Features on Transportation

2010-08-19 In Transit: San Fran Tran (part 1) by David Deutsch
For a mere $20 I got three-day unlimited access to the MUNI system, which included buses, the cable cars, and the trolleys, which looked like New Jersey diners on wheels.
2010-08-13 California Dreaming: Bus Stop by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I kept telling people I was going to grad school, but didn’t exactly offer where. Once they inevitably asked, I’d make my embarrassed face and positively mumble: “USC.”
2010-07-29 MasterPlanning!: Your Local Police Officer’s Job by Tony Chavira
The logic is still prevalent today: police cars can roam freely under the assumption that police can take down more hard crime with a faster overall rate of success.
2010-07-28 In Transit: More on Libertarianism by David Deutsch
A libertarian blog determined that I am “completely fucking clueless” and said my political beliefs were somehow akin to “initiating violence against” people, or something.
2010-07-23 California Dreaming: Some More, Please by Rebecca Schoenkopf
I listen to the Mel Gibson tapes, and the lawyers’ takes on their admissibility. I am the reason the Huffington Post overpromises so gloriously in its hyperventilating headlines.
2010-07-14 In Transit: Travel Planning and the Digital Divide by David Deutsch
Like most new business owners, I’m pretty much broke. But I have to go to San Francisco for business. So what’s a broke, self-employed guy to do?
2010-07-01 MasterPlanning!: Sci-Fi Density and Social Justice by Tony Chavira
What I’m interested in here is vision: what kind of utopian future will we choose for ourselves, and what creative ideas and concepts will shape this amazing future in your city?
2010-06-28 Lost in OC: My Kind of Town: Costa Mesa by Jim Washburn
The whole world seems out of whack lately—floods, oil plumes, earthquakes—and I think it started when the Arches had to move from its original PCH location.
2010-06-24 MasterPlanning!: Downtown. Miami. by Tony Chavira
The city of Miami is the land the drug money laundering cartel built. Since Florida doesn’t necessarily require proof of income to buy property, cash would be spilt …
2010-06-10 MasterPlanning!: Paradigm City by Tony Chavira
What’s the difference between a hamlet, a village and a town? Or A town and a city? A city and a mega-city? A mega-city and a county?
2010-06-02 In Transit: A Nation of Toll-Roads: Why Libertarianism Can Never Work by David Deutsch
Libertarianism has been in the news a lot lately, thanks to Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Dr. Rand Paul. And we are much better off because of his candidacy.
2010-05-28 Living in McWorld by John Schoenkopf
It’s late February. I’m suffering away living in North Hollywood, whilst working in every part of town but the Valley selling ads for L.A. Record, and doing it all on public transit.
2010-05-27 MasterPlanning!: NIMBY Luddites in Urban Technospace by Tony Chavira
To stand in the way of technological advancement means, in many ways, to stand in the way of progress.
2010-05-21 California Dreaming: Mockus! by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Bogota is one of those places I do not want to visit, as it is in Colombia, where shit just got real. And yet, being a good NPR-listening, architecture-gazing …
2010-05-17 Lost in OC: Bleeding Oil by Jim Washburn
Jesus Christ, isn’t there some way we can bring George W. Bush back to the White House, so we can impeach his simpering, nation-destroying ass?
2010-05-13 MasterPlanning!: Your Car Is Only a Fashion Statement by Tony Chavira
When you know that you can get around in a bus or a train, or on a bike, pogo stick, unicycle, roller-skates or a skateboard, what the hell is the point in owning a car?
2010-05-08 Chinatown Buses: Getting More Than You Pay For by David Deutsch
Every time I visit my native East Coast, I am amazed at all the cool stuff I did not take advantage of: I did not visit Ford’s Theatre. I never visited Gettysburg.
2010-04-19 Our Lovely Enemy, Part 2 by Jim Washburn
Havana bears a semblance to Disneyland, if you mixed New Orleans Square and Tomorrowland, with a fevered Autopia running through it.
2010-04-16 La Ciudad Mi Corazón by Rebecca Schoenkopf
It is foreign, and we are on a very fancy bus, 13 or 17 of us or so, FourStory writers and our lovers and a few nice neighbors who thumbed a ride with us to Havana, Cuba.
2010-04-15 A Cut of Capitalism in Communist Cuba by Tony Chavira
I was a tourist on the tourist side of town. And I was being given the best the country had to offer, which was—strange as it sounds—an allocated slice of capitalism.
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