Dedicated lanes for bikes and buses are a great idea. But there is only so much city street to go around. The missing link? Limiting cars.
Housing and Transportation
Read about affordable housing; access to transportation; roadways; bridges and tunnels; crumbling infrastructure; railroads; Amtrak; trucking; interstate highway system; science and technology; land use;
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The Continuing Quest for a More Walkable Los Angeles
After decades of automobile dependency, many transportation planners, advocates, and residents are slowly coming around to new ideas about getting around.
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Catching a Breeze
America’s belated push to develop offshore wind energy
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Why America Needs More Social Housing
Subsidizing market prices to make housing affordable is a losing strategy. There’s a better way—on display for a century in Vienna.
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Robert F. Kennedy: Teachings for Today
RFK had an uncanny capacity to reach across racial lines. He learned by listening and empathizing.
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How Not to Cover America
As local newspapers shrink and many of the national media close local bureaus, we depend increasingly on coverage by reporters who parachute into communities. But even the best are likely to be a step behind events.
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Connecting Public Transit to Great Manufacturing Jobs
Madeline Janis, who pioneered local hiring agreements, is now enlisting cities to have railcars and buses made in America—by union workers.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer
Whether by example or by strategy, Dr. King always looked for opportunities to build bridges.
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Ridesharing Versus Public Transit
How Uber and Lyft tend to widen disparities of race and class in urban transportation systems
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What Now for Unions?
Republicans on and off the bench are moving to kill unions. But millennials—the most pro-union generation since the 1930s—may yet find a way to organize.
