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On Bike Lanes, Road Widths, and Traffic Safety
There was an assertion made in one of the letters (signed by Louise Hainline, Norman Steisel, and Iris Weinshall in response to a recent New York Times editorial on cycling that caught my eye: When new...
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Rage Against Your Machine
Back in November, I did an unusual bike commute with a guy named Joe Simonetti: I traveled from Northern Westchester County, to Joe’s office in midtown Manhattan (I then continued home to Brooklyn),...
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Carmaggedon
I joined the stable again over at the New York Times’ Room for Debate, this time on the idea of full highway shutdowns. Just for historical curiosity, here’s my original, somewhat more fanciful (but...
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#raceajet
As you no doubt have heard, JetBlue has offered $4 flights from Burbank to Long Beach to help Angelenos avoid the “carmaggedon” closure of the 405. But what if there was a faster way than air travel?...
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#flightversusbike
How my idle tweet spawned an epic transportation showdown. Ezra Horne, part of (the non-victorious) 'Team Jet Blue,' with some inspired in-flight reading as he prepares for the 'Tour de Carmageddon'
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The Big Roads
My review of Earl Swift’s The Big Roads, via the New York Times. Here’s a taste: When “On the Road” was published, in 1957, it may have seemed a rousing dawn chorus for an awakening generation of...
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New York City Century Ride: A Few Quick Thoughts
Yesterday I did my first NYC Century ride, 100+ miles of Gotham glory, everything from stunning ocean vistas to broken-bottle-strewn tunnels, from estaurine marshes to riverine gulleys. Given that the...
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Let the Robot Drive
My feature on autonomous vehicles is the cover story in this month’s Wired. You can find the story here. The last time I was in a self-driving car—Stanford University’s “Junior,” at the 2008 World...
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System/Empathy in Transit
My latest Slate column considers Jarrett Walker’s new book Human Transit and the question of how we can make transit more successful: Make it nicer or more efficient (and do we have to choose)? As...
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The Nazca Lines of the Twentieth Century
Over at Politico, I offer an appreciation of the aerial photographs of highway interchanges by the Canadian photographer Peter Andrew. “What is it that makes the patterns of highway interchanges so...
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