eurokie
Recent Posts
Out With Light Rail, in With Autonomous Vehicles
| | No Comments
Perhaps not surprisingly, there has been some push-back from my last post on the Smart Cities grant which went to Columbus. I called it the Columbus, Ohio Grant Program and -Surprise! – Columbus, Ohio won. Not to incite “technology wars” between different transportation modes, but in a world of trade-offs, this is what is getting […]
An Ode to the Blank Slate
| | No Comments
The Federal DoT created a program for cities without real transit to further-develop vehicle-based mobility alternatives with which they will then call themselves “smart” for doing so. In other words, DoT created the Columbus, Ohio grant program, and – Surprise! – Columbus, Ohio won it. I’ve written about the Smart City Challenge before, including when […]
Thoughts on RTA’s Fair Hikes + Service Cuts
| | No Comments
Nobody ever stops the press when government works. Everyday, government works to get people to work, to ship goods to markets, to power our economy, and protect our national defense. Occasionally, we do stop the press for major stories when government does not work as we expect. When a bridge crumbles, it’s a headline. When […]
What Will Columbus Become?
| | No Comments
Within the realm of population forecasting – an essential plan technique conducted for transportation, land use, and other activities that require knowing how many people to plan for – there are a number of models: exponential, modified exponential, double exponential, logistic, and linear. Each model is designed to fit specific circumstances that a region may […]
Statewide Urban Agenda
| | No Comments
There has been a lot of discussion, almost entirely figurative, about the possibility of a statewide urban agenda. This would be the reason for Greater Ohio Policy Center‘s existence, though they have chosen to not flex this muscle. At the 2015 GOPC Policy Summit in Columbus, both Senator Sherrod Brown and Columbus ex-mayor Michael B. Coleman, […]
Real Unclear Policy
| | No Comments
Adam Millsap, a research fellow at George Mason University in Virginia, has seen the efforts to revitalize rust belt cities and thinks Americans deserve to be told the truth. That “truth” is the basis for this screed on the Real Clear Policy website. “Finally, we need to stop encouraging people to stay in declining areas based […]
DC: Trains the Old News, Bikes the New News
| | No Comments
The Washington Metro, for all its problems including fires and crashes and more fires (just this morning), is the gold standard for transit in this nation. It is a showpiece metro system; a gleaming architectural accomplishment that makes other systems look like functional sewers (ahem, New York). Also count me as a big fan of […]
Meet the Coolest Transit Project in America: M-1 Rail
| | No Comments
Detroit, the city that refuses to die, and the city that got America moving, has gotten a little well-deserved help with their new streetcar. Detroit is long-known as one of those cities where transit projects go to die, with countless different iterations of this same project reappearing every few years. To this point, it’s worth mentioning […]