The Keystone Service  is a quiet giant. A simple, more-or-less hourly regional train, it only takes an hour to get from Philadelphia to La...

The Market-Frankford Line has a capacity issue. It's crowded during rush hour. And its crowding isn't just in Center City, it'...

Saw this quote in this article : The  Minneapolis policy , proposed by Council Member Lisa Bender, would eliminate all parking requireme...

At the beginning of the year, Charlie Gardner at Old Urbanist   offered an academic's findings on zoning, especially where American pra...

(This post started as a fork from the previous post, The Streetcar Fiasco .) Let us recall, for reference,  Width, and the Perception of W...

Streetcars have become a major fad over the past few years, ever since Portland put in theirs. Portland Streetcar In Portland's cas...

In my last post I talked about the potential Kansas City's rail alignments offer . Now I want to discuss the challenges. Fig 1. Here ...

So for various reasons -- some of which are probably related to hormones and such -- my thoughts have taken a recent Midwestern turn. In par...

Pertinent to this post : Since the PPA has no inkling of what the actual supply of any of their permit zones actually is , they routinely ...

In Gunn's Great Mistake , I outlined what I believe was SEPTA's greatest failure during the Center City tunnel construction era--nam...

One of the major moves David Gunn made, while he was head of SEPTA back in the late '70s and early '80s, was the curtailment of its ...

(Please note that this post is the intellectual chassis for some other work.) Philadelinquency recently ran an excellent piece on how...

Back in September 2012 I wrote a post called The Space Between , in which I detailed urban design treatments linking the Penn and Drexel cam...