Is Silicon Valley’s mass transit system underfunded because the population density is too low, or because rich people don’t take mass transit? Last week I posted a couple items about the Google Buses – generally speaking, the privately operated bus systems run by several Tech Companies in the SF Bay…
The San Francisco Bay Area has a transportation problem/crisis on its hands. Every day some corridors turn into miles of gridlock, while the region is saddled with a pathetically fragmented mass transit system. The other day I wrote about how Google (and other Tech companies) are building privately owned mass…
Here in Silicon Valley a growing phenomena is “The Google Bus” which is actually practiced by many of the Tech Companies here, not just Google. The simple implementation is a shuttle bus operated by the company that drives employees between the mass transit station and the campus. But the new…
Maybe Elon Musk is stretching too far with the Hyperloop concept? The idea, a system of tubes containing low atmospheric pressure air, through which electrically driven capsules ride at supersonic speeds, was just unveiled today, and already there are naysayers. I think there’s many who hear Musk as over-confident and…
Electric cars are a major focus of what I write about, but are not the be-all-end-all of solutions for the full range of transportation problems our society is facing. Electric cars offer a great solution for noise pollution, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and peak oil, but they do not…
Yesterday was Labor Day in the U.S. (yes, I know, other parts of the world celebrate Laborers on a different day of the year) and as a result many businesses were closed. That’s all well and good, because Laborers deserve recognition. Laborers are the people who make the machines of…
The normalthink for air travel would have you driving to the airport, and paying long term parking fees, or else paying through the nose for a taxi/shuttle ride. There is another way, a way to avoid the costs or hassles by using public mass transit. It works even where I…
Not everything you could do in Las Vegas has to stay in Vegas. While at the surface Las Vegas looks to be very car oriented there are many ways to get around which doesn’t involve the driving a car. It’s possible to arrive in Las Vegas and not touch a…
Caltrain is the rail service running between San Jose and San Francisco Tonight I am on my way to San Francisco for a meeting. Always when taking a trip I spend awhile analyzing ahead of time what’s the greenest way to get there. Can I avoid burning oil? Can I…
