that for several reasons, high among them that the majority of people (and readers) live in them, and all trends...
View ArticleHow Much Gas Does Your State Use Per Person?
Now I know how can I pass a drug test. CLICK TO ENLARGE While states with the highest populations unsurprisingly tend to use the most gas, the real fuel efficiency picture comes when you examine each...
View ArticleHow Cul-de-Sacs Are Killing Your Community
The Harvard Business Review has a piece this month on research by Lawrence Frank, Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia, on the effects of cul-de-sacs in...
View ArticlePublic Private Partnerships: Another One Bites The Dust
Lots of people point to the $2.2 trillion shortfall in infrastructure investment in this country, and suggest that privatization of public assets is the best way to deal with the situation. So, for...
View ArticleHow Often Is the Gas Tax Raised? Most Americans Have No Clue
The federal gas tax. It needs to be raised. We’ve hammered this point home enough. Our infrastructure needs help, and that help involves money, and that money has to come from somewhere. Politicians...
View ArticleFive Reasons Electric Cars Will Have Trouble Catching On
With the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf set to hit the streets very soon, and the Ford Focus Electric now scheduled to appear late next year, many people are asking whether Americans are ready to...
View ArticleThe World’s 10 Greatest Large Urban Parks
Everyone knows what a urban park looks like, right? It tends to be a parcel of green space in a sea of asphalt and concrete and glass. But, of course, there are innumerable variations on that...
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