Posted on September 28th, 2013 by Winston Smith
(1) This App Will Help You Find A Quiet Space In The Loud, Bustling City (1a) Metro-North Commuters Slog to Work: After Power Outage, It Could Be Days Before Normalcy Returns to New Haven Line (WSJ) On the plus side, diesel locos from Stamford! (2) A quote from The Blue Riband (The Piccadilly Line) by […]
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Posted on September 24th, 2013 by Winston Smith
(1) Public Transportation Affects Home Values (Fox Business) (2) What Makes Iconic Design: Lessons from the Visual History of the London Underground Logo
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Posted on August 3rd, 2013 by Winston Smith
(1) A quote from What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube (The District Line) by John Lanechester “When you start researching the Underground, you soon realize there’s a reason why trainspotters are generally regarded as setting the gold standard for nerdy knowledgeability about a subject. In America, train-spotters are known as ‘foamers’, […]
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Posted on June 16th, 2013 by Winston Smith
How does a bicycling monk spend his weekend? Started Saturday by biking to mass (need to do this more often) and then to a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new bike/walk route: (1) Like bikes? Fairfield offers new path to enjoyment: Bicyclists take an inaugural ride on the the new Mill Plain Road bike/walk route […]
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Posted on September 29th, 2012 by Winston Smith
(1) Klaus Biesenbach: The Museum of Modern Art curator, who’s cultivated his own celebrity status, on why art should be disruptive and deeply inspiring, and need not hang preciously on the walls. (WSJ Magazine) “Museums used to be places where you couldn’t buy anything, so it’s important now that museums be participatory without being stores. […]
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Posted on March 26th, 2012 by Winston Smith
Older articles but something I wanted to keep… (1) Royal Mail scrap bicycles for safety reasons (2) Brompton Launches London Bike Share Program (2a) South West Trains Launches UK’s First ‘Self Service’ Brompton Bicycle Rental Scheme (2b) The Brompton Dock (2c) Brompton Dock set to go nationwide
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Posted on November 24th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Playmofan (2) The Original Disneyland Hotel (2a) Disneyland Hotel interior lobby area (3) Christmas and winter photoshop styles (4) “We are writing a primer on planning for the same people which probably is an indication that the American industrialists are replacing the intellectual liberal in whatever his role is as defender of the intangible […]
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Posted on November 4th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Great quote from a commenter on NRO: My point is that here’s a guy who might be amenable to a pro-business conversion, if someone would explain it to him, instead of just commiserating with him (as the article does) or ridiculing him (as some posters here have done). I bet most of these OWS […]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) MTA Swipes Show Subway Trends (WSJ) Wait for the A train at the Aqueduct Racetrack stop, and one in four people standing with you will likely be a senior citizen. But at the Bedford Avenue stop on the L train—in the middle of hipster Williamsburg—less than 1% use a senior-discount MetroCard. (2) Why the […]
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Posted on July 24th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Un’Introduzione al Disegno Italiano (2) China Train Crash Shows Fast Expansion Problems (3) Spending dispute halts airport construction (3a) Dulles Metro station should be functional and awe-inspiring (3b) Airports authority endorses aboveground Dulles rail station (4) It’s a new day.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) China’s train wreck (2) The Disappearing Dollar (3) Is “Conservative Environmentalist” an Oxymoron?
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Posted on April 16th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Sic Transit Gloria: A Bus Museum Fails to Gain Traction (Wall Street Journal) (1a) IBM App Predicts How Your Commute Will Go (Wired) (2) Is ‘Nudging’ Really Enough? (Wall Street Journal) – Do you think Cass Sunstein has ever read Notes from Underground? (3) Leaving the Right Impression (Wall Street Journal) “Heritage” Movement—a nostalgia-tinged […]
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Posted on April 8th, 2011 by Winston Smith
(1) Best feet forward: Fairfield forum for cyclists, walkers (Fairifeld Citizen) (2) The Sleepless Elite: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done (Wall Street Journal) (3) How Smartphones Can Improve Public Transit (4) George Osborne must act before Britain is sucked into the euro whirlpool (5) Knowing What Isn’t […]
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Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Winston Smith
“One realizes oneself only one piece at a time.” — Marcel Proust, The Fugitive (1) Christo Without Jeanne-Claude – Where monuments pretend to endure, their work suggests the fleeting nature of our grandest gestures. A romantic might say that each piece evokes the way even the most dedicated passion will be undone by time. The […]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by Winston Smith
China’s High-Speed Rail, Highly Suspect Related High Speed Rail To Nowhere…Winning The Future A Wasted Billion At A Time
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