Sunday Video: Light Rail Over The I-90 Floating Bridge
Sound Transit explains how upgrading the I-90 floating bridge will be an innovative engineering first for light rail.
https://youtu.be/felRTAG5MWc
Google Wallet Soon To Support ORCA for Fare Payment
Google Wallet will soon support digital ORCA cards and allow for contactless payment via Android-powered mobile devices. That will save many Puget Sound transit...
Sunday Video: Why You Don’t Hear About The Ozone Layer Anymore
https://youtu.be/CaLOiGEDPJQ
Vox recounts how the international community came together to combat depletion of the ozone layer and why the ozone layer is no longer of...
Why I’m An Urbanist
When I was four years old, I wrote a letter to Mother Nature. Signed, sealed, and delivered to the boulder in our suburban front...
Transit App Update: Now With Rails Lines And Stops
Transit App software engineers continue to improve the quality of their popular transit trip planning app service. Last month, the company pushed out a highly...
An Open Letter To Elon Musk
Dear Mr. Musk,
This letter is both a salute to your continued success and a challenge to consider (if you haven’t already) some ideas that...
Sunday Video: EPCOT–Yesterday’s City of Tomorrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hqLo4J6mrQ
Dave Amos looks at Walt Disney's unrealized tomorrow city plans (known as "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" or "EPCOT"), which were largely Modernist delusions...
The Urbanist Podcast: An Automation Discussion [Not] Brought 2 U by Chatbots
When Ray pitched the idea to me of doing an episode on automation, the first thing I thought was, of course. Automation, in no...