Technology

Midweek Video: Are Shipping Containers Overrated As A Building Method?

Shipping container homes have become all the rage in recent years. But they're not necessarily as practical as they might seem when it comes...

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...

Sunday Video: Dutch Cities Are Better For The Climate

As a companion to Climate Town's crossover video with Not Just Bikes on American cities, suburbs, and climate, Not Just Bikes looks at how...

Sunday Video: Low or High Platforms?

RM Transit covers the great debate of whether low or high platforms are better for trains and what they even are.

Google Wallet Now Supports Digital ORCA Card Passes in Puget Sound

Forget your ORCA card? No problem. A new Google Wallet feature allows Puget Sound riders to buy transit fares on their Android or Wear OS devices.

Combining Driving and Transit to Save Time

The introduction of bike-share, car-share and ride-share systems has made urban transportation increasingly multi-modal enabling users to complete different parts of their journey with...

Sunday Video: How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream

https://youtu.be/oOttvpjJvAo Climate Town charts the history of how the car industry rapidly reset what the American Dream would be. The oppressive takeover has wrought a...

Why Municipal Broadband

In light of the recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decisions on Net Neutrality and the ending of restrictions on local governments offering Internet services...