It’s Dangerous To Cycle in The City — That’s Too Bad
How Many Cyclists Can and Should Fit on City Streets? The ferocious competition for a smidgen of asphalt on Manhattan streets might be best appreciated behind the handlebars of a bicycle. As I whiz up...
View ArticleThe New Penn Station: When Will It Arrive?
The new Pennsylvania Station was originally due to open its doors this year, but the only noticeable progress has been the building’s renaming for its late benefactor, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. So...
View ArticleA Bicycle Can Get You From Here to There
That’s Good For You, Good For Everyone Else. Wednesday, May 26, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL I’m going to talk about bikes today. So I’m going to speak very slowly, so my colleague Dave, “I’ll get out of my...
View ArticleAtlas Is Still Shrugging – And Riding the Subway
First published in The New York Observer March 25, 2002 by Alex Marshall When I take the subway, and enter into that labyrinth of tunnels and tracks that transport some five million of us daily, I...
View ArticleHow Many Cyclists Can and Should Fit on City Streets?
The ferocious competition for a smidgen of asphalt on Manhattan streets might be best appreciated behind the handlebars of a bicycle. As I whiz up 8th Avenue or crosstown on 13th street, I’m confronted...
View ArticleLearning to Walk: Not Always So Easy in the Contemporary City
Driving along Route One in New Jersey last week, looking at the mammoth car dealerships and shopping centers lining the eight-lane highway, it was difficult to see how the words of noted Danish...
View ArticleMoving Hampton Roads
“The Joseph Papers”, Summer 2000. This paper was commissioned by The Joseph Center at Christopher Newport University for the study of local, state and regional government. It was the inaugural edition...
View ArticleThe Future of Transportation, And Thus Our Cities
The Future of Transportation Will the auto and airplane reign supreme? By Alex Marshall With the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s, the political scientist Francis Fukiyama caused a...
View ArticleMaintaining Poorly Our Streets And Everything Else
From the crumbling edges of a sidewalk, to the rusty bolts on bridges, our infrastructure is falling apart. We have a systemic bias against maintenance in this country, I argue. My column at Governing...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Re-regulate The Airlines
The Washington Monthly has a phenomenally thorough and good article about why we need to re-regulate the airlines. The authors quote me on the subject. I’ve long been a critic of airline deregulation....
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