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Prettier Buses Get More Rides
David Mocarski on the art of attracting people to public transit Mocarski and his students are hoping to change the way Los Angeles thinks...
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Ticket to Ride
How to appease the interest groups keeping congestion pricing from our cities. In 2003, London enacted a congestion-pricing plan that charged...
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Transportation Innovation
Joseph M. Sussman, an external adviser to the Department of Transportation and professor at MIT, explains why the stimulus isn't good enough...
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Infra What?
A brief look at where that $100 billion worth of infrastructure money is going "We have to come up with a sexier word than ‘infrastructure.'"...
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Teleport
Each issue, GOOD asks an artist or group to set the tone with a visual interpretation of the theme. Here's Noah Webb's contribution for the...
News
Who’s Driving?
These people will shape transportation policy during the next four years. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Ray LaHood Secretary of...
Design
Picture Show: Buffalo, New York, All America City
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Issue 015 Intro: From A to B
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, despite a rapidly worsening global crisis, the focus was on the future. In particular, an exhibit called...
News
Going Down The Rabbit Hole
The future of transportation may mean not moving at all. Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and technology theorist, envisions a future in which...
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The Street of the Future Is a Livable Street
It's easy to forget that our streets are alterable. They weren't set down by God on the eighth day; they were designed by human beings....
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The End of the Roads
We have as much road capacity today as we will ever need. In my efforts to get Portland, Oregon's Peak Oil Task Force, [which identifies...
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Project: Design a Livable Street
America's streets leave a lot to be desired. As Carly Clark and Aaron Naparstek write in the latest issue of GOOD, "For the most part,...
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Beam Me Up (Or Not)
Why one very smart scientist can teleport an atom, but not a coffee cup. Christopher Monroe and fellow quantum physicists at the University of...
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The Time of the Jetpack Is Now
Ever since Buck Rogers comics of the 1930s popularized the notion of a personal flying machine-variously referred to as a "rocket belt" or...
News
Why Airborne Cars Won't Fly
The car of the future still hasn't come to pass.
News
Don't Kill Your Car
We're sure you want to, but try one of these instead. What's best for the planet? What's best for you? The ultimate guide to alternative-fuel...
Business
Detroit Must Fail
Why we should forgo the bailouts altogether. Last fall, the Center for Automotive Research produced a study predicting the economic impact of a...
Issue 015
Sorry, Portland
A primer on the best burgeoning bike scenes in North America In any list of the best biking cities on the continent, Portland, Oregon, would...
