4 January 2010
by andrew
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If I were in the habit of taking photos, I’d have kept the digital camera I’m borrowing for a while in the front of the car with me on my drive back up here instead of carefully wrapping it in … Continue reading
25 August 2009
by andrew
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This post seems familiar.
7 August 2008
by andrew
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I’m going to be in the Los Angeles area (technically I’m not staying in LA itself) for the weekend. I don’t really have any plans. I might drive over to take the light rail somewhere. (link to labeled map)
6 August 2008
by andrew
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I don’t know how much you can tell about a city’s drivers by walking around. Probably not much. I remember walking in San Francisco in 2000 and being very conscious of the fact that I had seen reports on the … Continue reading
29 July 2008
by andrew
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Talk of how we’ve entered a new “gilded age” tends to center on questions of inequality, but it has also led a number of people to draw analogies (sometimes well, sometimes poorly) between the old Gilded Age and our time. … Continue reading
26 July 2008
by andrew
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Growing up near and then in Berkeley, I got used to the traffic barriers and speed bumps that dot the residential side streets not far from downtown and the university campus. I’ve heard people unfamiliar with the area complain about … Continue reading
21 July 2008
by andrew
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Article. Illustrations. (U-bahns, too.) I liked this: Frost also rides the F train and is buddies with Velandria on Flickr’s subway sketchers group. But the two have never met face to face. Meanwhile, the New York Times tried to draw … Continue reading
12 July 2008
by andrew
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The geographical problems with this paragraph leave me nearly speechless: Do you really need to ask? Obviously, I’m for building high speed rail. The California coast is a potentially excellent rail corridor with a whole bunch of kinda close urban … Continue reading
29 June 2008
by andrew
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Yglesias: I’m not sure a drunken commute is really the ideal we need to be aspiring toward. I don’t know about that. It may be more dangerous to outlaw alcohol on transit than to allow it.
17 June 2008
by andrew
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I’ve been meaning to start writing about transportation stuff ever since this post, but other things have gotten in the way. Here are some links I’ve collected in the last month: Over at The Bellows, Ryan Avent asks his commenters, … Continue reading