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Sobyanin’s horrific plan for Moscow

November 17, 2010 By Stephen Smith

It's been a few months since longtime Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov was fired, so I figured it would be a good time to check in on the city. In spite of Moscow's infamous traffic and "perversely-sloped" population density gradient, the former mayor's plan to build 100 km of new metro tracks and over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: density, food, jitneys, mass transit, Moscow, parking

North Jersey jitneys take off

September 17, 2010 By Stephen Smith

by Stephen SmithIn the past few years, a relatively new phenomenon seems to be taking hold in cities across North Jersey: the jitney. Similar to the dollar vans that ply the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, jitneys carry more than a taxi but less than a full-sized bus, and run semi-regular … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: buses, jitneys, New Jersey, nyc

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