Liberal Landscape

Canada has a population only an eighth as large as that of the United States, but, since the beginning of 2025, it’s opened more kilometers of urban rail transit lines than the U.S.

The Petite Ceinture (“little belt”) was a mid-19th-century railroad line that ran in a circle around Paris.

Large Indian cities tend to be difficult places for pedestrians.

Mexico City (as I wrote in an earlier post) has been trying to mitigate serious congestion and air-pollution problems for something like the last sixty years.

Advertisement for Aqua Line at Bandra-Kurla Complex.

I was in Honolulu a couple of weeks ago for the first time since 2022.

I spent several days in Riyadh in October.37 I was particularly interested in riding Riyadh’s new Metro, all 176 kilometers of which opened in December 2024 and January 2025—an astonishingly quick opening of a substantial new system.

When I was in Jersey City last month, I naturally noticed the recreational trail along the Hudson.

Anyone who’s been on the Hudson waterfront of Manhattan over the last thirty or so years has noticed that Jersey City has been growing a serious skyline.

The Chicago Transit Authority (the CTA) recently finished work on the main component of its Red and Purple Modernization Project (RPM).