F-Line to Dudley
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Starting this thread because we're all going a little stir-crazy from self-quarrantine and not enough local dev news going on, and craving some relevant online reading we haven't seen before. Consider this a catch-all for blog recs, industry rags, "other cities' FCMB-like PowerPoints", way-back-machine finds that make you think, and other online resources about transportation/infrastructure issues. Any halfway-interesting or knowledge-expanding to share, since most of the choicest finds are discoverable by accident and only spread by word of mouth. I for one really need to cast a wider net, because everyone's suffering from the "No news is COVID news" effect and feeling the disappointment when the 'breaking news' sections of my usual issue-oriented websites are so much shorter and seldom-updated than usual.
FWIW...I think Alon Levy's been doing yeoman's work lately cranking up his Pedestrian Observations posting output during the crisis to more posts per week and being wholly topical to the crisis. Very unexplored territory like "How does one keep a transit system clean, and what is clean anyways?" then trying to take a stab in the abyss to find some baseline for best-practices. Nobody else is doing that right now. Love him or hate him, he does some of his best work when he acknowledges up front in the thesis that he doesn't have all the answers and is going to let scientific method take the inquiry where it goes.
FWIW...I think Alon Levy's been doing yeoman's work lately cranking up his Pedestrian Observations posting output during the crisis to more posts per week and being wholly topical to the crisis. Very unexplored territory like "How does one keep a transit system clean, and what is clean anyways?" then trying to take a stab in the abyss to find some baseline for best-practices. Nobody else is doing that right now. Love him or hate him, he does some of his best work when he acknowledges up front in the thesis that he doesn't have all the answers and is going to let scientific method take the inquiry where it goes.