Posts Tagged ‘transit’

The best and worst of “The Year in Ideas.”

The Times does a feature every December “The Year in Ideas” that I really love. It’s out in the Sunday Magazine today/tomorrow. Our favorite: The Bus-Wait Formula, a signage system developed by three Harvard and CalTech undergrads that lets you know if you should wait for the bus or continue to walk towards the next [...]

This is good news, right?

The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. I realize that the decrease in driving is because the economy is tanking and we’re all going to end up living in Hoovervilles and eating canned tuna for Christmas dinner, but it’s long been a goal of environmentalists to [...]