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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...

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RIPTA 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...

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I 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...

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Why $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...

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ProJo 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...

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Promoting 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...

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You 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...

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ResNet 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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