A matter of language - defining congestion and sprawl

CC – by Atwater Village Newbie

Ahh, the power of creeping bias in language (hat tip to Jarrett Walker):

Everyone at the City should strive to make the transportation systems operate as efficiently as possible. However, we must be careful how we use efficient because that word is frequently confused with the word faster. Typically, efficiency

Continue reading A matter of language – defining congestion and sprawl

Cost-effectiveness

Streetcar tracks, H St NE – CC image from flickr

Over the past couple of days, there have been lots of reactions to the DOT’s decision to lessen the importance of their cost-effectiveness measures in decisions on new transit starts funding (TTP, Yglesias, TNR, TOW, Streetsblog), almost all of them positive. There are, however, some

Continue reading Cost-effectiveness

Recent Comments

Twitter