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Transportation
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FiveThirtyEight Uber TLC FOIL Response Data
FiveThirtyEight's public release of 6 months of Uber NYC pickup data obtained via FOIL request from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission — one of the most significant data journalism transparency moments in ride-share's early history. Made possible by public records law applied to a tech company's regulatory filings.
In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit
The 1897 California Cycleway — a proposed elevated wooden bike highway from Pasadena to Los Angeles — as a historical case of cycling infrastructure preceding car dominance. A reminder that the current city form isn't inevitable; cycling was once treated as serious urban transit.
Uber vs. DC Taxi Commission: Here We Go Again
Uber's own blog post fighting DC's taxi commission proposal to minimum-price ridesharing at taxi rates — an early example of the regulatory battles that defined Uber's growth strategy. Shows the playbook: go public, rally users, frame incumbents as anti-consumer.
How the FRA Is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence
The East Bay Bicycle Coalition's analysis of how the FRA's freight-rail safety standards, when applied to passenger rail, mandate impossibly heavy trains that can't share infrastructure with light vehicles — explaining why US passenger rail is so expensive, slow, and rare compared to Europe and Japan. A case study in regulatory capture killing an industry.