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Monthly Archives: November 2011
An HSR Country is a Centralized Country
1950s’ Japan was a fairly monocentric country, in which everything was in Tokyo. When it built the Shinkansen, the expectation was that fast travel nationwide would make it easier to do business in the other cities, reducing centralization. Instead, the … Continue reading
Posted in Development, High-Speed Rail, Transportation, Urbanism
18 Comments
Consensus and Policing
The recent spate of mass arrests and brutality at various Occupy demonstrations is not a matter of bad cops like John Pike or even bad politicians like Michael Bloomberg. Tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets have occurred throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in Consensus, Politics and Society
16 Comments
Different Kinds of Centralization (Hoisted from Comments)
As an addendum to my post about transit cities and centralization, let me explain that the term centralized city really means two different things. One is diffuse centralization throughout the core, typical of pedestrian cities and bus cities and of … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Transit, Urbanism
5 Comments
A Transit City is a Centralized City
In New York, a large fraction of employment clusters in a rectangle bounded roughly by 59th Street, 2nd Avenue, 42nd Street, and 9th Avenue. Although it’s a commonplace that New York employment is centralized around Manhattan, in reality most of … Continue reading
Posted in Development, New York, Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Transit, Urbanism
35 Comments
New York-New Rochelle Metro-North-HSR Compatibility
Let me preface this post by saying that there should not be any high-speed trains between New York and New Rochelle, except perhaps right at the northern end of the segment. However, to provide reasonable speeds from New York to … Continue reading
Posted in Amtrak, Good Transit, High-Speed Rail, New York, Regional Rail, Transportation
17 Comments
New Rochelle-Penn Station Regional Rail
Last week, the MTA again floated proposals for connecting Metro-North to Penn Station once East Side Access comes online and frees track space currently used by the LIRR. The New Haven Line is to be connected to Penn Station via … Continue reading
Posted in Good Transit, New York, Regional Rail, Transportation
25 Comments
More Track Maps
A kind reader sent me the two maps on Rich E Green’s now-offline website that I did not have, namely maps of all of Connecticut and Rhode Island. These join earlier maps I’d posted of the Northeast Corridor in Maryland, … Continue reading
Posted in Providence, Regional Rail, Transportation
5 Comments
Compromising with Agency Turf
Daniel Krause added his two cents to the politicals vs. technicals issue; his contention is that technical advocates are perfectionists and refuse to compromise. Writing about the Transbay Terminal design, which is slightly less wretched than originally planned but still … Continue reading
Posted in Incompetence, Politics and Society, Transportation
41 Comments
Trust (Hoisted from Comments)
Robert Cruickshank’s much-anticipated reply to my posts about political versus technical transit supporters and their activism says that high-speed rail is a political issue, and therefore what’s important is to just get it done. To me, the problem comes from … Continue reading
Do Not Compare NEC with HSR Ridership
One common claim doubting high ridership estimates for American high-speed rail lines is that the Northeast Corridor gets little ridership. For example, commenter Gelboak says, How plausible is a 51-77 million px / year ridership? I believe the NE corridor … Continue reading
Posted in High-Speed Rail, Transportation
64 Comments
