Jeremiah finished reading Street Smart by Samuel I. Schwartz
An excellent book about how transportation policy had become so car-centric, and ways that we are moving away from that. What I liked most in the book were Schwartz's stories about his time as traffic commissioner in New York City, including his initial push to get congestion pricing implemented in New York City, which was not implemented at the time of writing, but is now, (and it only took fifteen years to get through!). I also really liked his story of how they got a new stadium built with minimal parking and made it work by placing it next to a metro stop and giving attendees free access to the metro along with their ticket. Schwartz also talks about the future of transportation in this book, which is kind of fun, but more speculative.
