Shared Propulsion
Via BoingBoing:
Artist beats ticket for 'driving' pedal car
Is it transportation or is it art?
Via BoingBoing:
Artist beats ticket for 'driving' pedal car
Is it transportation or is it art?
Via BoingBoing:
Artist beats ticket for 'driving' pedal car
Is it transportation or is it art?
Traffic jams are not a measure of failure in the transportation system, they are measures of success in the activity/land use system, to wit: would you rather be a candidate with a traffic jam (from Baltimore Sun): The Swamp: An Obama traffic jam
or one with no traffic at all (from San Diego Union Tribune)
The Transportationist makes Top 100 Academic Blogs Every Professional Investor Should Read .
I haven't given much in the way of stock tips on the blog, but hey, if someone can profit from reading this, more power to them.
From BBC: 'Living plugs' smooth ant journey
Ants seeing holes along a major ant highway will use themselves to form plugs to fill the hole, and enable their comrades a smoother journey.
Was the MacArthur Maze Meltdown a conspiracy? This site: 4/29truth.com aims to discover the truth. Some great links from the site, as well as a brilliant send-up of 9/11.
From the Evening Standard: Three injured in new letter-bomb attack. This is the fourth in a wave of letter-bomb attacks, one attacked Capita, which administers the London Congestion Charge, one Speed Check Services, which does traffic enforcement, and one today at DVLA, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Administration.
It recalls the The Mad Bomber of New York City in the 1940s, though the pace is much faster in this case.
According to
this article
I have now been credited as advisor to "nearly every president on transportation since Truman". For the record, I was born in the Lyndon Johnson administration (and near the end of that), not the Andrew Johnson administration.
Reference:
Cars at crux of tension between Metro and suburbs
FRESH LOOK — Transit road map hinges on city, county, region agreement
By Nick Budnick
The Portland Tribune Nov 27, 2006
http://www.portlandtribune.com/rethinking/story.php?story_id=116425643065543400
We returned from a road trip from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh last night. We went to Pittsburgh to attend the lovely wedding of Jason Hong, a friend of ours from Berkeley quizbowl, who is now a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. We stopped for the night outside Toledo on the way there and outside Milwaukee on the way back.
Random observations in roughly chronological order.
I have always been a fan of third parties ... here is one which is one day old, the
Pirate Party of the United States
. It takes its lead from Sweden's Piratpartiet and has a clear "information wants to be free" agenda. Copyright and patents must have their uses, but clearly, they are being exploited for private gain and not the public good. I believe a good open debate on what is property and what property deserves the state's monopoly of force to defend is warranted.
I would imagine if they thought about it, The Pirate Party would be for "free roads" too, though.
I have just started watching The Thick of It on BBC Four and BBC America. A weird combination of Yes Minister and The Office, it hilariously captures the rise of public relations over substance in the bureaucracy. It reminded me of the politically hyper-sensitive reign of current Congressional candidateElwyn Tinklenberg as Transportation Commissioner in Minnesota during the Ventura administration.
My favorite quote of course is in Episode One when the then Minister of Home Affairs is being told to resign, and he suggests the Transport Minister resign instead, and the political aide says something like "We can't fire him. Transport, that's important stuff, you know, cars, trucks, roads" and the doomed Minister of Home Affairs says "I know what Transport is".
-- dml
This is my new blog on transportation policy, planning, and economics.
-- David Levinson
http://rational.ce.umn.edu