ARCHIVE:
Transport
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What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit?
Make it pleasant? Or make it efficient?
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Go Slow To Go Fast
Why highways move more swiftly when you force cars to crawl along at 55 mph.
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Don't Turn Left!
A new kind of intersection eliminates dangerous, time-wasting left turns.
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Carmageddon Challenge: The Bikes Won!
How a team of cyclists—and a guy on the subway, and a Rollerblader—beat a Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach.
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Carmageddon Challenge
Can Los Angeles cyclists beat a plane from Burbank to Long Beach? How my idle tweet spawned an epic transportation showdown.
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The Ethics of Winter Dibs Parking
If you shovel your car out of a snowdrift, does that give you the right to reserve the space for days?
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You're Parking Wrong
Why it's almost always better to back into a space than pull into it head-on.
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The Most Stressful Job on the Planet?
For bus drivers, streets are crowded. Passengers are cranky. And there's always the chance you might get punched.
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Streetcars vs. Monorails
The future of urban transportation looks a lot like the past.
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Dude, Where's Your Car?
How not having a car became Hollywood shorthand for loser.
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It Wasn't Me, Officer! It Was My GPS.
What happens when we blame our navigation devices for our car crashes.
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When Planes Land on Highways
The ins and outs of a surprisingly frequent phenomenon.
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Do Recalls Really Make Us Safer?
Bad drivers are far more dangerous than bum Toyotas.
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Was the Yugo Really the Worst Car Ever?
A new book explains why the tiny automobile was so reviled.
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It Knows If You've Been Speeding
Can a device that tracks when I swerve, accelerate, and brake make me a better driver?
