Cut to the Chase
Articles on
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| SDDT 2/24/03 | Irrational planning... on rails |
The politics at issue here are the politics of big-money and good-old-boyism involved with so-called “Light Rail Transit” (LRT) planning in our region. There's nothing really “light” about LRT in terms of either the costs or time it takes to deliver.
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| SDDT 9/1/02 | City of Parks or City of Parking? |
I do not disagree that this "Strategic Framework Element" for the General Plan contains some good language. But good language that is not enforceable and sets no standards is just that: pretty prose and nothing more.
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| SDDT 5/6/02 | Traffic Olympics, Part 2: what's the opportunity? |
We’re about to enter the Olympics of traffic congestion folks. You think you’ve got traffic now? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
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| SDDT 4/21/02 | Merge Mash Madness, Part 1: The Mess |
How will the construction of the new "bypass" lanes at the 5/805 merge impact already out-of-control traffic through the merge?
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| SDDT 2/6/02 | Questioning Questions |
You learn about people by the questions that they ask – how they are framed reveals much about the framer. This was brought into great focus recently during a presentation I was asked to give at a recent LEAD event.
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| SDDT 9/24/01 | Public Education |
Fifty years of lopsided spending [by SANDAG] on transportation has both failed to deliver reasonable traffic conditions and greatly contributed to the region's environmental degradation especially the fragmentation of open space and water pollution. |
| SDDT 9/10/01 | Flat-Earth Thinking in Our Time |
I'm fed up with big-airport boosterism. Study after study after study has piled up on putting a new international airport in the San Diego region. These studies provide easy targets for "Golden Fleece" awards from the San Diego County Taxpayer's Association. |
| SDDT 6/18/01 | Pollitics | Higher taxes or higher traffic? Which would you choose? The problem is, we are getting both. |
| SDDT 3/12/01 | Great Streets | What are the key issues in dealing with the impacts of growth on our local streets and intersections? |
| SDDT 10/23/00 | Doable Dream | When you think about public transportation, innovation is not one of the top ten words that will usually come to mind. |
| SDDT 9/5/00 | Driving Technology | Support Cleaner Cars for California (ZEV Program up for review) |
| SDDT 8/7/00 | Biotech vs Biology? | Sorrento Valley Rd /Torrey Pines State Reserve |
| SDDT 7/21/00 | Process over performance | Just part of why our transportation systems are uncompetitive. |
| SDDT 5/15/00 | Blame Game | Wetlands vs. Roads |
| SDDT 4/10/00 | Smart growth showdown | Assumption of Smart Growth |
| SDDT 3/27/00 | Oil victims -- again | Energy, transportation |
| SDDT 3/20/00 | Rational choices | Subsidizing "bad behavior" |
| SDDT 3/13/00 | Putting up | What would a great transportation system be like? |
| SDDT 12/21/00 | Blueprint for Los Angelization | Transportation planning -- NOT |
| STTD 2/14/00 | Clean Energy Quest | Energy alternatives |
| SDDT 2/2/00 | Uncommon sense | Transportation + Politics = Traffic |
| SDDT 12/10/99 | Motions of Compliance | Congestion mismanagement |
| SDDDT 12/6/99 | Congestion Politics | Transportation planning -- BAD |
| SDDT 11/12/99 | Road to ruin | Public weighs in on bad roads |
| SDDT 11/5/99 | Evolving capitalism | Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution |
| SDDT 10/20/99 | Solving Sprawl | How and why about sprawl |
| SDDT 10/18/99 | What Fuels These Mortals Be | Oil overdependence & fuel economy |
| SDDT 10/1/99 | Ways to Go | Solutions & the paradox of suto-mobility |
| SDDT 9/24/99 | Remember Bliss | Designing for people, not cars |
| EV Does It | Electric cars -- the single biggest thing an individual can do | |
| SDDT 7/19/99 | More of the same | |
| SDDT 7/12/99 | Clearing some air | |
| SDDT 4/3/99 | Planning to fail | Fees for smart growth |
| SDDT 3/8/99 | Driving Evolution | Green cars & trucks |
| SDDT 3/1/99 | Growtesque | Dysfunctional growth |
| SDDT 2/8/99 | Lanes to nowhere | Congestion & sprawl |
| SDDT 9/14/98 | Sprawling America | Suburban sprawl growth |
| SDDT 8/10/98 | Trip to Tomorrowland | Disneyland & trarnsportation planning |
| SDDT 8/3/98 | Urban road warriors | Cars & wealth |
| SDDT 7/27/98 | Car Redux | Growth & traffic |
| SDDT 7/13/98 | Driving Taxes | Vehicle licence fee cuts |
| SDDT 6/22/98 | A Tale of Two Developments | Growth & development |
| SDDT 5/15/98 | Get out of gridlock | Sharing the road |
| SDDT 4/3/98 | Smart Taxes | Tax pollution,reward enterprise |
| SDDT 2/9/98 | Jolly Trolley Folly | Transit effectiveness? |
| SDDT 2/2/98 | Phase This, or Dumb or Dumber? | SR-56 & growth |
