Everyone decided that was better except for the people who were already living by the old Nimitz who were priced out when West Oakland became the Williamsburg of the west.

Volvo essentially already does this. Their T8 is by no means a turbo 8.

Cheaper than airport locations, and I’ve found that Enterprise and Hertz Local Edition to be generally reasonably priced. Airport locations generally aren’t lacking in inventory, unlike the urban ones.

Right, but Amtrak Northeast Corridor serves 30th St, and people getting off the train there from say DC or Boston can pick up a rental and just roll.

That’s not a given. People are displaced by a series of policy choices and enforced by the police. Private developers, for example, often do not lease to the highest bidder, but will say look for say retailers that fit the ambiance they want for a mall.

You might not need the history lesson about the wrongs of the Eisenhower system, but other people might not have been aware of the original wrong, and might get offended if MDOT say asked Black and Brown stakeholders for opinions about redeveloping “empty parcels” from removing I-375.

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…

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.