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Is this a new era for high-speed rail in America?

San Francisco’s old housing policy regime was a world-historical failure. What comes next?

The future of transit in LA, explained

America's Unsung Rail Renaissance

The Magic of Electrified Trains

The State-Sanctioned Urbicide of Austin

A Robotaxi Regulation Wishlist

Enough with the feel-good architecture

Robotaxis and the case for public policy accelerationism

California is on the brink of a transportation nightmare

A Genealogy of Gentrification

What's holding America's freeway removal movement back?

Austin's light rail system starts to take shape

The triumph and tragedy of light rail in Charlotte

Atlanta keeps demolishing its affordable housing

Learning from Houston

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