We must live in very different western worlds then.

Do you listen to yourself, man? I said you can easily google examples on this VERY SITE where they criticized the UAW, and criticized even non-Tesla EVs (Tesla hate is strong here, so I don’t even know why you would think they unquestionably support all EVs). I even attached the actual links until they got kinja’d.…

It’s precisely because it’s 50-60 years ago now that it’s coming up as a topic. Infrastructure doesn’t last forever, and NOW is actually the time to think about rehab or replace, and what the replacement might look like. The discussion now is how not to make the mistakes we made 50-60 years ago and perpetuate more…

You’re in luck! There are no active Verizon 5G towers anywhere near Bhutan!

But see, that’s the thing: if you’re not aware of what all is wrong with the world, an on-the-face objective economic decision is going to perpetuate existing inequities. So you’re a regional planner in the 1950s, and you have boomburbs that need some way to get to the city center. Is it cheaper to 1) widen some roads…

I think he’s referring to the readership.

This dude here is out of the grays and I’m not? I’m starting to think that the Herb likes to manufacture controversy.

That’s weird too, because I stopped going to TTAC because of a massive anti-US-domestic bias, and anti-domestic conservatives kind of broke my brain.

Blogs for enthusiasts of 2-ton polluting machines tend to lean right, just because of the subject matter. Much like the only right-leaning solar/wind home install forums are for doomsday survivalists, “straight reporting” on the very topic of cars tends to attract people who lean one particular way.

I think it really depends on your definition of “institutionally”.

I haven’t been car blog shopping recently, but Jalopnik seems to strike a balance between anti-car transport/urban development blogs and the pro-car anti-environmentalist blogs.

About a decade ago I daily commuted on a road that went from 4 to 3. The number of times I’ve been stuck going 0mph because one car wanted to turn left and the other wanted to turn right at the same intersection was too numerous to count. From my perspective the number of travel lanes went from 2 to 3 because you have…

If you’re a bay area lifer then that used to be a farm road crossing a rural Interstate. Then population happened and now both routes are major freeways N/S and E/W and that interchange is woefully undersized for what it does, and comically most of the work here is done only by two quadrants of the cloverleaf, as the…

If I were to venture to guess, Harley is one of the best at maintaining some of the staunchest fan base around through good and bad product. Farley would probably want some of that action as he plans to churn out more diluted Bronco and Mustang product.

So plop a car rental lot in that rundown old shopping mall with next to nothing? If Philadelphia can manage to squeeze rental operations in its Amtrak station I’m sure Houston can, too.

Yeah, because we let the incumbent rail companies only nationalize the unprofitable parts.

4 to 3 with center turn lane is actually an improvement, where I’ve seen it done. When the left lane is perpetually blocked by someone trying to make a left, 4 lanes is basically 2 through lanes with 2 left turn lanes. Not to mention that the missing lane can also turn into a protected right at intersections so you…

Every other car blog defaults to right leaning except for EV-specific ones. Can’t you just let us have this one?

The City/Suburb bus separation is actually far more common than assumed here. San Francisco the city itself has its own bus system that exits the city at only one connection point. Sacramento technically runs buses outside the city proper, but the nicer suburbs all run their own bus systems, and the commuter buses are…

Looks like Datsun Pickup tail lights?