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Archive for November 3rd, 2009

Congestion as a ‘Wicked Problem’

Here’s Peter Gorrie on the subject, and Bern Grush’s response.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Parking Politics

What’s the only thing worse than a parking ticket on your windshield?

An anti-parking-permit political flyer, from some aspirant republican councilman whose name was new to me.

I mean, I do enjoy Staten Islanders using my streets as a midway point of their Manhattan car commute, not to mention all the cars with out-of-state plates, but c’mon, is there any other large city in the U.S. without residential parking permits?

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Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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The Latest Slate Column

Headlines stretch things: I wouldn’t call it so much a “defense of jaywalking” as a challenge to the idea that it ranks as the key issue in pedestrian safety. In any case it’s here.

And my Slate colleague Christopher Beam, in my absence, contributed this excellent column on the eternal issue of bicycles and traffic laws.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 7:58 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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