Category Archive: transportation

My American Airlines/Orbitz Hell

So I guess it makes sense to begin at the beginning. Since moving to Atlanta my wife and […]

Birthing Mass Transit in the DMV: WMATA and the Difficulties of Multi-Jurisdictional Transportation Systems

“It’s a system that’s maybe safe, somewhat unreliable, and that is being complained about by everybody,” – Jack […]

The Hateful Fifteen: Dog Meat, Light Rail, Selma, and the Many Textures of Karachi

2015 was a big year for Tropics of Meta – we wrote about subways and parking lots, learned to […]

Housing, Homeless, and Freeways: Kicking Off SACRPH 2015 with a History of L.A. Social Justice

When you look up the word “plenary,” the dictionary provides the following definition: “(of a meeting) to be […]

A Clear Blue Vision: L.A. Light Rail and Twenty Five Years of the Blue Line

In a 2012 interview with transit scholar Ethan Elkind, Richard Stanger, former Los Angeles County Transit Commission rail […]

The Light Rail Conundrum from Los Angeles to Atlanta: LRT in the 21st Century

In a recent study examining the efficacy of light rail (LRT) and modern bus rapid transit (BRT), University […]

Riding the Big Red Car: Work, Leisure, and Community in Multiethnic L.A.

A subway to the sea, new mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, told reporters in 2005, “would be the most utilized […]

Building Subways in the Post World War II World: Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

In a September 2014 issue of the Beverly Hills Courier, a front page story declared that the construction […]