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Forgive me for not phrasing this Seattle Nice, but Mayor Mike McGinn scares the bejezus out of many in business, and not just among the traditional elites. His obsession against the deep-bore tunnel, favoring higher parking prices downtown and increased utility rates, his perceived lack of vision for a big city, his caricature as "Mayor McSchwinn" - all have made for considerable anxiety... Read On 

More Americans are biking or walking to work these days, in part because public-sector investment is improving the infrastructure they need to get there safely. Further public investments in bike paths and bike lanes are likely to offer a big social payoff... Read On 

FREE lunch - heck, free breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus all the M&Ms and Red Bull you can stand - is a delicious perk of working in Silicon Valley. Free or even subsidized food in corporate cafeterias makes eminent sense in such a suburban setting. ..

Ever since the arrival of fossil fuels and electricity, human powered tools and machines have been viewed as an obsolete technology. This makes it easy to forget that there has been a great deal of progress in their design, largely improving their productivity...

For D.C. United players and staff members who drive to RFK Stadium, the morning commute is an aggravating exercise: backups on the 14th Street bridge, accidents on the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, detours on Capitol Hill...

A forthcoming article to be published in Transportation Research A, Vol. 47 entitled Bicycling renaissance in North America? An update and re-appraisal of cycling trends and policies has concluded that cycling rates and interest are indeed on the rise...

Marketing efforts by public transportation systems are vastly outspent by those of the major automobile companies, who spend billions each year to attract new customers, says EMBARQ, a transportation think tank...

"In the United locker room, where teammates gather after driving from Alexandria, Germantown and Reston, Simms listens to the traffic horror stories and smiles."

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