Tag / transportation
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Bring Back The Trains
I had the New York City subway map memorized by the time I was four years old. I remember how I loved the spaghetti-like interconnections that the brightly colored lines made and how I would pore over my dad’s collections of old maps for hours and hours. I remember riding with my mom to the…
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For Whom The Bus Rolls
BY BRIAN BENTON David took the bus to visit his mother and, maybe more important, because he had just found a transfer pass in his back pocket. Claire was going to work, as she had done almost every weekday for most of the past year and a half, except for the few days when her…
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How the Car Destroyed Atlanta and the Future of the American City
BY JONATHAN ROBISON Upon his return to the White House after delivering his State of the Union address to Congress on January 28, I imagine President Obama received an upsetting briefing outlining the chaotic situation in Atlanta. The nation’s ninth largest metropolitan area was paralyzed by just over two inches of snow. Although the crisis…
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France in Gridlock
As long queues form in front of gas stations all across France and increasing numbers of protesters amass, President Nicolas Sarkozy remains staunchly defendant of raising France’s retirement age from 60 to 62. Citing the faltering the economy, Sarkozy has stated that the change is necessary to cut the expenditures going to French pensioners. As…
