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"01a0bde2-7f01-706b-8fc1-647358d6b1a9", "title": "Quick Note: Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams Want New York to Be Worse at Building Infrastructure", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/11/28/quick-note-kathy-hochul-and-eric-adams-want-new-york-to-be-worse-at-building-infrastructure/", "published_at": "2024-11-29T04:59:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-7f01-706b-8fc1-64735930ee0d", "title": "We Have Northeast Corridor Runtimes", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/11/21/we-have-northeast-corridor-runtimes/", "published_at": "2024-11-22T04:58:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-7f01-706b-8fc1-64735a154d44", "title": "Our Rolling Stock Database Draft is Out", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/11/20/our-rolling-stock-database-draft-is-out/", "published_at": "2024-11-21T04:22:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-7f01-706b-8fc1-64735a59a4ca", "title": "Kathy Hochul Can Only Solve Problems She Created", "url": 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"01a0bde4-e20f-7006-9e46-0ba95ae4e5f3", "title": "InnoTrans is Souring Me on On-Rail Competition", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/09/26/innotrans-is-souring-me-on-on-rail-competition/", "published_at": "2024-09-26T22:33:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-e20f-7006-9e46-0ba95affa81f", "title": "Quick Note on Capital City Income Premiums", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/09/24/quick-note-on-capital-city-income-premiums/", "published_at": "2024-09-24T21:49:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-e20f-7006-9e46-0ba95bb38cf3", "title": "The MTA Capital Plan Falsifies Subway History", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/09/21/the-mta-capital-plan-falsifies-subway-history/", "published_at": "2024-09-22T04:59:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-e20f-7006-9e46-0ba95c91ebaa", "title": "Public Transportation and Gig Workers", "url": "https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/09/16/public-transportation-and-gig-workers/", "published_at": "2024-09-16T22:58:58+00:00" }, { 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2026

The Country is the Natural Unit of Policy Analysis original ↗

1 Sept 2026

Electrification Costs and Confounders original ↗

7 Aug 2026

The Failure of Bus Grids at the Scale of Los Angeles original ↗

30 Jul 2026

Conflict About the FRA Study on Penn Station original ↗

25 Jul 2026

Corridor Zoning is not Transit-Oriented Development original ↗

15 Jul 2026

Prioritizing Rail Expansion in New England original ↗

7 Jul 2026

Quick Note on Ridership Estimation and the STOPS Model original ↗

30 Jun 2026

IFP’s Transit Abundance Playbook original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Secondary Stops in Cities on Intercity Rail original ↗

4 Jun 2026

Quick Note: Cars and Suburbs Commoditize Location original ↗

30 May 2026

Meme Weeding: Regular Funding original ↗

29 May 2026

Quick Note on Subway Operating Costs original ↗

22 May 2026

Devolution Best Practices original ↗

30 Apr 2026

The RPA Publishes Bad Report Against Through-Running original ↗

28 Apr 2026

How Much Community Outreach Does the Urban Institute Think Italy and Turkey Do?original ↗

21 Apr 2026

Learning from Many Places is Better than Learning from One original ↗

16 Apr 2026

Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen original ↗

6 Apr 2026

EU, Germany to Accelerate Rail Investment in Response to Iran War original ↗

1 Apr 2026

Quick Note: Commuter Rail and Urban Bus Hubs original ↗

31 Mar 2026

Why IBX Shouldn’t Connect to LaGuardia original ↗

29 Mar 2026

Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars original ↗

11 Mar 2026

There’s no Such Thing as Overtourism original ↗

27 Feb 2026

Against Land Value Capture original ↗

26 Feb 2026

Against Free Buses original ↗

19 Feb 2026

A Better Billion and the Cost Model versus the 125th Street Subway Extension original ↗

1 Feb 2026

British Construction Costs and Centralization original ↗

14 Jan 2026

Fare Practices original ↗

1 Jan 2026

2025

Quick Note: The Importance of Penn Station Access West to Through-Running original ↗

30 Dec 2025

It’s not the Baumol Effect original ↗

1 Dec 2025

New York Isn’t Special original ↗

21 Nov 2025

High Speed Rail-Airport Links original ↗

16 Nov 2025

High-Speed Rail is not for Tourists original ↗

10 Nov 2025

Why is Janno Lieber Constantly Blaming Other People for Problems?original ↗

31 Oct 2025

Reverse-Branching on Commuter Rail original ↗

30 Oct 2025

The Invention of the Traditional System of Project Delivery original ↗

1 Oct 2025

Transit-Oriented Development and Rail Capacity original ↗

16 Sept 2025

High-Speed Rail Ridership Estimator Applet original ↗

1 Sept 2025

Timetable Padding Practices original ↗

30 Aug 2025

Reasons and Explanations original ↗

8 Aug 2025

How One Bad Project Can Poison the Entire Mode original ↗

1 Aug 2025

Did the Netherlands Ever Need 300 km/h Trains?original ↗

28 Jul 2025

Can Ridership Surges Disrupt Small, Frequent Driverless Metros?original ↗

20 Jul 2025

The Hamburg-Hanover High-Speed Line original ↗

10 Jul 2025

Cross-Border Rail and the EU’s Learned Helplessness original ↗

29 Jun 2025

Meme Weeding: Embodied Carbon original ↗

9 Jun 2025

Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Station Design is Incompetent original ↗

4 Jun 2025

S-Bahn and RER Ridership is Urban original ↗

31 May 2025

Quick Note: RER and S-Bahn Line Length original ↗

28 May 2025

The Danbury Branch and Rail Modernization original ↗

25 May 2025

The Northeast Corridor Report is Out original ↗

5 May 2025

Against State of Good Repair original ↗

30 Apr 2025

The Problems of not Killing Penn Expansion and of Tariffs original ↗

27 Apr 2025

New York Mayoral Race Thrown Wide Open as Cuomo is Prosecuted, Adams Removed original ↗

1 Apr 2025

Quick Note: Report on Electrification and Medium-Speed Rail Upgrades original ↗

1 Apr 2025

Open BRT original ↗

21 Mar 2025

Tokyo Construction Costs original ↗

10 Mar 2025

Cos Cob Bridge Replacement original ↗

5 Mar 2025

YIMBY First, Building Reform Second original ↗

22 Feb 2025

16-Car Trains on the Northeast Corridor original ↗

19 Feb 2025

Northeast Corridor Profits and Amtrak Losses original ↗

13 Feb 2025

Amtrak’s Failure original ↗

11 Feb 2025

Privatization is not an Alternative to the State original ↗

29 Jan 2025

Quick Note: Rural Drivers Aren’t Being Oppressed original ↗

25 Jan 2025

Building for Wealth, and Point Access Blocks original ↗

21 Jan 2025

Quick Note: the Experience of Train Stations original ↗

11 Jan 2025

Large Cars are a Positional Good original ↗

5 Jan 2025

2024

Quick Note: High-Speed Rail and Decarbonization original ↗

31 Dec 2024

One- and Two-Dimensional Rail Networks original ↗

29 Dec 2024

Public Transportation and Crime are not About Each Other original ↗

25 Dec 2024

Consultant Slop and Europe’s Decision not to Build High-Speed Rail original ↗

20 Dec 2024

Meme Weeding: Costs and Office Productivity original ↗

19 Dec 2024

Quick Note: Commuter Rail Rolling Stock Costs original ↗

17 Dec 2024

Low Spanish Costs are not About Decentralization original ↗

8 Dec 2024

Commuter Rail to Staten Island original ↗

30 Nov 2024

Quick Note: Kathy Hochul and Eric Adams Want New York to Be Worse at Building Infrastructure original ↗

29 Nov 2024

We Have Northeast Corridor Runtimes original ↗

22 Nov 2024

Our Rolling Stock Database Draft is Out original ↗

21 Nov 2024

Kathy Hochul Can Only Solve Problems She Created original ↗

17 Nov 2024

Help Us Write More Construction Cost Cases original ↗

5 Nov 2024

TGV Imitators: Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Right Places original ↗

26 Oct 2024

Why Texas High-Speed Rail is Stuck original ↗

20 Oct 2024

Transit Advocacy and (Lack of) Ideology in New York original ↗

15 Oct 2024

Amtrak Doubles Down on False Claims About Regional Rail History to Attack Through-Running original ↗

13 Oct 2024

Taxes are not About Urbanism original ↗

8 Oct 2024

Mass Transit on Orbital Boulevards original ↗

1 Oct 2024

InnoTrans is Souring Me on On-Rail Competition original ↗

26 Sept 2024

Quick Note on Capital City Income Premiums original ↗

24 Sept 2024

The MTA Capital Plan Falsifies Subway History original ↗

22 Sept 2024

Public Transportation and Gig Workers original ↗

16 Sept 2024

Quick Note: Flushing’s Growth and Through-Running original ↗

2 Sept 2024

Costing Northeast Corridor High-Speed Rail original ↗

30 Aug 2024

The Northeast Corridor Should not Host Diesel Through-Service original ↗

27 Aug 2024

More on American Incuriosity, New York Regional Rail Edition, Part 2: Station Dwell Times original ↗

24 Aug 2024

Tradeoffs in Reliability and Shutdowns original ↗

19 Aug 2024

More on American Incuriosity, New York Regional Rail Edition, Part 1: European History original ↗

8 Aug 2024

Why New York-New Haven Trains Crawl original ↗

6 Aug 2024

New York Has Too Few Subway Countdown Clocks original ↗

5 Aug 2024

The Meaning of Construction Costs Per Rider original ↗

1 Aug 2024

More American Station Construction Extravaganza original ↗

29 Jul 2024

What it Means That Miri Regev Wants to Cancel Congestion Pricing original ↗

25 Jul 2024