Category Archives: Transportation

Goin’ down the roads, feeling bad

July 31, 2005 – 7:49 pm

CURT JOHNSON: Congress has just increased the level of federal transportation spending by 42 percent, raising the annual allotment to $286.5 billion. While most state and local departments of transportation are populated with earnest engineers, there’s apparently enough misfeasance to ignite a growing cry to burn down these budgets. Examples are all too ready. In [...]

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LOOKING AT ATLANTA FROM LOS ANGELES

June 20, 2005 – 1:24 pm

“We’ve tried to be known, ” said Georgia Tech professor Mike Dobbins, “as the city too busy to hate. Maybe we still shun hate, but with the level of congestion we now face, we sure do have a lot of time on our hands.” At the curb, a Hummer limo waited for someone. It’s L.A. [...]

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Seattle’s Monorail Project: Will Civic Chutzpah Prevail?

August 19, 2004 – 11:51 am

ALEX MARSHALL: Traveling —- driving down an open road, rolling on steel rails, soaring in the sky —- is romantic. Constructing the means to travel —-building a highway, a train line or an airport —- generally isn’t. Which is why the new Seattle monorail project, set to begin construction this fall, is so interesting. It [...]

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