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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
The Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay Committee of the Transportation Research Board just released their first Podcast today. The podcast is an interview of Chris Oswald, the Vice President of Safety and Technical Operations at Airports Council International-North America. Chris discusses NextGen and airports – ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Bay Area BART riders are up in arms about the potential of paying higher fares for riding at the peak. In this article in the Oakland Tribune, riders claim it's "not fair" for them to have to pay more to ride BART during the peak, because they have to be ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Attention all aviation enthusiast runners in the Chicago Area: You can run a 5K on the new ORD runway this weekend! What a neat opportunity! If any blog readers head out for the race, I'd really like to hear comments about it. Details: Athens Sister City Shuffle ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
A C130 Turboprop was used as the getaway aircraft in the movie The Dark Knight. See info and a picture here. Maybe they were looking to save fuel while filming.
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The ATA Smart Brief for the past couple of weeks has been nothing but doom and gloom. Losses, capacity cuts, aircraft decommissioning. What a pleasure to get today's headline: Southwest Airlines reports 15% increase in second quarter profits. Southwest, their incredible hedging, their on-time performance, their amazing sometimes sub 20 ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
BART's service tweaks coupled with gas prices and tourism seem to have paid off: BART to SFO ridership jumps 65% As a loyal BART rider, I'm glad to see this sort of positive feedback to increased service. Hopefully they'll consider extending rush hour service past 6pm for the late-night grad ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Carl Pope, the Sierra Club president, was on the Colbert Report on Monday July 21. Highlights include Stephen asking Carl if he flew from San Francisco, his home, to DC for the interview on a spotted owl, as well as Stephen thanking him at the end for emitting 2 tons ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Today's NY Times has an opinion piece by Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters. In this piece, Peters advocates strongly for peak-period or demand-based pricing and notes the inefficiencies presented by the current weight-based fee. She explains economic principles using aviation examples. She notes the contradictory nature of the airlines ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
On a recent trip to Cleveland, I had the (surprising) pleasure of flying Continental. Ever since I caught Continental's talk at the 2008 Transportation research Board annual meeting on their environmental practices, I've been wanting to see if it was PR or reality. Well, after 1. being yelled at ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Today I had the misfortune of wanting to travel from Fairfax VA to Northwest DC during rush hour, a usually inconvenient but not impossible feat. Throw in a tree down between west falls church and east falls church metro stations and this becomes a sweaty, messy, fight your way through ...
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