13 August 2002
The bus commuter in Tel Aviv is safer – less likely to randomly die on any given day – than the auto commuter in Houston.
12 August 2002
Feeling polyamorous? Try the Love Bike!
9 August 2002
Patio Men in the Sunbelt’s new technoburbs are reshaping the political climate of America. Be very, very afraid.
6 August 2002
“I think the car issue is huge,” says a securities analyst, since people who ride transit have more “microniches” of time to use mobile data services. “I think a lot of areas in the States are going to struggle with the driving.”
3 August 2002
“Think about places where there are no traffic problems, say, eastern Wyoming. Are these the kinds of places you want to be on a Saturday night?” – Garrison Keillor
2 August 2002
This week’s Onion horoscope: “Gemini: Your hot streak with the opposite sex continues, which is unfortunate, as you’re trying to remain celibate and gay.”
31 July 2002
Three Throckmorton sightings in one week! (the song’s seventh from the end)
29 July 2002
More of the exciting people I share the buses & trains with: a guy at State and Van Buren who threw a glass bottles onto the sidewalk. After a reprimand, he tore up papers and threw them at the passengers. And, at Southport station, a man wearing the infamously racist A&F t-shirt, carrying a bundle of “lucky bamboo.” Hm.
27 July 2002
Okay, supermarkets will have to wait a few more weeks. Today’s randomly useful knowledge: how to fix rattling Shimano STI brake levers.
24 July 2002
A lovely day to play hooky. Updated: Break the Gridlock. I’ll try to get the first of the urban supermarkets feature uploaded this weekend.
22 July 2002
It turns out that Neumann owns a bunch of vacant lots around the ‘hood and will do scattered-site housing development. Just like the CHA, I suppose. Fellow bakery lovers in TO really should check out Yummy Baguette.
15 July 2002
Welcome to Bill Owens’ suburbia. Or look for reclaimed urban public space: Jan Gehl’s New City Spaces.
