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What Would Phoebe Do: Here we go again

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What Would Phoebe Do. The best Francophilic Zionism in the blogosphere. Saturday, April 17, 2010. Here we go again. This round brought to us by Patricia Cohen, in the NYT's Education Life section: "Law students get a diploma in three years. Medical students receive an M.D. in four. But for graduate students in the humanities, it takes, on average, more than nine years to complete a degree. What some of those Ph.D. recipients may not realize. As in, we, the humanities doctoral students, we know. Know is a...

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The Silly Argument Over BRT and Rail « The Transport Politic

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The Silly Argument Over BRT and Rail. May 25th, 2011. Reserving respect for each mode. As if operating in parallel, Toronto’s. The Wall Street Journal. Each published articles last week describing the merits of bus rapid transit, which each newspaper described as the future of urban transportation. What is clear is that for the majority of American cities — excluding only a few in the Northeast — buses will remain the predominant mode of public transit for most riders, even after major expans...8221; Tha...

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Persephone Books: Everyday 1930s life | BookShelfLife

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Classics, historical fiction, and more. Persephone Books: Everyday 1930s life. Asymp; 2 Comments. The endpaper for 'The Fortnight in September'. I’ve read quite a few Persephone Books. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Published by Virago in 1983, which looks at books read by women like Laura, the heroine of the great film. Illuminating what their lives were like. Persephone Books really took off from that idea and made many of these books available again. The Fortnight in September.

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Large-Diameter TBMs | Pedestrian Observations

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For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution. To avoid this problem, such cities as Barcelona pioneered the use of large-diameter TBMs. In Barcelona, the internal diameter of the TBM used for Line 9, 11.7 meters. While the cost of Barcelona Metro Line 9. Is about $170 million per kilometer, more than three times the original budget, compared with $40-60 million per kilometer for most Spanish tunneling projects, it is still much lower than the cost of comparable projects tunneli...

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California High Speed Rail Blog: How Will the FRA Decide?

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California High Speed Rail Blog. California High Speed Rail support blog, spreading news and info about the high speed trains project approved by California voters in November 2008. 11/28/09: COMMENTS HAVE BEEN DISABLED HERE. PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW SITE AT. HTTP:/ WWW.CAHSRBLOG.COM. Friday, November 20, 2009. How Will the FRA Decide? Visit us at the California High Speed Rail Blog. Between those two considerations:. Partisan politics as usual? Of course. Did you expect anything different? There's much less...

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Washington Promotes Massive New Streetcar Project « The Transport Politic

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Washington Promotes Massive New Streetcar Project. October 28th, 2009. Lines could be completed in ten years; is it the right investment? Like seemingly every other city in the country. Washington, DC is planning a streetcar network. Its transportation officials, however, seem uniquely positioned to actually construct their system; unlike other municipalities, Washington is installing tracks in the ground. Broke the big story. To extend 37 miles across the city. Followed up with news. Downtown; from Anac...

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A Future Interstate Rail Network – Redux « The Transport Politic

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A Future Interstate Rail Network - Redux. February 1st, 2009. This is the second, revised, piece on a national rail network. The first is here. After quite a response to. The Transport Politic’s. Proposed National Rail Route Network – Standard and HSR Routes. HSR Route Network – Phasing. HSR Route Network – Corridors. Implementing the National Intercity Rail Network. The transport politic’s. The creation of NatTrack need not mean the privatization of Amtrak, which would continue to operate the nation&#82...

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Why Moynihan Station Has Negative Transportation Value | Pedestrian Observations

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For Walkability and Good Transit, and Against Boondoggles and Pollution. Why Moynihan Station Has Negative Transportation Value. Amtrak has been making noises again. For a 24-mile stretch (150 under current regulations), for a time saving of 100 seconds (64 if only 150 mph is possible) minus acceleration and deceleration time. From my perspective as a passenger, the minute or two I lose every time I need to change concourses at Penn Station is worse than a minute or two spent on a train. Amtrak’s h...