The Mass Transit System from Hell
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Chile's government had great plans to modernize the capital's chaotic bus and metro system. But it simply replaced old chaos with new, less familiar chaos
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Since the K5 Emperor of Icecream, eavier, foisted the augean task of ghetto-reviewing onto my skinny shoulders this year, here goes. First, we begin with the grimy w/hole itself, and then move to the individual rotting parts thereof. The obvious changes to the ghetto landscape were: trhurler didn't come back from his hike, MichaelCrawford started giving it away, my kuron brethren were badly trolled by a xanax-popping dysfunctional alcoholic), both Egil and insomnyuk decided to suicidomize themselfs, NIWS/Spellcheckbot attacked (again), and rusty took apart his bathroom and added walls to K5.   Rotting parts inside:
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In a burgeoning political and engineering scandal, Boston&#39;s gleaming new underground Interstate 93 highway is riddled with hundreds of leaks.
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Plus: Taxicab chats threatened by technology. [News.com Extra]
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How do you build a bridge in a region that is bordered by some of the most dangerous fault lines in the world? If you&#39;re the California Department of Transportation, you pull out every engineering trick in the book.
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Federal transportation officials say drastic changes are needed before funding, dealing a devastating blow to $5 billion project.
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Everyone got out alive, the train operator did as he was trained and the passengers did as they were told. Still, that a small fire on a major commuter line could leave passengers gasping for air and send 152 of them to the hospital highlights just how vulnerable transit systems are to disaster.
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New York City, where tolls are $6 and putting your car in a parking garage for just an hour can run you $20, is already an expensive place to drive. Now the mayor wants to make it so costly some people won't even bother driving and will take mass transit instead.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority today proposed creating a new fare structure for subways and buses that would make it cheaper to travel during off-peak periods.
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local healthcare facilities are primitive.
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Nearly a decade in the making, the MBTA is entering the homestretch of a new $140 million fare collection system as officials yesterday unveiled the ``CharlieCard,&#39;&#39; a debit-type card to be used on the T in 2006.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically "...newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies".. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization. read more
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If you can see train tracks from your front window, you probably live on the wrong side of them. At one time, my view beyond the tracks was a line of factories nobody wanted to live near. Like the place where they make carpets. Or even worse, the wool scourers, which smell like hot vomit during business hours.  What I don't get is how they got to be classified as being on the right side. Maybe if they did some rezoning and it was the factories that were officially on the wrong side of the tracks, my life would have turned out differently.
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NEW YORK The streets of this city and the roadways leading into it were vehicular combat zones. Big trucks ruled the highways. But their size turned against them in tight urban quarters, where motorized guerrilla warfare raged and speed and agility were needed to do battle with yellow cabs.
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The Nano brings new mobility within the reach of tens of millions of people and nightmares to environmentalists, traffic engineers and safety advocates.
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EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - It's not quite the highway beautification Illinois transportation officials had in mind.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Bangkok transport officials posted notices on some of the city's buses Wednesday urging young passengers not to have sex while riding in the vehicles.    The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority came under fire from commuters this week after a study by an academic revealed that scores of colleges students were engaging in intercourse, usually in the rear seats of the darkened buses during the evening commute from classes...