What We're Reading This Week
This week, the Rudin Center discussed transportation options at the urban periphery as part of the Van Alen Institue's fall festival Periphery! At this event, Sarah Kaufman, the Rudin Center's assistant director for technology programming announced the Rudin Center’s latest project, “Intelligent Paratransit,” funded by a grant from TransitCenter. You can read a re-cap of the event, along with a synopses of the presentations, here. In addition, on Thursday morning, we welcomed "Gridlock Sam," for a discussion of his book "Street Smart." In addition to his book, this week we're reading about:
- Bronx development tracks growth in subway ridership
- 6 Rarely Seen Abandoned NYC Subway Entrances
- The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
- Wi-Fi Woes Plague Amtrak on Northeast Corridor
- Hell’s grannies
- Brazil Truckers Block Highways to Protest Fuel Prices, Financing Conditions
- Jetpack pilot takes cruise around Statue of Liberty