The Pedestrian Accelerator

I came to transit on foot, I like to say.  Of course one always accesses transit on foot, that is as a pedestrian, but I also mean I got into the transit business because I enjoy walking so much, especially in places that make walking a pleasure.  I used transit occasionally growing up in Tampa where transit service was occasional and walking was torture; much more often as an embassy guard in Seoul,...

The Sushi Roll in the Burger Joint

Choice is not limited to just 6 lanes or 4. The only thing that competes for time in my mind as much as transit is Florida State football and I was surprised to find the two come together on a website I frequent, tomahawknation.com.  The city of Tallahassee is currently doing a multimodal master plan as part of an effort to determine if Tennessee Street (US 90), the main east-west road going through...

To Get to the Other Side

“Why did the chicken cross the road?” is the start of what is probably the first or second joke we ever hear in our lifetimes (my favorite response is one I saw on t-shirts in Texas:  “To prove to the armadillo it could be done!”).  That old saw came to mind when I was talking to my friend and professor of transportation planning at Florida State University Gregory Thompson (he also wrote...