Archive for the 'high-speed rail' Category
Planes vs. high-speed vs. ‘higher-speed’ rail in Texas
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThis story on the Eurostar London-Paris high-speed rail caught my eye yesterday in the Chronicle Travel section. I have ridden it before, and it is a wonderful service. The speed is deceptively quiet until a train going the other direction passes by …
Kotkin on CA vs TX and Hou, BRT, HSR, dining, bikes, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesBefore I get to a collection of smaller misc items for your holiday reading pleasure, a blatant self-promotion unrelated to the normal content of this blog: yours truly was notified last night that I had won the first ever M-prize for management i…
Gov 2.0, crossroads Houston, HSR, TOD, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesA busy holiday season week with a business trip to Austin thrown in, so just a few small misc items to pass along: Fast Company on “How an Army of Techies Is Taking on City Hall: Still waiting for a full reboot in Washington, D.C., an army of citi…
Why Houston grows faster, rail vs. $, faith-based planning, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesContinuing last week’s list of smaller items:You probably saw this article in the Chronicle on how Fed funding for the Metro North and SE lines is at risk, as I predicted. If the funding does disappear, I hope Metro has the guts to go in a new di…
Why people and companies love Houston + HSR, Census analysis, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesContinuing from last week with the rest of the smaller items:Site Selection magazine has named Texas #1 and Houston #2 (behind Chicago) for corporate expansions and relocations.Census 2010: A Texas Perspective from New Geography. Excerpts:”W…
Surface transportation innovations for Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI was recently able to catch up on a stack of Surface Transportation Innovations newsletters from the Reason Foundation, and thought I’d pass along some of my favorite items:Why the Obama administration’s plan for inter-city high-speed rail is problema…
Transportation fantasyland in DC
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesI want to pass along this Wall Street Journal op-ed on some of crazy transportation goals starting to get traction in Congress. The main excerpt:Messrs. Rockefeller and Lautenberg aim to “reduce per capita motor vehicle miles traveled on an annual bas…
Rail updates: HSR, commuter, and airports
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThere’s been a lot of rail buzz in the blogosphere lately, some sparked by the Obama administration’s interest in supporting high-speed rail. Harvard professor Edward Glaseser has an op-ed in the Boston Globe expressing strong skepticism:For most work…
Regs, housing value, graffiti, blue states, HSR, Astrodome, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesFinishing off the smaller items I started last week:An update to my high-speed rail post from earlier this week: Glaeser analyzes the Houston-Dallas route and finds the costs far exceed the benefits (3 or 6 to 1). AC changes some benefit assumptions …
CA disease, DC danger, Ashby, rail, peak oil, toll roads, free buses, and more
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesSmaller misc items and some of my recent Opportunity Urbanist posts:In catching up with my badly backlogged newsfeeds, I found several items on the Antiplanner of interest:A ranking of states by both personal and economic freedom, where Texas scored ve…