“The Tide,” Norfolk, Virginia’s light rail system, has been called “The Worst Light Rail System in the U.S.” I rode the Tide myself when I visited friends who live in the Hampton Roads area, so I got to see some…
Amtrak has had issues from the day it formed, decades before I was born. So in some ways, Amtrak isn’t in any more “trouble” than that day, when Congress created it to pick up the pieces of failing private rail…
We should remove urban highways, not expand them. Doing the latter is continuing to double down on the worst city planning mistakes of the 20th century. Yet right now, New York State, through the Cross Bridges Project, is trying to…
If you’re trying to travel between New York City and Hartford, Connecticut car-free, you have several options. I’ve done them all. I’ve been living car-free for six years and spend a lot of time navigating the quirks of U.S. transportation….
“Rewilding” is one of those sexy ideas you’ll hear about in a long list of climate solutions. I first came across it when I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s science fiction novel, The Ministry For The Future, where he envisions a time…
Of course I love the idea of green roofs. As a volunteer in New York’s community gardens, I recognize the necessity of more green space in our cities. On some level, the question of green roofs is simple. The more…
Long before the Ethan Allen Express extended to Burlington, there was the Vermonter Amtrak route: one of Amtrak’s workhorse routes connecting Washington D.C. through New York, Hartford, Springfield all the way to St. Albans, Vermont. I’ve taken this train dozens…