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What We’re Reading: Eroding Infrastructure

Stephen Fesler - May 17, 2015
Wilburton Trestle in Bellevue by Gene Bisbee.
Wilburton Trestle in Bellevue by Gene Bisbee.

Top 10: The current ranking of US cities as the most walkable.

Shell No: The reason why Shell’s Polar Pioneer is allowed to dock in Seattle, for now.

Making room: A Dutch city makes room for its river and readies for a new identity.

Bus to LinkSeattle Transit Blog writes how the bus restructures centered around new light rail stations could be slightly improved.

Debunked: Drivers really don’t pay for the cost of their roads, not even close.

Demise of streetcars: It wasn’t just car companies that killed streetcars in the middle of the 20th Century, it was congestion, too.

Deadly tracks: High speeds were the primary cause of the Philadelphia passenger train crash this week, although positive train control could have prevented it.

13th place: Seattle has dropped to 13th place nationally for bikeability ($).

Contaminated: A shocking number of places in the Los Angeles area depend upon water sources that are deeply contaminated.

Not as dense: The typical New Yorker lives in a less dense NYC than back in 1970.

Low taxes: How billionaires are paying low property taxes for the best views in the house.

Unequal infrastructure: America’s public transportation is failing and it’s causing deep inequality.