Sketchblog » infrastructure http://blog.gosedesign.net On design, images, food, and whatever internet detritus I find interesting at the moment Thu, 13 May 2010 02:37:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 KQED Quest: California High Speed Rail. http://blog.gosedesign.net/kqed-quest-california-high-speed-rail/ http://blog.gosedesign.net/kqed-quest-california-high-speed-rail/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:13:06 +0000 stephen http://blog.gosedesign.net/2008/01/15/kqed-quest-california-high-speed-rail/ 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 Diego, or to remain part of the developing world.

KQED Link.

CA High Speed Rail Link.

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“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 becomes a singular dense, glowing orb; the “e,” a confusing blur of shapes and curved lines. Meeker puts it more bluntly: “They look like bullets that you couldn’t put a pin through.”

New York Times Article.

Clearview Site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_(typeface)

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