Why build a downtown transit system if you’re just going to close it at peak demand?

Public Transit, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnFebruary 4, 2019TIGER, Municipal Debt, federal funding, Streetcars, Atlanta, page highlight

Remaking Akron's Main Street

Akron, Ohio’s Main Street Corridor project will produce a safer and more attractive street, with more space for people, activities and public art. But this dramatic, expensive overhaul is not an end in itself. If it’s going to deliver on its promises, it must be viewed as a beginning.

Akron, Schweitzer, Urban Design, Top StoryMark SchweitzerAugust 22, 2018streets, walkability, public space, TIGER, infrastructure cost

A Utah Republican Might have the Best Urban Transportation Plan

Devolution isn't so scary when the alternative is this crazy.

Five Ways Federal Infrastructure Spending Makes Cities Poorer

A federal infrastructure bill is going to make your city poorer in the long run. Here's how.

#InfrastructureCrisis, Marohn, For NewcomersCharles MarohnJanuary 3, 2017federal government, TIGER, page highlight

The Tiger Still Sleeps in Staples

Let's stop pretending we can do scalpel work on our neighborhoods with huge Washington budgets and bureaucracy.

#NoNewRoads, Top Story, Marohn, #DotheMathCharles MarohnJanuary 27, 2016TIGER, Staples MN, page highlight

The TIGER sleeps tonight (in Staples)

The second round of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants are landing just as a tumultuous election season is coming to an end. In "normal" times, the grants -- nearly $600 million worth -- would allow politicians to claim they are doing something to, as the name implies, invest in transportation and thus generate an economic recovery. This time around that claim seems to have much less traction.

Cost of Development, Engineering ProfessionCharles MarohnOctober 25, 2010Staples MN, TIGER

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