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

From this article: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/corporate-welfaresubsidiesboeingalcoa.html The size and range of the subsi...

...because once something becomes mainstream, it's going to be perverted, and Jannie Blackwell's proposal is about as extreme a perv...

Comment on yesterday's Plan Philly post : There *is* a baby in the bath water here. While I agree Jannie is introducing this bill ...

Part of a discussion between Jon Geeting and I on Next City piece " It's Time to Cap and Trade Parking Permits ": Me: Jon,...

Yep, this is a problem for light-rail and especially streetcar projects. (Girder rail is the best kind of rail for street running.) ...

A comment I made on an Atlantic Cities article : A minimum wage indexed to (a) local CoL and (b) inflation would (should) yield a minim...

While this post started as a fork from Compromises on North Broad , it is really a topic unto itself, and a core post of my thinking on how ...

Everything is politics. To do anything, a strong enough coalition must be assembled to counteract the opposition. These kinds of coalitions ...

Last fall, Steven Smith noted that European mass transit is subsidized the same amount as its American counterpart. Yet Europe has extensiv...

In the news today, SEPTA's head, Joe Casey, is blasting the House Transportation bill. The problems with this bill are well known ....

Archive trawling Nathaniel Hood's blog, I found this post with this interesting argument: To really understand the problem in 2011, y...

Although there are a handful of trolls who believe otherwise, the consensus opinion that the regulatory body of the Federal Railroad Adminis...

I spent some time the past couple of weeks researching fares for commuter rails in the U.S. What I was after was a way to compare these far...

A common criticism of zoning is its often-asinine parking requirements. Why, for example, should every new rowhome on an urban block have to...

So, since the Democrats dawdled their way out of a supermajority that could have easily allowed them to pass a good urban-oriented national ...