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Frankfurt Airport long-distance rail station – CC image from Heidas on Wiki Alon Levy has a post up about the potential for high speed rail to fulfill the goals of ‘decongesting’ US airports. Alon looks at origin/destination pairs and compares the flight time to comparable HSR ranges where the technology has a chance to offer Continue reading HSR and the Aerotropolis Pittsburgh International Airport – CC image from Fred Philip Longman and Lina Khan make the case for re-regulating America’s airlines, claiming that deregulation is killing air travel and taking de-hubbed cities like St. Louis with it (hat tip to Matt Yglesias). The authors do indeed present compelling evidence that airline deregulation has indeed shifted the Continue reading The difficulty of unintended consequences – airlines, HSR, and deregulation In the comments from yesterday’s post on Norman Foster’s aerotropolis (and the idea of the aerotropolis in general), author Greg Lindsay dropped a note in the comments asking for me to expand my own thoughts on the idea and the book. So, here goes. Lindsay did note one specific comment from Aaron Renn’s review: “this is Continue reading The Aerotropolis, continued Image via Foster+Partners Norman Foster is working on a concept for a massive new airport complex for London along the Thames Estuary. I first saw this (via ArchDaily) thanks to a shared Google Reader item (alas, no more) from Neil Flanagan. Yesterday, Planetizen points to an Atlantic piece on the subject, featuring new renderings from Foster Continue reading Norman Foster’s aerotropolis |
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