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KQED Quest: California High Speed Rail.

Posted in infrastructure, san francisco, video on January 15th, 2008 No Comments »

Lines at the airport are terrible, the highways are clogged. What do normal first countries do to solve this problem? They build high speed rail. California is very very seriously trying to make this a reality In 2008, voters will decide on whether to vote to build a bullet train from San Francisco to San [...]

Highway Typography Article in the New York Times.

Posted in infrastructure, typography on August 13th, 2007 No Comments »

“The fundamental flaw of Highway Gothic is that the counter shapes are too tiny,” Montalbano told me, referring to the empty interior spaces of a typeface, like the inside of an “o.” When viewed from a distance, and especially at night under the glare of high-beam headlights, the tightly wound lowercase “a” of Highway Gothic [...]