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http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-03-31/transportation-secretary-anthony-foxx-on-transportation-opportunity-and-the-legacy-of-the-u-s-highway-system

The reason I said you disregard other's lives is because you said that measured speed of drivers is all that should be used for setting speed limits. Bigeman basically nailed it. Every driver who pushes past 85th percentile is justifying an increase in the speed limit according to that rule...

Yeah I had shitty tenured teachers when I was a kid too. I don't understand why non-research personnel have a tenure system. But anyway... Personally, I don't believe that schools are going to make-or-break your chances in life. I really dislike the approach that some parents take of forcing...

So you only care about drivers when setting speed limits. Got it. Everyone else's life is worthless, according to what you have written in this quote. If drivers think that a street should be a 45 mph street, then they can start going 40-50 mph, and the city should push up the speed limit...

I didn't put too much more because the truth is, I don't know what the real answer is. Kolko doesn't either, nobody does. The thing that disappoints me about Kolko's article is that he doesn't really offer any explanation for why home prices are so high in cities like Boston. If it wasn't...

In the UK they're replacing bollards with cameras that detect illegal entries by cars. It's safer, they say. They do a lot of camera and vehicle detection here that makes the US look pretty backwards, actually. Most every traffic signal comes with loads of detectors: car, bike and pedestrian...

"Not peak Millennial: The coming Millennial wave" http://cityobservatory.org/not-peak-millennial-the-coming-millennial-wave/ Some numbers of interest.

Well they are pretty for sure; I'm a little saddened that you omitted the historical blurb that you had on the NYC maps. I liked those.

The way I see it, it should be possible to reduce the speed limit on on a street to 20 mph without endless red tape. That's what this enables. That doesn't mean every street has to be 20 mph. But there are obviously plenty of good candidates, typically the streets with significant residential...

Yeah it's nice, although they still don't support all-door boarding on buses, sadly. The presentation looks nice. I wonder if it will really be implemented. We were promised a lot of these things last time around.

Looks like a couple of those pictures are from London's DLR.

UK rail services seem to be run with a mish-mash of ticket barriers and ticket checks. It's rather strange, and not very well thought out. The problem with the ticket barriers is that they do become a bottleneck, very much so, and you have people queuing to leave the station (especially in...

Yes! It's absolute madness that some jackass in a fancy car, parking it in front of a bar, can grind the Silver Line to a halt for 20 minutes while they hunt his dumb ass down. And yes, I've seen it happen.

If there's one thing the "B" branch can do, it is: driving you sloooooooooowly to madness.

Brits are very enthusiastic about installing bus lanes ... they won't do much else to fix buses otherwise, but they do love bus lanes. Even pointless bus lanes, especially ones that end at the worst spots, dumping the bus back into general traffic when it needed separation the most. It's a...

Err, I'm finding all sorts of questionable choices in those calculations. For one thing, why would you assume there's 1.3 million riders? What's that from? It's certainly not total number of rides per year -- which is more like 300 million. Then you say that revenue is only the equivalent of...

Fare-setting, like gas tax-setting, is a political process. It has little to do with the cost of providing the service, and more to do with what the agency thinks they can get away with charging. The negotiation process plays out: officials propose an increase, the public gets angry and/or...

Even the July 2014 fare increase was enough to inspire me to cancel my monthly pass. I only spent $200 on my CharlieCard in the subsequent year, rather than $900. The savings was more than enough to pay for my bike.

^ Agreed; but I've often wondered how they got away with the super-long ramps on Fairmount?

I used to see the 66 bus wandering through Allston after 2 a.m. even when the Night Owl service didn't exist. Of course, it could have simply been drunk.