US Traffic Congestion is Bad
If the title couldn’t be any more obvious. Highways and roads in metropolitan areas across the country are at or above capacity and the problem is only getting worse. Living in the Northeast, I do...
View ArticleRIPTA Needs Your Support
It’s rare that I post something that’s so restricted to the general area, but this is a very important issue facing the city of Providence and the state of Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Public Transit...
View ArticleI heart New Haven
I went to a little conference today at Yale University in New Haven, CT. I grew up in Branford, just outside New Haven. So I’m pretty familiar with the area. I spent Thursday night at my brother’s...
View ArticleWhy $4+ Gas is a Good Thing
Gas is expensive. That’s a no brainer. Most people are bemoaning the increased prices in gasoline and pushing the government to do something about it. However, I don’t have a problem with expensive...
View ArticleProJo got it right for once
The Providence Journal has a great editorial today about mass transit issues in Rhode Island. RIPTA, the public transit system (buses) in the state, is going through a financial crisis, one seemingly...
View ArticlePromoting Public Transit while Promoting Environmentalism
I came across this great idea while reading through some new blogs. It’s an advertisement on the sides of buses that promotes the bus as an attack vehicle against global warming. It’s a no brainer...
View ArticleYou got the mother and the kid…
… you got the guy and his date. So sang the Violent Femmes back in the 1980s. Well, I’ve been taking the bus to and from work for the past week or so. I’ve been kind of anti-RIPTA in the past because...
View ArticleResNet 2009: The Rest of It
This post may end up long, but I’m bunching a whole bunch of topics into this single post. ResNet is about a whole lot more than simply attending presentations and dealing with work-related stuff. It’s...
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