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Monthly Archives: January, 2021

  • I Gave a Talk at Transit Con 2021/01/31
  • Fare Control and Construction Costs 2021/01/29
  • KWCIMBY 2021/01/27
  • High Costs are not About Scarcity 2021/01/25
  • More on Eno and Construction Costs 2021/01/23
  • Poor Rich Countries and Isomorphic Mimicry 2021/01/21
  • Sorry Eno, the US Really Has a Construction Cost Premium 2021/01/18
  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Build PPPs 2021/01/15
  • Electronics Before Concrete, not Instead of Concrete 2021/01/09

Recent Posts

  • American Commuter Rail and Job Access
  • High-Speed Rail and Connecting Transit
  • Streaming the Biden Infrastructure Plan
  • Modeling High-Speed Rail for Germany
  • European Urbanism and High-Speed Rail

Recent Comments

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